The “mercy” Maul asks for is death, Palpatine denying him that is much worse. Maul is one of the few who knows the full extent of Palpatine’s power

I love how Sidius coming in and soloing Savage and Maul is instant karma for Satine, but then you remember that this is the guy who is responsible for all of this in the first place... *literally all of it!* Maul's life being hell, the clone wars, Anakin's fall and that's just the *big stuff* Sidius has caused so much suffering on a literally *galactic* scale that, as much as you hate Maul at this point, you *despise* Sidius even more.

"I have... other.. uses for you 😈" God that line at the end of it all

Maul begging for Mercy was him wanting Sidious to kill him. He knows there are way worse things Sidious can do with him than kill him

RIP Satine Kryze. It’s also a real testimony to Obi Wan’s character that he doesn’t give in to the Dark Side despite all that happens. Sidious doesn’t get his hands dirty often. But when he does, he will completely wreck you and have the most sadistic fun doing it. He plays with Maul and Savage the whole time not just to keep to the Rule of Two, but to ensure Maul cannot disrupt own his plans.

Fun Fact: When Sidious appears to challenge Maul, Maul uses Form 3 during the fight. Not only was Maul on the defensive from the get go, but that's Obi-Wan's preferred form. Goes to show how powerful Sidious is.

5:54 "It takes strength to oppose the dark side. Only the weak embrace it. Those who oppose it are more powerful than you could ever be." One of the best lines that Obi-Wan has ever said. ❤

"Remember the first and only reality of the Sith, there can only be two." Easily one of the best episodes of the show, and for many years my favorite fight of it (now 2nd). When Maul begs for mercy he's requesting death, just kill me. But as Maul himself said, "Mercy is a lie, a delusion of the weak who think themselves strong."

Despite having the love of his life killed right in front of him Obi Wan still remind true to the Light Side of the Force.

"There are far worse things than death" - A certain character from Rebels

This has always been one of my favorite episodes and really shows just what Clone Wars is capable of. Satine's death still hits me in the feels every time and it goes to show how Obi-Wan understands Anakin in ways Anakin sadly never realizes. The fight between Palpatine, Maul, and Savage is also one of my favorite lightsaber battles in all of Star Wars. Palps is always in the background, pulling the strings, and you can see how much he revels in this rare chance to get his hands dirty directly.

I always loved this episode. Goes from the upsetting scene with Satine's death to Maul begging for mercy from Palpatine.

Sidious is the only one who puts actual fear into Maul. Meanwhile, his brother is like "why are you kneeling, brother?".

If you want to know what happens next to Maul, watch a video about the comic "Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir" Edit: You really should. Without it, things don't make sense later

While Bo Katan does get redeemed don't forget the fact she willingly joined an individual who wanted to kill Satine and fully participated with said person who wants to kill her *sister* without any remorse or guilt for her actions.

This is one of the best episodes of the entire show, important character deaths, even Sidious getting off his butt for the first time and showing why he's the dark lord of the Sith. All the dialogue was top tier and Maul gets some of the best lines. FYI, Maul's story is continued in a comic called Darth Maul, Son of Dathomir, it's a good read and is canon.

"I sense something. A presence I...haven't felt...since..." "I'm so sorry" I liked how they used Vader's and Obi-Wan's quotes in this episode. It was sad seeing Savage return to normal. The nightsister magic corrupted him and when it went away, his body returned to its normal size and he was calmer.

Emperor is voiced by Ian Abercrombie but Ian Mcdiarmid himself will be in bad batch and rebels

13:00 if I remember correctly, this was Ian Abercrombie’s (voice of Palpatine) last performance before he died. Ps. Still my favorite arc of Clone Wars

Fun Fact: Palpatine's Clone Wars voice actor died before this episode so Tim Curry was the replacement.

OLD MAN SHOWS UP AND UTTERLY WRECKS SHIT WHILE LAUGHING HIS ASS OFF.

Sidious is the closest thing to Maul's father, an abusive father. When grown men or women are met by an abusive parent years after, sometimes they become a little kid again. Same case with Maul, as powerful as he was, he was taught and raised by Sidious, eventhough he had slight success later in the fight, Sidious knows how to capitalize.

