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I warn you right away: I will not comment on this blog every episode of the animated series Clone Wars. I love this animated series, but don't overdo it, there's FBTB for that ....
That said, I just want to point out a piece of information that seems to me of great importance and that could plunge us from the Star Wars universe into that of Saint Seiya : Darth Maul, cut in two by Obi-Wan Kenobi and disappeared at the bottom of a plasma reactor on Naboo, will be alive and well and back..... in 2012 in the animated series Clone Wars.
The video above leaves no room for ambiguity.
Back to the facts:
In episode 14 of season 3 , "Witches of the Mist ," the finale of a three-episode arc about the Nightsisters , Savage Opress learned from Mother Talzin that he had a brother still alive and that he would have to find him. At that moment, what appeared to be Darth Maul's face was glimpsed in the crystal (or fire) ball.
Will Darth Maul appear in Savage Opress in the same form as Qui Gon Jinn when he intervenes with Obi-Wan Kenobi? Or will he make his comeback as a cyborg? Or did he have a double? A twin brother ? A competent surgeon?
We can already consider that if Darth Maul is alive he will have to accept his return as canonical in the Star Wars universe. He will return by the will of Georges Lucas who is no longer an approximation in terms of chronology and realism.
As early as October 12, 2011, various sources, including this one and that one, reported that Lucas himself had the idea of bringing Darth Maul back into the Star Wars universe and having him appear in the animated series Clone Wars.
David Filoni, director on the animated series added that there is enough vagueness or space around Darth Maul to organize his return, but that it was going to have to be done in an extremely credible way ....
Star Wars Magazine also confirmed earlier this year, albeit indirectly, that Darth Maul was alive and in exile in the Outer Rim.
The miracle is confirmed in the video and it will take a lot of imagination from the writers to make us swallow the pill. Will we be entitled to a plausible explanation, quite relative value in the Star Wars universe?
Nothing is less certain, however the Force will obviously play a leading role in this unexpected return, because as Darth Sidious says in Revenge of the Sith : The Dark Side of the Force is the pathway to many abilities some consider to be…unnatural.
Darth Maul is ultimately an interesting character who deserved better than the few acrobatic scenes in Episode I : The Phantom Menace and the laser-cutting he suffered, all without a single word. Bringing him back in the flesh so that George Lucas could compensate for his disappointment at having underutilized such a charismatic character...
I hope we'll at least get a Darth Maul minifigure in his Resurrected Maul version ...
Below is the excerpt from episode 14 of season 3 that started this whole hysterical saga:
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