In character development, seemingly heroic actions can be motivated by selfish strategic needs rather than genuine altruism, allowing characters to maintain their core personality while performing beneficial deeds for their own survival or advantage.
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That was really great, and I think it was a cool way of like setting up this tension where you're like, oh, maybe he would, you know, he would try to save Dooku. You know, like maybe he won't you know, sacrifice, like try to kill Dooku at any moment, like try to stab him in the back or something like that.
>> character things that I thought they handled perfectly because he's not doing it to be a nice guy. He's doing it because he needs them for protection.
He's saving Dooku because he needs Devin to see him saving Dooku, and he needs Dooku around for these Inquisitors. So, it is all still selfishly motivated, but he also kind of gets to play the hero a bit without the show ruining who Maul is. So, I thought all of that was handled really well.
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