If you aren't a Star Wars: Rebels fan, watching Ahsoka can be a little bit disorienting because it's essentially a live-action fifth season of that animated series. But there's still plenty for all the other Star Wars fans to chew on--particularly the search for Thrawn, which seems like it could be taking us beyond the borders of the Star Wars galaxy as we know them. It's kind of a big deal.

Warning: The rest of this article will contain major spoilers for the first two episodes of Ahsoka, as well as speculation about what could happen in the rest of the series.

But it's not a big deal just because it's cool to do something new--though that is something Star Wars doesn't do often enough. It's a big deal because it means that this series might actually bring some order to the comically vague and nonsensical post-Return of the Jedi timeline that has been in complete shambles since Disney rebooted the continuity a decade ago.