Brooks said:

1990osu said:

General Grievous

Nearly any possible potential fear of Grievous is eliminated as soon as he doubles over to begin hacking and wheezing...

Interesting point about that: in the original clone wars cartoon, the mini series one, the end of the series showed Grevious kidnapping Palpatine and it led directly to the beginning of ROTS. In the cartoon one of the Jedi (Mace? Yoda? I can't remember) uses the force to crush Grevious's midsection. I always felt like that was why he was hacking. Otherwise it seems pretty random.

That is correct; Lucas wanted the cartoon to lead directly into the opening moments of Sith, hence the whole kidnapping of Palpatine bit, in which Grievous was not only not coughing, but also stood up straight. What Lucas failed to take into consideration (or didn't care about) was that not everybody who saw Sith saw the cartoon, and therefore a lot of people were totally unprepared for Grievous to be "damaged".

Unfortunately with both Clone Wars and The Clone Wars, there's a ton of exposition and character development that should have been in the Prequels themselves. Watching both series really enhances the prequels (as much as you can polish a turd), but it's sad and rather pathetic when you have to watch these supplementary shows in order to really understand the "main canon" films.