Ezra, Kanan, and Ahsoka arrive at Malachor, a seemingly dead world and home to an ancient Sith Temple, but they are not alone. Paths cross, destinies change, and fates are fulfilled.[4]
Even when ezra is lifting the walls, maul teaches him in the Sith manner like his Yoda was trying to teach Luke with the x wing. Also sheds light to Yoda's words with how he said the dark side is not better, but easier to tap into since ezra tapped into the inate power to lift huge Sith doors while Luke couldn't focus and lift the x wing with the light side.
I still find it crazy how these shows took a character George killed after uttering two lines and turned him into one of the best characters in the Star Wars universe. Seriously, he's become quite amazing.
MelanicDisaster a little late but I agree. Maul is my favorite sith. Menacing looking, sick lightsaber, and filled with pure hatred and vengeance. This is what a Sith Lord looks like.
@@alexsung3117 Perhaps. Though I don't think someone would name their child/themselves Jabba, since the most powerful (Or one of) Crimelords is named as such.
I mean I suppose he would believe he would lie about his real name like Maul did I mean seriously who would believe that a guy was actually called "Old Master" and not used as a lie or code name. But at the same time maybe Jabba is a name that wasn't just used for the Hutts so other people might be called Jabba in the galaxy
"The sith, the sith took everything from me. They ripped me from my mother's arms, murdered my brother, used me as a weapon and then cast me aside, once I had power... Now I have nothing." I mean goddamn that sheds a very different light on Maul because he barely spoke in tpm and I found it difficult to enjoy him as a character but now he speaks more he's a much more interesting character to me
The irony is that Maul really isn't that old by this point in time. He's late forties early fifties at this point. He's old, sure, but not that old. Hell, Vader's only in his mid-thirties.
TheStarToursTraveler yea but he's acting here. I think his species age slower then humans or something because he's still in good shape and can fight really well
To be fair, humans tend to age notably faster in the Star Wars universe. There isn't much information on the biology of Dathomirian Zabraks, so Maul could very well be in better (or even worse) shape than a similarly aged human.
Fun fact: in this version Maul’s eyes aren’t anywhere near as intense as they were in his youth. This represent Maul’s hatred has lessoned somewhat in the time after clone wars. But when he find out Kenobi is alive they glow bright orengeish yellow again. Then when he dies they return to this color. Awesome writing
Little details like this & the animators & executives allowing & always doing little motions with the characters' models is largely why I love this show so much
I always had this little theory about maybe Mail could appear in the Kenobi tv series. Or maybe a second season. We know that after the clone wars maul became a crime lord, establishing Crimson Dawn and doing quite well. As well see in the Solo movie. But then after that scene, we next just see him here, as some kinda hermit. I had a theory that between the even of Solo and Rebels Obi Wan could have run into Maul again, maybe he could’ve even been the run to bring down his criminal empire in some way. They could’ve fought again Maul looses then Kenobi escapes. They could even set it between the 2 year timeskip between rebels season 2 and 3. Because Maul is at the temple to escape the inquisitors and get power to take revenge on the empire. Then next we see him, he’s on a space station trying to open a Holocron to find the location of Kenobi. Why would he care about Kenobi at that point anymore? I get that it’s his lifelong enemy, but he seemed more than set on getting his criminal empire up and running again and getting revenge on the empire. Maybe he could’ve met Kenobi sometime between the 2 year timeskip, that restarted his vendetta against him. Course thats just a shot in the dark.
I know right? Ive always liked the dark side philosophy and since Clone Wars, Maul's character has always been really interesting. Eventhough it may be a double edged sword, the darkside/sith code has always been facinating and inviting, so with Maul around, I wouldn't be surprised if Ezra feels a certain pull towards it.
Maul is very much like Sidious, appearing old and frail and innocent to those he wants to corrupt but to his enemies lively fierce and a cunning warrior.
+Joshua Bellis Ehhh Everyone know's the best way of lying (and the most fun way) is to tell half truths. Besides Maul didn't really lie since the sith did screw him over....a lot
+Jacob Dahl honestly i loved him when he was insane, felt they underutilized it...not to mention i would've liked if he kept the centipede body...maybe just make it out of more stable and better material. It may have been less efficient than two legs, but they could've worked ways to make it really dangerous.
Nakumare He actually wasn’t walking with those legs, if you look closely the leg pieces on his spider body were not connected and were instead held up by the force
"You live here alone, in the dark?" "Not by choice." That statement was casual, yet heart-wrenching. He was *never* given a proper choice. I feel sorry for him, regardless of what he's done. He has never been afforded the opportunity to know or do better.
Well... that's until you realize this is the same guy who killed Obi-Wan's Master and Love Interest, but, y'know, the guy got a very bad start in life. Being trained and told that he would become a powerful Sith next to the man who promised him such, then he got cocky and lost his lower half, went insane for a time, had to get a new lower torso (Painfully), loses a leg and gets another lower torso thanks to Death Watch, watched his brother get murdered by his former master, then told he was replaced, tortured by him, loses his mother, ruled Mandalore but lost and got captured, trained Kira but gets betrayed by her (If I remember), loses against a blind guy, finds out Kenobi lives and is desperate to snuff out his life, gets lost on Tatooine and almost goes insane again. Yeah... I feel kinda sorry.
