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]

Rebels was such an uneven show but when it was good it was so good, and that finale is a prime example. The setting, the music, Maul’s interaction with Ezra, Ahsoka’s confrontation with Vader. The animation alone was unusually memorable (the first sight of the Sith Temple and Anakin’s eye peering out of Vader’s mask are some of the visual highlights of the show imo).

And I’m with you in wishing we got more of Maul overall, though I liked what we did get. But I enjoy tragic villains who self-sabotage their own opportunities for redemption almost as much as I like redemption arcs themselves, so it’s admittedly unsurprising that I would.