Maul: Shadow Lord — Page 4

Tayday said:

Dagenspear said:

Why would or should Maul be the Vader? What does that add to the PT and why should it copy the OT in that way?

Maybe motivation for the main characters and also someone the audience can attach to? Basic stuff you need for a movie to work, even more necessary for a trilogy.

I dont know how you can think any of this when Maul killed Kenobi’s master, as if that isnt a strong enough reason to keep him as the main villain.

The main overall characters are Jedi, heroic centered characters whose goal is heroism. The motivations are more interpersonal, I think, than needing a specific outside subject to focus on.

For the rest, that’s Palpatine to me, he fills that role.

I think Maul has a use and I could see him having more beyond that, but as is I think he not only fulfilled his point in the movies, he was also defeated by Obi, which I think closes it off as it stands.

I found this just to be okay. The animation was lovely. Characters and plot was predictable and not fleshed out as I would have liked to see. They really didn’t need him to appear at the end, and to have him say nothing or not much interaction with Maul trying to get under his skin was strange, but okay.

It felt like filler for Disney+ subscribers, rather than telling new adventures in the SWU, or even just from a different point of view. I won’t be watching season 2.

I watched the first two episodes when they dropped and I wasn’t super impressed. But I finished it the other day and I liked it a lot more. I didn’t like the two Jedi characters at first, but by the end of the series I thought they were great. It was really cool seeing them have to work together with Darth Maul, who himself works well in the anti-hero role. I’m curious where this show is going to go in Season 2. The only thing I’m worried about is that Darth Maul’s story is extremely constrained by canon.

Likewise I finished it today. It was neat. Probably the only good Filoni project ever made. But yeah it would be a lot better if they could make a noncanon season 2-3 where he does actually get his revenge on Palpatine, instead of waiting to see how it doesn’t work and nothing changes.

Honestly the Darth Maul vs Darth Vader battle felt forced and rushed it would have been better if Vader had appeared in another season because when he did it felt like a desperate attempt to get viewers and Filoni is afraid to use Darth Talon we know Lucas wanted Talon as a villain and i dont understand why they dont just say that Devon is actually Darth Talon i watched the show for her