Like seeing Darth Maul with his robot legs is kind of respectable in a way It's self-explanatory and very bold in its absurdity "Yes, I was still alive and I built a cyborg lower half"
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Whereas having no explanation, explicit or implied, other than "Somehow Palpatine has returned" is extremely cowardly, but cowardly to such an extent that it wraps around back to admirable audacity "Yeah you're gonna have to buy that novelization"
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I was perfectly able to suspend my disbelief about Maul's survival in TCW, just saying.
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i think the fact that it's a robo-clone puts palps over the top in dumbness
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and maul's survival is improbable, but he's actually a gripping character afterwards for once someone on the dark side whose burning resentment and insecurity is terribly understandable
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Personally, my mantra is ‘it’s a myth, not science fiction’ and therefore don’t really WANT explanations for the weird shit that goes on. To me, the idea that Space Sauron can resurrect himself via unexplained means doesn’t bug me because he’s Space Sauron; it’s what he DOES.
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It's not so much that I want an explanation that makes any kind of real world sense (that's obviously pointless in this genre) It's that I want some kind of established boundaries of what is and isn't possible so I have a sense of the dramatic stakes
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I'd rather have the cut-in-half version, since it preserves part of the original body and because I'd have to call out Final Fantasy VII if I didn't.
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The Darth Maul thing is more cartoonish. At least with Palpatine it's presumably his essence or soul which survived, while the other thing is 'yah I physically lived through being cut in half through many major organs and falling 10,000 feet because I was super angry.'
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I agree that he's an interesting character post-bisection though, the scene of him vs Obi Wan is one of the best lightsaber duels in Star Wars
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