Star Wars and it's untold explainations.

Table of Contents

A. Maul in Solo

B. Maul in Clone Wars Season 7

C. Somehow Palpatine Return in The Rise of Skywalker

D. The Mandalorian about Boba Fett, Ashoka, and Thrawn.

E. Boba Fett and Cad Bane's relationship

A. Maul in Solo

Did you guys enjoy Book of Boba Fett? Anyways, I be talking about how Star Wars somehow expects you to know certain things and your confused because of it.

The biggest one is from the Solo movie

At the end, when Han Solo's ex-girlfriend Qi'ra leaves and meets with her mysterious boss of Crimson Dawn, who turns out to be Maul.

How are you alive?

I mean you were cut in half.

Han's movie was set 10 years before A New Hope while Maul's Death happen 22 years before Solo. So how is he alive without an explanation?

Well the answer is in the show The Clone Wars.

Maul's return to life was clearly explained in this.

They found Maul hooked up to robo-legs and mentally insane. He used his hate in the force to keep himself alive till evil force witches completely restore him. He did get better legs where they look more human like.

The problem is that not everyone watches the TV shows. Some only stick to the movies, and only the movies. Some see animation aimed for kids and don't want to be seen with it. Yes, kids is the target audience but it is very mature that adults can enjoy, tho I admit the 1st season wasn't great.

So Solo somehow expects you that you see a 7-season animation show.

B. Maul in The Clone Wars Season 7

Speaking about Maul and The Clones Wars. They did it again with confusing unexplained references.

Once upon a time, when Season Five of Star Wars was halfway done airing on Cartoon Network, Lucas sold his franchise to Disney.

The Clone Wars Suddenly ended once Season 5 was finished.

It did briefly came back in a 6th season, mostly due to several episodes in development were mostly done. It was aired on Netflix and later released on DVD. Then it got cancelled again. There were plenty of stories in the planning stages. Scripts were written, storyboards were made, animation was in it's beta stages, but due to the show being cancelled it wasn't meant to be.

The last we saw of Maul at the time is when he took of the planet of Mandalore and took over several crime syndicates.

The ruler of Mandalore

 He was about to ruined Palpatine's 1000 year plan for the Sith to take over and derail it. Unlucky for him, Sidious came over for a visit to clean up this mess.

What we have is one of the coolest fights ever.
Yes Mandalorian viewers, Maul is carrying the Darksaber.

The battle ended with Maul losing as he is on the floor, begging for mercy as the dark lord of the Sith fry him with lightning. He told the defeated man, "I'm not going to kill you, I still have a use for you."

Then Clones Wars got cancelled and Maul's ultimate fate was unknown.

We did get another animated show called Star Wars Rebels set a few years before A New Hope. Maul was shown up to be alive and well, long after the Clone Wars. So we know he never died from back then. He was on a quest to have revenge the Empire and Obi-Wan who at this point is an old man on Tatooine.

In 2020, 7 long years after Clone Wars got cancelled, a wonderful surprise that we will be getting a whole new season years after the show ended.

The problem that confused people, well Maul is back on Mandalore and out of Darth Sidous' clutches with no explanation.

Wait, where is Palpatine?

The answer is told in a 4-issue comic series, Star Wars: Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir

During the time long before Disney+ gave us Season 7. Some planned stories did end up in some form of entertainment. Some got released in a novel, some were story reels with beta animation shown at a convention, and some in comics.

The story told how Sidious released Maul in order to draw out Mother Talzin, the witch who restore Maul's sanity, who was revealed to be his biological mother. Anyways, a big battle happen with Maul and Talzin as they battle Sidious, Dooku, and Grievous and Maul ended up being free from the Sith Lord's clutches.

So yes, Season 7 somehow expects you to know to know about a 4-issue comic series that was made during the years when the show was in hiatus.

C. Emperor Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker

Enough about Maul, let's move on to a different villain

The final movie of Disney's Sequel Trilogy had no idea how to end it, so they brought back Palpatine. However within the movie itself, it never explained how's he's survived being throw into a bottomless abyss before the Death Star exploded.

We did get an official explanation a few months later but long before then, we had a very good theory how he survived.

