So, are there any YouTube channels that aren't grifters and/or Soy-guzzlers? I want quality* SW content, I'll even take YouTube channels at this point, though that might be an oxymoron.
*Quality = Not total shit or embarassing to watch.
Captain Fordo (AKA
Manda-Lore) has some decent videos defending and explaining the Expanded Universe (including a couple of hour-plus ones where he systematically dissects TCW's corrosive effect on established continuity like some sort of autistic brain surgeon) but some may find his voice and delivery a bit difficult to listen to.
Saintmillion has a really good video on the making of Shadows of the Empire (haven't checked any of his other stuff yet) and generally speaking, anything that
So Uncivilized puts out seems to be worth viewing, so far as I've seen.
I have a hard time wrapping my head around it because Maul just had no more to tell as far as his purpose went. I could understand how he did it (even though I think he's too meatheaded to pull off a Sion or Simus), but then you bring him back, so now what? You stretch it out for a bit longer, make him a major villain that talks too much and then Disney ends it with a mediocre fight on Tatooine with Space Aladdin as a witness. I mean I'm not adverse to the idea of him coming back, at least if its just for revenge on Kenobi, I just find him being a major recurring antagonist and then tying him too so many characters as being forced as fuck. Its obvious why Filoni did it that way since CGI shit is limited, so they just arsed it by tying him into the Ventress story arc so they wouldn't have to make new assets for an Iridonia arc.
As
@Mississippi Motorboater noted, it seems like one of the ongoing, systemic problems with TCW was a deeply-embedded feeling of need to "fix" the perceived problems of the Prequel Trilogy, so the series is full of eye-rolling moments like Anakin roid-raging on random Separatists to "foreshadow" his fall to the Dark Side, Palpatine being cartoonishly, transparently evil, Padme (fruitlessly) running around doing things, Grievous becoming a complete incompetent and Darth Maul being brought back from a fiery, bisected death in the depths of the Theed municipal power plant to rather pointlessly dick around in the background before ultimately dying in Obi-Wan's arms some years later (which last part, at least, was handled pretty nicely, to be perfectly fair).
Of course, Maul's return could also just be the result of pure, "wouldn't it be cool?" fanboy stupidity like sticking wolf references everywhere, giving Ahsoka a battalion of Clone Troopers who love her so much that they literally paint her face on their helmets or having Coruscant attacked by a giant, quadrupedal tapeworm because I guess Godzilla movies are a thing.
And on that note, I found it odd how people who bitched about Boba Fett, Palpatine and K'Kruhk (the Genndy Wars whiphid jedi who Grievous "killed") returning was considered too much or completely impossible back before it became okay to like the first and the second because Disney did it, but Maul was completely fine and made total sense in their eyes despite his revival lacking exposition and his return relying on convenient coincidences. Feels like the main reason for accepting Maul's revival so easily was solely because one was on TV and the others happened in comics which people didn't want to be bothered to find. Its also possible that its Filoni Wars kiddy nostalgia considering how many grew up with that show without ever watching the films or the rest of the franchise first. But like I said before, a revived Maul works better as a one shot story or special rather than as a recurring character imo. @Mississippi Motorboater you're still keeping track of Redditor and forum activity these days right? If so what's the most common perception on the subject this time around? All I know is fags like HelloGreedo used to bitch endlessly about bringing back characters like Boba and Palpatine but creamed themselves over Maul because he was part of a "super popular hit show" and later actually liking Boba's come back in Mando despite also lacking in the way of exposition, and being as "nice as possible" about Palpatine in IX.
That's an excellent point. Boba Fett has always been an extremely popular character, but he's also had, for the longest time, an extremely vocal set of detractors, with his escape from the Sarlaac and consequent post-ROTJ exploits being a source of great rage and derision from the same (and beyond the hardcore haters, mocking the character was pretty much a cliche of online nerd culture for decades). In the wake of Fett's appearance in
The Mandalorian, however, it seems like things largely flipped from "Boba Fett survived the Sarlaac, so stupid," to "Boba Fett survived the Sarlaac, so
awesome!" practically overnight, with the change coming, so far as I can tell, directly and solely from the character appearing in live-action again. It's a pretty sad commentary on our culture when you think about it. You can pen a well-written story about a man waging a battle of wills against a telepathic and malignant hivemind of Lovecraftian proportions, while fighting to escape from the guts of the same creature, and people will brush it off as fanboy nonsense, but have the same man appear, without explanation, and effortlessly gun down whole squads of armed soldiers on your TV screen and suddenly it's the best thing ever.
