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| Crash Override wrote: |
I think Thrawn's death is because he made a mistake. Or rather after the original Thrawn trilogy his characterization was whitewashed so that his ruthlessness and villainy in the original trilogy seems like a mistake.
It makes no sense to me that Thrawn in all his later published books is portrayed as some enlightened Imperial that sees the need for the Empire but wants to do away with the injustices and prejudices against nonhumans, including in Choices of One where he's recruiting nonhuman stormtroopers (who volunteer), yet in Dark Force Rising he's a complete and utter jerk to the Noghri.
Just think, if he reversed the Emperor's policy of poisoning Honoghr and didn't treat the Noghri like crap, then Leia would have nothing to convince them to change sides and he wouldn't have been killed by Rukh. |
Yes, I agree, what I meant was it wasn't the type of idiotic mistake the Emperor made. My plan is foolproof, they'll never get to the...  (And yes, I realize that's not how the Emperor died, but it is the reason the Death Star II was destroyed, and had Palpatine not already been dead, he would have died then)
As far as Thrawn's change of character, I agree with you there as well, it's probably the reason I like Outbound Flight Thrawn better than Thrawn in the Zahn trilogy. The depictions of Thrawn written later don't make him seem as evil. As far as the alien species tolerance, however, Thrawn always tried to act for the best interests of the Empire. It was not in the Empire's best interests to refuse to allow aliens into the military simply because of their species, so he saw no problem with recruiting aliens. Due to the Empire's policy, any aliens that he recruited would be extremely grateful for a chance to prove themselves (not all aliens hated the Empire, after all), and initially would probably be more loyal to an alien commander. Thrawn was not Vader. Vader was the one who began the policy with the Noghri, Thrawn saw a working system and left it as-is. The Noghri were highly skilled and possessed a fanatical devotion to the Empire.
Thrawn's fatal mistake was not being able to foresee an assassin sniffing Leia. Every other miscalculation regarding the Noghri happened because of his ignorance of their loyalty to Leia. Thrawn had the highest respect for the Noghri, but he treated them according to whatever response he needed to obtain. They were so devoted to the Empire, an angry commander would have been great motivation, had they not switched loyalties. Remember the tractor beam guy? Thrawn acted in whatever way would get the best results.
And again, not even Thrawn could possibly have imagined that one of his highly trained assassins would accidentally get a sniff of Leia, associate the smell with Vader, bring her to Honoghr, and change the allegiance of the entire race. That is why I found his death to be handled so well. He wasn't an idiot, he just wasn't omniscient. It really drives home the plausibility of the character.
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