Interesting!
And I like that idea a lot, Eyepainter.
While we’re on Maul, I wonder if it’s worth replacing his one line of dialogue? The Sith only reveal themselves to the Jedi insofar as it’s a secondary thing that happens in his pursuit of the Queen, and no revenge is had. The Clone Wars has a dearth of possible Maul lines we could work with, and it’s arguably his more canon voice since he’s got hundreds of lines in that as opposed to the single one here.
I personally deleted that scene in my edit, and my reasoning is because it didn’t offer much to the film aside from looking pretty. I may have to watch the scene again, but from what I remember, most of it is pretty much bad guys saying saturday morning cartoon lines. I think the reason it was kept in (theatrically) is because it’s one of the few moments where we see Maul and Palpatine together, but most of the exposition isn’t all that important in the long run. Do we really need to know so badly that Darth Maul will find the jedi quickly? Or that he’s after the queen? Or that he’s well-trained? For me, that stuff is explained already in other scenes, so it comes across as repetitive.