My estimations would be that the same The Salacious Crumb would end turn out to be a lost Jedi Master who wielding 13 lightsabers etc etc etc or something really overthe top, but, oh well.
I know you are, but that was my attempt at showing just how preposterous your comment was; because obviously Maul was a marketing gimmick, little more than a prop, while Dooku is a real character, with motivations, goals, charm and a relevance to the story.
Dooku is more of a side character, he could have been great. I think AOTC finally got interesting the moment he appeared. But it was too late to save the film.
I've told this before, but I feel AOTC would have been much better if it had opened with Dooku arriving on Geonosis as Sidious' envoy (I mean, we hcan hardly see him as an apprentice, can we now?) to inspect the grand droid army and awaiting the ambassadors of the Techno Union, Banking clan etc.
Another scene a little further up the road could have been the meeting where at least this whole clever idea that was swamped in the CGI video game AOTC has become could have been positioned better, namely that Sidious used this Separatist movement to destroy all major power factions in teh universe, leaving him in sole control of everything. I'm sure most people missed that fairly ingenious plot line.
That way Dooku would always have been the major villain in AOTC plus the guy our heroes must defeat. After all, it was he who was behind the attack on Padme to smooth out the Trade Federation, prolly it was he who ordered the Clone Army and who recruited Jango.... Only then Dooku would have been great and it would have made the scene with OB1 in shackles much more in depth.
Yes, I feel that scene with Obi-Wan in shackles was wrongly downplayed!
The link between Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon and Dooku is one that should have been on our minds alot more; it gives us another interesting view of Qui-Gon, reinforces Dooku's claim that he is simply fighting against the corruption of the Senate.
You have to remember that Dooku is, or definetly should be, the Jedi Council's no.1 suspect as the Sith Lord, yes, we the audience know he isn't, but the Jedi never really seem that enthusiastic in finding Dooku.
Dooku was pretty much the instrument of Sidious; he hires Jango, orders the clone army, arouses the Seperatists, make deals with the Trade federation/techno union amongst other smaller plots from the EU. And to round it off, he is an elegant ex-Jedi Master with charm, intellect and apparent wisdom. Much more interesting than Maul.
its interesting that my nephews and their pals who were 8 and 10 when TPM came out were dissapointed in Dooku as the Sith to take over Maul
their first words on seeing the AOTC trailer were "hes just an old man"
and that attitude stayed
thats why the kids i knew round that time on the whole disliked AOTC
and i guess thats why we got Grevious in Sith
Maul ruled for the kids
im talking villains here before anyone points out Kenobis age in ANH
i wouldnt been half interested in SW when i was a kid if Tarkin had been the major villian in ANH
kids liked Maul underwritten or not
Dooku gets a couple of nice lines but hes pretty dull as villians go
his refered to past is more interesting than what we see on screen
agreed. same for maul. perhaps even GG as well, had they made him force-capable and more than just a sneaky opportunist villain....shit even if they stayed on that road they could have still developed his character more...make us hate/dislike him so were not just sitting there emotionaless when his apparent methane blood explodes.
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