Cap. Obvious wrote...
Master Warder Z wrote...
Cap. Obvious wrote...
Master Warder Z wrote...
I sort of gave up on the new animated series the second they did the revival of Darth Maul; I mean you have two half decent now considered non canon rebirths and yet they pick that one to make as canon?
Bleh its partly why i have been growing more and more distanced by the EU these past few years.
Not to mention the portrayal of Mandalore and the Mandolorians in the show it self which caused the half decent Clone Commando Novel series to be canned due to the shows retconnning.
The return of Darth Maul is one of the best things that ever happened in the series. We saw Darth Maul as a more human figure, he proved a competent villain, and we got to see more of him in action. Maul should've never been "killed" in The Phantom Menace. It was premature. However, his survival opens up lots of possibilities, even now. Have you seen the Season 4 finale? Or the Season 5 Mandalore arc? Those were some of the best arcs of the entire series.
As for the portrayal of the Mandalorians, it was only the Mandalorians living on the planet during the Clone Wars. It says nothing about all the other Mandalorian mercs living across the galaxy. Besides:
*SPOILERS*
They don't last long.
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If nothing else, at least see the Maul/Mandalore arc of Season 5.
That's Your perspective not my own.
Besides there was already enough Lore out there to flesh out the character, them giving him prosatic limbs and climbing he survived through hatred is all fine and good; its just there was already a superior rebirth and death of maul out there.
My own personal favorite Rebirth of Maul occurs in a non canon comic book in which he duels and ultimately perishes at the hands of Darth Vader in a assignment assigned to the Sith Lord by Palpatine.
And as for the Mandolorians...You have a culture the predates the founding of the Republic, its a warior society, a culture entirely revolving around conquest, familiy and society.
For that to be split from them is for them to cease to be what they were called.
And to make "Death Watch" The only true Mandolorians was just insulting.
The extremist faction of the Mandolorians shouldn't have to wage war on their own people for them merely to embrace what they have been for 30,000 years.
They can if their people have turned away from the Mando'ade. Societies on our own world are very fluid and can change trememdously. Society in general has change on our world. A century ago, most European countries and even the U.S. were empires and militaristic. China didn't have a communist government. Russia was still being ruled by an autocratic regime with most of its people living as serfs. So on and so far. Jump to the present and the world has changed exponentially.
And who said the Death Watch were the only "true Mandalorians"? There are still Mandalorian mercs out there in the galaxy. Death Watch is just an ultraconservative faction that wants make the Mandalorian people (as in, the people living on the planet Mandalore) to revert back to the previous way of life.
Cultures change. Death Watch is some ultraconservative faction that wants to revert the Mandalorian culture to how it once was.
As for the Maul story you're talking about, that's actually canon. But the Vader isn't fighting the original Maul, but a doppelganger.
I disagree completely about "other superior rebirths". In fact, while I understand what you mean, this isn't a rebirth. This is a case of Maul surviving the duel on Naboo. This is a continuation of his story, which was cut short in The Phantom Menace, which it shouldn't have been. While yes, there are novels and comics that flesh Maul out back before the duel on Naboo. However, Maul's story in TCW develops his character even more and actually shows him in action again. Instead of reading about him, you're actually watching him. To me, the fact that Maul got more screentime with the TCW episodes is a crucial difference, you see. Like I said, Maul's story was cut too short and should've gone past The Phantom Menace. At last, with his return in TCW, we got the chance to see Maul on-screen once again and past his duel on Naboo.
The Mandolorians have fought more Wars then any other Society in SW, They have encountered more species, Ways of thinking and cultures then i likely could recall even with my extensive knowledge of both Lore and EU. Their Society didn't change for any of it, They met the Sith as Equals and a common respect and Understanding was fostered that endured for far longer then most governments.
Their society wasn't built around not changing, you have a point its adaptive and fluid but at its core it remained true to the Mandolorians. Their techology, Language, and even make up of spcies changed and grew dramatically across the timeline but the fact of the matter is?
They never changed who they were.
To even SUGGEST that a people that had endured so much, adapted and grew so much would EVER change when some whiny Preteen Princess Mary Sue came strolling by is pure insanity.
So i would have to disagree with you, Their blantant attempt to rewrite the Mandolorians spat on a Half Decade of Lore in the EU and everything about them, They are an ultra Militarized society of Warriors and that is what they should remain for enterinity until their eventual destruction.
And Rebirth is a Rebirth and in my eye Maul was a second rate character who was only meant to be a foil and express out traits in superior ones. He wasn't overly interesting and even after learning more about him and finding out what made him tick i still didn't overly care and the fact they warped his backstory to suit the show more so over the EU didn't help his case at all.
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