Spoilers Lower Decks General Discussion Thread
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Regarding the canonicity, I just hope the people behind the Star Trek Universe are a little smarter than whoever decided to put Darth Maul into Solo: A Star Wars Story, which only made sense if you'd seen some animated Star Wars show from years before (which I and my friends hadn't)
Imagine a big shocking Picard season 3 ending twist that only makes sense if you'd seen episode 4 of season 2 of Lower Decks. Then again, these people made a direct sequel to "The Cage" and made it an integral part of Disco season 2 so I guess anything's possible.
Imagine a big shocking Picard season 3 ending twist that only makes sense if you'd seen episode 4 of season 2 of Lower Decks. Then again, these people made a direct sequel to "The Cage" and made it an integral part of Disco season 2 so I guess anything's possible.
You've lost me - I've never seen any Star Wars animated show and that tease made perfect sense to me - he survived somehow - I'm sure if we had got a Solo sequel we would have seen how but as a self-contained moment, I don't see anything there that does not make sense...
Besides, Ron Howard made the decision to put Darth Maul in Solo without knowing anything about Maul being in the animated shows. In the script, the character was only identified as "Boss" and the Lucasfilm Story Group provided Ron Howard a list of characters from Star Wars lore he could choose for "Boss" to be. He chose Darth Maul because that seemed the most interesting choice.
Hardly "years before." Darth Maul was a regular presence on Clone Wars and Rebels from 2012-2017. That's five years worth of material, ending just a year prior to Solo's release.
I really do miss Rebels. Had such great stories and characters, and really explored the nature of the Jedi and Sith. This new "Resistance" thing is way too kiddie-focused and has become quite tiresome, IMO.
IIRC it was Kasden's son that made the decision, not Ron, he was a big fan of the character.
I'm a huge Clone Wars and Rebels fan, so I loved Maul's appearance, but I was a little surprised they just dropped him into the movie with no set up.
Are you totally against watching the animated series? If not I could put together a list of the Maul episodes of Rebels and TCW.
Ok, cool. I like it. I liked the Maul sequence even though I was passingly familiar with Maul in Rebels. It made me go back and rewatch it and seeing it all thread together was enjoyable for me.
However, I can see that being handled poorly, such as Grievous in Episode 3 or Anakin's scar. It's a balancing act.
What I loved about Rebels especially was Thrawn, such a fantastic character, will admit it took me a long time to get used to the Chiss eyes in Rebels, I've been playing Chiss in SWTOR for so long it was off putting to begin with seeing them look different.
Yes! I think that was the first time we saw an actualized Thrawn character on-screen. Such a cool concept. Timothy Zahn did an outstanding job building that one. Not your typical mustache-twirling bad guy, and one of the most intelligent villains ever shown in Star Wars, IMO.
Trekcore has a fairly in depth article on the Lower Decks panel, it's definitely worth a read.
The whole "second contact" aspect sounds like it could be fun.
The whole "second contact" aspect sounds like it could be fun.
Everything about this show seems pretty fun, so far.
For a while, I've been thinking something similar could be a good idea for a live-action Trek series. After a Constitution class or a Galaxy class or whatever the major explorer of the era is pays a planet a visit, makes contact with a world, has its adventure and warps off to their next destination, we follow the ship that goes to that world for a follow-up and stays for a more in-depth survey. Basically, spend an entire dozen-episode season on the "planet of the week" as the ship and its crew does more in-depth explorations, setting up formal relations with the aliens living there and the drama that develops from there. Everyone insists exploration is the very definition of what Star Trek is, but exploration stories only get one episode devoted to them, while the two-parters are typically action-adventures and the season-long arcs are war and/or galactic apocalypse. Now we can spend an entire season doing what is allegedly "Real" Star Trek. And it would be a new take on a storyline the franchise has done a dozen times over.
Really ?
I thought Rebels was poor, but although Resistance is a little more infantile, it's somehow easier to watch.
It's not pretending to be something it's not.
Each to their own. It took me out of the story for a moment, and after the movie we googled it because at first we were wondering if Han Solo was just a lot older than we'd assumed.
I'm just much more of a casual Star Wars fan than I am Trek. I saw one of the early Star Wars animated movies but felt no urge to watch more. I'll watch the live action movies, though.
Maul has big robot legs in Solo, (and looks older) making it fairly clear (in my mind) that Solo takes place after The Phantom Menace.
He had those robot legs in Rebels, too, which I think was the first time in canon (I think) we've seen him on screen since Obi Wan first cut him in half in TPM and the first indication we got that he survived the battle and subsequent fall.
When I saw it at a small cinema, I think more of the audience had basically no reaction because they had no idea who it was.
I know, but I mean from a perspective of not having watched any of the shows they are still a visual that tells the audience that this is probably Maul after he got cut in half by Obi-Wan rather than before.
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