Maybe if he traps him, like Dooku swings his lightsaber to match the swing of Anakins, but holds back so that Anakin misses his and loses balance for a moment, maybe he can do something there, like in the movies, the part where Dooku Force pushes Kenobi and then Anakin swings at him and misses and then they move up the stairs.
Originally posted by Count Makashi
Maybe if he traps him, like Dooku swings his lightsaber to match the swing of Anakins, but holds back so that Anakin misses his and loses balance for a moment, maybe he can do something there, like in the movies, the part where Dooku Force pushes Kenobi and then Anakin swings at him and misses and then they move up the stairs.
That is for sure, i meant that Dooku isnt like an ordinary 80 year old, in Dark Rendezvous it says this
Physically, the Count's age was rarely a handicap. Deft as he had become with the Force-unimaginably more subtle than the boy who had watched water-skeeters in the Jedi gardens all those years ago-he wore his eighty-three standard years better than most humans half his age. He was still in superb physical shape, senses keen, health undiminished by even the memory of a cold.
Originally posted by vader11
Ofcoz! Dooku is played by a stuntman...& the force make him not like a 80 years old man...but still, Anakin would beat him.
Just because he is played by a stuntman doesn't mean anything in the story, Yoda is CGi so he doesn't exist at all, Vader is played by an Actor who barely wore the suit on, from the story point of view they are word class.
This is stupid. in the movie, there wasn't some magical being or voice that said, "only use sabers!" There was nothing to keep Dooku from trying to outright pwn Anakin with the force, except Anakin who jumped in his shit and pwned him right off the bat, fair and square. And we've had that debate more times than I care to recall, and Dooku was simply outclassed and beaten by a superior Anakin. Now you can wrestle with the semantics of that all you want, but Sidious (as far as canon by GL's own words) never told Dooku to hold back. There is no point in "testing" someone if you're not going all out on them to see what they can really do. He may have said if you get in trouble I'll help, but GL never said that and it still doesn't mean for Dooku to go easy on him. That would simply not make sense.
And age has NOTHING to do with the fight. Read the ROTS novel, it describes it there i believe. It says something along the lines of him being completely revitalized before his encounter with Anakin. Ask Ox, he's the biggest Dooku fan around here and he knows the exact quote. And he even admitted to the reason why he lost.
I never said that Dooku was holding back, read one om my earlier posts where i said Dooku fought to the best of hiss abilities.
He probably didn't use Force powers because he vaunted to prove to himself that he was a better swordsman than Anakin, he was jealous at him, because he was getting so much attention and being considered The Chosen One.
Oh, by the way i am the bigest Dooku fan ever.