The Battle Bar, Our Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

Just watch the damn fight. Do it.

Wow. Maul got turned into a royal pussy. WTF happened?

He returned from the dead (kinda), was restored by Nightsister magicks, became seriously deranged, cobbled together a criminal empire consisting of Mandalorian Death Watch soldiers, Black Sun, and the Hutts, conquered Mandalore, defeated the Death Watch leader in another epic fight, and lured Obi-Wan to Mandalore by holding his one-time gf hostage.

Then Sidious shows up and things don't go well.

I expect a detailed review.

Okay. Sure.

1. Sidious appears to be toying with them both. The level of dominance is pretty well-established with the initial TK. It's reinforced with subsequent TK.

2. Maul got turned into a *****. I was never a Maul fanboy, but this makes him look stupid compared to his appearances in TPM and his novel. Therefore, I am unimpressed.

3. Opress is a big old retard, so it's unsurprising he got dominated.

4. Overall, I'd say Ragnos solos.

...I meant whether or not you liked the choreography and visuals, you sonofab1tch. Do I have to spell out everything for you?

It's my subtle way of manipulating your rage.

Overall, I like the choreography. It's much better than we're used to, although I admit I have not followed the cartoon because of relative lack of interest (and just being bored with the idea of shoving all this recon crap into the three years of Clone Wars that are already adequately covered by some good novels). I think those black-on-the-inside lightsabers are retarded, and they are becoming the norm in TOR too sadly. Whoever thought of those needs to have their balls slammed in a sliding door.

I'm comfortable with Sidious dominating both of them. I do wish, however, that Maul had gotten more than a few erratic swipes in, considering this is a guy who solo'd Black Sun and wrecked Anoon Bondara, Qui-Gon Jinn, and Obi-Wan Kenobi without sweating enough to ruin his makeup.

Originally posted by Stealth Moose
(and just being bored with the idea of shoving all this recon crap into the three years of Clone Wars that are already adequately covered by some good novels).

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If you prefer Maul as an utter badass, here you go.

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Man, that roar (hiss?) he does at the start is stupid and cheesy as hell.

True. Could have used more slow motion.

And screen shaking. I didn't like that one much better. He took more hits from Mandalore than from Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. Did he forget his precog and H2H skills at home?

For the full Maul-Fail experience, try this one:

YouTube video

Kenobi whoops him and Savage together.

I forgot he is essentially castrated as well. This explains a lot.

There were some SWVF residents from way back who would take these videos very badly. Thankfully, they passed on to better pastures instead of hanging around here.

...Are you comparing these folks to livestock?

Sheep, sir. Sheep.

Originally posted by Stealth Moose
There were some SWVF residents from way back who would take these videos very badly. Thankfully, they passed on to better pastures instead of hanging around here.

Why, exactly?

Originally posted by Nephthys
Why, exactly?

The retention rate around here was never good, but rereading some very old old threads (such as the Revan v Vader thread, which was one of the first for the subforum) there's a lot of names I recognize who aren't here anymore. And Maul fandom was very strong among the regulars back in '05. Vader fandom too, even though RotS was new.

Vizsla certainly does much better than any non-Force user ever did against Maul, as far as I can recall. He's up there in my list of most dangerous non-Force user combatants.