Star Wars Needs To Leave Darth Maul Behind
With Star Wars Celebration announcing a new animated series featuring Darth Maul, I think we can all agree it's time to leave this Sith lord behind.
Perhaps the most surprising recent announcement we got from Star Wars Celebration in Japan this weekend was the animated series Darth Maul: Shadow Lord, set during the Imperial era of the galaxy. The fact that this was mostly unnoticed, especially for such a popular character, remains a sobering indictment of how much his story has been exhausted in recent years. Not only is it complete, but there is little left to show that we have not already seen, and the series just feels like an attempt to keep staying in the same time period over and over. This is not a new flaw of the franchise, but it's one Lucasfilm has yet to learn from or resolve, which is something that should worry all of us.
