maul is garbage omg i was so angry when he showed up in clone wars

YESssss~ And it was so unnecessary because I know he has fans but, uh, they didn’t need his character to return at all. Having the brother out for revenge worked perfectly fine to bring up all the old Obi-wan angst and plot points from TPM and was a more interesting character by default. Thank goodness for the Clone Wars for expanding the screen time and plot characterizations for Count Dooku and General Grievous (and who was just as if not even more interesting as the cut-and-run coughing cyborg villain we got in the movies than the animated “Bad-ass Untouchable Jedi-Killer” of the first animated Clone Wars cartoon). But Maul’s role in TPM was to be the red herring, to be Sidious’s brute dragon, to be the menacing violent threat as to kill and be killed and just enough backstory and depth to hint at that he was a child soldier sacrifice raised from early childhood by Sidious but still, he’s a flat character with a solid visual design and that’s it. I don’t care about his motivations, his revival was beyond stupid, and it killed my interest in the tv show.