Star Wars: Clone Wars Conversations Season 5 Pt 3 (E14-16): Maul, Deathwatch & “Big Daddy Palpatine”, Plus Attacking Mandalore, Satine And Obi-Wan, With Bo-Katan & Savage Opress

Clone Wars Conversations continues with the third part of Season 5 (episodes 14-16)! Dave, Maff & Mike talk in-depth about the full 3 episode arc in this release, as their journey on this Clone Wars companion podcast continues!

In this episode, the trio discuss all three Maul-centric episodes, showing the start of his reign in the criminal underworld and his relationship with the people of Mandalore, including Death Watch and Bo-Katan. The first episode shows Maul’s first interaction with the Darksaber, in the second episode he plots with Death Watch against Satine Kryze of Mandalore and in the finale, Obi-Wan confronts Maul on Mandalore, going against the wishes of the Jedi Council. The trio also talk about Savage Opress’ involvement in the series, the emotional beats Obi-Wan goes through, the neutrality of Mandalore and the unexpected ending involving Palpatine confronting his old apprentice...

Episodes featured; Eminence, Shades Of Reason and The Lawless.

Before season 7, Maul’s story continues with the 2014 canon Darth Maul: Son Of Dathomir comics, which Dave, Maff & Mike will discuss after they finish season 6!

Clone Wars Conversations has been releasing monthly since January 21st 2024 on the usual podcast feeds & YouTube (eps 221, 225, 229, 233, 236, 238, 241, 244, 245 & 249 of GCC): ⁠https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcO1Ib_BGD8Y79aRWUxSWwdy3eyNrbXBl⁠

The trio are all featuring in episodes of JAC’s Back to The Filmography which are out now, or soon to be released for the season of Matthew McConaughey! Dave talks about Dazed & Confused, Maff does Angels In The Outfield and Mike does Glory Daze! Listen to BttF anywhere you find podcasts: ⁠https://podfollow.com/1686261095⁠ 

Mike appeared on Spider-Dan & The Secret Bores for their top 5 small cast movies, listen here: ⁠https://pod.fo/e/289237⁠

Maff is @MaffUK78 on Twitter and recently spoke about Conan comics on 20th Century Geek here: ⁠https://pod.fo/e/277fbc⁠ - spoke about the TMNT story The Last Ronin on Indie Comics Spotlight here: ⁠https://pod.fo/e/24c64a⁠ - and did a spider-related podcast with Spider-Dan here: ⁠https://pod.fo/e/22733f⁠

You can find Dave on Threads @davehorrocks, or the podcasts Comics In Motion, the VHS Strikes Back: ⁠https://linktr.ee/vhsstrikesback⁠ and Chris & Dave’s Reality TV Cast: ⁠https://anchor.fm/cdrealitycast⁠ 

Mike has been involved with many other Star Wars podcasts, including interviewing Mike Chen on episode 234 of GCC about his novel Star Wars: Brotherhood and he returns on episode 246 to talk about his latest novel with Marvel; What If Marc Spector Was Host To Venom? Ep 234found here: ⁠https://pod.fo/e/23d985⁠ & ⁠https://youtu.be/pQA0QvC5qa0⁠ and ep 246 found here: ⁠https://pod.fo/e/279547⁠ & ⁠https://youtu.be/PAEmwuhG2gw⁠

Find all of Mike’s social media & other links at ⁠https://linktr.ee/GenuineChitChat⁠

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro & What’s To Come

03:34 Full Discussion

01:38:20 Outro