I decided to sit down and watch the entire Maul saga from the Clone Wars last night. It works just fine with no context around who anyone is or what's going on, since the majority of the focus is on Maul. Context clues make it pretty easy to pick up who is who and what they do in the story.
It's a nice saga. Good fight scenes, and Maul is just wicked evil through the whole thing.
But I can't stop laughing at the name "Savage Oppress" lololol. Maybe if we pronounce it "Sav-ah-g" nobody will notice his name is just the word savage! Get it? Because he's evil! Might as well just name him "evil bad guy"
Since Maul barely speaks in Phantom Menace, his Clone Wars voice is now the voice of Maul in my head. The voice actor does a good job making him seem crazy and on edge. Savage is just Lex Luthor and I can't not hear Lex Luthor whenever he talks (which is not really that often actually).
The part where he rolls over and begs for mercy from Palpatine was a little out of character though?
The whole saga kind of flies in the face of the Sith rule of two, since there were no less than 4 Sith running around at this time. It's also a little weird Palp didn't sense Maul still being alive for the 10 years or whatever time it was between his "death" and him showing up again. The rule of 2 is stupid and story constraining.
Maul deserved better than to have his story pushed off into a children's cartoon. With some minor tweaks, the saga could have been condensed to be an actual movie.
