There’s a few things I’m seeing in the past 20 or so messages that I’d like to comment on to clarify them within my knowledge of lore context.
Since there’s a /s, I won’t take this point too seriously, but Maul was always the exception to the stabbing thing. He wasn’t even stabbed, and that might be important. Maul lived because he was angry, which while silly, is at least an explanation. He suffered major consequences due to being split. His would’ve been permanently destroyed if not for Mother Talzin, he lost his position as sith apprentice, and he was never again as physically capable as he was in TPM.
The reason why I think stabbing Vs cutting could be important, is because of the duration the lightsaber is inside the body. We know lightsabers are extremely hot, so prolonged exposure to a body would be devastating. Boiling blood, expanding skin, etc. Also, from a story perspective, lightsaber wounds to the body were essentially guaranteed death for decades, and now in the past few years we’ve seen a massive spike in lightsaber stab survivors, which just cheapens them as a weapon.
For this point, there’s a very simple explanation. In Star Wars, hyperspace travel goes along hyperspace lanes. It’s very likely that Luke took the same lane to Dagobah that Yoda did.
Finally, we have this, which goes nicely with my Thrawn rant. Even if it’s true that Thrawn suspected she would probably die in the wilds, it’s still bad strategy. Thrawn is supposed to be a military genius, so then why is he letting a prisoner become an unkown variable? The explanation has to be that Thrawn released her so she would track down Ezra for him. The reason that makes no sense, is because they had an entire decade to kill him, and were unable to, furthering the incompetency.
Ezra lived with some weird crab people who had no blasters, or effective ranged weapons. Nothing was stopping Thrawn from sending a single tie fighter to strafe them to the world between worlds.
In the last episode, why didn’t Thrawn just raise the ship into orbit, and then dock with the Eye of Scion? Why didn’t he send more than two tie fighters after Ahsoka?
None of his plans made sense to me, and that’s my biggest issue with this show.