YMMV / The Hand of Thrawn

• Hilarious in Hindsight: Go here.
• Ho Yay: Thrawn means a lot to Pellaeon. A lot. Pellaeon doesn't take the news that Thrawn may have returned without talking to him very well, and speculates morosely as to why.
  "Thrawn wasn't human, you know, no matter how human he might have looked. He was an alien, with alien thoughts and purposes and agendas. Perhaps I was never more to him than just one more tool he could use in reaching his goal."
• Salvaged Story:
  • Many fans of the Expanded Universe felt The Hand of Thrawn was this for the entire Expanded Universe to that point, as Zahn went out of his way to address many of the largest complaints about the franchise.
  • For those unhappy with Dark Empire reviving Palpatine after his climactic death in Return of the Jedi, the duology tosses out the idea that the Emperor featured might have just been an insane clone (or clones) with delusions of grandeur.

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