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Didn't darth maul original die differently? — Page 3

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I’m pretty sure the screening I saw in Australia didn’t have him cut in half as I have a memory of thinking he should have been cut in half and then years later when watching it on DVD seeing him cut in half and thinking “I’m sure he wasn’t originally cut in half?”.

With GL’s tendency to change things after you’ve already watched the movie, it didn’t seem out of the question at all. It could also be as some have suggested to pass stricter ratings in some countries which could very well have been the case in Australia at that time.

.Val

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Not that I NEEDED more reason to hate the silly, mediocre fan-fic that is the nuEU but Darth Maul not being dead after being cut in half and falling down a pit into God-knows-what certainly clinches the matter for me…

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BigMcLargeHuge said:

Not that I NEEDED more reason to hate the silly, mediocre fan-fic that is the nuEU

I hope you’re not implying that the original EU wasn’t also silly, mediocre fan-fic…

Also, since Darth Maul surviving was in the TV series, it’s technically not EU at all.

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Technically, shmecnically. My personal canon states that anything not in a film is EU.

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LOTS of the Old EU was silly fan fic. But not all of it, in my opinion anyway.

And even with that caveat, thanks to the glories of the Corporate Story Team™ we now get this ridiculousness on “Rebels” - a show that features childish slapstick that makes the Prequel antics of R2 and 3PO look like commedia dell’arte.

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I have never seen Darth Maul being defeated by Obi-Wan like that before. To be honest with you, I think it was a dumb idea. Having to see him getting sliced in half was a good way to tease his return.