Bingowings said:
MrInsaneA said:In my future edits, instead of the mechanical enhancements being accidental, they'll be intentional. He'll be a creepy alien warrior who makes constant "self-improvements" to his body, in an ongoing quest to become the ultimate warrior.
And I've heard the "Call a prequel villain Darth Vader to confuse the audience" idea a thousand times, and it gets less appealing every time I hear it. I mean, I get we don't want to spoil the 'Luke I am your father' reveal. But pasting Vader's name on Maul, or Dooku, or Griveous just diminishes the uniqueness of two characters.
Isn't the self improvement angle canon for Grievous already?
As for the unique natures of Dooku and Grievous as villains, one is a old former Jedi in a cape with a red lightsaber and the other is a Jedi hunting cyborg.
They are Vader, they should have been Vader in the PT.
The only way to rescue anything out of them at all is to remove as much Vaderness as possible or to use what's there as cover for the important character reveal.
Making Dooku not a villain as such and making the General a cyborg Jedi killing machine that can be with ease be misremembered as the same guy in the mask and the black cape make a lot more sense to me than keeping them where they are.
Make them serve the story not water it down.
The problem with just leaving Anakin dead is that it's so obvious that he is Vader you might as well show him becoming Vader.
You need to plant obstacles in the audiences way so they are as surprised come ESB (when watched in chronological order) as they would be if they watched them in the order they were made.
Giving Obi-Wan a pupil prior to Anakin and giving the audience other Vader candidates are possible obstacles.
griveous cannon isnt well defined at all. he has 3 different origins or something. so who knows.
and there are much better ways to utilize griveous and dooku then making them trick vaders. making dooku a rogue jedi instead of a sith who has connections to sidious adds a whole new dimension to his character. im sure that simmilar changes can be done with maul/griveous. pasting vaders name on one of them is a waste. giving obi wan a pupil prior to anakin is a perfect solution but realistically could never happen in a fan edit.