Maul - Shadow Lord Bonus: The Phantom Menace Commentary
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Children of the Watch
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 139 minutes
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Summary
Maul - Shadow Lord is ONLY two days away and we have a BONUS episode to celebrate. We also share our first spoiler-free impressions of Maul - Shadow Lord after seeing the first 8 chapters. We explain how we are approaching the podcast for Star Wars: Maul-Shadow Lord. This show is so unbelievably great. Our breakdown of Chapters 1 & 2 will be available for you to listen as soon as you finish watching on Monday.
Until then, enjoy the commentary track on Darth Maul's very first appearance in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
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| 0:00.0 | We are two days away from the premiere of Mall Shadow Lord, and we've got a little surprise for everyone. |
| 0:09.6 | We're going to release a bonus episode in case you're doing a mall rewatch. |
| 0:15.4 | Maybe that starts with the Phantom Menace. |
| 0:17.7 | We're going to release our Patreon bonus episode of the Phantom Menace |
| 0:23.0 | commentary. But we also want to talk a little bit about our first impressions of Mall Shadow |
| 0:29.4 | Lord. We are allowed to post those last night on social media Friday night about 1045 |
| 0:36.0 | Eastern Standard Time. And I want to share with you that we were |
| 0:41.5 | able to watch the first eight chapters of Mall Shadow Lord and it's absolutely |
| 0:48.5 | unbelievably great. So the only thing I can compare Mall Shadow Lord to in Star Wars is Andor. It's layered. It's nuanced. |
| 0:59.3 | Emotionally rich and surprisingly mature, yet manages to balance that without losing a younger |
| 1:05.8 | audience. I think that's one of the skills of this show. The storytelling respects viewers of all ages, which |
| 1:12.2 | is a difficult line to walk, and this show absolutely nails it. Visually, it is the most |
| 1:19.0 | stunning animation style we have gotten yet. It's stylized, yet grounded, cinematic, yet |
| 1:24.3 | intimate. The emotional moments are where the show truly shines. The character |
| 1:30.3 | work is some of the richest we have seen in Star Wars. This isn't just some of the best |
| 1:35.7 | Star Wars animation. It's some of the best Star Wars. We're in for a treat on April 6th. |
| 1:42.1 | Now, like I said, we were fortunate enough to receive screeners for |
| 1:46.5 | episodes 1 through 8 of Mall Shadow Lord from Lucasfilm and Disney, but don't worry, we are |
| 1:51.4 | keeping our episode breakdowns 100% spoiler-free and only discussing what's been on screen |
| 1:58.0 | so far. There's not going to be any teases, no hints, no you'll see. |
| 2:02.4 | We're experiencing it with you week by week. So to ensure that we kept the integrity of the |
| 2:08.5 | podcast, we watched chapters one through two, I watched it again, took notes, then we podcasted. |
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