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I'm thinking it would be too much of a stretch to say that Maul was Syfa-Dias. Syfa Dias was a part of the council, if I recall correctly. Surely Qui Gon would've recognized him as they fought had he been Syfa Dias.
This is where you point out, "Maybe he did recognize him, Aban" True...maybe he did. But if he did, he did an excellent job of pretending he didn't.
The fact that Syfa is dead doesn't appear to be in dispute...it's simply when he died that people like Obi Wan aren't quite sure of. Presumably the how of the situation is also somewhat sketchy, though they didn't really go into that.
I'm going to say that both the Council and Qui Gon know/ knew more than they're saying. I seem to recall that Yoda said he was going to the water planet to inspect the clones...yet he returns having mobilized them. Seems like he got convinced of their benefit real quick.
It'll be interesting to see what they do with all of this.
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It would be simple to explain why Qui-gon didn't recognize Darth Maul if he is the same person as this Syphillis (or whatever) guy. Maul had all kinds of tattoos. Maybe he got them as a symbol of his new found devotion to the Dark Side. Having that many tats (and horn implants) changes one's appearance greatly.
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True. But I think they were decorative tattoos. Purposefully wearing the colors of assassination like a badge of honor would make the character cooler to me than if he just looks that way naturally. Makes him more dangerous, and crazier.
Besides, I doubt we'll see anybody else that looks like Darth Maul in this series, unless they're Sith.
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Maul did have Sith tatoos all over his body, but the horns are part of his physiology. Incedentally there's another of his species in the film, Jedi Councilman Eeth Koth. They're Zabraks.
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I had heard that Eeth was the same species as Maul...but their horns don't really look the same. Guess it could be two different races within their species.
Maul was pretty much raised by Palpatine and trained from a very young age to kill Jedi. He was an assassin and a behind the scenes guy. The comic series about him taking out the Black Sun leadership is pretty cool and it really shows how Sidious uses him.
I really don't think that Maul will turn out to be Syfo-Dias.
Incidently, an early version of the cast list lists Syfo-Dias as a "Jedi imposter" hinting that he may have originally had a scene in the film. It also seems to suggest that it's not any of the characters we've seen before. If it is one of the characters we've already seen, I'm voting for Sidious in disguise.
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Was it ever stated anywhere that the Army of the Republic was going to be clone-based? I thought that when they finally voted for the Military Creation Act, they enlisted the clones because they were there, ready, willing and able.
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From what I got, the Senate was voting on whether or not to create an Army of the Republic, but I don't think they ever mentioned what the Senate's impression was of just how this army would be raised if it was voted for. I don't think they necessarily knew it would be clone based, and they definitely didn't know that the army was already being produced.
It's possible, though, that they did know the army would be clone based...maybe that's one of the reasons that so many people had a problem with it. But they still didn't know about the Clones on Kamino.
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True...maybe he did. But if he did, he did an excellent job of pretending he didn't.
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