SomethingStarWarsRelated said:Monroville said:That could be played upon - in fact, if the Jedi are supposed to fight "fair", maybe Qui-Jon tells Obi "No! I will deal with him myself!" and it is a Jedi rule that you never play unfairly (duels have to be one-on-one and/or Jedi are taught to handle things as individuals). Maul during the fight (with or without hand gestures) has metal parts fly into Qui-Jon and uses his dark side force powers to "boomerang" his double blade at Qui-Jon ala the Rock Man in NINJA SCROLL.
During this, Obi watches impatiently and at the first sign of Maul "cheating" he rushes in to help Qui-Jon, essentially breaking Jedi standards to do the obvious: help his master.
Hell, how hard would it be to make Qui-Jon's hair white or silver to reflect that he is much older and thus capable of being taken down?
Welll this would fit well with what happens in AOTC "no i'm taking him now!" "no anakin! no!" It's Obiwan talking from experience this way. But then how do you explain the Dooku fight in ROTS? Hmmm
That would be easy: the Jedi are there to stop the "rebellion", being that they serve the Republic. Part of the tragedy is that they don't realize they are now working for the bad guys. In fact, again if redubbing is done, maybe Dooku could say things along the line of: "You don't know what you're doing! Or who you are working for!" In fact, have him say the OPPOSITE of taunts, to where he is questioning the Jedi's ethics and motives and is planting seeds of doubt or ideas as to what to look into.
In the fight aboard the starship that Palpatine is a prisoner on, Dooku could have captured Palps to torture him for information as well as a confession - thus, when the Jedi show up, they are on the same rescue mission but now an added element could be that the Jedi put a death sentence on Dooku for his final action of treason against the republic and what he's done to Palps (maybe scars could be put onto Ian McDarmond and this could explain how he looks the way he does - maybe something like the Kaiber crystal could be inserted into the script, not just to explain the object Padme gives to the Nemoidian chief per the alternate plot of Jar-Jar watching over it and the humans stealing it, but also bring back the SPLINTER OF THE MIND'S EYE element that it enhances force powers. In this case, Dooku steals it from the Nemoidians and uses it ala the DARK CRYSTAL to suck life energy from Palpatine, hence the old withered look. Since Palps is sitting in a chair, one could clone the Emperor from JEDI and use FX to match the dialogue to his mouth).