Warning: Full spoilers for the latest Star Wars Rebels episode, “Twin Suns” below.
And so it ends. The episode “Twin Suns” was obviously going to be an important one for the series and for Star Wars in its entirety, as Darth Maul and Obi-Wan Kenobi faced off on Tatooine. With the show’s timeline hurtling towards A New Hope, could Maul possibly survive one more encounter with his old enemy – the man who sliced him in half and left him for dead in The Phantom Menace?
The answer was no, he couldn’t, as the former Sith apprentice was killed at last, via a swift cut from Obi-Wan’s lightsaber.
Voicing Maul since his big return on The Clone Wars years ago has been Sam Witwer, and I spoke to the actor about saying goodbye to the character and the circumstances around Maul's death, including that surprisingly quick lightsaber battle. A huge – and highly knowledgably -- Star Wars fan himself, Witwer shared his own thoughts on how it all went down.
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And so it ends. The episode “Twin Suns” was obviously going to be an important one for the series and for Star Wars in its entirety, as Darth Maul and Obi-Wan Kenobi faced off on Tatooine. With the show’s timeline hurtling towards A New Hope, could Maul possibly survive one more encounter with his old enemy – the man who sliced him in half and left him for dead in The Phantom Menace?
The answer was no, he couldn’t, as the former Sith apprentice was killed at last, via a swift cut from Obi-Wan’s lightsaber.
Voicing Maul since his big return on The Clone Wars years ago has been Sam Witwer, and I spoke to the actor about saying goodbye to the character and the circumstances around Maul's death, including that surprisingly quick lightsaber battle. A huge – and highly knowledgably -- Star Wars fan himself, Witwer shared his own thoughts on how it all went down.
Continue reading…
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