Once upon a time, long before Disney had the rights to Star Wars. There were a ton of comics, novels, games, etc. that took place outside of the movies. When Disney bought the franchise, all the stories outside of the 6 movies and The Clone Wars were flushed away and rebranded as Legends as it's an alternate timeline, unconnected to the main Disney Canon.

Released in 1991, the story of Dark Empire took place 6 years after Return of the Jedi. The story is that Emperor is back and planning on conquering the galaxy and unlike The Rise of Skywalker, they actually explain how he came back. He told Luke and the gang that before he died he used the Force to transferred his consciousness with into a clone body he had stored elsewhere.

This comic story far superior than the very loose adaptation known as Rise of Skywalker. It actually explains how the Emperor came back, it's not a rushed last minute idea. Yes, both stories ruined the prophecy about Anakin with the Emperor coming back but the comic came out years before the Prequels and it be silly to hate on that. Also, Luke did turn dark but he recovered. It's not like they killed him off right after he got back to his senses.

However, the comics thing is guessing from old sources, not official info about the movie. We did finally got an answer on the film's novelization. It did reveal what we assumed, that Palpatine is indeed a clone. It also told other stuff like his "son" was an fraternal clone, Snoke was an experiment from cloning labs, and unpopular lore breaking retcons like the Rule of Two was created to hope to create two Siths with a Dyad.

So yes, Episode 9 excepts you to either read old comics that's been long rebooted, or wait several months for the novelization.

D. The Mandalorian about Boba Fett, Ashoka, and Thrawn.

Dark Empire also told how someone else came back from the dead within it's story.

Gave a quick throwaway line to explain.

And yes, The colors on this comic was the norm.

The Mandalorian had several characters and references that weren't explained at first.

Thanos as a causal viewer

I'm alot more forgiving on this than anything else in this article. The Mandalorian is setting up future seasons and spin offs while Rise of Skywalker was the grand finale of the saga and it never bother explain how the Emperor came back.

Boba Fett did show up alive years after his supposed death in the Sarlacc with no explanation, but we were given a tease in the season's post credits, announcing that Boba will be getting his own spinoff. We knew that the former bounty hunter would have his survival explained once it aired, and it did.

Ashoka originally appeared from The Clone Wars and Rebels as one of the main characters with Anakin and Obi-wan. This was long before her live-action debut in the Mandalorian. Thankfully, the show only gave you need to know info and didn't give 50 thousand confusing references, so casuals don't have to worry.

Thrawn is the man that Ashoka is looking for. When you asked the most popular Expanded Universe character is, the 1st answer is this Grand Admiral. Other results is Mara Jade, Starkiller, Darth Revan, Kyle Katarn, etc. Thrawn made the jump in Disney's canon and appeared in several novels and one of the major villains in Rebels. He was last seen in his ship as it was thrown in the far side of the galaxy.

Several Star Wars TV shows have been announced since the end season 2 of Mandalorian. One of them is Ashoka, so her quest to hunt down Thrawn may happen in her own show.

So yeah, I'm alot more forgiving towards everything that came out of the Baby Yoda show, cause alot of this is building up to the later seasons and spinoffs.

E. Boba Fett and Cad Bane's relationship

One last thing is about last few episodes of the Book of Boba Fett. The untold relationship between Boba and Cad Bane.

You can tell that they had a history and he knew the daimyo when was a kid.

Season 7 did resurrect Clone Wars but they only did three planned story arcs. Everything else was not aired. There was a few clips of the one of the unaired episodes of Clone Wars in beta footage had the two bounty hunters. We don't know much but there was some story arc about them. It seem Bane knew Jango and help mentor Boba. One of the clips had them go at a duel for some reason. Their blaster bolts hit each other. Boba got the dent in his helmet while Bane was shot in the head. So that was the end of Bane...

Or was it?

He appeared in the new show, The Bad Batch, set during the early years of the Empire. Notice he has a metal plate on his head where he got shot.

And some say he survived his supposed death in the new Boba show because some say they saw a button on his chest blinking. Who knows?

So yes, The Book of Boba Fett expects you to know about some clip from some unaired episode, just so you can know the full details of their relationship.

The Fullmetal Alchemist Movie and it's weird love for obscured characters

 

So did you guys see the Cowboy Bebop show on Netflix? Seems most people have different opinions on it. I was halfway done binging the show and then I heard the news of it's cancellation. I liked most of it but I hated how lame Vicious was. Instead of the cold quiet stoic man, we got this overemotional manchild. 

