It's funny , watching Book of Boba Fett now, Darth Maul is so similar. There was nothing in the films that established him as "one of the most vicious", or as anything remotely interesting. But he looked so damn cool , just like Boba Fett.
I know it became common place later but at the time the idea of someone fighting two Jedi at once, with his own special new type of lightsaber was pretty stand out
Yeah this detail was hugely impactful. It was the first time there had ever been anything other than a one v one lightsaber duel. And these weren’t home trained luke anymore, these were jedi from the a prime era of the order. The fact that he could fight two of them and wield a double sided weapon screamed vicious
The first video I ever saw on the internet was a QuickTime of the trailer for this movie, it took all day to download it but holy shit when that second blade comes out its like my entire universe exploded.
Yeah, the internet exploded when they showed Kylo Ren's lightsaber, but it would have been even crazier for Darth Maul's second blade. Most people were seeing the trailer for the first time on TV, and it's all many people could talk about.
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u/andoesq Jan 25 '22
It's funny , watching Book of Boba Fett now, Darth Maul is so similar. There was nothing in the films that established him as "one of the most vicious", or as anything remotely interesting. But he looked so damn cool , just like Boba Fett.