[CaptainCrunch]

I was thinking about this last night, but the Thrawn that we're seeing is a lot different from the Thrawn in the legends EU.

The Thrawn in the legends EU was extremely smart and analytical, he used art in order to study his opponent and beat them. He came up with innovative strategies on the fly "Using cloaked ships to fool planets into surrendering". He didn't suffer fools but he handed out praise and recognized innovative throught. He didn't do the physical dirty work, he let his body guards (Noghri) do the work for him.

Ok, this Thrawn is different, but I'm not saying he's bad thought

He still studies art to understand his opponent and come up with his strategy. But I don't think he's that innovative, he seems to rely on overwhelming numbers and fire power. He was worried that the Rebels would come up with an innovative strategy, but the Thrawn in the EU never allowed the Rebels time to come up with a strategy because he put them on the defensive. When they beat him it was usually a fluke occurance.

However unlike the Legends EU, he has a temper, he grabbed a officer by the throat when the officer laughed at his art thing. You look at the fight with Kallus, the Legends Grand Admiral Thrawn would have sent the Noghri's in to capture him, instead Thrawn wanted to prove that he was physically better then Kallus, maybe because Kallus had pulled the wool over his eyes for so long.

As well Thrawn is a sadist who needs to assert domination and humiliate his foe. Look at Kallus, he basically tied him up and tortured him and gloated over his defeat. He didn't need any information from Kallus, he'd triangulated where the Rebel base was. He really didn't need any information on ship types or defenses, he had 6 Star Destroyers and 2 inderdictors, there was really nothing that could beat him fire power wise. Instead he wanted Kallus in chains, and then he kept him on the bridge during the battle not for information, but so Kallus could know who had beaten him in every way.

Oh the Thrawn in the EU was always concerned about his men and resources, maybe because he didn't have a Empire behind him. But he wasn't a butcher of his own men, instead using things like the demented clone Jedi to make them fight better. However in Rebels he sent those scout walkers into an area that he knew was going to come under fire or be mined so he could nail down the enemies location before sending in the AT-AT's.