People who read the Thrawn Trilogy, what do you think of it? (2.bp.blogspot.com)

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[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Thrawn is one of the few fiction villains who is also written as an effective leader. It makes him scarier.

And his ending is perfect.

Even though most of his troops are very loyal, his downfall comes from one of the many people he abused during his rise to power.

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

That he is a very different threat than Vader and the Emperor helps preserve the accomplishments of the heroes in the movies. He doesn’t feel like he is undoing events and resetting the setting back to a status quo. Thrawn is a character that exists in the natural evolution of the setting.

I really love how his plans come from being in the underdog position. The first book especially is him making a clever play for resources while having almost none of his own.