Death Watch had a deal with Maul's criminal syndicate: Maul would run around and cause trouble and Death Watch would pretend to capture them so that they would look good. It ends with Maul killing Pre-Vizla, but that was after Satine was deposed.
I think that's why I've never cared for Bo-Katan. She's just an entitled brat who can never maintain power. She should be a villain at the end of the day. Maul did nothing wrong in that episode.
And it's hilarious how in-universe people think she's the rightful anything. Normie mandos that had to become soldiers are mad that she helped run the organization that destroyed their civilization, Death Watch mandos are mad at her not abiding to Maul's victory, and she was literally given the retcon Authurian symbol of authority in contradiction of their made-up rules.
I've always heard this story, but yeah I'd like to see some contemporary examples of it, like, I dunno, a Starlog interview where Prowse talks about "I get to totally plow the rebels' shit in on Hoth, not even Green Cross Code Man could survive this ice planet smackdown" or whatever
"I capture Han and Leia. I freeze Han and give him to Jabba the Hutt. I cut off Luke's hand in a lightsaber fight in Cloud City. I read the script and at the end of the movie the Rebels are defeated."
It was a fake criminal spree where they got caught, as opposed to the Summer of Love which was a real criminal spree and the cops didn't press charges. =)
That's how most people feel whenever Lucas tries to promote pacifism. Not that many people gave a fuck about Padme either, outside of the people who tried to have her as Barbie in Space.
Same difference to the people of Mandalore. The Duchess was discredited to Death Watch's benefit.
Not quite. Mandalore got a more effective ruler out of the deal. America did not.
Someone rated this autistic, but I want you to know that I agree entirely. Hell you can tell during the fight that Obi Wan is getting tired while Anakin is just getting more and more angry, thus stronger. It's like any typical Superhero-Supervillain fight: Sure you're not trying to kill the guy but if the opportunity presents itself, you take the shot.
Maul and Almec were too good for Mandalore in hindsight.
I known of it and been there off and on since the late 90ies. Other than checking to see if it still exists every couple of years, I had stopped going there since the first time the forum members gone rabid on Mike Wong back in the mid-late 00ies. Personally for me many of the saner people who had also double as tard wranglers had already passed away before the SD.net completely turned to shit.
And this is something Disney has absolutely sucked it with their bulldozing of the EU and rebuilding it in their own crappy way.
Correction: the modern Star Wars universe feels so small. With the old SWEU, there were lots of adventures and references that your average movie-going normie is going to get lost in.
They were. Maul and Almec actually had foresight, most Mandalorians did not.
