How impressive of feat was it to survive the battle of the Petranaki arena?

How impressive of feat was it to survive the battle of the Petranaki arena?

I’m only talking about the Jedi who were directly within the arena and not any of the Jedi in the catacombs who were assigned to take out the upper canons.

u/CrazyTangerine7522 — 6 days ago

Think Vader’s fight with Qi’ra is somewhat proof that Maul could’ve done better against Vader under more favourable circumstances?

Let me be clear even though Vader was never in threat of losing (as he himself points out) the narrative still frames Qi’ra as being able to hold her own against Vader and gaining the darklords respect. Palpatine even claims that Qi’ra was one of the few opponents Darth saw as formidable. Vader even says that her abilities speak well for her teacher, so Maul undoubtedly was a great teacher if Qi’ra could duel Vader despite not being force sensitive.

Vader ends up having to resort to massive force blast inorder to end the fight.

u/CrazyTangerine7522 — 6 days ago

Do you think Celestia is a good example about how a kind and loving person can still struggle with understanding empathy?

u/CrazyTangerine7522 — 9 days ago
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I know the Homelander scene came first but I love how these two scenes complement each other and perfectly show how both characters are meant to be polar opposites by design.

u/CrazyTangerine7522 — 14 days ago

For the retcon of Susan and Matty, I like to think that what we see in the movie flashback is just a Hollywood retelling of Ted’s backstory given Ted in-universe was once a Hollywood star.

Think it makes sense given if Hollywood wanted to make an ideal retelling of Ted’s origin, they’d likely wish to water down Matty given the type of man he is.

u/CrazyTangerine7522 — 14 days ago

I always thinks it’s crazy that some people actually take Anakin’s words 100% seriously when he claims to Padma that he can already overthrow Palpatine. Like the guy who had only fallen to the darkside for a day somehow expects to be better at it than a man who devoted his whole life to it.

u/CrazyTangerine7522 — 26 days ago

I saw someone point out that this dude Jean was controlling stopped to stand on the Yellow lines. So the taxi driver was literally breaking the rules of the road along with him going over the 25mph speed limit.

Jean also chose to possess a guy who wore a neon safety vest which is supposed to help drives see an oncoming pedestrian before it’s too late. This whole thing may have Just been Jean trying aura farm but it backfired at the last minute cause she didn’t anticipate how reckless most drivers are.

u/CrazyTangerine7522 — 1 month ago

We know through 400 days that Vernon ended up getting himself killed after stealing the boat but what do you think happened to the boat? Think they even managed to get it to the water?

u/CrazyTangerine7522 — 1 month ago

I feel the original fan theory of Jr’s being a Freddie’s location is a prime example of fans reading WAY too deep into things that are actually really simple.

From the beginning it’s obvious that it’s just a bar and that the bar owner doesn’t want us to enter because we’re already hammered as hell. This is supported by how our character was literally driving on the wrong side of the highway. Even the way our character walks shows a sluggish and uncoordinated man.

u/CrazyTangerine7522 — 1 month ago

Darth Maul: Bum or not?

These are all the fights I could gather regarding Maul facing Jedi, Sith, Jedi level opponents, and Jedi level threats

Darkside cultist Heldi Cerebron (Won)
Darkside cultist Vastik Aldritch (Won)
Jedi Eldra Kaitis (Won)
Qui Gon Jinn (Won)
Padawan Kenobi (Lost)
TCW S4 Kenobi (Won)
Jedi Finn Ertay (Won)
Savage Opress (Won)
TCW S5 Kenobi (Lost)
Pre-Vizla (Won)
Darth Sidious (Lost)
Group of 4 Droidekas (Won)
Group of 4 Magnaguards (Won)
Grievous (Lost)
Ayala Secura and Mace Windu (assisted Win)
Grievous (Draw)
Ahsoka Tano (Lost)
Davon (Won)
Daki and Davon (Won)
Marrok (Draw)
Marrok and Crow (Lost)
Marrok and Crow rematch (Draw)
Darth Vader (Lost)
7th Sister (Win)
5th brother (Kill assist)
Ahsoka VS Maul rematch (Draw)
Maul VS Kanan (Lost)
Maul VS Ben Kenobi (Lost)

