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[cormack12]

 

[jason10mm]

WOOHOO, so excited!

And Maul already has his balls chopped off, so we can skip straight to the being a pussy part faster than Boba Fett!

 

[Fbh]

So will this be one of those shows focusing on a villain where:
- We learn they aren't actually that bad and are mostly misunderstood.
- They take a beloved badass character and emasculate him by making him non threatening and lame.
- Despite the show being named after them, they end up feeling like a side character.
- All of the above (like Book of Boba Fett)

 

[cormack12]

So will this be one of those shows focusing on a villain where:
- We learn they aren't actually that bad and are mostly misunderstood.
- They take a beloved badass character and emasculate him by making him non threatening and lame.
- Despite the show being name after them, they end up feeling like a side character.
- All of the above (like Book of Boba Fett)

Maul Skywalker

 

[Trogdor1123]

They should just make him a 2 dimensional evil duder. Just bad to the core… with an evil moustache

 

[Sticks]

 

[DKehoe]

I never watched Clone Wars but I always thought it was odd he came back in that and apparently became a crime lord?

 

[Stitch]

It's animated in the Clone Wars style btw

- Despite the show being name after them, they end up feeling like a side character.

He does have a female apprentice in this so, maybe.

 

[Fbh]

He does have a female apprentice in this so, maybe.

 

[jason10mm]

It's animated in the Clone Wars style btw


He does have a female apprentice in this so, maybe.

Emilia Clarkes character from Solo????

I just hope it is it's own show and not full of tie-ins to other shows, especially nothing Ahsoka related (though I highly suspect this will).

 

[Coconutt]

How many times has this guy died though?

 

[Catphish]

How he wasn't a mainstay throughout the PT I'll never understand.

The coolest villain since Vader, gets about 5 minutes of screen time, and Lucas just tosses his ass down a hole.

I swear to God, the stupidity of this franchise is fucking incomprehensible.

 

[The_hunter]

Somehow, maul has returned.

 

[lifa-cobex]

Jesus Christ.
Make something new.

His entire life has been pretty much shown in one form or another.

 

[Billbofet]

No thanks

 

[Stitch]

Emilia Clarkes character from Solo????

No a female Twi'lek. Some people think that she could be Darth Talon. George Lucas wanted to see Maul and Talon together in a Story, but they didn't really exist at the same time in the old timeline. But he never really gave a shit about the expanded universe and with the new canon it doesn't really matter so I think they used Lucas idea for this show.

 

[Tertullian]

Didn't this guy clearly get slaughtered in The Phantom Menace, miraculously come back with spider legs, get jobbed by Sidious, come back again in a comic book, get jobbed by Sidious again, then inexplicably show up in Solo and do nothing? For fuck's sake.

 

[Fake]

This have potential to talk about sexual orientation.

 

[Madonis]

No a female Twi'lek. Some people think that she could be Darth Talon. George Lucas wanted to see Maul and Talon together in a Story, but they didn't really exist at the same time in the old timeline. But he never really gave a shit about the expanded universe and with the new canon it doesn't really matter so I think they used Lucas idea for this show.

That would be interesting, but without George Lucas being involved these days, it's difficult to say how well they will handle the idea.

 

[Celcius]

My fav Star Wars villain

 

[kpopSuperstar]

Ah come on, go to a new planet, do a new story, new aliens, whatever. Stop the endless legacy character slop.

 

[jason10mm]

Ah come on, go to a new planet, do a new story, new aliens, whatever. Stop the endless legacy character slop.

Come on, doesn't it keep you up all night, every night, just wondering what Dr. Evazan did, PRECISELY, to earn "the death sentence in twelve systems"? I know this has been explored in the EU, but surely it's deserving of its own 6 part, 25 million per episode, series, right????

 

[Skywarp]

Come on, doesn't it keep you up all night, every night, just wondering what Dr. Evazan did, PRECISELY, to earn "the death sentence in twelve systems"? I know this has been explored in the EU, but surely it's deserving of its own 6 part, 25 million per episode, series, right????

I'd be so down for a Dr. Evazan and Ponda Baba series. It'd be a nice excuse to see Ando.

 

[Ozzie666]

Maul's post Phantom menace story is fairly good and he should have never perished so early. Between the 3 audio books he features in, clone wars, rebels and his comics - they add a fair bit to his character. Plagiues novel deserves to be made into a Rogue one type movie for the prequels.

Unfortunately he is dead as of Rebels, he would have been a great character to use post Return of the Jedi as Lucas eventually wanted. But he should have never been a 1 and done movie character. The Rebels Maul ending is too well done to remove from canon.

Looking forward to this series, Sam usually nails it with Maul.

 

[GymWolf]

This have potential to talk about sexual orientation.

Lightsabers have always been related with male erections for the way they turn on.

And dude has 2 of them glued together.

 

[DKehoe]

Come on, doesn't it keep you up all night, every night, just wondering what Dr. Evazan did, PRECISELY, to earn "the death sentence in twelve systems"? I know this has been explored in the EU, but surely it's deserving of its own 6 part, 25 million per episode, series, right????

Dexter style show about Dr. Evazan. But his dark passenger is Ponda Baba.

