YMMV / Star Wars: Tales of the Empire

• I Knew It!:
  • It's been a long standing fan-theory that after her exposure as a traitor to the Jedi Order, Barriss Offee would somehow be involved in the Inquisitorius. The first trailer for the series confirmed that she would play a significant role in its founding.
  • Grievous receiving an updated model for a brief shot of the Clone Wars Season 7 opener raised a lot of eyebrows since nobody bought that they’d go through the trouble of making a new model for such a brief moment, and suspected that something else was planned that would use the model. Four years later, and the trailer shows the model finally being put to use in a seemingly major role.
• Nightmare Fuel: The series as a whole is built up upon this, but there are two standout moments from the trailer:
  • The execution of the Nightsister clan from Morgan Elsbeth's perspective. From a great distance and up close, she sees her kin being slaughtered by General Grievous, with entire villages and forests burned by the very war machine that would devastate the galaxy for three years. And in her anger to seek revenge, she embraces the dark magic of her kin, approaching the future Grand Admiral Thrawn to offer that rage in the Empire's service. In a few years, the results of that service would bring the deadliest mind in the galaxy back to the forefront.
  • Barriss Offee is brought into the fold of the Inquisitors, as fans expected. The rigorous training she's seen going through to prove herself to the Grand Inquisitor is hellish enough, but then we hear a very familiar breathing sound as the group's leader enters the room—and Barriss has no idea that the man she will soon serve is the former master to the very woman she betrayed. And Vader isn't one to let old grudges go...
• Unexpected Character: Amongst the Inquisitors, few would have expected the Fourth Sister would have such a large role in the show, after her brief appearances in Obi-Wan Kenobi.