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Originally Posted by keg in kc
I think you may have gotten yourself confused here.
It's not before the events of the Rebels finale. It's before the *Epilogue* at the end of the finale. Previously people thought those 'where they are now' bits occurred around the time of the battle for Endor, roughly five years after Yavin, ie 5-6 years after the events of the Rebels finale. The suggestion is that those clips show a period actually 5 years after that, meaning Ahsoka and Sabine's search for Ezra didn't start until sometime after the episode last week.
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The liberation of Lothal happened shortly before
Rogue One which is when Thrawn and Ezra disappeared into hyperspace with the Purgill. That was approximately 6 years before Return of the Jedi, which is why we don't see Ezra or Thrawn during the Original Trilogy.
From Sabine's dialogue, the Epilogue occurred after the events of Return of the Jedi. Hera and Rex fought in the battle of Endor and Jason Syndulla was about 6 or 7 years old. Sabine says that "Ezra is out there somewhere and it's time to bring him home".
If Ahsoka and Sabine's journey to find Ezra didn't start until 5 years after ROTJ, why would Ahsoka think that Morgan Elsbeth knew the whereabouts of Thrawn? Why start there? Does she have proof that Thrawn survived and therefore, Ezra did as well? Or is Ezra dead while Thrawn is in hiding somewhere or worse, reorganizing the Empire, as he did in
Heir To The Empire? And if she knew all of this, why didn't she go to Luke or Leia or the New Republic?
There are just too many questions for them to answer, especially in a series like The Mandalorian, even if Thrawn is the big baddie behind it all.
I'm not saying that it's false that Ahsoka's journey to find Ezra is just now beginning but it doesn't make much sense in the overall narrative of a connected universe. It would make more sense if she and Sabine had been hunting Ezra and Thrawn since shortly after the Empire fell and pushing it out five years doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
It seems way too complicated but I guess we'll see. It would certainly be far from a straight line narrative, that's for sure.