Status Updates From Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter (...

Well, that was a surprising end. Darth Maul does have a flair for the dramatic. Do all Sith have that?

Ha! The perfect secret rendezvous: below a meeting of senators. And Lorn Pavana will probably have a coincidental meeting with one Naboo senator that will save his butt from the pursuing Sith Lord.

Three stuns to the back and Maul was only out for a few seconds. Lol

The slimy mother$@%#&@^@%

Whaaaaaat? A piece of the Force-resistant creature? When did he have time to get this?

So, not a total loss. Lorn is lucky he has a droid with perfect recall after being frozen as well.

Short-term memory loss from the carbon freezing? Oh, that's convenient and a pity. All that character growth for nothing.

We're seeing hints of Maul's overconfidence and tunnel vision that he has in battle. He is not fully aware of his surroundings, which is what his opponents exploit. First, Darsha, then Obi-Wan on Naboo. I'm trying to recall if he had the same problem in TCW, Rebels, and the new show.

36 hours or more with Darsha was all Lorn needed to flip from hating the Jedi to caring about her. I love it.

I like how in this flashback to a lightsaber training session with Yoda, it still demonstrates Yoda as someone who uses slowness of speed and heightened reflexes to avoid lightsaber strikes from his fellow Council members rather than using the Force to propel him and enhance his speed. AOTC is still a year away.

Ha! Callback! A carbon-freezing chamber with a Sith Lord waiting for our Jedi-trainee. Nice.

"You will go get a haircut."
"I will go get a haircut."
Now that's an Obi-Wan-style of mind trick.

Ooooh, Sith lightsaber construction. The old-fashioned, pre-Disney way, which is philosophically superior to the new Disney way; Sith construct their lightsaber crystals through a furnace where they meditate and imbue crystal with the dark side, a demonstration of their power and self-reliance rather than depending on killing Jedi and corrupting their crystals, risking discovery and being hunted down.

This book is just drip-feeding us clues of Lorn's backstory.

"'Are Jedi that good?'
"'No, they're not. I'm only an apprentice. My master is far more skilled than I.'"
I see where Obi-Wan gets his cheek.

I see that psychokinesis has not been introduced into the Jedi array of powers yet. Unless Reeves hasn't read Dark Horse when he was writing this or the Del Rey editor to know of Quinlan Vos.

Imagine if any of the Terminators felt rage and frustration every time that John or Sarah Connor escaped from it by the thinnest of margins. This is Darth Maul rn.