i have no solid ideas on this whatsoever at present....and that is one of the first good ideas i've heard on it....i think it's possible that he's quite old, and also possible that he was there when the last of the sith were wiped out, hence the fact that his grudge against the jedi is so phenominally strong....but with nothing to go on, most of the suggestions seem like eu to me (even if they are possibilities) and i include the official datatbase thing in that.....really looking forward to this history lesson....if i just stopped reading spoilers now, there would still be quite a lot of anticipation in that cinema come may.....
but i won't.....(damn!)......
No sense in stopping with the spoilers now- most of the info is out there already.
I didn't think Palpatine really was all that caught up in the whole revenge thing.
In Ep. 1 on the balcony he seems disinterested while Maul talks about revenge.
As for Palpatine's history, I have doubts that will be addressed much, if at all.
Might as well leave that mysterious. Leave some things a mystery.....
yeah, i noticed palpatine's disinterest in that scene, i thought it was because maul's idea of revenge seemed quite a puny form of revenge to palpatine.....considering what he had in store....aaaah, if only maul could have been around to witness it in all it's glory.....he really had no idea....he would've shed a tear....
i don't know anything about palpatine's past, and i don't know what the extra info regarding the prophecy is....i also don't know what the deal is with the disappearing jedi, or whether qui gon will be in the film, who erased the files etc.....these are the things i'd like to keep secret for the cinema screening....i was going to stay spoiler free this time (shhhyyeeeaaahh right!), but if i didn't know this kind of stuff, i'd still have a buzz of expectation going in....
mainly what i'm interested in now is behind the scenes stuff of things i've heard about, but haven't seen yet and actual completed shots from the film (preferrably footage) so i can start to get a feel for the mood of the film (the trailers should do nicely)....the other stuff i would really be better off not knowing....
I feel that Palpatine beat it into him, so to speak. Brainwashed him growing up. Has there ever been a thread on Maul's training?
My impression of Darth Maul is that he was basically like an attack dog for Palpatine (or is it Sidious....😉 ). To me this is reinforced during the sequence after he kills Qui-Gon and he and Obi are waiting for the barriers to open.
Maul is pacing back and forth like caged animal waiting to pounce.....