Re: Dooku and the dark side...
Originally posted by Advent
Why did Count Dooku turn to the Sith when it was the very same Sith who just killed his apprentice? Qui-Gon was pretty much loved by Dooku like a son.
Well Sidious probably explained to Dooku that it was nothing personal.
He had also served the Jedi as one of the most respectable masters for decades, what made him suddenly change his mind about every thing he believed for seventy years? I realize that he disliked the way the Order was moving forward and how the government of the Republic was being run. He didn't feel like he was accomplishing anything...that's all well and fine, but did he turned to the dark side just because he thought it would accomplish something?
Yup, that would be my guess also. He also seen the Jedi as being lazy maybe. Yoda and the council were aware of the existence of the sith, but did nothing really.
Also, maybe he was hurt over Qui-Gon's death, and took it more personal that the Jedi went on as if nothing happened, more then he did the sith for killing him. Qui-Gon could have been any jedi that the sith killed... But Qui-Gon actually had a friendship with those on the council, and they act as if nothing had happened. They didn't try to find the other active sith lord.
Sidious probably promised him a way to change the galaxy and he jumped at the opportunity, but why would a lifelong Jedi trust a Sith, the epitome of lies and deceit, in the first place?
Well Dooku had only been around for 70 years, and the sith had supposedly been extinct for a thousand years. Dooku had never met a sith lord. He only went by what the jedi had told him. Since Dooku started to lose trust in the jedi he probably did not know what to believe. We all know Sidious has his way of manipulated even the strongest minds. Sidious talked a really good game to Dooku. When Dooku met Sidious, it was the first time he actually came in contact with a sith, and he seen a man whose views on the galaxy were similiar to his own.
In the ROTS novel Sidious explains to Anakin that the jedi would only need one reason to arrest him, and that was for being a sith lord. They would have judged him (without knowing him) because of their philosophical differences. Sidious probably said similiar things to Dooku. Of course jedi teach their students that sith are liars. They were sworn enemies.
It's not like his philosophy would have been tossed out the window by looking at Sidious. Possibly he thought that the dark side wouldn't corrupt him, IDK. But he turned into a cold-blooded murderer.
Maybe he and Sidious had several visits of hours of talking. I'm sure it didn't happen in one night. By the time Dooku was corrupted, he had already lost faith in the jedi and the republic.
I know a guy who had been a catholic all his life, and even served the military and fought in the Korean war. It took him a year to change his views on things. He became a Jehovah's Witness (people who are against fighting in wars or serving the military). So it's not so far fetched for Dooku.
And why doesn't Dooku say anything when Sidious orders Anakin to kill him? Like, something along the lines of "zOMG, he's my Sith Master!". Was he too shocked by his master's words or do you think he was relying on Anakin acting like a Jedi and not killing an unarmed prisoner? Maybe he didn't think Anakin would believe him or was just too honorable (dumb)?
I always wondered this as well.
Maybe he feared Sidious that much. As you said, there was a chance that Anakin followed the code and sparred an unarmed prisoner. But if Dooku turned on Sidious he would eventually have to deal with Sidious.