Speculation What things from the PT do you want the ST to keep?

The phantom menace ligthtsaber fights are the best.

More great fights like that.

Not much else i want to keep.

I want to see a lot of stuff from the OT though. Mainly the ships!

 

Wow, wrong on every account.

Didn't really care about each other? Well no ***t, they wanted to KILL each other, which is why they were having a duel in the first place! Duels in the OT were between father and son....you honestly think every Jedi and every Sith in Star Wars has to have some sort of a similar relationship in order to keep you interested?

I don't know what audience you watched with, but audiences I've watched with cared for Qui Gon and Obi Wan uite a bit, being as they were the protagonists aka the "Good Guys" as it were.

The reason they were fighting is implied in the movie: Q and O are Jedi. M is a Sith. Jedi and Sith loathe each other and attack to kill on sight. Not only that, DM was after the queen and QGJ and OWK were her guardians. In order to get to the queen, Maul has to get through them first. Unstoppable force meeting immovable object, and all that.

No one would ever claim in all seriousness that the duel in ANH was superior to the duels in TPM.

 

Why Sith and Jedi loath each other isn't even explored in the movies. It was simply thrown at our feet. There, eat it, audience.
The duel would've been a great opportunity to explain why these two orders hate each other so much (through good ol' insult swinging), but no, the opportunity was wasted.

 

It's self-explanatory. Why do elves and orcs hate each other? PLOT HOOOOOOOOOOOOOLE

 

Well, its made apparent in The Phantom Menace that the Sith want revenge on the Jedi for nearly driving them to extinction over a thousand years ago, and in Revenge of the Sith Anakin expresses that the Jedi are not fond of the Sith because of their 'inward' way of thinking and their disruption of the natural balance of the Force that the Jedi strive to keep intact.

One of the reasons I loved the Count Dooku character so much was because, unlike Anakin, he didn't leave the Jedi and join the Sith in order to achieve a greater power. He was a villain, but he was portrayed as a gentleman and a man of high stature. He left the Jedi Order because, unlike the members of the Council, he was not blind to the corruption in the senate that the Jedi were wrongly protecting. He was a political idealist and, quite honestly, was not exactly wrong in assisting the Separatist movement (the Separatists are not so different from Rebels that we fell in love with in the Original Trilogy, after all). His beliefs on the status of the government were in line with the lies being spewed by Darth Sidious, so them working together seemed quite natural.

Unlike Dooku, Palpatine was the embodiment of evil. He was essentially the Star Wars incarnation of Satan himself (his manipulation of Anakin is not so different than the portrayal of the serpent in the Adam and Eve story), and claimed that he wanted to bring 'peace' to the galaxy through his newly formed Empire. He simply wanted to eradicate anyone who opposed him, and the Jedi were the biggest opposition to the Sith in the galaxy.

 

Maul's mocking in TCW was actually really good... especially after he killed Obi-wan's girlfriend right in front of him (they never did anything together due to Obi-wan and the code though, but they did have feelings for one another)

 

Was anyone a fan of Maul coming back from the dead? Just saying his taunting was very well done...

 

Appologies for asking . .. of course a kid was in favor of a cool villain, even if brought back from the dead

 

Concept never got finished though... we never saw how Sidious planned to use Maul after he defeated him. So we never got to see the reason why Lucas approved it *Sigh

 

But why would Maul care what happened thousand years ago? Why is he so eager to reveal himself to the Jedi? What is his personal motivation to do what he does?

The last question was skipped altogether and that made it difficult to feel anything for that character, not even disgust.

I mean, I can only speculate that maybe the Sith order was father and mother and meaning of life for him and maybe that's why he hated the Jedi so much.

Fortunately, TCW Maul is a far better character. His motivations are pretty clear.

 

CGI aliens and fast pace lightsaber battles defiantly!

 

Darth Maul was raised by Palpatine. Palps taught Maul that the Jedi had commited genocide against the Sith.

 

That is not in the movies.

 

Half of the crap you read on here is not found in the movies

 

I am.

 

I was first a skeptic because from a dramaturgy point of view resurrections are problematic. But TCW Maul simply won me over and showed me how sad it was that his potential as a movie villain was wasted.

 

I'll agree that he won me over as a character and also showed me how wasted his potential was in ep I... I was very against it though when I first heard about it though. Still wonder time to time if a new villain would have been better or not, but feel I cant judge since we never saw the conclusion to his caracter arc and Sidious 'plans' for him. That arc was to truly be the test if it was wiser to use him or another. Not whinning about the show getting cancled though, rather ep VII-IX over it any day and twice on release day.