Look at this manchild's big expressive eyes

There's been a dozen live-action adaptations of popular anime from both sides of the ocean and alot of them aren't great. There are some that are like don't resemble the source material or vaguely resemble (US Death Note/Dragonball)

There are some that follow through to a point but change too much like Attack on Titan

Mikasa being lovers with her cousin, FakeLevi who is in love with her adopted bro, Eren. Also FakeLevi happens to also be Eren's long lost bro. Meaning this is one messed up incest family.

(Yes, I know Levi and Misaka being related wasn't reveal till way later on and he's not exactly Levi)

It's funny that Eren's evil bro happened years before we got major revelations about Eren's family in the canon material.

The Fullmetal movie is faithfully adapted, the problem however is it shoves way too much material. We have the storylines of the origin, Father Cornello, Nina, Meeting Dr. Marcoh for the 1st time, Hughes' death, Lab 5, Al's existential crisis, the Mannequin Soldiers, Roy killing Lust, Envy reduced to a tiny parasite, as well as Ed seeing Al's body at the gate. All this within a 2 hour movie. I mean gosh. Go watch Rurouni Kenshin, Bleach, or the 1st two Japanese Death Note movies if you want to watch actually good adaptations that perfectly cover one little arc in one or two-part film.

Also guess whose one of the main villains...

Besides the scumbag who fused his daughter with his dog for science or the three Homunculus based on 3 of the 7 sins.

No, it's Major General Halcrow

Yeah, they made this guy the main baddie.

To explain Halcrow, well this is going to be tricky. There are two separate Fullmetal Alchemist shows that were both adapted from the manga(comic). The 1st show quickly caught up to the manga material and diverted from it's source and created a whole new story. The 2nd show, Brotherhood didn't get caught up and stayed faithful to the it's source to the very end. However, due to the 1st' FMA show was still fresh in everyone's heads, the 2nd show's 1st 13 episodes were sort of ran on super recap mode and quickly told most stories in rapid pace and skipped over some stories that weren't too important, like Halcrow's 1st appearance.

The 1st show(and manga) had Ed and Al on a train and met with a another member of the military, Halcrow and his family. Train got attacked by a terrorist, he threaten the dude's family, shot him in the ear. The good guys overcome the villain. blah blah blah

Due to the rushed pacing of the 1st 13 episodes. The 2nd show skipped all this.

He did appear very late in the 2nd show(and manga) where he warned King Bradley about Roy's coup d'état. He was out of the loop whose the good guys and bad guys and just simply serving his orders.  That's all his appearances for a guy they chose for the main villain for the movie.

Now since the 1st show did divert from the manga. Halcrow did somewhat had a little bit of more screentime.

The show started with an evil cult leader in the city of Reole, feeding lies about his miracles. Much later when Ed and Al weren't looking, a civil war happened about the false man of the faith. The military came in to bring order and not caring who shot first.

Halcrow made his 2nd appearance as he interrogate poor Rose. She was part of group rebelling group against the cult leader but Halcrow didn't care and told his men to deal with her.

And the next time we saw her, she was mute from her experience and already have a baby from the event.

He is more villain-like than his manga/2nd show counterpart that his men caused this poor girl to get raped. Still, it's still weird he ended up as one of the main villains despite he had a very limited amount of appearances in any adaptation of FMA.

Santa specials/movies

It's Christmas time and I figure I list all the Christmas stuff that stars Santa Claus.

The company known as Rankin-Bass did all those popular stop motion specials that everyone grew up with. Some aired on local stations, others aired elsewhere on cable(mainly Fox Family/Freeform).

First, I be talking about three Rainkin-Bass specials that has Santa as the main character.

There Santa Claus is Coming to Town

This explains the origin of Santa and how he became the famous gift deliverer as he deals with the evil Burgermeister Meisterburger.

I always got the song "Put One Foot in Front of the Other" messed up by saying putting the foot on top of the other and others who heard said, "And soon you be falling through the door."

There's also A Year without Santa Claus Saint Nick got a cold and wonder if it's worth delivering presents this year. 

Despite somehow that some kids doubt Santa is real, Santa quitting Christmas for a year got to be be front page news.

This special also gave us our two breakout stars, Heatmeister and Snowmeister. They're popular for their memorable songs.

