A/V STAR WARS REBELS (show's over, spoilers allowed)

Maybe the captured Neimoidan leaders told them? They know Maul's name at least.

 

That's a good explanation, I'll accept that. The rest about him being chopped in half still stands though.

 

In the context of an EU that had a Sith lord survive as a living head after being beheaded (Simus) Maul's survival doesn't seem so bad.

The comic The Sith Hunters covered what happened to Maul after he fell into that pit.

 

Lol living heads. I'm glad iv not seen that, it's straight out of Futurama

 

It's a very common trope in sci-fi:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LosingYourHead

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrainInAJar

 

And the brains-in-jars B'omarr Monks are still canon too.

 

The Jedi found Maul's ship and his name was written on all his underwear.

 

Darth Sion was literally falling apart and he held his body together using the Dark side of the force. I took it that it was that same element of the Dark Side that Maul tapped into to keep his squishy parts from atrophying (sp?) and drying up from the inside out...


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Son of Dathomir makes clear that some 'essence of Talzin' had been dwelling in Maul, almost Horcrux-like. Her power sustained him, and then later, his self served as a means to sustain her. Weird parasitic/symbiotic relationship using a Dathomirian approach to the Dark Side of the Force to tap into powers some would consider to be... unnatural.

 

That reminds me, I need to pick up some Essence of Talzin for my spice rack.

 

I don't like it. It's been known to make my ground beef get up and go on a rampage of revenge.

 

I thought the Jedi, canonically, had learned all about the Sith in the wake of the Naboo crisis from the TF.

 

That's an empty caveat given what we see in actually labeled science fiction that George "borrowed" from (Dune, Lensman etc.). Star Wars is as "grounded" as those works.

 

Makes sense they'd feel free to namedrop Maul, because, well, as far as they knew, he was dead. And it could plausible be all they knew. Namedropping Sidious would be a bad, bad move - one that is dropped on Obi-Wan by Dooku for seemingly the first time a decade later.

 

I guess, for me, it would have seemed to make more sense if the staff put Zeb into a trance and Zeb, in his trance, safely piloted the ship than that electricity took over the ship's systems.

Unless, of course, "as the ancients used it" meant that the staff doubles as a navcomputer, which for all I know is possible.

Absolutely - the Jedi, of course, always figured there was one more out there, though.

 

Zebs into Trance is he, I can buy that too
Maybe this is the new planet that wasn't shown too




CooperTFN that maybe but that's still tame compared to Lando who actually went all the way and wore Han's clothes and probably more besides

 

I think it feels more counterintuitive than it has to because we're used to seeing the bo-rifle as just a weapon, whereas if Zeb had been carrying a little flash drive around his neck and plugged it into the Ghost we would happily assume it had software on it that overrode the Ghost's navicomputer, shields, etc. Which IMO is more or less what happens, just in a more abstractly technological way than, say, Artoo plugging into a data port in the films. And Zeb may well have known it could function in that way without realizing it had any relationship to Lirasan.

Nah, Lando goes commando.

 

I don't think it did anything to the turbolasers directly; that was the effect of the black holes. How it made the ship immune to them is a bigger question, but in a universe with ubiquitous antigravity I have no problems believing it's at least possible--if unusual.

 

Tell me another story of the Shepard.