Oh boy, what a ride. This episode is easily one of the top five episodes in the entire series, maybe even top 3. It just has everything that makes Star Wars in it. A quick side note before we get into the fun facts: RIP to Ian Abercrombie, the voice of Chancellor Palpatine in the Clone Wars. This episode was his original final performance before his passing in 2012, as the series originally ended after season 5. There are three more episodes in season 6 that will include his voice due to them originally being scheduled for early season 5, but this episode was the last one he was able to record. With that out of the way, let's move on to the fun facts for this episode: first off, we get to see the new armor for the Mandalorians under Maul, dubbed 'Mauldalorians' by the fandom. We also get the second and final appearance of Satine's nephew Korkie Kryze. He never shows up in any other Star Wars media and in later shows, Bo Katan says that she believes she's the last of her line, so we have to assume he died off-screen at some point. This episode also features the final appearance of the Twilight, the ship first used by Anakin and Ahsoka in the Clone Wars movie to escape with Rotta the Hutt on Teth way back in the beginning. Next, we get one of the most shocking scenes in the series, the death of Satine. Most of us assumed something would have to happen to her, but I don't think anybody was expecting her to go out like she did. Truly one of the saddest, most gut wrenching scenes in any Star Wars media. This would lead into the revelation of Bo Katan being Satine's sister and that brief conversation with Obi-Wan. His line revealing this is actually a callback to when Obi-Wan confronts Padme about where Anakin went in Revenge of the Sith before she goes to Mustafar, where he says "Anakin is the father, isn't he? I'm so sorry." Lastly, we need to talk about the fight between Sidious, Maul, and Savage. This is one of the few moments where we see Palpatine take matters into his own hands and deal with something personally. It just shows how powerful Maul has become, to have Sidious call him a rival is both terrifying and a huge compliment to what he accomplished. We get another callback when Maul senses Palpatine's arrival, using the exact words Vader uses when he first senses Obi-Wan on the Death Star in A New Hope, adding only the word 'master.' Then of course, the actual fight itself. This is yet another example showing just how strong and capable Palpatine is. This is probably the second best fight in the show, only topped by one we will get later on. This fight is also the only instance we see Palpatine use both of his Sith lightsabers at the same time. A lot of people forget that he has two, but if you remember the fight between him and Mace Windu in Revenge of the Sith when Mace breaks the office window and kicks Palpatine, Palpatine's lightsaber gets knocked out of his hand and out the window. Then, when he's fighting Yoda, he has a lightsaber again. I'm not sure, but I think this was just a minor continuity error or oversight originally, so this was an awesome way to correct that. And this fight is where Savage Opress meets his end. It's such a neat detail seeing the pale green Nightsister magick leak from his stab wounds and slowly shrinking to his original size before he ultimately dies. We also get to see that, despite his constant abuse and treating him more like a subordinate than family, Maul did genuinely care for his brother. And we end with Maul being tortured with Force lightning and Sidious saying he has "other uses" for him, which is definitely a fate worse than death. We don't get to see it in the show, so if you want to find out exactly what happens, read the Son of Dathomir comics. This was such a fun time! I always love seeing reactions to this episode especially just because of how great that fight is. Next week starts the final arc of season 5. See you guys then 😀

This is Ian Acrombie ( the voice of Darth Sideoius ) last episode before he died.

3:19 The Twilight is back!!! It hasn't been seen or used since Season 2, Episode 3.

Maul begging him for mercy is him asking for death. He knew palpatine’s wasn’t just gonna let him off like that

in between 9:17 and 9:59: the deleted scenes for this episode show their entire fight which we didn't fully see due to focus on other events happening somewhere else at the same time (during their fight)

When Maul senses Sidious about to enter it is a callback to A New Hope when Vader inspects the Millenium Falcon in the Death Star hangar. They dialogue is almost word for word. Vader says “I sense something. A presence I’ve not felt since...”

People always make fun of maul for begging for mercy against sidious, but I think most people forget that sidious is basically maul’s father. He physically and psychologically tortured him throughout his entire youth. Maul isn’t afraid of anything, except sidious.

6:50 this is my absolute favourite score out of all of Star Wars, and this franchise has amazing scores . Actually probably one of my favourite scores ever

Savauge and satin died the same way. Stabbed in the gut and died slowly. Weird I never noticed before

The Lawless is one of the best episodes in the Clone Wars show, seeing Maul feel so much power and thinking he has the rule of Mandalore, just for Sidious arriving and him losing all that power and show so much fear just shows you how powerful Sidious really is.

