He only appears “shallow” because George Lucas didn’t really give him much to do in The Phantom Menace.
You’re literally confirming that he’s shallow with that statement.
Maul was featured prominently in TCW and Rebels, so TPM is not the be-all, end-all for the character’s development.
It is in my world, and many many other people who just watch the movies feel the same.
And therefore he was last seen getting cut in half.
And therefore his appearance in this movie is not just dumb, it’s nonsensical.
It’s obviously not nonsensical in the world in which the film was meant to be a part of (the new canon), and thus the “nonsensical”-ness is just the problem of the standard of “personal canon”
Great. Doesn’t matter to me because there’s zero explanation in the film, therefore it’s nonsensical.
I should be able to ignore EU and have stuff still make sense. It’s not like I’m trying to pretend Jabba doesn’t exist.