Lit Darth Maul Dark lord of the Sith post Endor?

Dark Disciple. I may pick it up when the spoiler isn't as fresh in my head but right now that'd ruin it for me in my opinion. It's on my list, just not at the top.

 

Hopefully this time Talon will be Maul's slave instead of a Sith. Talon has always looke way too much like a fetish cosplayer for me to take her seriously as a Sith.

 

This argument would hold more water if not for Darth Maul going around half-naked all the time.

 

I never said I was a fan of topless Maul. I probably would have had him wear Savage-style armor. Furthermore, Maul is a Nightbrother but Talon is definitely not a Nightsister and Nighttattoos just don't look right on Twi'leks.

 

I'm just saying that I don't think lack of clothing necessitates lack of respect even if I genuinely agree fanservice Talon is something they should tone down.

 

Sums up my view pretty concisely.

I'm simply a fan of the more kendo/european saber fencing we see in the OT than Wuxia. I'm not shy about that opinion. To be fair, Maul vs. Obi Wan at full speed is quite exciting, and the obvious missing and flynning is just as acceptable as other fencing in film. In general though? There are some bad, BAD saber fighting scenes in the prequels.

 

It seems someone who has zero information about lightsaber styles made that video. Both Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan were an Ataru specialist, Ataru is a very energetic lightsaber form, depends on speed, video calls that ''stupid moves'' by thinking it as a fencing style, which is not. In Ataru, fighters are using force jump, force speed, and agility, what is essential for force users, which is why it suits for a Jedi. They are not fencers, they are force users.

As for Maul's style Juyo, it's not so different than Ataru in terms of energy, it's ferocity form, depends on aggression and unpredictability.

 

What an awesomely ridiculous response.

If the creator of that vid did include those SW saber fighter styles, I imagine he would say something like, "be sure to justify your warm ups, intentional missing of your target, and silly jumps by naming your fighting style with made up nonsense words like Ataru and Juyo."

 

Except that the vid owner didn't know the styles (it's obvious) and they are not missing their target intentionally and that ''silly jumps'' are made for Force users, not for regular humans.

 

Uhhhh...k, then.

You realize it was fake (a fiction movie...not really Jedi) and more akin to a choreographed dance that a real sword fight though, right?

Also, look up satire.

 

I hope we will never see him again, except for novels/comics set during TCW era. I don't want him to be around during or post the OT era.

 

Due to the lack of explanation and logic behind Maul's survival in TCW, I am not interested in seeing him appear in anything else outside TCW CG show. I really like Maul, and despite my disdain towards TCW CG show I have to admit that the episodes with him are fun to watch as long as you forget that Episode I and II ever happened. As soon as you remember that the movies exist, something just doesn't feel right to me regarding TCW Maul.

That being said, I'm all for getting a Darth Maul spin-off movie set before TPM.

 

I would be interested in Battle of the Sith Lords.

Could be cool, I can see the connection between Darths Maul and Talon. I mean they do have similar dress tastes

 

I want him to make a dramatic reappearance... the door shatters, the music grinds to a halt, the conversation stops abruptly... then everyone goes back to talking and just ignores the wacky red dude standing glowering at everyone. Then again I loathed Maul even before he came back from the dead so I am probably biased.

 

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Obi-wan knows how to cut him down to size.

 

My fan theory is that after all the Clone Wars stuff...Maul goes to Moraband and has a vision of the death Sidious and Vader at Endor. He goes into hiding and starts building a powerbase. Instead of taking outright control of criminal organizations he gives his support to gang leaders in exchange for loyalty to him. If the head of the organization refused he is disposed of and whoever was 2nd in command is made the same offer. Same with small start up businesses he feels will be useful. He takes an apprentice and continues the line of the Sith Order like Bane did 1000 years ago.

Could go with the apprentice being either Talon or Lumiya.

 

I'd like to see something like that if Maul survives post-ROTJ. After his escape from Dathomir in the SOD series, it would make sense for him to go into exhile. We don't know if any Nightbrothers or Nightsisters will be assisting him at this point, or whether he'll turn to Moraband and the ancient knowledge it contains. I'd prefer he draw power from Dathomir with the help of Talzin from the spirit realm, but it's understandable that he couldn't return, and Sidious may have blockaded the planet as he did in the old EU.

 

In Legends, Sidious blockaded Dathomir, but there were many clans of witches, not only Nightsisters BTW. In canon, the situation is very different; the Nightsister community we saw is the only one, and there are no "good witches." Moreover, all the Nightsisters were slaughtered. I don't see why Sidious would still need to put Dathomir on lockdown.

 

I have to take out my sock accounts and like this comment more times because damn does it ring true!

Well not all of them....

 

Not all of them, granted. But if you're thinking of Ventress

Spoiler

she died in Dark Disciple anyway. And if you're thinking of the one who shows up in Star Wars: Uprising, she's alone and off-planet.

 

Just because that's all that was shown in the CW cartoon, doesn't mean that's all that exists on an entire planet and throughout the galaxy. The animated series covered one clan of Nightsisters / Nightbrothers - their involvement in future stories has yet to be written. I am well aware of all the legends stories surrounding the Nightsisters, and each of those could have taken place alongside the canon material. No need to make distinctions for me, the SW universe is grey in my eyes, not black and white...

 

You're putting much hope in the Story Group's willingness to keep the EU Nightsisters mytho... May the Gods hear you.

 

I agree with this. Maul and Eeth Koth are both, IMO, examples of a real lack of long-term planning and fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants attitude that sometimes dictated The Clone Wars. I mean, in the sw.com behind the scenes video for that Eeth Koth episode, Dave Filoni says that he initially resurrected Eeth Koth with the intent to kill him --- he was going to die in that episode, setting the stage for Agen Kolar to be his replacement on the Jedi Council. But then Filoni decided that Koth was an interesting enough character to use again... and went on to never use him again. Over the next four years. And even if he had ended up finding a story with a role for him, why not just use Agen Kolar?

It's the same story with Maul. Resurrect him, very nearly kill him, but end up keeping him alive for potential future use that never surfaces. Granted, TCW came to an end shortly after the Maul/Sidious duel, but Son of Dathomir was the perfect chance to bring his story, and his life, to a close. Why did Son of Dathomir even exist? Did it actually accomplish anything? Honest question; I haven't read it and don't understand why it exists if it didn't kill Maul off. Did it bring any kind of resolution to... any story?