 

[Froggo]

So will this be one of those shows focusing on a villain where:
- We learn they aren't actually that bad and are mostly misunderstood.
- They take a beloved badass character and emasculate him by making him non threatening and lame.
- Despite the show being named after them, they end up feeling like a side character.
- All of the above (like Book of Boba Fett)

More stupid animated Filoni slop

 

[Amish Death Metal]

No a female Twi'lek. Some people think that she could be Darth Talon. George Lucas wanted to see Maul and Talon together in a Story, but they didn't really exist at the same time in the old timeline. But he never really gave a shit about the expanded universe and with the new canon it doesn't really matter so I think they used Lucas idea for this show.

George Lucas tried to put Darth Talon in the cancelled Darth Maul game Lucasarts was making.

A friendly George Lucas entered the room and was eager to hear the pitch from Red Flys creatives. Before they could finish their spiel, Lucas cut them off, stood up, walked over to the statues, rotated them to be facing the same direction, pushed them together, and said Theyre friends! adds the source. He wanted these characters to be friends, and to play off of each other. He talked about the show Burn Notice as a reference point. He likened Darth Maul to Sonny from The Godfather, and he likened Darth Talon to Lauren Bacall. He actually did an impersonation of her. It was supposedly the weirdest impersonation of a 40s actress going, Dont you know how to whistle? Put your lips together and blow.

The problem with the idea of Maul and Talon teaming up for a buddy cop-like experience was that they were separated by over 170 years of Star Wars fiction as ridiculous of an idea as Frédéric Chopin forming a band with Dave Grohl. When this vast time divide was brought up to Lucas attention, he brushed off the notion of it not working, and said that it could instead be a descendant of Darth Maul or a clone of him.

Then in his version of Episode VII, Darth Talon was the one who seduced Ben Solo to the dark side.

 

[RCX]

Dear Disney

 

[AJUMP23]

I liked it better when he was dead.

 

[Paasei]

Too bad he turned from a 5-min bad ass to a children's character in an animation series. I refuse to let the SW Legends lore go.

 

[chromhound]

Darth Raven show or movie instead :-/ ?

 

[Uberman77]

Are these types of characters better the more we explain them? I watched "Predator Badlands" recently and I thought it was pretty good, but if anything it detracts from the earlier Predator movies. I don't know that I'm better off knowing more about the Predator culture and so on, I think the first movie is best where it's just a mystery villain and you have to guess or infer as much as you can from limited information. Your imagination does a better job than any official / canon explanation. I kind of wished "Predator Badlands" was just a stand-alone movie about some other alien race and kept the mystery alive. Same here - will knowing more about Darth Maul improve anything?

 

[Londo]

So will this be one of those shows focusing on a villain where:
- We learn they aren't actually that bad and are mostly misunderstood.
- They take a beloved badass character and emasculate him by making him non threatening and lame.
- Despite the show being named after them, they end up feeling like a side character.
- All of the above (like Book of Boba Fett)

Mauleficent?

 

[Romulus]

Not watching this unless it has evil white colonizer type villains and a hero that is a POC with pink hair fighting for galactic freedom.

 

[IDKFA]

They're scraping the barrel with this one.

Even pulled out "Dual of the Fates" because they know Start Wars fans get rock hard whenever that music is played. I even know a Star Wars fan who has that tune on this "sex" playlist. That says it all.

 

[cormack12]

 

[spookyfish]

So will this be one of those shows focusing on a villain where:
- We learn they aren't actually that bad and are mostly misunderstood.
- They take a beloved badass character and emasculate him by making him non threatening and lame.
- Despite the show being named after them, they end up feeling like a side character.
- All of the above (like Book of Boba Fett)

Can't WAIT to see Maul walking down the street (MANY times), smiling at others, and being with his best girl, who is actually the muscles of his newly-minted crime syndicate.

 

[mitch1971]

Season one will concentrate on his top half. Season two with see what his legs get up to.

 

[spookyfish]

And we STILL won't have Peter Serafinowicz as the voice actor. >pouts<

 

[Trunx81]

Red the thread title as Maui and was hoping for a darker Moana spin off

 

[falconhoof]

I sound like a broken record as much as every fucking trailer does. It's gotten to the point where I can't even absorb the narrative elements, all I hear is fucking drums.

 

[jason10mm]

Huh. So he has 2 robotic legs now, or is this a TPM prequel?

Seems like he is fighting the Empire or at least early imperial units as well as jedi, so either order 66 missed a TON of jedi at this point or its pre-RoS?

I dunno, quippy kid sidekick, even with limited time in this trailer, is a big red flag. And im pretty sure there WAS a pink tailed (?) Twi-lek in there, wonder if that's the sidekick

Animation looks good though, and personally all these series from clone wars ti bad batch, have felt a lot more star warsy than any of the live action stuff.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Maul going on a tear though the Empire is fun

 

[DreamcastSkies]

Looks amazing. I love the premise.

 

[HAYA8U5A]

They're scraping the barrel with this one.

Even pulled out "Dual of the Fates" because they know Start Wars fans get rock hard whenever that music is played. I even know a Star Wars fan who has that tune on this "sex" playlist. That says it all.

What is weird about that? Next you will tell me saying, "Execute order 66" before a wank and pretending all the sperm are Jedi is abnormal.

 

[jason10mm]

What is weird about that? Next you will tell me saying, "Execute order 66" before a wank and pretending all the sperm are Jedi is abnormal.

Fappable