Twilight of the Apprentice

[unspeakablehorror]

Just finished rewatching the two Season 2 finale episodes.  These were pretty exciting, but then in then in the next season the show just really dropped the ball on a lot of the stuff set up here.  A list of arcs that I feel were mishandled:

*Maul--the plotline to nowhere!:(
*The Sith Holocron--who was speaking?! Whose holocron was this??!! Inquiring minds want to know!
*Ahsoka--am fine with the ultimate outcome, but deeply annoyed by the unnecessarily convoluted path to that destination; I admit a certain bias against this kind of plotline, of course...
*Ezra--because he should have had more interactions with Maul!

Which brings me to my last point:
*Maul--aaarrrgghhhh...just give me....Maul redemption arc...giiiiiive...

Anyway, it was interesting to rewatch this thinking about what I would change if I were to do a fanfic AU for this.  Which I would love to do, but I don't have enough of a direction yet (though I have some ideas).  I feel like I want to make progress on my current longfic though, because if I did this, it would definitely end up being a longer story.

Comments

[chamerion]

Fair enough! I find Obi-Wan a far more difficult character to like than I think Lucas & Co intend him to be, and I had few feelings about Maul prior to watching Rebels, so in part I was just pleasantly surprised that Twin Suns gave me so many emotions about them.

And yeah, the timeframe was a problem, as was the baffling decision to rely mostly on self-contained episodes-of-the-week rather than story arcs. It’s just hard to tell a story in twenty minutes. There’s a noticeable uptick in quality with the two-parters and in the fourth season where they take a more arc-based approach. Likewise I agree that much of the animation was a pile of meh, which is why the bits that wowed me in the S2 finale made such an impression.

The silver lining of the things that frustrate us about a work is always that they make good fanfic fuel, haha. I tend to like interquels - done well I think a story is more about the journey than the destination, and constraints can spur a lot of creativity - but the freedom of AUs definitely has its appeal.