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Do not do a "Devon redemption" arc.

Please. Let us see a proper "falling to the dark side" story. Not a fairy tale. There is so much potential here. Do not waste it. Please.

u/rulinus — 2 days ago
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Thoughts on Darth Vader in Shadowlord?

They really show what an absolute Jason Voorhees unit this Darth Vader is. But i just cant help but to feel weird for him to appear and so early at that. Already 2 inquisitor and a whole lot of troopers, having Darth Vader seems very much overkill.

u/ingram0079 — 1 day ago
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Maul and Devon moving like this against one of the syndicates 🙏🏾

Source: Darth Maul: Death Sentence (Legends)

u/Comics819 — 2 days ago
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Fan poster for season 2🔥 (artist in second slide)

Unsure who made it and these were the 5 accounts

u/Comics819 — 2 days ago
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Two-Boots Might Be One of the Worst Droids in Star Wars. That Might Be the Point.

[Spoilers through Chapter 5 / Inquisition]

I’ve been thinking about Two-Boots from Maul: Shadow Lord, and I think the show is doing something nastier with him than people are giving it credit for.

The coffee scene is great. Obviously. A droid pretending to drink caf with his partner is exactly the kind of weird little Star Wars detail that makes a character stick.

But that scene also makes what he does later feel worse.

Lawson tells him not to report the Maul situation to the Empire. He is not vague about it. Lawson knows what happens when the Empire gets invited in, and he is trying to keep Janix out of its grip for as long as possible.

Two-Boots understands the order, at least mechanically. He even seems hurt by the conflict between Lawson and protocol.

Then he reports it anyway.

That is the part I can’t get past. Two-Boots is not malicious. He is not trying to betray Lawson. He probably thinks he is protecting Janix. But he still chooses procedure over judgment, and procedure over the person he claims to trust.

That makes him a really interesting contrast with other Star Wars droids. R2 breaks rules constantly. Chopper is basically a war crime with arms. K-2SO is reprogrammed Imperial hardware who becomes more morally useful than most organics around him. Even the more formal droids usually bend when the story needs them to choose loyalty over instructions.

Two-Boots does not. Or at least, not soon enough.

And the cost is brutal. The Empire gets its opening. Klyce is removed, supposedly transferred, and Lieutenant Blake takes over. Lawson gets interrogated. Janix goes from messy local corruption to direct Imperial pressure. Not because Two-Boots is evil, but because he cannot process that the rules themselves have become dangerous.

That is what makes him work for me. He is not a villain. He is a cautionary tale. A polite, competent, well-meaning system servant can still be the thing that gets everyone crushed.

I don’t think the show is saying Two-Boots is evil. I think it is saying obedience can do evil’s work just fine without evil motives.

Am I reading him right, or am I being too hard on the booted little narc?

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u/PsychoBiologic — 4 days ago
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A fight that Anakin had long prepared for

Source: Obi-Wan and Anakin #1

Just started rereading this mini and this scene in particular really jarred my interest now that we have Shadow Lord. One detail I really liked from Vader and Maul's duel in the show is that Vader often seems to be predicting Maul's moves and either striking or blocking before Maul himself has actually done anything. Of course foresight has always been a particular skill of Anakin's but with Maul in particular we can see that Anakin had actually been studying and working to combat his particular fighting style for quite some time as we see in this comic. I'm not totally sure the show runners actually had this comic in mind when having Maul and Vader fight but it's certainly a detail that links up very well in hindsight.

u/solo13508 — 4 days ago
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Maul's Duel Wield

New guy here, just recently joined this subreddit after binging the Shadow Lord series - the combat was sick as hell (got to see the signature Nick Gillard's fast paced fighting style from prequels ) and the story, character was on point. (Its's a solid 9-9.5/10 for me)

I don't know if anyone has discuss this before but I want to hear you guys thought since this has been stuck with me when i got to Ep 9 fight at the underground sewer: What's your opinion on Maul with the dual wield technique - Jar'kai? Mine are as follows:

- Kind of took me off guard since his whole character, personality, who he is was shaped by the famous double-edge and Juyo style.

- Although we don't get to see much of it but from the display, i think he was mad proficient with dual wield. Of course probably not as good as the double edge style that he been training his whole life but the 1v2 with Marrok and the Crow was just WOW. Should there be more movie/series that portray Jar'kai duelist (like Ahsoka) i expect the combat to be nothing less than this.

- This is purely hypothetical but does Maul have better chances against Vader in the later episode if he was duel wielding? I know that Vader's hybrid form V combine with his insanely heavy suit that makes him almost like an unstoppable train counters Maul's form VII and double edge lightsabers. So i was just wondering how do you guys think it would have played out if he went against the Dark lord with dual blades instead of double edge?

P.S: So glad the series did justice to Inquisitors. They were powerhouses, watching both Marrok and the Crow move really makes me fear for life of anyone unfortunate enough on the opposing side

u/Uniconst00 — 4 days ago