Maul Shadow Lord Episodes 1 and 2: The fates are aligning.

Maul Shadow lord was such an unexpected Drop for me, like I legit wasn't even close to expecting this shit, I just saw a trailer on Insta and was immediately like: I need that shit in my life, And so now I do.

It appears this show is going to cover the early years of the empire and how Maul got to the point of where he was in Solo a Star Wars Story and how the Shadow collective is slowly growing in the Shadows(ahem) to slowly control many aspects of Star Wars underworld.

Now I will say that I am saying this, without having watched a lick of Clone Wars the old or the new one, and neither have I seen Rebels, nor Solo a Star-Wars Story, but I have heard of the stories.

Regardless of all that, Maul is someone I do understand, I have seen his final Fight with Obi-Wan

Yes thank you Anakin.

Now with all this in mind, what do I think I am doing giving my opinion on this?

Well... I have no clue.

But regardless I will definitely go on and give my opinion regardless, because I do not care.

So we see Maul having his epic Joker moment where he is robbing a bank with a crew but not because he really cares about the money, but because he wants to break a certain truce between two Gangs, that of Vario and That of Deemis.

Vario has previously wronged Maul, probably as a part of the Pyke Syndicate, because he can give him info on the one running it currently: Marg Krim.

Or so it seems, because google AI tells me it is Lom Pyke, who knows maybe I am misreading shit.

But the point is: they steal from Deemis and make it so the Banking Droid is hacked and mentions Deemis's name so it looks like Vario attacked him.

But why go to such lengths to stay hidden and simultaneously risk discovery by showing yourself to Droids and then attacking the local Law enforcement?

Because.

Whatever that means, but it probably implies the involvement of the Force, speaking of which, there is a Jedi and a master who are currently living as beggars on a remote planet.

The strange thing is, he seems to be aware of who Maul is as does his apprentice, as she reveals when she sees Maul nearly kill Vario.

Maul seems to have some sympathy for her though, as he sees her similarly to what he is, someone who was Quote: indoctrinated since birth.

And I am glad that they are doing this because with Jedi around like Cal Kestis, what it means to be a Jedi has really changed completely.

But what about what it means to be an imperial officer.

Well we meet Officer Lawson, who is one of those cops who genuinely wants to do good, even as he works under the Empire, and he has ties in the underworld.

And this scene particularly confused me because when they said: "To Catalor" I heard: "To Tanalor" Which made me wonder if this guy and Sul belong to the Hidden Path which is like this secret group of people who take force sensitive people and give them safe heaven.

It was in the Game Jedi Survivor that Cal Kestis linked the Hidden Path to the planet of Tanalorr a planet hidden in the Koboh Abyss and hence hidden from the Empire.

But Lawson actually shows something important in this episode, why the empire's tactics do not work, especially in such a large Galaxy.

Lawson's droid Two-Boots tells him repeatedly that the protocol on seeing Maul is to immediately inform the Empire, but he doesn't obviously because of the Empire's Iron Fist methods, they will probably come and just lock the Planet down.

While such methods probably usually turn down most detractors and seem "efficient" at first, but these planets, the ones in the grey zone will probably want to hold on to whatever autonomy they have and hence want to avoid oversight from the Empire.

And as a result because of the Empire's Iron Fist, they had a chance to catch Maul and they lost it(as we know he lies at least till close to the end of Rebels and is killed by Obi-Wan.)

On top of that, most people will still try to be generally good, because being as horrible as the empire requires a special kind of shit in your brain.

But one way or the other, it seems Maul does have an effect on the Kid as he straight up tells her: you can get out of this prison if you want, and by the end of the episode: she actually does.

It looks like you're going places Kid, And I mean that literally, cause she is running away right.