YousufKhan1212
DISCLAIMER: This is just some Star Wars trivia that I felt like posting because I found it interesting, some people on this board may already be aware of this, but not necessarily everyone.
In TCW, Dooku describes Maul (TPM Maul specifically) as a "great Sith Lord" in a conversation with Savage:
Dooku calls Savage a great Sith Lord, which suggests he has some respect for Maul, but I don't think he was being genuine with his actual opinion of Maul. He may have exaggerating how highly he thinks of Maul to stroking Savage's ego, and I think it's odd for a Sith Lord like Dooku, to think highly of his predecessor in the position of being apprentice to Darth Sidious. In the RotS senior novel, Dooku seems to show a drastically different opinion of Maul:
In other words, Dooku's opinion of TPM Maul is that he is an animal, a animal who has some level of competency, but is a beast. It's very brief, but I think author Matthew Stover's intent was that Dooku doesn't dispute that TPM Maul was a skilled warrior, but considers TPM Maul to be very primitive and basic in his approach to fighting. This passage from the RotS senior novel is giving us a description of Dooku's private thoughts, a person's private thoughts have more truth to them than what they say to other people, so unless if Dooku suffers from dissociative identity disorder, he's being truthful. Before I move on, I just want to stress that the RotS senior novel was published with the subtext that Maul died from being cut in half on Naboo because it was written long before Maul's apparent death in TPM got retconned many years later by TCW, it's a pre-TCW source, it's not taking the TCW retconns into account. So Dooku, based on the subtext of the RotS senior novel, is reflecting on what he knows about Maul in the context of the pre-TCW EU.
There's also another novel that gives us more information:
As you can tell, Dooku held prejudice against anyone who used more than a single blade in lightsaber duels, believing that a single blade should suffice. People who used two blades, such as Darth Maul who wielded a double bladed lightsaber, and Anakin Skywalker who briefly used dual blades against Dooku on Geonosis - were bad enough, General Grievous however made Dooku sick to his stomach because of his use of four blades. The reason why Dooku has such a distaste for anyone who wielded multiple blades is because he was a Makashi purist, and only a single blade. Granted, Dooku does resort to using dual blades against Yoda in the AotC Comic Book Adaptation of their fight, but this depiction is based on an early screenplay, in fact this screenplay was filmed during the production of AotC:
http://www.legendariummedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/christopher-lee-as-dooku.jpg
However, George Lucas and the other filmmakers working on AotC evidently scrapped this idea, and Dooku was only using a single blade against Yoda in the final version of the movie. It's not just the movie itself that depicts Dooku using a single blade, the script, senior novel and junior novel only depict Dooku as using a single blade. So the concept of Dooku being willing to use more than one blade is incredibly outdated. Furthermore, even if we ignore that it's outdated, all it proves is that Dooku is a hypocrite. Even if he's a hypocrite by that standard, this doesn't change the fact that part of why he doesn't have anything nice to say about Maul is because of Maul's use of the double bladed lightsaber as opposed to a single bladed lightsaber.
CLOSING STATEMENTS: I hope this serves as an interesting piece of trivia.
In TCW, Dooku describes Maul (TPM Maul specifically) as a "great Sith Lord" in a conversation with Savage:
Dooku calls Savage a great Sith Lord, which suggests he has some respect for Maul, but I don't think he was being genuine with his actual opinion of Maul. He may have exaggerating how highly he thinks of Maul to stroking Savage's ego, and I think it's odd for a Sith Lord like Dooku, to think highly of his predecessor in the position of being apprentice to Darth Sidious. In the RotS senior novel, Dooku seems to show a drastically different opinion of Maul:
In other words, Dooku's opinion of TPM Maul is that he is an animal, a animal who has some level of competency, but is a beast. It's very brief, but I think author Matthew Stover's intent was that Dooku doesn't dispute that TPM Maul was a skilled warrior, but considers TPM Maul to be very primitive and basic in his approach to fighting. This passage from the RotS senior novel is giving us a description of Dooku's private thoughts, a person's private thoughts have more truth to them than what they say to other people, so unless if Dooku suffers from dissociative identity disorder, he's being truthful. Before I move on, I just want to stress that the RotS senior novel was published with the subtext that Maul died from being cut in half on Naboo because it was written long before Maul's apparent death in TPM got retconned many years later by TCW, it's a pre-TCW source, it's not taking the TCW retconns into account. So Dooku, based on the subtext of the RotS senior novel, is reflecting on what he knows about Maul in the context of the pre-TCW EU.
There's also another novel that gives us more information:
As you can tell, Dooku held prejudice against anyone who used more than a single blade in lightsaber duels, believing that a single blade should suffice. People who used two blades, such as Darth Maul who wielded a double bladed lightsaber, and Anakin Skywalker who briefly used dual blades against Dooku on Geonosis - were bad enough, General Grievous however made Dooku sick to his stomach because of his use of four blades. The reason why Dooku has such a distaste for anyone who wielded multiple blades is because he was a Makashi purist, and only a single blade. Granted, Dooku does resort to using dual blades against Yoda in the AotC Comic Book Adaptation of their fight, but this depiction is based on an early screenplay, in fact this screenplay was filmed during the production of AotC:
http://www.legendariummedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/christopher-lee-as-dooku.jpg
However, George Lucas and the other filmmakers working on AotC evidently scrapped this idea, and Dooku was only using a single blade against Yoda in the final version of the movie. It's not just the movie itself that depicts Dooku using a single blade, the script, senior novel and junior novel only depict Dooku as using a single blade. So the concept of Dooku being willing to use more than one blade is incredibly outdated. Furthermore, even if we ignore that it's outdated, all it proves is that Dooku is a hypocrite. Even if he's a hypocrite by that standard, this doesn't change the fact that part of why he doesn't have anything nice to say about Maul is because of Maul's use of the double bladed lightsaber as opposed to a single bladed lightsaber.
CLOSING STATEMENTS: I hope this serves as an interesting piece of trivia.
