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[unspeakablehorror]

I think new canon doesn't give Maul consistent motivations or personality. It also doesn't depict his actions with any complexity. He's just there to be evil. Not really surprising in my opinion, and I don't actually think this couldn't have happened in old canon either. Lucas didn't exactly like villains having motives beyond 'be evil' and I can only imagine that a lot of the depth Maul got in old canon was in spite of Lucas, not because of him. Old canon wasn't the best all the time, either, but at least the more complex moments Maul got kind of allowed people to look beyond the more surface-seeming observations. New canon just doesn't have enough of those moments. Though I do think the plot with Maul and Ezra had potential, and I'd like to do a Rebels AU for Maul sometime.

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[sl_walker]

Man, the difference is night and day. Legends authors actually did a fabulous job turning a one-off appearance in TPM into a fully realized character of his own, and the thing that's burning my ass right now (out of many things which burn my ass about how they handle him) is that this was all canon during his TCW run. It wasn't wiped until 2014. This isn't like some EU novel written in the eighties, a lot of Maul's most interesting stuff was written within the past decade!