Maul: Shadow Lord Trailer Breakdown and Review
Children of the Watch: A Star Wars After Show
Children of the Watch
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🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Join Children of the Watch as we break down the new trailer for the upcoming Star Wars animated series, Maul: Shadow Lord. We give you all the information you need ahead of the premiere on April 6th on Disney+! Who are the main characters? What is the setting and time period? Could this show lead to a brand new Sith Lord in Darth Talon? Will Rook Kast end up as the Armorer? What does it mean to resist evil? We discuss all of this and more.
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| 0:00.0 | You're joining, Children of the Watch. I'm Mack Lacey. |
| 0:19.1 | And I'm Alex Maxwell, and we're here to break down the |
| 0:22.8 | Mall Shadow Lord trailer. And Mack, I am so excited. After seeing this footage, I am so impressed |
| 0:32.4 | with what they've got cooking up for us coming this April. April 6 is when the premiere is. |
| 0:38.8 | I can't wait to break this down with you. |
| 0:41.3 | Talk about it. |
| 0:42.3 | But before we jump into all the information that we're going to talk about |
| 0:46.3 | and give you everything that you need to know, |
| 0:49.3 | Mack, what are some of your first impressions of this? |
| 0:53.3 | It feels like we're right back in kind of clone wars, |
| 0:57.8 | like in that mindset. |
| 1:00.5 | I loved all the footage. |
| 1:02.9 | I was pretty surprised. |
| 1:04.2 | This didn't exactly have the tone I was expecting it to. |
| 1:07.7 | I don't know, you know, in what ways it was differing from my expectations, |
| 1:12.5 | but it's just, it's, it's a lot more tied to the Clone Wars than I figured. But I, the animation |
| 1:19.8 | is beautiful. I love that we're going to get, you know, a prolonged period to examine Maul as like an anti-hero. |
| 1:29.9 | Because I don't think he's going to, I think he's going to have to learn some lessons through |
| 1:33.8 | this series. We'll put it that way. I think so too. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm, this got me pumped. The |
| 1:40.2 | trailer did its absolute best job of, you know, |
| 1:46.2 | hooking, kind of reeling me in, getting me hyped for what I hope is going to be an amazing show. |
| 1:51.7 | I think it's going to be incredible. |
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