Yesterday it was confirmed that Grand Admiral Thrawn would be returning to official Star Wars canon in the next season of Star Wars Rebels.
Today at Star Wars Celebration, the show's producers - Dave Filoni and Kiri Hart - discussed how they're going to make the villain work and drew similarities to how the show previously tackled Darth Vader.
"You are cautious on a weekly series to put them into a 'Oh, he lost again!' You can't play him that way. He's way too smart," said Filoni.
In that regard, using Thrawn is comparable to using Darth Vader in a serialised format: "If Vader is around all the time, he's just gonna take our guys out." Rebels dealt with this problem by using Ahsoka, a character who could confront Vader and potentially hurt him.
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Today at Star Wars Celebration, the show's producers - Dave Filoni and Kiri Hart - discussed how they're going to make the villain work and drew similarities to how the show previously tackled Darth Vader.
"You are cautious on a weekly series to put them into a 'Oh, he lost again!' You can't play him that way. He's way too smart," said Filoni.
In that regard, using Thrawn is comparable to using Darth Vader in a serialised format: "If Vader is around all the time, he's just gonna take our guys out." Rebels dealt with this problem by using Ahsoka, a character who could confront Vader and potentially hurt him.
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