Maul: Shadow Lord has, for better or worse as it stretched itself out over the course of its first season, always had one very interesting nugget of potential at its core. It’s so far done a good job of kicking the can down the road on really digging into that promise with some stunning action and lush visuals to distract us, and its final two episodes do much the same. But this time, it’s an action of a more surgical sort, using its grand stakes to peel away almost everything about show that won’t have to matter going forward… leaving that core potential finally ready to be exposed. It would not be unfair to say that  Shadow Lord ‘s final two episodes of the season, “Strange Allies” and “The Dark Lord”, are not really episodes about much in the way of theme happening, but rather they are episodes about Things Happening.…