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Just finished watching Episode I today. One thing the Sith and Jedi have in common: they both like to take off their outer robes when they fight. Though Sidious doesn't do that. I guess it's a Naboo thing to fight in wildly impractical clothing.

But I mean, if they're always taking them off, why wear the outer robes to begin with? We all know the answer: because they look cool. Though Maul's robes are obviously the coolest. 10/10 best outfit. That boring brown stuff the Jedi wear just can't compare.

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.

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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