Television The franchise is flailing, but the new show Maul—Shadow Lord has shown a way forward. Lucasfilm Animation/Disney+ Resurrection has been a regular occurrence in Star Wars from the get-go. The veteran Jedi knight Obi-Wan Kenobi gets lightsabered partway through the original 1977 movie, only to return seconds later as a disembodied voice of wisdom. Yoda, the backward-talking green alien who dies of old age in Return of the Jedi , soon reappears as an electric-blue ghost. So do Anakin and Luke Skywalker, the latter of whom sagely reminds us in The Last Jedi , “No one’s ever really gone” (no kidding). In The Rise of Skywalker , Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) cheats death twice, first after getting skewered with his own lightsaber and later by resurrecting Daisy Ridley’s Rey, who temporarily dies battling perennial villain Emperor Palpatine (who also, somehow , returned). Besides being overdone, resurrection can nullify stakes and come off as a storytelling crutch. Sometimes it just looks goofy.…