And then, appearing out of the crepuscular smoke that engulfed the far end of the street, came a new mechanical monster for Obi-Wan to face. This place was dripping with Kurosawa vibes. What would Cartoon Network have thought about that! I did like the telephoto-style long-shots from inside an abandoned store of Obi-Wan making his way through the debris. I’m kind of surprised, given Star Wars’ general proclivity for dismemberment, that an anooba or nek didn’t come trotting down the street clutching a severed human hand in its teeth. This place looked like the village Sanjuro the bodyguard stumbles upon in Yojimbo. Obi-Wan put it out of its misery with a flick of his wrist. Apparently droids can suffer PTSD as surely as any organic. Ann astromech droid was running over and over into a wall. Obi-Wan landed on the colony, now engulfed in flames. Revenge? Yes, they would start with revenge… By Obi-Wan Kenobi.” Like King Theoden, Maul’s fingers would regain their old strength if he grasps his sword. But I was robbed of that destiny by the Jedi.
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“I was apprenticed to the most powerful being the galaxy once,” Maul said. Maul couldn’t help feel a twinge of sadness at hearing this, because the Clone Wars were supposed to have been his kriffin’ party, for the Force’s sake! All that conflict and carnage, all those innocents slaughtered, that was a Sith’s dream! And it had started without him. Savage said that it was the Clone Wars, which by this time has engulfed pretty much anyone and everyone. But Maul could sense that the Force was out of balance. “My hatred kept my spirit intact, even though my body was not,” he said. And he launched into a sprint across the still-smoldering Dathomiri terrain. Maul got the hang of his new legs pretty quickly, though. The identity of the assassin who killed Qui-Gon Jinn might be something they’d ask him, don’t you think? Third, how does Darth Maul know Obi-Wan’s name? His master Darth Sidious was pulling all the strings behind the invasion of Naboo! You don’t think he would have told his apprentice the names of the two Jedi he needs to eliminate to achieve his goals? The Republic took Nute Gunray into custody following the Trade Federation’s defeat on Naboo and during the course of his trial, he, not being a particularly strong-willed soul, spilled the secrets behind everything that happened there. Second, how do the Jedi know Darth Maul’s name? Um…easy. But also, as I mentioned last week when Savage Opress first discovered Maul as a spider-creature in a cave on junk planet Lotho Minor, other Sith Lords like Darth Nihilus, Darth Sion, and even Darth Vader, have used their hate to keep their physical selves intact, when by all reasoning they should have died. First, how did Maul survive being cut in half? See the epigraph from Palpatine that opened this recap.
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Some nagging questions have popped up surrounding Maul’s return that need to be addressed. Before we dive deep into the canon-shattering revelations of “Revenge,” a bit of housekeeping is in order, first, for the more literal continuity-minded of you.