Dooku's confession

Why does Count Dooku tell Obi-Wan that a Sith is in control of the Republic? What is the purpose of telling him?

Cause he thought Obi Wan was gonna die, why not gloat a little

Because being tricky like that is his way now. It was also an attempt to pull Obi-Wan onto his side, and even further than that may be an attempt to reduce suspicion on Dooku actually being the other Sith.

I agree, its like Vader telling Luke that they should join forces to destroy the Emporer so they can rule the galaxy as father and son.

Dark lords are not to be trusted, they only seek to better thier own position of power.

Well King Jedi. Dooku gets a little loose with his tounge when he's drinking.

Thing is that the Emeror eagees on Vaders suggestion on trying to bring Luke over to the dark side in ESB, and it is kind of Vader and Emps agenda in ROTJ too. So are they(Vader and EMp) looking away from the two siths "rule"

George Lucas has stated otherwise in an interview, saying that the rule still applies and those two will always be trying to bump off the other. Which makes the ESB conversation look rather odd.

You know how Ob1 is like a father to Anakin? Well, that makes Qui-Gon the grandfather and Dooku the great-grandfather and Yoda the great-great-grandfather. And Luke is the son and Ben Skywalker, Jacen Solo, Jaina Solo, and Anakin Solo are the grandchildren. 😄 🙄

I think Dooku wanted to confuse matters for Obi-Wan.

it's allways like that..the bad guy tell the good guy the plans and then gets kicked ass..in this case the republic's ass

True, true...

The reason the Emperor was letting Vader look for Luke is that, if anyone was going to be replaced, he would replace the aging Vader with his equally powerful son. Vader was considering doing the same for his Emperor, though it ended up with both of them dead and the Sith extinct.

Sith, and all good deceivers, use 90% truth and mix a little untruth in there which changes all perception.

The conversation still makes no sense, though. It is absolutely clear from what they are talking about that they are considering Luke as a powerful ally- a third member of their team. Why would they contact each other and gleefully discuss that they are now looking for what they consider to be each other's replacement?

The 'rule of two' fits in with a lot of things thematically but that ESB convo is where it falls short, continuity wise.

I dunno.... I kinda gives a nice twist to the matter. After all, all Sith masters should now that their apprentices will try to take over. It's no big secret. On the other hand if the Master wants to stay Master he'll have to replace a possibly rebelling apprentice. So they fact that they'd talk like this, could say something about a very cold and suspicious relationship and about an attitude of low esteem towards each other. It's pretty bold and arrogant to both play out the trump cards and pretend it's a normal card knowing that both players will not be fooled. It's like: cards are on the table, let the game begin and may the baddest win!
I dunno, I kinda like that.

Ys, but that IS rather blatantly having to twist what we have to fit. It clearly was not the meaning behind it at the time.

True. But that goes for so many things. Like OB1 meeting Anakin as a kid, that was not in the spirit of ANH I'm sure. I'm pretty sure GL didn't think of Jedi being trained only as very small children.

Still, I like that dark twist on that ESB convo.

I do too.

ESB rules

YAYYY!!

I don't like that "always two there are" rule, I always imagined there to be an army of dark jedi's just as there are good ones. That new rule is almost as bad as the midi-chlori-whatsits. Booo! 🙁