u/Atomic-pangolin

My biggest critique of the show is that Maul didn’t come off as much of a threat. The knee and then hip clearly impacted him, I get it, but Maul seemed weak throughout the show and something about that just didn’t sit right with me- made it kinda hard to get into the story for me. At the same time, Maul also lost to a 17 year old girl at the end of clone wars, so maybe it tracks for him and maybe it’s just me who expects lore and more from him because I want him to be an actual menace, not just a phantom one… but he comes off as pretty mid after constantly losing every fucking fight he gets in. I want to be able to tell that Sidious trained this man to be a Sith, that he was a warrior and assassin- that he is one of the most powerful force beings in the galaxy- that’s why he was a rival to sidious in the clone wars and why he still wants Maul dead. I haven’t really gotten any of that from Maul since season 5 of clone wars. And that sucks.

Vader was menacing af, loved it. Having him push through that wall to surprise Vader and Daki was great. Having him come out of the fog reminded me of force unleashed. But it seemed like Vader was kinda messing around with the 3 of them in their fight. We see him get more serious after Daki wounds him (and the way he pounds Daki with powerful strikes is reminiscent of the way Luke bests Vader in RotJ and I also feel like I remember Anakin doing that to someone (maybe Dooku or Ventress), but love the continuity). I guess what I’m saying is that if Maul is that weak and Vader is that strong and was just kinda playing with his food, it also kinda doesn’t make sense to me that Vader didn’t stack their bodies one atop the other… like Anakin programmed droids to fight like Maul and trained against them as a kid- this is a chance to prove that he is better than Obi Wan. Altogether, it just kinda seems like convenient plot armor that hopefully actually builds to something in season 2 or damn am I going to be disappointed.

In summary, power scaling in Star Wars is still inconsistent or is something I don’t understand and (to an extent) it got in the way of me enjoying and appreciating everything the show got right. I’m hoping that season 2 builds on what this season got right and improves upon where it fell short in my eyes. I can’t wait to see the animation for season 2 and if they make any changes. Just no Rebels animation haha

Hoping someone might be able to help me out. My grandad passed in 08’ but did a lot. I know he flew in the Second World War and went on to do a lot of cool things, like writing the earliest computer program the Navy used to route their ships. I was wondering if I could get any sort of copy of his service records? Just wanna learn more about him and I know my mom would appreciate it. I imagine much of what he did is still under wraps but he also retired from the navy so long ago so who knows if they still have anything… But anything I could get would be cool and any input yall have would be real helpful. Thanks

I saw some of the content. I know there was an uproar. I also know there was a bit of shade thrown where people in medicine said that they know of situations where someone did far worse and then nothing really happened as a consequence. Not trying to argue for or against whether there should or shouldn’t have been consequences, only curious if there were any/ what was the outcome since it was such a big thing for a moment? I looked it up and couldn’t find anything on the outcome. Did he graduate and match into residency?

Edit: messed up, but funny thought I had was if he was nominated for surgeon general after Casey Means was pulled.

Maul losing to 2 inquisitors just wasn’t it. Maul is supposed to be this absolute threat. Ahsoka easily kills the crow in tales of the Jedi then in rebels is easily a match for multiple inquisitors simultaneously whereas Maul struggles? He loses to Ahsoka in Clone Wars, which I don’t think he should have lost- I get it, Ahsoka is powerful and trained by Anakin, but come fucking on. The Sith Lord (trained to assassinate and kill by Darth Sidious) lost to a 17 year old girl who hadn’t practiced in at least some number of months, never defeated another powerful force user in the show, and Maul is supposedly one of the most powerful duelists in the galaxy. Maul defeated and captured Grievous and Dooku. Now he loses to these 2 inquisitors, one of which Ahsoka easily disarms and kills. Ahsoka wasn’t able to handle Maul that easily, so he should be able to throw down hard. The people who say the reason Ahsoka won is because Maul wasn’t trying to kill her and got over confident… that argument doesn’t make any sense anymore since he lost so definitively to the inquisitors who he should be leagues above.

Like for the central plot of Maul being a threat, they haven’t made him feel very threatening. They’re doing a good job of showing Maul’s inner turmoil and struggle, the development for the other characters and the animation have been fantastic.