Awesome reaction of my favorite episode of Star Wars The Clone Wars!!!!!😊😊😊😊

Honestly one of if not the best episode of any of the Star Wars shows. So cool seeing the Emperor really fighting for real for the first time since episode 3

This is a great showing of Palpatine's true nature, he doesn't get to break it out often, but when he does, he's just having a good time with it, he just stopped by for a laugh, really. Sadly Ian Abercrombe who voiced Palpatine passed away during the production of Season 5, this episode is one of the last he recorded before veteran voice actor Tim Curry took over the role (Tim delivers Palps final line in this episode).

No room for rivals; but time for a last message of love. Quite an episode. Thanks guys.

This is one of the arcs which gets people recommending the show.

Theres always a bigger fish.

u might find it weird Maul begging for mercy, but u should know that maul was trained by sidious since he was a child and torture was a part of it. Maul dosent fear death, his whole life is hell, so when he begged for mercy, mercy in that case is death, fearing that his life would become hell again without his brother. Hate is what keeps maul alife, but its not life worth living.

palpatin having a grand ol time, he doenst even like saber fighting cause believes its beneath him even though he is very good at it.

Palpatine used intricate designs and detailing on the hilts of his lightsabers to show off his vast wealth and mock the Jedi Order for not being able to sense him in the Force. Despite believing that lightsaber combat was weak compared to the dark side of the Force, Palpatine knew that one day he would have to use it, and wanted to embarrass the Jedi.

One of my favorite episodes aswell. You cannot help but love the Emperor's style.

This arc would have originally followed up with the "Son of Dathomir" Maul arc that shows what Palatine meant here 11:32. That arc is one of 10 still unfinished Clone Wars arcs which Disney sadly decided to cancel (so basically the entire remaining clone wars seasons) after taking over Star Wars in 2013. They later turned "Son of Dathomir" into a comic which I can also recommend checking out.

Every time I watch this fight, I laugh at the idea of Rey and Kylo Ren fighting this version of Sidious.

Do you understand what he’s saying when begging for mercy? He knows what Sidious is capable off. He’s begging to be killed.

This was the final episode Ian Abercrombie recorded as Palpatine, before passing away, hence the dedication to him. While he also voiced Palpatine in the Rush Clovis-arc of Season 6, that arc was originally planned to be part of Season 5 (it was replaced in the release schedule by the Younglings-arc, probably two or three weeks before it actually was supposed to air), so that performance was recorded earlier. Fun fact #1: The black hands on the armor of Maul's Mandalorian soldiers is a reference to the white hand Saruman's Uruk-Hai put on themselves in Lord of the Rings. Fitting, since both Maul and Saruman are trying to subvert the war started by their Masters, for their own gain. #2: Palpatine did in fact have two lightsabers in Revenge of the Sith. He used the one inlaid with gold against Windu, until Windu kicked it out of his hand, and it fell out the window. He used the second one in the fight against Yoda. #3: The ship Obi-Wan borrowed from Anakin is indeed the Twilight, which Anakin used from the pilot movie to Season 2's Children of the Force. The reason Anakin kept using it through-out Season 1, wasn't really lore-based, rather a production necessity: they simply didn't have a large enough asset library at the time, so they couldn't afford not to reuse completed assets. This changed by Season 2, so the Twilight fell out of use, and the production crew figured this would be a good time to send the ship to the junkyard.

If you’re interested in what happens to maul between this and seige of mandalore in season 7 you should read the son of dathomir comic series. Was almost going to be a clone wars arc but didn’t happen

Sidious don't play around 🎉❤❤❤

RIP Satine and Savage.

Definitely one of my favorite Clone Wars arcs (maybe not definitively though). I also really love how it really puts into perspective how powerful Sidious truly is. They spent this entire arc building up Maul as one of the biggest threats in the galaxy. We watched Maul create a civil war on Mandalore to gain power. But then Sidious steps in to remind everyone he's the big threat and has already created a civil war on the whole galaxy. All along, Maul is just discount Sidious.

One of the best episodes

the scene where the door opens ans Obi-Wan is just staring at the chaos is my phone screen saver

When maul said “mercy” he ment to say “kill me” and palpatine denied him that!

Best lanimated lightsaber duel in all of the Star Wars.

The battle between the Brothers and Sidious was one of my favorite fights ever. I was sad to see Savage die when he still had potential but he was unfortunately the weak link.