Speaking about those two, this special got a direct sequel called, A Meister Brothers Christmas

I know I said I focus on Santa first but this is directly spin off the same movie.

The plot is they have to work together to help Santa. Their evil brother, The North Wind tries to ruin Christmas by causing the two brothers to bicker like no tomorrow and become the big man in red.

The last Santa special made by Rankin-Bass is The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

You can kinda pretend that all the Rankin-Bass specials are in the same universe but I seriously doubt this is.

It's an alternate origin story for Kris Kringle. This time, he is raised by loins and nymphs and they debate if he should be granted immorality.

This is noticeably more darker and serious than most stop motion specials(adult parodies not included) but it's still aimed for general audiences.

Santa Claus: The movie

I remember seeing this on Christmas Day after a few hours after opening my presents and saw again a few years ago. The film is like two separate stories. The 1st half is this magical tale of how Saint Nick encounters the elves and how he became the famous man himself and how he spent year after year delivering gifts.

The 2nd half takes place in modern day has an ashamed elf go in self-exile and made a deal with a greedy businessman who hams out his performance. "FOR FREE!!!", and "CHRISTMAS 2!"

The Santa Clause Trilogy

The 1st one is easily the best of the three. A comical film that has Tim Allen accidently kills Santa and ends up becoming the new Santa himself. He and his son goes out to delivers presents. After that night, Tim thinks his night delivering his gifts was all a dream goes in denial that happened. As time goes on, he ends up accepting his role.

2nd one was not bad, but not as good as the 1st. He on a quest to quickly find himself a wife and get married just before Christmas Eve night and deal with his son's angst issues. While out of town, a Toy Santa clone is set up to help run the place, however he becomes an evil A.I. unit and goes full dictator on North Pole.

3rd one is clearly the worse of the three. Every story has a beginning, middle, and end. However the "beginning" part overstays it's welcome as you see Santa dealing the problem with his muggle in-laws visiting, not knowing he's actually Santa. By the time the main villain's evil plans start rolling, the movie is way beyond halfway over. The middle and end parts are rushed through.

The 3rd film does have it's good parts. The villain known as Jack Frost. This mischievous troublemaker is fun to watch.

The film does go all "It's a Wonderful Life" with Jack Frost rewriting history becomes Santa and turning the North Pole into a tourist attraction and bribing parents to pay him, so he can put their kids on the nice list. Exactly like It's a Wonderful Life because all this what if timeline and the ending is in the last 30 minutes. However that classic is a great film that explains the life of Bailey while this is Claus complaining about his muggle in-laws. Also the villain is defeated by in a hug that warms his heart. This is cheesy, even by these films standards.

Arthur Christmas

Instead of a single man. Santa is a role that's passed down the family. After a Christmas Eve run, the current Santa is getting ready to retire and giving the title to his eldest son. However the younger son, Arthur notice that Santa missed one present but everyone in the family thinks it isn't a big deal but Arthur believes otherwise, so he tries to go on a trip to deliver the present before the night ends.

It's a fun enjoyable flick, also it has ninja gift-wrapping elves.

Klaus is about a spoiled rich kid whose father is fed up with him and send him to a far away North on a Scandinavian island. It's also the worse place to live since there is an ancient rivalry between two clans. The spoiled man known as Jesper is trying to mail 6000 letters so he can get back to his life at home. He meets a mysterious man named Klaus and they work together.

Imagine if Santa was basically a real guy with no connections to elves or magic. It's completely realistic...Or is it?

You may think it's 3D but everything here is 2D hand-drawn. This animation here really stands out.

Christmas Chronicles 1 and 2.

The 1st one is two trouble siblings discover Santa's sled and accidently crashed it and they have to work together to get it together. It is a cute film and all. The 2nd one shows alot more of (Mrs)Claus' village and you learn that he started as Saint Nick and how he ended up as he is. There's is a bad elf who is trying to ruined Christmas. Also, Santa goes all Mario 64 on a giant cat.(Whose the Iceland version of Krampus)

A Boy called Christmas is a tale of Nicolas who is sometimes nicknamed Christmas, whose father disappeared to find the mythical elves. He cared by the worse aunt ever who seriously needs a visit from Krampus. Fed up with her and wanting to find his dad and the elves, he goes out to find them and would end up becoming the famous man in red.