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Spoilers Maul - Shadow Lord Animated Series

A couple of details have jumped out at me after a couple more viewings: -

First off: Maul's sabre. It's the same one he had during his duel with Ahsoka, and dropped it into the city below. One assumes Rook or some other loyal Mauldalorian managed to retrieve it before the clones got to it and later returned it to him. It's interesting because in Solo he no longer has it, but instead seems to be using the modified Inquisitorius blade from Rebels.
I think that means that there's a non-zero chance we'll see him loose the old blade and gain the replacement, probably killing an Inquisitor or two in the process. Most likely not the two we saw in the trailer since we know Marrok (undead by Maul's hand or not) still had his decades later, while Eleventh Brother doesn't meet his end until he runs into Ahsoka, probably not that long after the events of his appearance on this show.
Now yes, it's possible that Maul kills Marrok/First Brother, and sends Eleventh Brother packing without his weapon . . . but I don't know. I feel like if any Inquisitor slinks back to Nur having lost their weapon is probably going to be cut in half by Vader or the Grand Inquisitor on general principle. Yes, that makes Anakin a total hypocrite since he's lost at least three of his by my count, but then what else is new?

I'm also curious about the species of Master Eeko-Dio-Daki. He doesn't look too much like a typical Trandosian (though to be fair, we've seen more than one atypical examples in the past), but something about him makes me suspect he may be a Saurin, or even a Barabel, which would make the latter's first real appearance in canon so far as I'm aware.

Maul's Gauntlet starfighter appears to be the scaled down version from the live action shows, which I'm taking as a welcome retcon (and I use that term very loosley; animation visuals are always just an interpretation of what they may actually look like) since the originals were pretty ridiculously oversized IMO. Wouldn't be the first time either, since the animation side of things already seem to have adopted the live action versions of the T-6 shuttle and the Imperial Gozanti. Though in the latter case I think they just modded the existing asset to more closly resemble the one in 'Mando', which the former is also a little different from Ahsoka's, but I'm putting that down to it being from earlier concept art before they nailed down all the details (like where the ramp is, and whether it has a ball turret or not.)
 
How are we defining a "hit", exactly?
Good question. Can't do viewer numbers to much because its a cartoon. Alot of people I know that are Star Wars fans ( more than just light viewing) that Will Not watch the cartoon shows for some reason. To kiddy.. who knows.
Critics and review's? Maybe.
They were all more than 1 season, and seems to have finished there stories, so they weren't canceled ( Uknown for Resistance.. but I personally don't care.. it sucked)

So.. Yeah.. I've liked Most of the animated stories, much much more than any live action show. Gets me excited, have fun.

So if your not into it. Quite okay.
 
Yeah, almost all of the best stuff we've gotten onscreen that last few years has been animated.
 
They can get away with a lot more in animation. There are things that are difficult to do with a living actor. Or are just more expensive to do with a living, but now aged, actor. They managed to do some of that in Ahsoka and Kenobi by de-aging the actors, but that is expensive. And doing high action content, or drama like The Clone Wars on a live action budget would probably be more expensive than we imagine.
 
The voice of Maul, Sam Witwer, is a guest on the new episode of Pod of Rebellion with the Rebels cast. It's part 1 of 2. The first part has been a lot of Rebels talk and there is a really good segment at around the 41:30 mark where Taylor Gray (Ezra) talks about how Filoni would purposely seat him in between Sam and Freddie Prinze while recording. It seems Sam drove Freddie nuts in real life just like in the show :lol:
 
The voice of Maul, Sam Witwer, is a guest on the new episode of Pod of Rebellion with the Rebels cast. It's part 1 of 2. The first part has been a lot of Rebels talk and there is a really good segment at around the 41:30 mark where Taylor Gray (Ezra) talks about how Filoni would purposely seat him in between Sam and Freddie Prinze while recording. It seems Sam drove Freddie nuts in real life just like in the show :lol:
Sam has that effect.
 
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This looks like it's going to be fantastic. Do we know for sure if this being planned as a multi-season series or a limited series?
 
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