A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

(C) 2002 Hasbro, Inc. and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) Pros:  Nice detailing, good sculpt, and packaging lends itself for collecting Cons:  May be too scene-specific; available mostly online. Character Background:  Just as Darth Vader's Nazi-like helmet, skull-like breath mask and black armor-and-cape outfit indelibly branded him as the face of the Galactic Empire's evil in the Classic  Star Wars  Trilogy, Darth Maul, the seven-horned, red-and-black tattooes Iridonian Zabrak apprentice to future Emperor Palpatine's Sith alter ego Darth Sidious, was supposed to be the incarnation of Hate itself in  Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace. If one watches the Prequel Trilogy carefully just for thematic purposes, it becomes evident that Maul personifies one of the three aspects of Anakin Skywalker's transformation from earnest but troubled Jedi Knight to Sith Lord: anger and hate. (Count Dooku, of course, represents Anakin's ambition and the fact that a Jedi  ca