If you want to get your mind absolutely blown mauled, watch Episodes 21 and 22 (”Brothers” and “Revenge”) of Season 4 of The Clone Wars, followed immediately by Episodes 21 and 22 (”Twilight of the Apprentice”) of Season 2 of Rebels.
Watch Savage find Maul in the deep dark shadows on Lotho Minor
then watch Ezra find Maul in the deep dark shadows on Malachor.
It’s astoundingly complementary to (or a recurring theme in) Maul’s story:
the discovery of his suffering/lost self in a dark place
an immediate alliance/bond with the person who finds him
freed from the darkness by his discoverer
taking the discoverer as his apprentice (either formally or in his mind)
a complicated, often difficult relationship with his “apprentice”
the eventual death/loss of his apprentice
They are perfect bookends to one another, right down to the episode numbers (but that’s probably just a coincidence, like the fact that they’re also the final two episodes of their seasons). And I just noticed the opposing color themes of each instance of “finding”: red for Savage, blue for Ezra. Fire/anger/confusion versus light/curiosity/knowledge...?
But the bottom line is that the end is still the same:
Maul loses his apprentice--his bond, the only person he cares about--every. Single. Time.
