Some vegans actually just want to go about their lives without being made fun of for their dietary choices and thus go out of their way to avoid mentioning their veganism to anyone if they can help it.

Didn't the Scarface thing not actually appear in the finished film? My memory tells me that it only showed up in the trailers, but my memory sometimes likes to make me look stupid.

Yeah, that's covered under assuming she's dead and/or being unable to continue.

The voice is supposed to be a previously unknown Sith that Filoni created for that purpose.

It's even more complicated than that. Though it's now relegated to Legends status, the Darth Plagueis book established that Sidious didn't murder Plagueis until the night before he was elected Supreme Chancellor. That's pretty much the same time Maul got cut in half on Naboo. So was Maul ever officially a Sith Lord at…

Yep. The one Vader fought was some sort of clone, but the brain was supposed to be the actual Maul. And then, of course, there was "Old Wounds," the never-canon Visionaries story that was the inspiration for Maul's canon revival.

Or it points to Filoni desiring a more lyrical representation of her death. … Or so he would have us believe. He's playing it so damned coy when I really, really needed some damned closure on this. You don't even know how long this has been stressing me out. It's fair to say I've been more invested in what happens to…

Filoni's comments on the episode stress pretty strongly that Vader would not have let her live. This is something he specifically established with Lucas years ago when they were trying to work out what her fate would be. Against Vader, she doesn't get a free pass to keep living. He's also previously said that she…

It's supposed to be a previously unknown Sith for which Filoni created a whole backstory.

Apparently Maul's appearance was originally included for the purpose of a confrontation with Vader, but the story evolved away from that. Filoni says it could still happen in the future, but that we shouldn't expect it in season three.

Yeah, this one was the Eighth Brother.

That sequence is supposed to be ambiguous and not necessarily a literal depiction of her moving into the temple. Or you could be exactly right. That all comes directly from Dave Filoni, as does word that we shouldn't really expect to see her again on Rebels. He also said that he wants to tell the story of what…

Maul escapes, and arranges one last attempt to take out Palpatine, Dooku, and Grievous with the help of his few remaining allies (really just his Death Watch followers) and Mother Talzin. He's ultimately defeated once again but still manages to get away. Talzin, however, is killed once and for all.

This review left me a bit befuddled. Focusing on Malachor's backstory and Maul's past (the discussion of which in the review is missing an important incident, by the way, in the form of the comic Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir, based on four unfinished episodes of The Clone Wars) and not even really mentioning the…

Bullets to the brain generally preclude much opportunity for surprise.

'Kay, Bro.

You get a lot of people asking how old you are? Could it be because you talk like a teenage boy who thinks he knows more than everyone else and is trying too hard to be dismissive of everything?

To be fair, that was really the show previewing something from the film before its release rather than something truly original to the series showing up in one of the movies.

How old are you? No, really.

Man, tonight's episode really brought out the pricks for some reason.