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And they already included Marrok in ahsoka s1 and maul s1 so it would make sense that they explore his story before maul s2 and explore it more there to get the hype for maul s2 up!!!
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Seeing how Vader treats the Inquisitors, I'd wager Marrok and Crow were not treated too kindly after Maul escaped and Vader would have to report back to Sidious, he himself expecting punishment. Failure is failure after all.
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I'm personally hoping for more Black Sun or an actual look at the Crymorah Syndicate (Seriously who are they, what do they do?)
I will get straight to the point. The idea that maul is completely outclassed by vader is completely stupid and i dont care what you say. Proof Number 1: Maul literally had the upper hand for the majority of his and vader's fight. Yes this may just seem like it's invalid given's maul's fighting style is pure aggression and overwhelming speed. But remember. Anakin specifically studdied maul's fighting style, obsessed with how his master survived against maul, and even used everything he learned to have a training bot be perfectly able to replicate maul's fighting style meaning vader basically fully knew maul's entire moveset and still got overwhelmed in the majority of the start. Number 2. Palpatine aka sidious FEARED him. during the Clone Wars, when Maul successfully united the underworld and conquered Mandalore, Sidious didn't send an army of clones or an Inquisitor to clean up the mess. No. He got out of his chair, personally flew across the galaxy, and handled it himself. In fact. Palpatine explicitly stated that Maul had become a genuine rival to the Sith order. For an immortal dark-side god who treats entire planets like chess pieces to view a single, flesh-and-blood mortal as a "rival" is one of the biggest showings of acknowledgement of power. Number 3. The sheer amount of opponents maul has faught is insane. here is a little fact. maul is one of the very few who has fought multiple other siths, countless jedi masters at once, and even wiped out an entire storm troopers army using nothing but the force. No lightsaber at all. Not to mention . i dont think a single other character has fought that large variety of opponents. Vader has faught multiple jedi yes. But multiple siths and an entire trooper army? NO. he has not. Meaning maul has arguably multiple times more combat experience than vader ever has. And number 4. (This is definitely the least fact). he was also one of the least humorized in lego games. All im trying to say is. STOP DOWNPLAYING MAUL FOR GODS SAKE
I've seen a bunch of posts theorizing that the Jedi from the new Ahsoka trailer is Marrok, and if my two cents are worth reading to you: I hope with everything in me that it isn't.
I just watched Ahsoka season one last week in full (since I didn't when it first came out) and Marrok was an utterly disappointing villain who did absolutely nothing with all of his five minutes of screen time. Shadow Lord brilliantly rehabilitated him into the single most terrifying inquisitor in the Empire, in large part by leaning into his mysteriousness and the fact that we know almost nothing about him or his backstory. I'm extremely hopeful to see him return in season two with a larger role as an enigmatic and powerful foe.
So, please. PLEASE. Leave the helmet on. I made a fan design for him as a FAN, working on a FAN comic (which I'm making good progress on by the way!) with his backstory, but having the actual Star Wars writers reveal his face to us ruins the entire inhuman persona they've worked so hard to create. It's letting the cat out of the bag; not knowing what he looks like makes him so much more mysterious.
Furthermore, there's no *reason* to remove it like there was with, say, Darth Vader, being Luke's father. He has no emotional connection to other characters that warrants us seeing his inner self, and if they want to build one up with Ahsoka, it's cheapened by him not actually being himself when he fought her in season one (a theory that Witwer himself has endorsed).
TLDR: let him be mysterious. Let this new character be a new character. There's no narrative reason to show us what he looks like, and honestly, if they ever do, I hope he's not yet *another* mid-20s white man in an intimidating mask. ANY work of fiction can have a mid-20s white guy in a mask. Only Star Wars can have a Kage, or a Mirialan, or a Chiss, or any of the thousands of other unique canon species that he could be.
Thanks to season seven of The Clone Wars, Maul tells Ahsoka on Mandalore his plan to lure Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to the planet to kill them both. He knew that Anakin was the new apprentice of Sidious. I'm just wondering then if it was a missed opportunity why he didn't say that in his duel against Vader at the end of season one in Shadow Lord?
There's a couple of small moments that I think really help sell the show in meaningful ways, like the basic concept of "actions having consequences" and "if the empire comes you're in trouble."
What does the show do better in your eyes?
Hey y'all! I just want to share this game I created (vibe coded) to fulfill my destiny as a Jedi Master. It's not a fancy game, it's just to simulate wielding a lightsaber 😄
Not an original concept, btw. This is ultimately inspired by Lightsaber Escape back in 2015.
My friend told me to replace the droid with padawans lol. Please don't turn to the dark side when you try this.
Use desktop or laptop to access the site. Then use phone to scan the QR.
I realize now that the Savage one needs tan clothing underneath so I'll fix that later LOL. I got inspired by someone else showing their Shadow Lord mandalorian skin so I thought I'd make the same guy and also just show off my other two!
I've seen the clan Kast sigil (last photo) but I think this sigil is unique to her. The one on her right looks a bit like Death Watch but not exact. I've been trying to find a better photo of it online to make a cool patch or something, or even just learn more about what it is, but am having no luck. Let me know if you have any ideas of what her sigils are/could mean!!
Spoliers for both Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter and Maul: Shadow Lord inbound
I just finished reading the non-canon Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter by Michael Reeves, and realized how much similarities there are between its protagonists and the protagonists of Maul: Shadow Lord.
Both stories (obviously) have Maul as the main character, as well as a Jedi Master and Padawan duo where the master dies (Eko Dio Daki and Devon Izzara in Maul: Shadow Lord, and Anoon Bondara and Darsha Assant in Shadow Hunter. Funnily enough the duos in both stories have a Twilek in either one of the roles). Both stories also have a human male belonging to neither the Sith or Jedi who has a droid companion and a son (Brander Lawson, Two Boots, and Rylee Lawson in Shadow Lord, and Lorn Pavan, I-5, and Jax in Shadow Hunter).
In the beginning of both stories, all three protagonists are doing there own thing in the process of attempting to achieve their own individual goals, before the circumstances of the story brings their paths together.
I’m not sure if this was an intentional parallel by the team behind Maul: Shadow Lord, or completely coincidental (a happy accident if you will), but it’s something I noticed that I thought would be neat to share here.
As always feel free to sound off your thoughts and opinions in the comments below
I was heartbroken when Lawson sacrificed himself to save his partner and his son but after rewatching it, I now realise there’s no way Lawson is dead!
I bet in the future for season 2, Lawson managed to escape the stormtroopers, returned back to the city to lay low for the time being. Recruiting some of his police colleagues to help team up and escape from Janix. What do you think?
Savage started as Maul's weapon, but became his brother. His death clearly meant more to him than simply losing an apprentice.
Rook stayed with Maul through his rise and fall, making her loyalty valuable precisely because Maul has spent his life being abandoned.
And of course we all remember when he betrayed Master Daki.
What do you think?