Master Sifo-Dyas- a bit of a mystery (SPOILERS)

Overkill. It is supposed to be mysterious.

Mystery is not just absence of info. Which is all there is. You need some info (namely that he was great and and hard to beat with great knowledge of the Force) but not about his exact intentions.
Hitchcock rule for suspense: the audience knows more than the heroes do, that will enhance your sympathy and empathy for the heroes. This is where the PT fails so far.

What difference would it make how powerful he was.

tell that to a boxer

and why can't sifo-dyas been a name used by palpatine to give his order more credit again?

Because of the shifty looks Yoda and Windu gave, because is it just coincidence that the name is so similar to his own, and why not just impersonate Yoda? Seeing as no-one checked.

shifty look could mean "Wasn't he dead???"
and if he used the name Darth Sidious, peops would know, even if he used the name Sidious, since there is no Sidious in the Order

Who said he should use the name Sidious?

And the shifty looks meaning "Isn't he dead" makes no sense. It's not as if anyone was saying he was alive.

it's better to take the name of a Jedi, certainly if the dude is dead so they can't ask him again

Yes. So what? No-one disputed that.

and Sifo-Dyas died, so taking his name would be easy, and afterall, Kamino is in the Outer-Rim

Again, yerss, I can't help thinking you are stating the obvious here. That said, it doesn;t matter if Sifo-Dyas was dead or not, did it? Why would it help to impersonate a dead Jedi? What difference would there have been if he had impersonated a live one?

And still there is the name similarity, and the shifty looks which clearly show there is more to this.

I registered just for this topic. I already posted this reply, but it didn't work so I'm posting it again.

I'm not an avid Star Wars fan - I've seen all the movies, but I'm not that great at trivia and things like that. From what I got from the movie, however, was that Sifo-Dyas is actually Dooku. He's a very powerful Jedi, and Yoda seemed to know him. In fact, during the Yoda/Dooku fight scene, Dooku comments on how he was once Yoda's Padwan-Learner (I know I butchered that spelling, sorry!). So from that, and the shifty looks given by Windu and Yoda, I just gathered that Sifo-Dyas faked his own death, moved to Geonosis (spelling, again), and became Dooku.

Also, it was obvious that Dooku was in cahoots with Sidious, and if the Sidious=Palpatine theory is correct (which we all pretty much think it is), then he could have went along with it fine. Also, all of the clones were based off of Jango, and they seem to know each other also (despite what Dooku might say - Jango defends him during the battle).

Just my two cents.

Dooku was dooku as a jedi master before the alliged death of Sifo Dyas

errr... Sidious and Palpatine ARE the same, check the TPM DVD with the comentary

I haven't memorised the movie yet, so correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Jango given this job by someone he called a Jedi?

WHich job are you referring to?

no jango says that he's never heard of sifo dyas and that he was hired by some one named tyranus on one of the moons of bogden or something like that.

sure it was Tyranus?

Yes, absolutely. He definitely says Tyrannus.

And there is no way Sifo-Dyas can be Dooku! These people were KNOWN! I think others would have twigged if they were the same person!

I should really watch it again ... *sigh*

btw, is there already a dialogue-text written?