And dooku tries to read Tolkien and gets chased off the stage while Vader and some stormies riverdance!
I do see that Maul was using what's considered to be Evil powah to fight but in NJO at least so does Jacen Solo after the turning point in Traitor. of course this is a complete other sect outside of the Jedi, and Sith. What if he was actually incapable of feeling Happyness and kindness to the little creatures to defend the people? I'm guessing you'd back him in that situation. Maul is hard to figure out if he's truly evil or just misguided beyond all help, because he doesn't have the lines or the scenes that flesh out his charaacter. So we're never going to be able to solve this. Also I'm going to point out that Maul never tried to use Force Choke, Speed, Rage (well thats a maybe), lightening, scream, dominate mind, or any of a zillion other powers other diarksiders used. He seems more like greivous in that he's just a lightsaber master with a few extras.