14 named Wins
9 named Losses
4 named Draws

Unnamed victories: It’s said by Filoni or Sam Witwer say that Maul went on a Jedi killing Spree following his resurrection. We get a glimpse of this when he killed Finn Ertay

He defeated in unnamed Inquisitior off screen as shown by him having his second lightsaber be constructed out of parts from an Inquisitor hilt. It’s likely this belonged to The Grand Inquisitor himself as the parts of the hilt resemble his practically 1-1.

I’d rank his best showings as the following:

1- Maul with the assistance of Gar Saxon taking out Mace Windu and Ayala Secura

2- Fighting Grievous to a standstill during their rematch

3- Evenly matching Kenobi and eventually forcing him to retreat by unbalancing him with the mention of Qui Gon

4- Killing Qui Gon Jinn

5- Making short work of Savage Opress during their fight for dominance

With the context of him forcing Obi Wan to retreat it’s worth noting that he needed to unbalance Kenobi inorder to break their stalemate. This itself was only possible because in Filoni’s words Kenobi was prepared for the emotional bombshell that Maul was actually back. This allowed Maul to get under Kenobi’s skin when bringing up Qui Gon. By their rematch Kenobi is more emotionally ready and able to remain focused.

Maul’s worst showings ranked:

1- Losing to a blind Kanan who had entered a state of oneness

2- Losing to Marrok and The Crow

3- Losing to Ahsoka

4- Losing to Obi Wan despite it being a 2V1

5- Losing to Padawan Obi Wan

A good chunk of these loses can be summed up by Maul’s fatal character flaw in that he constantly overestimates his abilities and never learns from his mistakes

To be fair with Marrok and the Crow, Maul did have a noticeable injury in his leg. Sam Witwer describes it as Maul should be wiping the floor with these two yet his leg is always holding him back.
To be fair this may be more than Just Sam being biased towards Maul, as in Star Wars rebels we see Maul casually finessing himself around 5th Brother, 7th Sister and 8th Brother. The scene makes it clear that he doesn’t perceive these inquisitors a threat in the slightest with him instead viewing it as a fun exercise. He rendered 7th Sister completely helpless with the force to where she was unable to break free, which shows the gap between them.

When he and Savage fought Kenobi, Savage was descended as being a weak link due to his inexperienced which eventually became a liability for Maul which forced him to retreat with his injured brother instead of continuing to duel Kenobi, though Kenobi would’ve still defeated Maul had they continued in a 1V1.

u/CrazyTangerine7522 — 1 month ago

This is probably the most aura they gave 5th brother. While his colleagues are getting 3V1’d by Tensu, 5th brother’s here murdering Jed despite only having one arm left.

5th brother doesn’t really have style or grace but he’s relentless as hell.

u/CrazyTangerine7522 — 1 month ago
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When thinking about it, the idea of Vader being a silent killer wasn’t something invented by Maul Shadow Lord or Rogue one but rather harkens all the way back to revenge of the Sith.

After Anakin falls to darkside and starts carrying out Palpatine’s order, never once do we hear him say anything while murdering Shaak Ti, Cin Drallig, the younglings, and later the entire separatist council. He’s always shown carrying out these murders with a cold detached look on his face as if he’s completely cut off from his humanity and any resemblance of Anakin Skywalker. In these moments he’s nothing more than an extension of Palpatine’s will.

It’s only when it gets more personal for Vader does he ever start actually speak or drop taunts. By not saying a word to Maul, Vader is showing that Maul is no different to him than the Jedi, separatist, rebels, and younglings that he’s slaughtered all in the name of the emperor’s will. Vader showing Maul means nothing to him is the biggest insult of them all.

u/CrazyTangerine7522 — 1 month ago