Clone Wars plans to resurrect Darth Maul
 

http://www.starwars.com/news/darth_m...urns_2012.html

To quote a dear friend of mine: "I'm sickened and disgusted."

But am I surprised? Not a bit. With all the continuity changes this kind of thing's been a long time coming.

Your thoughts?

I don't like it, but hey, it's EU tradition. Darth Maul is just one among many, like: Palpatine, Boba Fett, Durge, Ventress, etc... If people accepted all of them, why not accept Maul? If they didn't, then why even care?

In fairness, Darth Maul has been resurrected three time already. One of which was considered canon.

when you tread in poodoo, whats a little bit more poodoo?

Am I missing something?

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth...unting_Obi-Wan
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth...fe_after_death

Looks like everyone who thought he shouldn't have died in TPM get what they wanted.

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Savage Oppress?

And people thought that General Grievous was bad...

Way more interesting than Grievous, that's for sure.

That's funny because Lucas specifically stated he had him cut in half in order to make sure fans couldn't find a way to bring him back. That still didn't stop fans and it looks like it now didn't stop George.

lets just retcon the OT and have Anakin use the force to re-grow his limbs and heal his burnt flesh, then we can CGI Hayden in to the 2017 special special edition

Nothing stops George - $$$$$

It's kind of like your average daytime soap opera....no one ever really dies. Maybe he pulled a Voldemort and put a part of his essence in a holocron.

Sometimes I wonder how true all these "it came right from George" really are...

Following the current trends and the way things are going in Star Wars, this sounds disturbingly possible.

I don't see what the problem is... it's just more EU stuff... even if it did "come from George" my strict interpretation of Star Wars canon is if it's not in the 6 movies, it's not canon... therefore I'd only ever really get uppity over stuff that goes on with the 6 movies.

Clone Wars is Clone Wars, just a fun little side trip for folks who like Saturday morning toons, no biggie.

I have a similar structure. Everything out of the 6 movies is secondary canon, where I can pick which stories belong to my personal canon.

Though I agree with both Lynk and Alexrd (I do something similar to you), doesn't change the fact its a monumentally crap idea. I'm not going to get stressy or anything over it, but still think its a bad idea.

It's pretty bad imo, but I haven't taken TCW series very seriously at all.

I would be fine with crap retcons if they didn't affect future merchandise. It's entropy at work! :swear:
What's next? Malak in a jar in ToR?
Palpatine fighting Cade Skywalker?
Ahsoka as Anakin's illegitimate half-sister?
Where will the line be drawn?

Sadly I can actually see GL giving the okay for those so long as there is credits - err money to be made :D

@ j7: The majority of EU is monumentally crap.

Is it really so hard to come up with something new? It doesn't even have to rock and it may even suck down the road, what would matter to me is that they'd actually have tried.

Someone had to quote it for truth.

The EU is awesome.

Awesomely lame... but admittedly not as awesomely lame as the Star Trek EU lol. Now THAT is completely sad.

Meh. I never liked Darth Maul, but if this means he gets to die again, I'm happy with that.

But thankfully not considered as canon by the franchise itself. :p

Well, wether people like it or not, this is something new.

How is he ressurrecting again new? New in the Clone Wars series, perhaps.

New in the sense that nobody was expecting it.

I liked it better when he was only revived in the comics....

yea me too, at least it was infinities time-line, or one shot comics not included in canon. Now Darth Maul survives being cut in half and falling down a mile deep shaft.

Maybe he is a Clone? that would be acceptable (crap, as I dislike cloning force sensitives) but more acceptable than surviving said fate.

Caring about cannon/consistency in starwars = lol, 'nuff said.

I don't think it is that unbelievable considering Luke fell down a similar shaft (possibly longer shaft) and survived:
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/9...ywalkeresb.png

Maul was chopped in two. You see his upper half bouncing off the side of the shaft as he falls.

****er should be dead. If he isn't, then that's just stupid.

My shaft is longer

That's a bit disturbing. :raise:

I'm actually looking forward to the explanation on how he's alive.

LOL

The shaft Luke fell down was more conical and had a sort of protective wind tunnel.
Also, George wants more Maul toys to sell. It will be the jewel of his TCW collection. Unfortunately fans are too weak to reject buying it and exerting their market power. Just like the new Blu-Ray releases.

How is it being weak to buy something you like? Nobody is being obliged to do anything they don't want to.