It's hardly lowballing when Grievous himself told the magnaguards to go soften Maul up. Why did he do that if it was going to have no noticeable effect? It's not my theory, it was Grievous's, because Grievous himself knows he's no match for Maul in a fair one on one, as does Maul who said it.
And jeez what's with the "he's just that bad ass"? It was 1 Saber lock, then 1 kick (during which Grievous already seems disarmed of 1 Saber). We all know very well 1 Force wave and Grievous would be done. Just like Kenobi has done several times, and just like Eeth Koth did.
Filoni confirmed over a year ago that Grievous isn't in the same league as a Jedi/Sith of Ventres's caliber. So he certainly isn't in Maul's league. It happens with Kenobi as well. He meets Grievous in all sorts of circumstances, and gets kicked around now and then, but as soon as he gets the chance to use the Force Grievous is done.
And as Filoni also confirmed, as soon as Kenobi got Grievous down for a fair one on one in ROTS, we saw what happened there.
But I'll give this to Grievous, he usually is a threat to most Jedi in Sabers, but as soon as the Force comes into play the higher level ones take him out without much difficulty. In fact in a fair one on one the higher level ones should take a vast majority against him in pure Sabers too.
Last edited by Darth Thor on May 23rd, 2014 at 11:04 PM
Lol, that was just Grievous talking. I/we have seen first-hand what Maul can do without becoming fatigued. That being said, do you honestly believe that a few Magnaguards were able to significantly tire Maul in a scant 2 page skirmish, when even an extended saber battle with Palpatine didn't appear to have? C'mon.
I'm not saying that Maul couldn't have easily bested Grievous with the force--a pure saber melee is all I am referencing.
Imo, the fact that Maul did not hand GG his ass, or even gain a clear advantage during their confrontation, is impressive on the General's part, given that Maul is a peak-tier swordsman.
Filoni isn't writing this comic, so I really don't care what he said in a years-old interview. The most current information=the most canon.
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Last edited by Galan007 on May 23rd, 2014 at 11:35 PM
It's tough to tell because the perspective puts his foot in the way of his hand, but his fingers aren't actually wrapped around the hilt of the green lightsaber in that panel.
If they wanted to show him disarmed they would have made it clear, i.e not position the saber in the same place it would have been if he weren't disarmed.
It's entirely out of his grasp. His hand is actually completely in front of it. You could argue that's intentional on the General's part if you'd like, there's precedent for him feinting and/or swapping weapons between hands/feet in the Tartakovsky stuff.
I wouldn't necessarily argue that it's conclusive, but you people saying "artist error" instead of "well, maybe it's..." are being weird.
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Its not out of his hand, it just drawn really weird. Grievous still has it, Maul did nothing that would make him loose hold of it, (unless Grievous kicked him so hard that he dropped his own lightsaber)
He's holding two lightsabers the next time we see him though, so a) he picked it up, b) he pulled out another, or c) it was a planned move and he caught it.
Looks perfectly clear to me. His leg and foot are obviously in the way, but I see his shoulder and several of his fingers, none of which are wrapped around the hilt of his lightsaber.
That looks like he's using his foot to knock the saber from his hand.
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Was that clearly stated? All Sidious said was that Talzin did not appreciate his obtaining of Maul. She was technically the indirect source even in the Plagueis novel.
Doesn't matter. TCW and the movies do not take EU novels and comics as canon. They do however sometimes borrow plots, characters and elements from there.
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So Sidious meets Maul as a child rather than as an infant.
If it doesn't matter to you, then why bother replying?
To the best of my knowledge, this is the first Disney retcon for Star Wars (Star Wars Rebels hasn't come out yet, so that doesn't count). So to me, it's interesting.
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Soooo many pointless retcons!!!!!!
I feel like they are changing shit just to change shit, it's so stupid.
Like why the hell did they change Korriban to Morraband. What was the point of that?
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