Originally posted by Darth Thor
I could easily address all this point by point but its best left for the debates forum. We are discussing best lightsaber fights here.But if I was to take your interpretation of the fights, then basically what you're saying is "Maul was comparatively pretty shit from day 1, so him going down in 2 moves was a fitting end".
So I will just say this: Maul located Kenobi, and could have just blown him up with his ship or something. Or hired a bunch of bounty hunters to take him out together.
However he seemed pretty confident he could take out Kenobi on his own in a lightsaber duel, or that he at least had a decent shot at taking him... Which to me would indicate their previous fights were not as one sided as you are making out.
That's fine. Like I told Pr, would have been much more effective for me personally by Bigging Maul up more during the series. Like having him shown as the clear superior to Ahsoka/Kanan. Having the Rebels crew continuously crap their pants from him. Then it would have worked IMO.
Otherwise as a Maul fan, ill tell you it seems like once Lucas was gone and the reigns taken off Filoni, he just began crapping on the character.
When a favourite of yours goes down in 2 moves, after hes already been crapped on, then you'll understand.
Either way, there was nothing to the fight anyway to name it as one of the great all time Star Wars duels IMHO. Although I admit the dialogue before and after the fight was good.
Who said he was shit? He did kill Qui-Gon after all. I just think Obi-Wan is that good.
Bad guys being overconfident is nothing new. He wanted to kill him with his own hands blah blah blah.
My favorite got crapped on pretty hard in TLJ, thanks. And I felt bringing back Maul was stupid anyway.