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Originally Posted by Delvo

Then the people making the cartoon should have thought about what it would look like to people who didn't read the comic books.

The cartoon was a very abbreviated version of a larger story. They did what they could given limitations placed upon them. {EDIT}Almost every episode was five minutes long, and had to lead up to the events only moments before the intro to Episode III

...which the clone armies and droid armies could do because they had vast numbers and guns, which meant they could fire more blasts than could be deflected no matter how fast the target is. GG had no such advantage.

There are places online, or in SW reference books, in which research can be done on this. I'm fairly certain there will be no confirmation on the claims that GG had a connection to the force that would allow him to command it.

Grievous was engineered for the specific purpose of killing jedi. Even without the force it could be done. On screen, in Episode II Jango Fett was responsible for shooting a single jedi off of a balcony. Jango was the only one to attack said jedi at that particular time. Whether the jedi could foresee Jango's actions before hand or not, his reaction was too slow.

He might also have been relatively weak with it. (Technically, we're ALL supposed to be in contact with the Force... just not very good at making that connection conscious and bringing it under our control.)

I have re-read the passage in question. Thrawn made no claims that he could manipulate the force. Technically everyone is suppose to have some connection, that doesn't mean they have the potential to be jedi or sith lords. Such potential was always supposed to be a rare quality.

Thrawn was considered a tactical genius, but his intelligence doesn't have to have anything to do with a connection to the force. He made most of his decisions based on logic, on assumptions that he could work out in his mind, not on gut feelings.