No, bringing back Darth Maul was always a stupid decision, especially in the context of FiloniWars where they had Savage. If Maul has to be used at all, he has to be a pre-TPM character setting up the pins for why the Trade Federation would risk war with the Republic like assassinating Nute Gunray's former boss or killing more hawkish senators that want to form their own private armies.
I seem to remember Lucas wanting to use Maul in some sequel plan as a different kind of bad guy; more of a crime syndicate rather than an evil empire sort of thing. That might've been interesting.
And that was still a bad idea. Normies think he died in TPM because getting bissected does that to people.
These are the same people that said "He Vader'd!" Their opinions can be discarded.
There were more than a few works even before TCW which had Darth Maul survive. I seem to remember that Darth Vader even killed a perfect clone of the man that was made by Sith sorcery, since a bunch of Sith cultists believed Vader was too tainted by Jedi ways to be a proper Sith apprentice, so they revived Maul via magic cloning and had Maul try to kill and replace Vader. Another story had robo-Maul fight Obi-Wan Kenobi on Tatooine, which is what Rebels decided to copy.
AI-powered shitposting humor is going to be the YTPs of the future. It's already beginning to take off. They're going to be as common as YTPs were in 2008. I imagine, however, that some actors will sue to prevent their voices from being used.
It looks like he's already a Grand Moff there, check the badge.
I think the idea they want is to show how Imperial Loyalists subverted the entire system, but the good guy government is just as willing to struggle session former imperial scientists in literal Oceanic ways while their bureaucrats keep saying that they're just too busy and overstretched to help elsewhere while their "good guy" generals are vain and pursue their own agendas. Lefties fundamentally do not understand government, so the society they depict is inherently dysfunctional. The difference between Lucas and them is that he did it on purpose for a narrative that makes sense, despite what Gen Xers keep saying.
He will Make the Empire Great Again.
Feloni is a passionate fan that made one good show but then got thrust into "Fixing the franchise" which he can't do. No one can fix the sequel trilogy unless LucasArts straight up retcons everything related to the Sequels.
Funny enough, they portrayed the ISB in Andor as somewhat competent. Dedra presents a smidge of info that points to her theory being correct, and her bosses let her have free reign, as opposed to Hera, whose bosses brush off an entire starship crew getting slaughtered by two Dark Jedi, several SSD hyperdrive cores getting stolen, and two NR pilots dying at the hands of Thrawn's agents when the hyperspace ring jumped right in front of the NR squadron. Dedra had a smidge of evidence that she was correct, and her Imperial bosses placed their faith in her. Hera had a mountain of evidence, and her New Republic bosses laugh it off as if it was nothing, and if it wasn't for that last-minute letter from Leia, she'd have lost every bit of power she had.
Even Filoni is beholden to the ST. The ST is the thing that fucked the franchise in the eyes of many fans. All Filoni is doing is removing attention from it, but it's still canon and it still snaps the franchise in half like a kit-kat bar.
True, although personally I think Episode VII was a shaky but decent foundation to build off of. Of course, Rian Johnson didn't see it that way and nuked the franchise with a hydrogen bomb.
They could've done anything after TFA. It was just the intro course to get the OT fanboys who whined about Lucas back on board. They chose to profit off of SJWs, because at the time, SJWs were all the rage on Twitter, and Disney thought the average bloke thought like them.
Honestly what is left of Star Wars is there to be salvaged other than the old EU and what George Lucas had created?
