Yep, That’s Darth Maul All Right
Yesterday, Lucasfilm announced the return of Darth Maul to the Star Wars universe — specifically, Clone Wars — as if it was the culmination of 10 years of fan demand, and not just an incredibly mercenary decision to help promote The Phantom Menace in 3-D. After I mentioned it, Lucas and Cartoon Network released this promo video for the news, which is unintentionally hilarious. Let’s see.. the video is overhyped, overwrought, and the resurrected Darth Maul gets literally three seconds of screen time? Yep, that’s the most devastatingly accurate Darth Maul promo anyone could possibly make.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.