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News Obi-Wan Kenobi series premiering on May 27

I mean, it's not like Disney Star Wars is quite as immune to toe-stepping as it advertised itself as during the Legends switchover, what with Poe, Kanan, and Cobb Vanth's backstories being rewritten to one degree or another by more recent and closer-to-live-action media.
Those three examples are the movies or shows rewriting something from the novels or comics. There's yet to be a movie or show rewriting something from another movie or show.
 
Count me also as one who never wishes to see Mace Windu return: it doesn’t add anything to the saga that hasn’t already been done before, and undermines his demise at the hands of Sidious, in ROTS.

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Going to be honest, I don't get why anybody wants Mace Windu back. Well, other than Sam Jackson, obviously.
That's all it is.
Which circles us back, yet again, to making Windu a Force Ghost.

As it turns out, Samuel Jackson put a bug in the ear of Bryce Dallas Howard. "Put me in, coach!"

https://www.tor.com/2022/03/15/samuel-l-jackson-star-wars-mace-windu-comeback/
Oh, fine.

But only if Ray Arnold also returns in Jurassic World: Dominion, if only as a post-credits gag.

The ultimate seal of approval!

My Clone Wars memory is fuzzy, but I'm sure Yoda told Windu about learning how to preserve his form after death, so I would imagine he would come to Vader every night to say “Still not a master, I see.”
I would love to see that! :lol:
 
In most fiction, characters die and stay dead.
I don't know if I'd say most fiction, pretty much ever form of media has been killing characters and bringing them back for centuries or probably even millennia. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes and brought him back to life after the fans all got pissed. I'm pretty sure there were at least a few characters in the ancient mythologies who died and then came back later.
 
I know it's just because he's played by the same actor, but I'm picturing Mace Windu hiding out in a barn like Nick Fury in Avengers: Age of Ultron after his apparent "death" in The Winter Soldier, skulking about in the shadows and secretly advising other characters.

Kor
 
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Completely off topic, but I love the story that Sam Witwer told about recording that scream for Battlefront 2.

When he was recording the Maul voice lines for that game, that Rebels episode hadn't aired yet, but he threw the scream in as a bonus, telling the audio guy that the fans will probably want it later.

They did eventually add it as an emote late in the game's life.

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Completely off topic, but I love the story that Sam Witwer told about recording that scream for Battlefront 2.

When he was recording the Maul voice lines for that game, that Rebels episode hadn't aired yet, but he threw the scream in as a bonus, telling the audio guy that the fans will probably want it later.

They did eventually add it as an emote late in the game's life.
I found a BTS clip of Witwer and his physicality in the scream is just so amazingly over the top.

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The last time we saw Maul was in Solo. True, there are several years between the events of Solo and those of Rebels including Maul's demise, and Kenobi takes place somewhere within that window of time. But I think it would stretch credibility to have Maul and Kenobi run into each other in this series. If we were going to see more of live-action Maul, it would have made more sense in a story about the criminal underworld featuring Qi'ra. But obviously that's never going to happen since Solo was a dud and they discontinued the "Star Wars Story" banner.

I would kind of like some in-universe comment on how Kenobi's accent changed between the Clone Wars era and the OT. It's true that McGregor doesn't use his own natural accent for the character. But it's still not quite the way Guinness spoke. Especially how older Kenobi distinctly enunciates each syllable in "evil" like "ee-ville." Imagine in ROTS, "Anakin, Chancellor Palpatine is eee-ville." It was the only time he said that word aloud in the whole prequel trilogy, and he blew it! :lol:

Kor
 
would kind of like some in-universe comment on how Kenobi's accent changed between the Clone Wars era and the OT. It's true that McGregor doesn't use his own natural accent for the character. But it's still not quite the way Guinness spoke.
A friend of mine lived in Australia for two years, working as a nanny. She came back and had an accent.

Kenobi's accent in the PT was described as "Coruscanti" so I imagine him blending in with the locals will be all the explanation really needed.
 
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