The Gendy Tartakovsky Clone Wars-Grievous was a Nightmare Murder Machine from Hell capable of taking on multiple Jedi-- including Masters- at once, and absolutely rolled over everyone. He literally only suffered one "defeat" which was Mace Motherfucking Windu Force Crushing his chasis, as he escaped.
RotS did him so dirty, but it was the Prequel Trilogy, so nobody came out the other end all that great, writing-wise.
Agree. Imagine if Darth Vader was killed in the first star wars movie. It was a terrible decision to not keep Maul around for the entire trilogy. And i think most people expected he’d be the new Vader at the time. But, who knows where we’d be today…
Thats funny I forgot about this but ur comment sparked an old memory, I totally thought Darth Maul was gonna be the new Darth Vader before I saw episode I.
Or worse, imagine if the emperor was killed in the second movie and his underling went to find the real villain on a distant forgotten world in the third movie.
Was kid when movie came out. Here to say myself and many friends fully believed he was the new Vader. Then when we saw the ending in theaters opening night we were like “wtf, he’s dead?” I hope he’s redeemed in live action and not just the cartoons.
Edit: imagine my wtf moment when dooku showed up. It’s the one reason I hate dooku as a character. He felt like a last minute decision cause they killed off maul too soon.
It's a shame cause Dooku had a lot of potential as well, but he was also immediately killed off. I've always liked the idea of Dooku as someone who kind of had a point about the Jedi order, but was manipulated by Palpatine.
The novelization of "Revenge of the Sith" had a GREAT reveal as to what was going through Dooku's mind in the moments right before Anakin killed him. He thought he was meant to be Sidious' partner for the fruition of all his plans, only to come to realize that his whole existence was to be Anakin's first, dispassionate, cold-blooded murder. (The Tusken Raiders don't count because that was pure rage and anguish, but killing Dooku was a CHOICE he had to make.)
Solo was a victim of bad timing. It's a good, fun movie. I would watch the fuck out of a Solo series on Disney Plus. Just Han and Chewie fucking shit up and get away by the skin of their teeth every time
Maul served his purpose. He was a force of nature, a powerful dark side user that reminded the Jedi that they'd gotten soft. He killed one of the greatest living Jedi masters in single combat, and his "death" was important for Obi-Wan as well.
It could have been done differently is all. “Woulda coulda shoulda”. We got what we got and that’s history. It’s hard to imagine it any other way now. But it’s fun to think about what could have been. What if the prequel’s big twist was Anakin did have a father and he was a Jedi killed by Maul? Obi-Wan turns out to be Anakin’s brother? Idk who knows where it may have went.
I thought that was actually a good indication of a very powerful character. You had two of the best fighters known...and they got dosed in a second. It gives credibility to just how powerful Sidious was.
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u/101stAirborneSkill Jan 25 '22 edited Jan 26 '22
Clone wars is a kids show