Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord

i thought it was a bad idea to kill him off in the cartoon.

other then the silly legs, he had the best story as an anti hero
who is still a villain that could be hunting and killing other villains.

i will wait and withhold any judgements until the season drops..

disney has really beat a lot of dead horses and  dressed them up with lipstick lately.

Only the first episode so far.

I'd say it has the same level of appropriateness than Clone Wars and Rebels.
The tone is more serious - again, nothing we haven't seen before - and the battles have the same level blaster fire and violence. Also couldn't detect any cursing.

So if your 9 year old can handle the darker episodes of those two shows, it should be ok.

Apart from that, story & characters seem ok. Will have to watch more to see if it's really good.

Finished the Season. 5/10 - 6/10 I would say.

There was so much stuff in there I couldn't care less about or which didn't add anything to the plot or character development. Just wasting time...

If broken down to three episodes, this could've been a decent part of a 2nd Season for Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld.

Last episode was the most interesting one, but not because of Maul

most of the season was good, some great but nothing fantastic.
a number of wasted opportunities for being original.

the animation was a mix of detailed and generic.
but noting new or exciting. ( where is the fantastic digital animation we were promised 20 years ago??)
there is some great lighting, but most is lost before you can really see it.
broad color strokes make some parts stand out, but only for a second or two.. sadly.

a lot of tropes being drug out yet again for lack of better writing and imagination.
( empire whaks anyone who looks at them funny because who cares about loyalty or reputation)

the lawson side story was predicable, over used and played out.
they wasted the mercs

i understand they have to spoon feed people things
they have to explain the backstory some what.

but do they have to write it like we all are 5?
(even for a cartoon)

i dont know how i feel about there being a season 2 or more..
how many in world years are possible until maul dies from this point?

Fun fact, they cannot deflect even one since that would break physics - to "deflect" it, Jedi must be faster than the speed of light And it's not possible even in that fairy tale universe It's a hard no from Universe itself So, if can 1, can also 100

i thought jedi could "feel" where the shot was going to go, before it was fired.
they are reacting to an event that is still in the future.

which explains how they can block not only the shots that could hit them,
but also can ignore the ones that are of no danger.

( also explains why saber duels can last so long and go so fast )

i am sure i saw it explained that way somewhere.

also
we are not seeing the plasma shots in real time, but the after effects as fast as our brains can process them.
( that one sounds wrong, but we dont have scifi guns yet so...)