On a Whim

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[rubberduckiezzz]

Everyone is posting the 3 best moments of Sandokan and Marianna/Marianne, and I’m having the sweetest walk in the park, remembering all the reasons why I fell in love with them.

But one of the things I loved the most, and that I’m most drawn to write/read about, is when Sandokan is captured by the Sultan’s men and taken to be hanged in Labuan. Weird, right?

I can’t stop thinking about Marianna’s deal with Brooke, which lasts so little for us viewers, but is so meaningful for her story.

From the start, Marianna’s narrative arc is her freedom; figuratively, marriage, English customs, dinners, even her own shoes are seen like a prison. Or physically, when she is captured by the pirates. They stop her from being who she is, her true authentic self.

That’s why she feels the imprisonment of the mines, the suffering of Sandokan’s “sisters” and mother, and the forced isolation of the Dayaks who survived the exploitation.

When she wants to know someone, she doesn’t judge them by what they have or what they show, but believes what defines someone is their motivations. Like she defends the moment she meets Brooke.

So it would be a bit strange for her to throw all that away when Sandokan is imprisoned, right? Wrong.

Before Sandokan, Marianna wanted freedom and even believed in the few crumbs her father gave her, that she had it. But when she met the pirate, he showed her a world so much bigger than the one she knew inside the consul’s estate, and he didn’t treat her like she was too fragile to see brutality and violence.

He showed her the real world, with all its beauty and imperfections.

Sandokan was her freedom.

He saw so much more in her than any shallow, childish desire people tried to put on her.

There was no world where she could be free, if Sandokan didn’t live in that world.

So accepting Brooke’s offer to save his life was natural.

She would be happy knowing he was alive, even if she couldn’t be with him, and she knew that if she told the truth about why the Englishman was helping them, Sandokan wouldn’t accept it, because he would never accept her giving up what she loved most.

Even if what she loved most was him.

[screvvdr1ver]

Everyone deserves a hug！

[catawampuscorner]

I'm back on my Muppets LotR bullshit 💅✨

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[sureinsunlight]

@entropyking

[carinatae]

@eowyntheavenger (sorry if you've seen already 💜)

[eowyntheavenger]

Omg hahahahaha I had not!!!

[kopykunoichi]

This is amazing on so many levels.

[hibernobritonicdrunk]

[kopykunoichi]

They saw each other twice. The first time was when Maul almost ran him over and then dueled Qui-Gon. The second time was in the hanger when Anakin saw him through the open doors when he was in the cockpit...and then Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan fought him, and Qui-Gon was killed. There's no way he forgot either of those moments.

[morally-earl-gray]

will maul ever realize that the evil cyborg sith lord that tried to kill him is the little boy he tried to hit with his speeder in the desert twenty years ago

[kopykunoichi]

I think he has enough information to connect those dots.

1. Qui-Gon very loudly yelled, "Anakin! Drop!" when Maul almost ran him over as a kid.

2. He knew Sidious was aiming for Anakin since that was the whole reason he tried to make a trap on Mandalore for him and caught Ahsoka instead. She even taunted him with, "It's a good thing Anakin isn't here, you wouldn't have lasted long again him."

3. He immediately figured out Vader was not an Inquisitor and that he knew exactly how to deal with Jedi. And he was, in fact, not lasting long against him...even with Anakin's diminished skills. He wouldn't have known about what went down on Mustafar with Anakin getting burned, but he could logically assume that Sidious got the apprentice he was aiming for. The suit could be explained as some sort of disguise.

[clodoveah]

You know you’ve fucked up when you’ve got a Jedi Master, a Sith Lord, & your middle-aged detective buddy all collectively looking at you like this: 🤨

[justadearie]

God bless whoever made this The Mummy (1999) reference in Sandokan (2025) with the one and only John Hannah, twenty-six years apart—it’s truly insane!

[kopykunoichi]

Poor John Hannah...always stuck watching the leads make out at the end of the movie.

[0ut-of-my-head]

#headshot

[kopykunoichi]

Best scene! His face in the second to last gif cracks me up.

[osvaldrps-archived]

serkay tutuncu in bay yanlis  /  by clicking the  [ gif pack directory ]  link or source below you will find #216 gifs from episodes 9 and 14, all made by me from scratch. you can use/edit them to your liking, just credit me where credit’s due. and please reblog the post if you find these helpful.

also appeared: can yaman, ozge gurel, cemre gumeli, gurgen oz, ece irtem, anil celik.

[kopykunoichi]

I love them, your honor

[duffhilary]

EzGür Parallels + Ozgur’s obsession with Ezgi’s hair

[kopykunoichi]

I giggled out loud when he just started playing with her earrings while she was mid conversation. He's a dog guy, but he's so cat-coded sometimes.

Also, I'm about 95% sure that most of the time he plays with hair in a scene is improvisation. The earring thing was definitely him, because who would script that? He does it all the time in Erkenci Kus, and he heavily improvised that show.

