Yeah, I'm probably in the minority on this, but I hated the way the Maul storyline was resolved in rebels. That felt like something that would have been more appropriate had A) Obiwan been more of a recurring character during Rebels or B) the death took place during the TCW). Maybe they could have held that off for S4 and instead thrown Maul into the mix with the whole Thrawn arc. From how S2 set things up, I was of the impression that Maul was going to be a constant foil for Ezra who was flirting with the darkside and was willing to use Maul to get a better understanding of the holycron as well as become more powerful. This would have been a great opportunity to flesh Maul out beyond what he has been throughout TCW and more into a villain who is a lot more patient, pragmatic and calculating about his lust for vengeance and power (which he ought to be after 14 years of isolation). I love the idea of Ezra trying to find ways to destroy the Sith as makes it all the more interesting to see how he will fail (given that episodes 4 - 6 are immutable) and what he will learn from that failure. The Maul/Ezra plot point represented an opportunity to go beyond the played out light side vs dark side dynamic of things and into something less predictable and more uncharted in terms of Star Wars storytelling.
Unfortunately, as Zenwolf alluded to, we go into S3 episode 1 and see the gains Ezra has acquired from flirting with the darkside. Then, afterwards and out of nowhere, this subplot is utterly abandoned and we see no trace of it whatsoever (even in the Maul episodes, which is a damn shame). Terrible writing. Absolutely terrible.
Kanan ultimately did die in S4, but by then, I had just about checked out of watching the show anyway so it was more of a too little too late resolution for me. I also liked Ahsoka impulsively deciding to not leave Anakin, by they screwed that up by having Ezra use "time magic" to save her as opposed to leaving her fate open ended, so that resolution was dull and uniteresting IMO.
I honesty can't really care much for Maul getting brought back. For some reason, his character just....doesn't, I dunno. I guess for me, more is less in this case. I preferred his character pre-revival.
Also notice how Ahsoka grabs the shuttle and Maul extracts the info from Jesse. Its almost as if Filoni is showing Maul and Ahsoka can do anything Rey and Kylo can do
The ship was already accelerating away from her. She then proceeded to grab/stop it with the Force and begin pulling it back towards her, without ever being pulled by it at all.
Ahsoka's feat was still impressive, though. Just wasn't Rey-level.
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Anyway, the feats are hard to compare because they are different ships. The ship Rey stopped looked like some shitty run down tanker while the one Ahsoka stopped was a high-powered military craft.
Rocky brought up superior comic feats for Kylo, but I doubt Filoni has kept on top of the comics so will be matching on screen feats. Besides scaling, speed and how exactly they were TKd can be harder to gauge in comics.
I mean if that's the intent I don't think it achieved its goal. Rey's shuttle grab was >>>>>ahsoka's and Freezing a blaster bolt is far harder than simply redirecting some blasts.
Because it doesn't require overpowering a telekenetic defense? S3 Ezra can push three clones, I suppose he's now --considerably more powerful-- than Ahsoka? :/
Because that's literally further than Maul pushed Ahsoka.
Considerably more powerful, indeed.
When she isn't even facing him. Again, if you're going to insist on acting like passive force defenses are a thing in canon, why are you ignoring this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSHTWbG1qnE
Maul manages to push ahsoka far. Ahsoka literally grips him for several seconds.
Either they dominated each other or they didn't, either way, this "considerably more powerful" thing didn't seem to show up when they fought. It's almost like Maul isn't "considerably" more powerful than someone who can "compete on his level." :/
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