Alternate Episodes I and II
Posted: 2002-12-01 09:30pm
I think it would have been cooler to see Maul survive to fight Obi-Wan again in Episode II. And of course in Episode I, you would see Captain Panaka, Qui-Gon, and Obi-Wan lead a platoon of security guards to try to subdue Maul. Maul would use many Jedi Outcast tricks, such as Force pushing back blaster bolts, picking up guards and slamming them into walls, Force pulling their weapons out of their hands and throwing his lightsaber at them, choking them, using Force lightning, etc. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan would both go insane on Maul to distract him from the rest of the guards and give Panaka and the remaining guards to get the hell out of there. After the lightsaber battle when Maul kills Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan goes crazy and attacks Maul. Maul isn't overwhelmed, but senses that the siege of Naboo will fail and retreats to serve Palpatine. The audience obviously has no idea why he runs away, and we see Obi-Wan tend to Qui-Gon rather than trying to make a mad dash after Maul in the energy fields. Maul would have retreated to Coruscant to stay with Palpatine. Palpatine would hold Maul in reserve and hire Jango Fett to assassinate Padme. Jango would basically replace Zam Wessel, making everything the same as in Episode II until the bar scene. Jango would sneak up to Obi-Wan in the bar and then Obi-Wan would spin around and slice off the muzzle to his blaster rifle (which I gave him ). Then Fett throws away his useless rifle and tries killing him with his flame thrower as an alternative to using his blaster pistols, simutaneously calling for Boba to pick him up on a comlink. He lights up the area where Obi-Wan is, Obi-Wan backflips behind the bar and notices all of the possibly flammable alcohol around him. As you might have guessed, the alcohol is indeed flammable, and Obi-Wan dashes to get away from the ensuing explosion, Force-pushing all of the civilians near it out of the way to save them. BOOM Jango flies out of the bar, knocking over Anakin on the way out. He then flies away to the Slave I that his son Boba Fett flew near the bar. He takes off for Kamino. When Obi-Wan goes to Kamino, he doesn't encounter Jango Fett the way he does in Episode II. Instead, he never sees who the clones are based off of and catches Jango Fett walking to the Slave I out of a window. Obi-Wan uses the Force to speed down a few hallways to reach the Slave I in time to engage Fett, but instead sees the Slave I take off to reveal Darth Maul standing behind it. They fight and Obi-Wan kills him. The rest of the movie is the same, still with Count Dooku, throwing out the "only two Sith" rule. Or maybe it could be that Palpatine was just finding a replacement for Maul and wasn't expecting Maul to last long. But that's just me....anyone else think it should have been like that too?