[ohsexyhalder]

[kopykunoichi]

Ezgi x Ozgur 💕

[star-girl006]

New ship unlocked: awkward teenagers in danger and on opposing sides of politics

Also not Maul in the background like a disapproving father

[kopykunoichi]

Maul is having deja vu. Every time he gets *this* close to winning a young female Jedi over, she gets sidetracked trying to save some hot guy in desperate need of her assistance.

Ahsoka: Sorry, Maul. Under other circumstances, I might have left with you. Here's a lightsaber, go create some chaos while I go save my Captain.

Devon: Sorry, Maul. I was considering a team up, but I gotta get Rylee back to his pops.

He learned with Qira. He got her *after* she broke up with Han.

[dustysalmon]

"I'm sorry."

[kopykunoichi]

"I won't let him do this to anyone else."

[tesb]

Imperial forces are spreading out across the city. A full lockdown is imminent.

STAR WARS: MAUL – SHADOW LORD (2026) Chapter 5: Inquisition

[kopykunoichi]

Rook is getting jealous and feeling protective of her boss. Meanwhile, Devon tries to kill Maul and his response is:

[marishaart]

He can't catch a break without being sassed out by a padawan😭

[kopykunoichi]

Maul has a type: snarky teens.

[mndvx]

He wants to fight as allies. The Empire may be our common enemy… but Maul will never be our ally. MAUL — SHADOW LORD (April 6th 2026)

[kopykunoichi]

You'd think they'd been training together for years.

[siosin]

I have so much to say about these episodes.

this show is doing a perfect job at highlighting the circular tragedy of Maul and I feel so frustrated for him

The tea scene is fascinating. he wants to connect and relate to Devon, but because of who she knows maul to be, it's impossible for her to show him the same reciprocity.

He comes to the table open, honest, earnest, and even kind. He's making an effort completely out of the realm of what comes normal to him in an attempt to connect to someone like him.

She comes to the table (albeit understandably) standoffish, unwilling, untrusting, and irritated. She already knows enough about who he is to give him a chance so she is unwilling to humor him.

There's a moment when she can choose to accept the tea he offers but she ultimately decides to steal his weapon instead, rejecting his gesture of good faith.

The result pushes Maul back into being who he normally is; Threatening, violent, angry.

Even when he tries to be something more than what he was forced to be, the damage of that perception will never leave him in the eyes of those around him. The people who could help heal him want nothing to do with him, so he stays stuck in his narrow world view when another perspective is potentially all he needs to break out of his own self limiting prison. Maul is a damaged individual with so much potential for growth, not easily or cleanly, but the cracks are there.

It happens again in this encounter. Maul was anticipating Devon bringing her master back to him in hopes of reaching out to him as well as her. But just as devon did, Daki does not want to reciprocate Maul's invitation for conversation.

Maul is doomed to be a villain despite desperately not wanting to be, or knowing that he is. It's frustrating to watch, because you can see the potential of support changing maul for the better. He needs people around him Who align with his goals to offer different perspectives, and come to compromises. Show him a different path to success. Is it possible for Maul to get out of his own way? Maybe it could have been if he managed to find someone else willing to see past his flaws. It's very possible, and it makes him so compelling and tragic af. But at the same time you can't fault anyone for it, because would you trust someone like Maul?

In this moment right before Maul is about to kill Daki, Devon steps in to save her master. maul has this moment of envy as he is confronted by his own loneliness. He craves that loyalty and comradery with people he can relate with.

Maul could have been a killer asset to the rebellion, but he died a nobody.

So anyway, fuck sidious. This show is incredible so far.

[star-girl006]

This baby just needs a good hug. And his mama 😭💔

[sp4wnofch40s]

My heart breaks for him

Because as I was reading that I realised how watching the show so far in my head I was praying that Devon doesn't trust him because I know how he betrayed Ezra, and how I myself dont trust him to be honest and trustworthy, but I'm realising that this show is way before those events in Rebels. And here it really does seem like he could take the right path out. But I think now we're going to see what pushes him even further down the path of bitterness, hate and need for revenge.

So my heart hurts so much for him

And I can't help but wonder who in the galaxy could have been the right person to redirect him.

And we dont know how this is going to go. But so far I see that Devon's responses to Maul are affecting him negatively. I think he's getting the idea that he has to be who people think he is. That no-one will trust him to be anything else.

And I really hope, for his (and for an awesome plots) sake, that Devon chooses to help Maul. I want to know what he does....when he sees he can be trusted to do the right thing.

[kopykunoichi]

Honestly, the only Jedi who might have been able to be patient enough to help Maul through all his brokeness, while at the same time earning Maul's respect was Qui-Gon, for the same reason that he was the only one who could have saved Anakin. Therein lies the greatest tragedy. So much hinged on the Duel of the Fates, not only Anakin's future, but Maul's too.