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Star Wars: The Clone Wars S4

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Mother Talzin: "I'm helping restore Maul for some reason I will not state or maybe because I'm stuck here with nothing to do...except bury my sisters...but that seems like a lot of work to me."

Maul: "Kenobi! Obi-Wan!! How do I know his whole name? Did Sidious tell me? Did I read an old newspaper article about my defeat that I found in a junk pile somewhere?"

Maul: "I was apprentice to the most powerful being in the galaxy...aren't you gonna ask who that was?"

Savage: "Duh...no, brother."

Maul: "Good. Because I won't tell you. I still have loyalty to the person who abandoned me to whatever happened to me that made me your crazy neighbourhood Spider-Maul."

Yoda: "Finish what he started, Obi-Wan must....next year, perhaps."

Windu: "Won't those maniacs just kill all the civilians even if Kenobi goes alone? How come no one ever takes my advice? What am I, Worf on The Next Generation?"

Yoda: "Wondering audience is, what the Dooku and Anakins scenes last week had to do with story. Difficult to say. Again later you should ask. Probably battle Grievous, Maul will. Too much I have said."
 
Spoilers I guess...



The lack of logic in Maul's survival aside, this was an awesome episode. What I loved...

-The Obi-Wan/Ventress team-up. Those two had some great chemistry and it was a good payoff to seeing them fighting side-by-side.

-The duels were fantastic and had a good score to go with them.

-Obi-Wan's wisecracks to Maul.

-Sam Witwer's voicework. He continues to work his crazy Maul very well and then when he regains his mind, his voice changes to sound more like TPM Maul. Very impressive and what Maul says is fascinating (the war starting without him).

His survival was a surprise (in this episode) but why wouldn't they want to keep him around for future episodes? Him and Savage at large, along with Ventress give this show unpredictability that is difficult for it to have since we know what happens in ROTS.

Great season finale. I've heard they might be posting a Season 5 preview on the official Star Wars site tomorrow.
 
Interesting ending to an interesting season...and yah they sometimes have done a quick preview of the next season pretty quickly on the website. I agree with Sam Witwer's voice work, it is obvious the people at Lucas Film like his work since Force Unleashed. Next season is going to be fascinating.
 
Mother Talzin: "I'm helping restore Maul for some reason I will not state or maybe because I'm stuck here with nothing to do...except bury my sisters...but that seems like a lot of work to me."

She doesn't really seem that bothered about the loss of her clan.
 
I wonder what will the Zabrak brothers do?

Go after Sidious or hunt Obi Wan.

Maybe Maul goes after Sidious for workman's compensation. Palpatine is not a good boss after all...he basically committed age discrimination against Dooku in ROTS. ;)
 
Seems logical. Three years of costly war. Palpatine needs to cut expenses. As a young apprentice, Anakin can be paid peanuts and may even be eligible for Government subsidises :)
 
Why did I just know that there would be all sorts of negativity about this two-parter before I even came here? Huh, oh well... I liked it a lot. And why wouldn't anyone gladly take more Darth Maul after everyone pretty much agreed that he was sadly underused in TPM?

No complaints from me here.
 
And why wouldn't anyone gladly take more Darth Maul after everyone pretty much agreed that he was sadly underused in TPM?

Me, I don't see what the big deal was about this Maul guy. He was little more than a glorified henchman. No dialogue or personality to speak of, just a stunt guy for the heroes to fight. And it's not like any of the characters in TPM were memorable in a good way.

Sam Witwer is a fantastic voice actor, though.
 
Hmmm, nice episode but it seems to be just a taster of what we can expect for the next season. Maul was great this week. The voice actor was for Maul was really good.
 
Overall I enjoyed the entire 4 episode wrap up but last night's ep should have been aired last week. The ending of it was too much of a tease and it should have been a 2 parter. Wasn't so sure about Maul's voice/performance but I was pleased with the Obi-Wan confrontation when it finally happened.

"Red's not really my color." +1

Was it a cliffhanger ending? Not really. Was it resolved? Not really. I hope they keep Maul alive for the rest of the series, though. I'm glad Ventress is hanging on. Obviously teaming up with Obi Wan to fight Dooky is on the horizon.

Though I can't help wondering... if this is the story that happened to the top half of Maul... is there another story out there in the SW Galaxy about his legs? ;)
 
Spoilers I guess...



The lack of logic in Maul's survival aside, this was an awesome episode.

Yes it's not as if Maul's master had learned from a Sith Lord who was known for having found a means to conquer death.

A Sith who was being killed around the same time that Maul ( a relative noob who never learned the ability ) was getting cut in half.

Eddie Roth said:
And why wouldn't anyone gladly take more Darth Maul after everyone pretty much agreed that he was sadly underused in TPM?

Because bringing him back from the dead is a stupid commercial ploy. As a famous Sith once said, dead is dead.

Christopher said:
And it's not like any of the characters in TPM were memorable in a good way.

Liam Neeson is known for playing unmemorable characters. ( Or he would be, if I could only remember him. )
 
Though I can't help wondering... if this is the story that happened to the top half of Maul... is there another story out there in the SW Galaxy about his legs? ;)

maullegs.jpg
 
This series sure has an amazing visual imagination. The garbage planet, the fire-breathers, and especially the immensely creepy imagine of Maul as half-man, half-spider. Sam Witwer's incredible voice acting (again) combined with the imagery, really sealed the deal.

Sure, it's nuts that Maul could survive, but Star Wars has always been as much fantasy as sci fi, and the important part is that they've taken a nothing character, who existed for the sole purpose of selling kid's toys, and made him interesting for the first time.

Loved seeing Obi-Wan and Ventress fighting on the same team. How are the writers going to finesse the problem that Obi-Wan now really should arrest her as an enemy of the state? Just because she's not fighting for the dark side anymore doesn't wipe away the many actual crimes she's committed.

Maybe Obi-Wan will sense that her aura is neutral now or something like that...not an ongoing threat...otherwise, he'd be smart to suspect that the whole thing with Maul and Savage was a setup to convince the Jedi that Ventress is no longer a threat, and she really is still in cahoots with Dooku. He has no proof otherwise, other than what the Force "feels like."

Most likely, the issue will never be raised next season (at the very least, a line or two of dialogue would be nice), but of course Ventress will be back. She's yet another character I'd love to see continued into the post-ROTS time period, having further interactions with Obi-Wan, and who knows where that all goes? ;)
 
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