Well, just as I feared, this Season Finale fell far short of the Season 2 Finale. There was just no way anything could top it, let along match it. Now, that's not to say that Zero Hour wasn't any good. It was. I just think that when you create something so epic before, that there is a natural tendency to want it again and again. As for Zero Hour, it played out exactly as I knew it would. The confrontation between Thrawn and the Rebels played out as I envisioned it...even down to the escape. I also knew that there would be no resolution with Thrawn and that he would slink off to live another day and this is why I feel the writers f*cked up big time in these last 3 episodes.

If the original intent was to kill off Maul and let Thrawn live, then they absolutely should have gotten their episode order reversed. I just feel that Obi-Wan and Maul should have closed out this season in an epic Lightsaber Duel on par with what we got in The Phantom Menace. And it still rubs me the wrong way that they had Maul go out like he did. He's broken and old....but can still fight. But he comes up against Old Man-Kenobi and now suddenly Kenobi is able to wield the Saber like a 30 year old? Keep in mind I am talking about the same Kenobi that was old against Vader in A New Hope. It just doesn't jibe with me and kind of messes up the continuity between the series and the film.