If Maul survived get cut in half and falling down a deep as shit hole, then live for like 15-20 years after that, I'm sure Mace Windu could've survived. It would be pretty epic.
Nuclear Cherry Nah, but he dint have his entrails flying out of his body at terminal velocity as he fell down the coolant shaft of a massive reactor core.
2:20 I just love how when maul starts talking about what the Sith did to him, his voice becomes more and more like how we know him during the height of his power, rather than a random old man. Great subtle change that reflects his anger and dark side coming out in the conversation. Love it.
I'm amazed I felt sorry for him when he said "Now I have nothing. Nothing..." He just sounded so broken and defeated you just want to buy the poor guy a round or three to get him too drunk to have nightmares.
I see Darth Maul went to the Sideous School of Manipulating people, and it's surprisingly effective. Then again, manipulating Ezra isn't any great feat though.
Yall are shitting on Ezra for being manipulated but he's only like 14 or 15 in this. Not exactly the age where you are at your most perceptive lmao. Especially with the responsibility of being one of the last Jedi remaining.
I love how they portrayed it similar to Luke first meeting with Yoda, the harmless old frail creature who we discover is more powerful than letting one, but knowing what Darth Maul is really like makes it foreboding
Ezra finds a creepy zabarak with droids nearby and cybernetic limbs who's obsessed with Malachor, I had no idea Bao-Dur was alive after all these millennia.
+Jakira Kumahata "There must always be a Darth Traya, one who holds the knowledge of betrayal. Who has been betrayed in their heart and will betray in turn." Looks like it holds true even across continuities.
Even though maul was obviously manipulating Ezra. He still found Ezra as the only person he could talk to about his pain and relate with him. Even in his confrontation with Kenobi, maul tells Ezra to leave because he didn't want to fight him. It was the first time Maul had somewhat cared for someone besides his family.
Ezra: "I know how you feel. The empire, it took away my home, my mother and my father." Yes, young Jedi. Use your anger. Kill him and your journey to the Dark Side will be complete!
2:40 I always love this quote by maul by the fact you can feel his pain and can only feel sympathetic for the guy has gone through, especially by Sidious.
SpiderGwen StarWars yeah. Even if he was a big dumb brute who didn’t have any control or technique, he was still a cool character cause of his relations and his force sensitivity.
I never realized how much range Sam Witwer has. For a guy who looks like a pretty boy from some vampire tween romance, he sounds like he's spent a lot of time perfecting his creepy old guy voice just for fun.
I love the parallels between Yoda and Maul here. Both pretended to be old and weak to make their apprentices feel more at ease and show their true colors.
“I’m too old. I need help to open the door.” That line alone shows just how devious Maul can be. He can pose like a frail old man in order to gain Ezra’s confidence more easily.
What is so great about Maul´s character is what he represent. In a world where everything is pretty much black and white, how in reality things are not a simpel as they first may seem (like how an inexperienced Ezra first assumes: "If your not a jedi, then you MUST be a Sith") and that there is actually a grey area in different philosophies and viewpoints in the Star Wars universe.
Mauls role in this part of the episode did a great job of showing how not everything in the force has to be so black and white, dark or light. Ezra asks if Maul was a Jedi, to which he responds no. Ezra, knowing nothing else than good or bad, immediately assumes the worst, that he’s a Sith, the polar opposite of a Jedi. To which Maul responds with his speech about the Sith’s crimes against him. This is the start of Ezra’s (and ours as the viewers ) understanding of the moral ambiguity of the force, how a force wielder doesn’t necessarily have to conform to an image of good or evil. The light and dark sides of it are just constructs of force wielders minds, when in reality they are the force one and the same. They’re just different methods of harnessing it. Sorry for the incoherent rant lol
I really like how they introduce Maul here. Honestly I assumed he was an old man that’s been here for awhile and I thought his black tattoos were like a beard. That was until I realized who this was.
The death of Savage and being shunned by Sidious for Vader did psychological damage to Maul that he never recovered from. Sad to see him go insane but he went through a lot
I love how at first Ezra is the one basked in the light, while maul is in dark, and then maul is able to get him to leave the light by telling him what he wants to know, embracing the dark
Alduin f Yoda was 900 years old when he died, so, aliens might probably hace a different aging process, I guess, ir mayor Its the Force what the hell I know ...
iv never realized how maul purposefully tries to sound old n feeble by changing his voice. by the next ep he's saying "EZRA IS MINE!" In his classic normal witwer maul voice, but in this scene here he sounds like a totally diffrent person...its fascinating how weak or diffent one can look just by altering their voice just a tad. maul sounds like a grandpa til he runs into ashoka n drops all the bullshit lol.
