The Thrawn trilogy was the real sequel trilogy in my opinion. It actually explained what happened to the Empire. The Imperial remnant actually makes far more sense than the First Order, and it's fitting to the original dialogue of A New Hope where the Grand Moffs meet on the Death Star. They basically hint that without the Emperor, the Empire would consist of Moffs acting as war lords over their individual territories and would probably have conflicts with one another (and they do). This is similar to the war lords of the Roman Empire, and it makes sense.
The Thrawn trilogy also showed that the New Republic had rampant corruption and scandals going on, and it introduced cool new characters. Thrawn himself works as a villain cause he's unlike anything else we had seen before then. And we do see him lose a few battles here and there. Garm Bel Iblis is the type of character that would've worked in the sequel trilogy, but Disney was more interested in repeating the tropes of the OT.
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The Thrawn trilogy was the real sequel trilogy in my opinion. It actually explained what happened to the Empire. The Imperial remnant actually makes far more sense than the First Order, and it's fitting to the original dialogue of A New Hope where the Grand Moffs meet on the Death Star. They basically hint that without the Emperor, the Empire would consist of Moffs acting as war lords over their individual territories and would probably have conflicts with one another (and they do). This is similar to the war lords of the Roman Empire, and it makes sense.
The Thrawn trilogy also showed that the New Republic had rampant corruption and scandals going on, and it introduced cool new characters. Thrawn himself works as a villain cause he's unlike anything else we had seen before then. And we do see him lose a few battles here and there. Garm Bel Iblis is the type of character that would've worked in the sequel trilogy, but Disney was more interested in repeating the tropes of the OT.