I must say, I think that Lucasfilm should just stop making 22 episode seasons and just shorten them to 15 episodes. If this is the content we could have had from the beginning, no one would be complaining about Season 3. This episode truly makes up for all the filler and nonsense of the first-half of Season 3. I was at the edge of my seat throughout this episode to the point where I honestly thought that Kallus was going to die at the end. I never actually cared about his character, but there were points in this episode where I feared for his life and really hoped that he wasn't going to be made out as Fulcrum. However, we're FINALLY shown the Thrawn we've been craving throughout an entire episode, and he showed why his character has the reputation that he does. Now that he knows that Kallus is Fulcrum, it sounds like Thrawn might use that to his advantage in order to give false information to the rebels so that it makes it easier to attack their base on Atollan.
I do wish though that the entire episode was shown in first-person as I think it would have made the experience all the more personal as the episode progressed. However, what we were ultimately given was good enough for me. I thoroughly enjoyed how this episode payed out whereby Kallus ended up having Commander Lyste framed as Fulcrum, even though some of Kallus's decisions weren't as sound for an ISB agent, such as only erasing one planet from Thrawn's computer. Nonetheless, I liked watching him think two steps ahead of Ezra throughout the episode in keeping his identity secret from the rest of the Empire as it showed how hard it truly was in order to maintain his identity as a spy. However, we were still shown how Thrawn was just one extra step ahead of Kallus in the end. Overall, this was an incredible episode where it might go down as possibly the most suspenseful of all the Rebels episodes from start to finish.
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