ISMA RANTS: Maul: Shadow Lord — First Impression (Chapters 1 & 2)
Watched "Maul: Shadow Lord" Chapters 1 & 2. Here are my honest first impressions through the mythic continuity lens. The good: The art direction is genuinely experimental (paintbrush textures, oil-on-canvas matte paintings, even photography integrated into the animation). Ambitious. The music is strong. And Maul's Spybot (and maybe Two-Boots, who looks like a Cosruscant Underworld Police officer) has more personality than most of the supporting cast, which tells you something. 😄 The not-so-good: Two episodes in, and the story is... a series of grounded crime thriller situations rather than mythic ones. A bank robbery. A police procedural. A crime lord turf war. Maul's goons (who don't have a lot of personality or say much) do most of the mundane action scenes, and the secondary characters dominate screen time. Devon Izara (the Pepto-Bismol pink Twi'lek) doesn't have much personality yet. Captain Lawson is the overworked cop who can't spend time ...