After everything she’s done to her planet? She helped her sister days after plotting to kill her. Only because her plans went to crap. Bo does not have a moral bone in her body.

8:17 The way it was always meant to be, beautiful isn’t it?

Lol, when people say it's a kids' show, then you get episodes like this.

Ian giving it all as Palpatine as always👍👍

One of my favorite episodes of all time, love to see you react to it!!! Keep the great reactions comming.

The fact that Palpatine follows the Rule of 2 speaks volumes about him, otherwise he would have had multiple apprentices during his reign. Still evil though.

The best is still yet to come.....

I remember watching this episode when it came out, easily made Maul one of my favorite SW characters

If you want to see the continuation of this storyline you have to check out the "Son of Dathomir" comic. It was supposed to be a clone wars story arc but because the show was canceled by Disney after season 5 ended the rest of season 6-8/9 were made into comics, books and other stuff

One really cool detail like about this episode. And it just makes me wish we got to see some kind of comic or micro series about Kenobi’s time as a Padawan on Mandalore. Satine is meditating while being locked up. This is not something Mandalorians do. So myself, and a great deal of others believe. That during their time on the run, Obi-Wan taught her how to meditate.

Fantastic episode, never gets old! You should read the comic book "Son of Dathomir" to learn about what happened after Maul's defeat.

2:17-2:20 People like to refer to them as "Maul"dalorians, for that reason.

The "other uses" Sidius has for Maul is actually use him to lure out the one who is the real threat and is actually an equal to Sidius power. Mother Talzin. To learn more though, you will need to read the "son of Dathomir" comic.

Darth Sidious vs Dark Maul and Savage is my favorite fight from Clone Wars. And if you want to know what happens to Dark Maul after, I suggest you to read or watch a video about the comics "Son of Dathomir"

These clone wars reactions are my favorite

9:41 you’ll see her more in the clone wars season 7 and the mandalorian.

That's the second time Obi Wan's cradled a dying a person he cared about; that was killed by the same person at that.

when you have seen clone wars watch rebels

Maul put on a brutal figth against the most powerful being in the galaxy. It's a pity that some people, despite the statements of Lucas, Nick Gillard and Ian McDiarmid, still believe that Sidious could not have torn Windu apart in the office

Maul for president, the goat

Just imagine if it was Anakin and Padme in this situation. 😬

one of the best episodes :)

Are you ready for some ridiculous fanfic head-canon? We really don’t know all that much of Satine or her family Kryze outside of what Obi Wan tells us. And Disney has not shown us any interest in the Last Mandalorian Civil War so we only have the Legends comics. Korkie, is Satine’s nephew. But we don’t know who his parents are, and we can deduce that it sure is hell NOT Bo Katan. So 15 years ago, dissidents tried to have Satine killed. The chancellor sent to Jedi protect her. Qui-Gon Gin and his padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi. We know that sometime during this mission Obi-Wan was alone with the Duchess for a very long time. Korkie has the same eyes and dimples as Kenobi. So he was raised in secret as Satine’s nephew to protect him from both rival clans, and to keep him from following Obi-Wan on some damned fool idealistic crusade like Anakin did. The reason this was such a popular piece of head-canon is because nobody knew who the hell Rey’s parents were. And making her a Kenobi made a hell of a lot more sense than what they actually did. It doesn’t matter anyway, because Korkie got punched out of the franchise. We never see him again after that hit.

yup this is the single best episode of the clone wars... doesn't get better as a single episode.... but there are better story arcs they're all on the epic level from now on out.. with a few arcs that were just OK there's only like one or two from here until season seven end it's all epic

I just realised what their next arc is 😐 oh no

4:56 you guy's are blind af, they short their jetpack mounted rockets lol

Back to back!?!

If you guys are enjoying this show then you should watch demon slayer the anime it has fights like in this kinda it would make a great watch for you

Saying Maul deserved what happened to him is kind of a horrible thing to say, Palpatine tortured Maul enough as is, he's the reasons Maul has no family, the reason why he's a sith, the reason why he's so broken and bitter Mauls whole being is all because of Palpatine, even the tattoos on Mauls body are but a crude reminder from Palpatine to Maul, Palpatine put those tattoos on Maul himself, the ink was made from one of the deadliest and most painful poisons in the galaxy and then Palpatine craved them into Mauls flesh with a lighsaber