One of the crucial fascinating concepts on this episode comes from Baylan Skoll. He is been probably the most fascinating characters on this present from the get-go, despite the fact that he hasn’t had an opportunity to actually delve into his backstory. This episode lastly gave him an opportunity to shine and speak extra about his motivations, and it looks like he is really received the identical thought as Luke Skywalker in “The Final Jedi,” however goes about it within the actual reverse vogue. Baylan has embraced the darkish to discover a energy robust sufficient to finish the cycles of battle within the galaxy in Thrawn as a result of, as a pupil of historical past, he sees that the Sith and the Jedi, mild and darkish, come again and inevitably wipe one another out.
The place Luke tries to interrupt the cycle of violence by throwing away his lightsaber, exiling himself on Ahch-to, and slicing himself off from the Pressure so he cannot sense the long run, Baylan Skoll embraces a darker, bigger view of the Pressure and his place in it. It is a captivating connection to Luke Skywalker within the sequel trilogy and shades Luke’s motivations there and the way he goes about it in a captivating manner. Watching the darkish reverse to one thing we have seen the sunshine facet model of is one thing Dave Filoni has introduced us earlier than, for instance, the coaching of Savage Opress by Depend Dooku as a darkish inversion of Luke’s Jedi coaching on Dagobah. This altruism to Baylan makes him all of the extra sympathetic, despite the fact that he’s going about issues fully the mistaken manner.
And what’s the energy he senses larger than even Thrawn? I believe that line may go by most viewers, however I actually suppose that is the important thing to regardless of the finish of this season of this present might be. Will or not it’s as massive and impactful because the Bendu was on Thrawn’s defeat on Atollan in “Star Wars Rebels”? We should wait and see.