Dave Filoni Has A Very Interesting Philosophy On Darth Vader And It's Not What You Would Expect
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The final episode of season one of Maul - Shadow Lord let viewers tick off an item from the Star Wars fanboy/fangirl dream list: a lightsaber duel between Maul and Darth Vader, something that had already happened in a now-Legends comic issue in 2001 but was considered non-canon even back then.
Basically, the whole “The Dark Lord” episode is a single fight scene between the Empire and Maul and his allies, with Lawson, Riley, and Two-Boots taking on the stormtroopers, and Maul, Devon Izara, and Eeko-Dio Daki fighting the two Inquisitors and Vader.
Like in the hallway scene at the end of Rogue One, the Sith Lord doesn’t say a word; he just acts, and at a recent Lucasfilm screening of the season finale, Shadow Lord creator and now co-CEO of Lucasfilm, Dave Filoni, offered some insights into Vader’s motivation, although he refused to answer a follow-up question.
“The key to Vader for me is that he’s not Anakin,” Filoni began. “Anything that reminds him of Anakin, he’s going to destroy. So when he sees a Jedi, he’s going to destroy the Jedi, because the Jedi would remind him unconsciously or consciously that he betrayed all of his friends and everything he knew and the life he grew up with. For what? For nothing. He lost everything. He made a bad trade. He was lied to. He was deceived. He can’t accept that truth.“
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“He has one mission,” he continued. “And all of his remorse and all of his anger and all of his hate is in every swing that he does. That’s how it’s resolved.”
Even before the show’s premiere, there had been rumors that the current and the former apprentice of Sidious could meet up in Shadow Lord, but Filoni didn’t make the decision to include Vader in the series lightheartedly: “This is George’s character. This is the backbone of the whole thing,” Filoni said. “And you don’t want to do anything that interrupts that, or changes that, or diverts that. This doesn’t do it because this is the price you pay when you give in to your anger, when you give in to that terrible side of yourself.”
While Filoni openly talked about Vader’s motivation, he backed away from answering whether Maul knew (or at least suspected) who was inside the black armor: “You did so well with the question I could answer, and then you went into a place where I won’t.”
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