Originally posted by 0°Mandalore°0
There is no proof to what you say. If it's true, provide some quotes or strong evidence.
Well.. There is proof:
The entrance balcony provided an appropriate angle-far above the Jedi, looking down upon them-for Dooku to make final assessments before beginning the farce.
Like all true farces, the coming denouement would proceed with remorseless logic from its ridiculous premise: that Dooku could ever be overcome by mere Jedi. Any Jedi. What a pity his old friend Mace couldn't have joined them today; he had no doubt the Korun Master would have enjoyed the coming show.
Dooku had always preferred an educated audience.
At least Palpatine was here, shackled within the great chair at the far end of the room, the space battle whirling upon the view wall behind him as though his stark silhouette spread great wings of war. But Palpatine was less audience than he was author.
Not at all the same thing.
Skywalker gave Dooku only his back, but his blade was already out and his tall, lean frame stood frozen with anticipation: so motionless he almost seemed to shiver. Pathetic. It was an insult to call this boy a Jedi at all.
Kenobi, now-he was something else entirely: a classic of his obsolete kind. He simply stood gazing calmly up at Dooku and the super battle droids that flanked him, hands open, utterly relaxed, on his face only an expression of mild interest.
Dooku derived a certain melancholy satisfaction-a pleasurably lonely contemplation of his own unrecognized greatness-from a brief reflection that Skywalker would never understand how much thought and planning, how much work, Lord Sidious had invested in so hastily orchestrating his sham victory. Nor would he ever understand the artistry, the true mastery, that Dooku would wield in his own defeat.
But thus was life. Sacrifices must be made, for the greater good.
There was a war on, after all.
So, clearly the fight was a sham.
Originally posted by fascistcrusader
That was the plan at first, NateGraySummers, but remember the rest of the battle? Anakin and Obi Wan switch styles mid fight, and then Dooku freaks and has to give it his all. That was why he just force pwned Obi Wan when he did, because there was no way he could have taken them both.
Heh... I was waiting for someone to bring this up. True, the book does go on to say that, but the book's adaptation of the fight scene is completely different to what the Movie shows us. In the book, the combatants chuck chairs at each other, the Jedi duo switch forms as you mentioned, and evolve from a poor team into a deadly one. As the Movie shows us, none of this is the case. The book describes a completely different fight scene, and is retconned by the higher form of canon: the G-Canon Movies. However, Dooku's preliminary thoughts on the matter don't contradict anything, and actually tie in quite well with what the Movie shows us. In short: Dooku's thoughts in this case are canon, the fight scene itself is not. So really, all this talk that Anakin "pwned" Dooku and would be able to "pwn" him again is just silly.