Taking a break from the standard gaming knowledge takes to speak about one thing private. Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord is now streaming on Disney+, and it is genuinely probably the greatest issues Star Wars has… | Colan Neese

Taking a break from the standard gaming knowledge takes to speak about one thing private.

Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord is now streaming on Disney+, and it is genuinely probably the greatest issues Star Wars has produced for the reason that Disney acquisition.

Two episodes in and I’m already obsessed.

Here’s the factor about Maul. The core Star Wars group has all the time liked him, and it is not laborious to grasp why. He’s a villain with nearly no redemption arc, no actual motivation past rage and survival, and but by some means that makes him extra compelling than all the protagonists within the sequel trilogy.

His lightsaber duel with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan in Phantom Menace, set to Duel of the Fates, is likely one of the greatest motion sequences in any Star Wars movie, and higher than something the sequel trilogy ever placed on display. My son goes by way of his Star Wars section proper now, and watching him react to that combat confirmed it.

Clone Wars introduced him again, which made no sense and in addition made full sense (as a result of Maul is superior)… in that present… regardless of being loopy (mainly)… he turned against the law syndicate overlord attributable to his drive for revenge… which solely made the Star Wars group love him extra.

Shadow Lord picks up within the hole between Clone Wars and Rebels, filling in precisely how he rebuilt his prison empire after Ahsoka ousted him from Mandalore. A spot Solo (the movie) teased and no person ever adopted up on. It’s basically Breaking Bad for Star Wars, besides Maul was already dangerous, so it turns into Breaking Bad for everybody round him (I presume).

The tone is darker than Clone Wars, Rebels, or Bad Batch, and that is tremendous. It earns it. But let’s not overstate it both, this is not Andor. It lives comfortably within the animated universe, simply with sharper edges. And that universe has persistently executed extra for Star Wars storytelling than any of the movies have managed since Return of the Jedi (actually the Clone Wars made the prequel movies.. watchable IMO).

Between Shadow Lord and Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, Disney+ is quietly having a very sturdy second proper now.

If you care about Star Wars in any respect, watch the present. It slaps.