jobloffski
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Because if the decision to brink back maul were to happen it would be because he was a sith, trained as part of the plan to wipe out jedi, with the additional personal motivation of being seriously maimed by a jedi and his beloved master having been killed by the father of the man who presumably would go on to resurrect the jedi order.
Other members of his species would not have the same level of motivation to be the bad guy, and the return of a sith thought long dead to ruin the work the man most responsible for the death of his master, humiliate him and kill him, and maybe even suceeding in killing Luke Skywalker would be a powerful motivator storywise, you don't need to waste time expaining why he is doing what he is doing, you can just get on with 'a new evil' rising in the galaxy with, potentially a jedi 'council of the dead' able to provide help to the heroes and the plot has already taken care of itself and you can concentrate on placing the good guys into dangerous scenarios with them having to fight their way to safety from forces that would potentially have been building in secret, for decades. Maybe even sith armies could decimate the glalxy until over the course of the trilogy the jedi become ready to strike back (ie rule of two? Like that worked out so well for the sith before, being a situation that would inevitably mean the student would seek to usurp his master WHO WAS TEACHING HIM ABOUT THE DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE AND THEREFORE MEANING THE LUST FOR POWER RESULTING FROM THIS WOULD MAKE THE STUDENT INEVITABLY TRY TO KILL HIS MASTER WITH THE HELP OF AN APPRENTICE OF THEIR OWN MAKING THE RULE OF TWO SELF DEFEATING EVERY TIME, so a 'there can be only one sith' situation merely teaching people how to fight using the force/lightsabers would be different enough to the past to make a story possible simply by resurrecting one character who has already been shown to have survived in the animated series, blah blah, blah, etc )
And Obi Wan's failure (to kill Maul) may look set to be complete, the galaxy set to fall, all that sorta shite, with the new trilogy being built upon logical stepping stones from theestablished story, with perhaps a theme in their somewhere of history being doomed to repeat itself because the lessons of history are forgotten and the current generation always thinks it knows better than old, dead, people...All by utilising a single highly motivated character as the source of the peril for the story.
Or some shit like dat ;-)
< Message edited by jobloffski -- 19/12/2012 2:53:50 AM >
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