About this whole Darth Maul IS General Greivous combo:
I have not been sold on this at all yet. I still don't know why we can't have a darth maul in Ep.1 and another villian named General Grevious in III. I just don't see how you could make general grevious SEEM like he is suppose to be darth maul at all. I mean sure, you can mess with names, but how far does that really go? We could change anybodys names around, but the characters don't even move or act like each other. I always thought if you redubbed Grevious with a scarier taunts and a mean voice it would make his character have more intimidation. Someone else mentioned that if we "assumed" that maul survived being chopped in half, then it kind of comes off as cheesy, why did he not die? Are we to assume that if anybody is taken out in battle that they could still be alive? Did mace windue survive palpatines lighting? It just raises some inconsistancies IMO. Plus Grevious has obvious alien eyes and eyeline features. He runs away, he's hunched over and he seems less important to be walking around with droid armies. And if Maul is Grevious in Ep.1, then what did he do when he was found, alive, put together in a droid body.....and then just take up work as the general for the trade federations clone war? I just don't see the characters connecting at all. Maybe it could be pulled off, I just wanted to know how this could be done.
Don't get me wrong, I think it would have been cool if maul survived TPM and showed up again in ROTS to revenge his fight. And it is true, Grevious did not serve much puprose in the movie, but you could make his character seem more of a threat. He is kind of like Jabba in ROTJ, did we really need to go to his palace and watch nothing but him and his cronies for 30 minutes only to watch him dye and fade away? I think General Grevious is a cool character and was nicely expanded upon in the cartoon series, but I don't see why or how you can turn him into darth maul. Just a thought.