TV Discussion Mace Windu Disney+ show (Rumor)

https://thedirect.com/article/star-...du-prequel-rumored-to-be-in-early-development

 

I’m not sure I buY this one, but thank goodness they are finally doing (or thinking) something in the PT era!!!

 

Enough is enough! I have had it with these mother****ing rumours for these mother****ing Disney + shows!

Everybody renew your subscriptions, I'm about to binge some Mandalorian episodes.

 

It could be pretty cool, I agree. But I do think this is just one of many of those ideas they were said to be throwing around about TV series'. Doubt it actually happens.

 

I'm Excited if this turn out to be true. This means more Jedi Dooku!

 

There's also nothing stopping them from retconning his death in RotS. If they found a good story to tell about him surviving Order 66, I don't see why not. Plus, the actor seemed interested when asked about it.

 

There is no need to retcon it.

It's similar to retconning grand moff tarkin's death in episode 4. Doing these stuff will just make the death completely meaningless in the star wars universe.

 

Oh, no, no, no, no, no. IMO, having him live would kill a powerful scene. Sorry Samuel, you're dead.

 

You know what, I'm not the biggest fan of Mace Windu as a character (I think he's kind of a jerk), but I'd definitely be down for this. I'd vastly prefer the Young Mace story this article is positing rather than a "Windu Lives!" narrative, which would feel eye-rollingly cheap. Getting to see a younger Mace Windu, and seeing what in his training or early years as a Knight led him to become a prime example of everything that had become wrong with the Jedi, in respect to an over-adherence to rules without introspection, a willingness to forsake the ideals of the Jedi to serve the Republic's interests, and a blinding arrogance, would not only be illuminating for the character himself, but for the Jedi as a whole.

 

Yeah, I also think that's not a good decision. It would become similar to the way they brought back Darth Maul which imo wasn't a good idea.

 

Nah don't give credence to Star Wars' Theory's bad exuse of fan made MAce Windu lives. Let's go Young Mace, the Mace comic gave some insight into him as a young Padawan and we know now in canon he's had the purple lightsaber since he was a youngling. With this we can see the growing friendship with Mace and senior jedi Dooku. And young Qui Gon and Mace. Maybe we can see Dooku's other apprentice. See A young Mace beocming a jedi knight at the end of the first season.

 

Many would say it paid off with darth maul.

 

Maul proved you can do it right with a good story. Mace other then being another order 66 survivor surfs no purpose. We already have other jedi helping out the early rebellion in Kanan, Ezra, and Cal Kestis.

 

There are many jedi hiding after ROTS. What happened to them is up in the air. Kanan isn't the only one.

 

Yeah, many would say it paid off with Maul, but many would also say it didn't pay off with Palpatine. The more characters you pull those "psyche, they ain't dead!" moments with, the more it cheapens the impact and finality of death as a story device in Star Wars as a whole. I'm also not crazy of too many Jedi surviving throughout the Dark Times. They had to find creative ways to write Ezra, Kanna, and Ahsoka out of the story so they wouldn't impact Luke's journey in the OT, and if Mace services RotS, then you're either going to have to find some excuse as to why he isn't involved in the Rebellion in some capacity, or just kill him for real.

 

Ok lets say this is old Mace runnig from inqusitors And LOrd Vader while having heavy with flashbacks to his younger days as jedi padawan in the republic. similar to how Kenobi will have flashbacks to the clone wars. But this show will be mostly in the past and only little in pst order 66 era. And unlike Kenobi this ould run for 3 seaosns of him survivng posr order 66 and we having explored his past. Maybe Mace Windu is the first jedi rebel leading a small rebellion with extremist Saw Guerra. We know by the time of fallen ordr most of the jedi are gone and few still around and by rebels the jedi are beginnig to be a myth. Sure we can Have Mace live past one year before Lord Vader comes and kills him. could be intresting.

 

The era between TPM and AotC has been barely explored in the new expanded universe. 10 years and nearly no one want to do anything with it. I understand why most of the story are between RotS and ANH, GL was working on a live-action series and he left plenty of notes of what life was like under the Empire, but what I don't understand is why not have that same energy for the pre-AotC era? However, if they want to something with Mace Windu, I would prefer the pre-TPM era. As for Mace's survival, when you have something like the Force, plus what GL/Filoni and Co. introduced in the animated series and what they did in the ST, it's clear that on-screen death no longer means anything. If a storyteller has an idea about a particular character, they would do it, no matter if it makes narrative sense or not. The books will do all the explaining like usual.

 

We will get young and old Mace Windu just the same as with the rumored Lando tv series. This could be exciting for upcoming black actors. Who do you think should play an arrogant young Mace Windu.

 

Same reason Yoda wasn't involved in the Rebellion i suppose. you can't really assume everyones life will go that particular route after order 66.

There is also that character from Fallen order.

 

Yes, please!

I've wanted to see more onscreen Mace for a while now. If they are going the young Mace route that's kind of surprising. What he's doing post-RotS, assuming he survived his "death", strikes me as having a lot of story potential. He was the most dogmatic and institutional of them all and it would be fascinating to see how how responds to the loss of the Temple and the Order. But I would definitely take a prequel, especially if it means more PT content. And, if Samuel L. Jackson is involved, we may be able to have our cake and eat it too!

 

Or how about Teenage Mace with older brother Qui Gon and father figure senior mister Dooku. Oh and thor in a cute alien child they all three must protect. let's go back 20 or so years before TMP, before or after Kenobi is born.

 

For me it didn't. Because Palpatine was never a type of master to leave his only apprentice to die.(The apprentice that he trained for some years)

He did come to save Vader. So if Maul actually survived then Palp would be the one to put him in the bacta tank.