@ brimforge: Yeah, I get what your saying about mixing 3 persona being over the top, I agree. It just seemed like a way to take what we were given and add some background, a suspenseful backdrop to seemingly purposeless plot points. The reason I thought Valorum would be good as Plagueis is his name. Finis Valorum (according to Wookiepedia) Lit. End of virtue, good name for a closet Sith lord. ;)It seemed a good way to give the prequels what the originals had, a back story. The backdrop for the original movies was the clone wars, the prequels had none.

@ bingowings" You're definitely right about the ridiculousness of the Jedi as the security force for all the various star systems, and its implied that each system has its own security (like Naboo). The thought process behind having Valorum be the Jedi sifo Dyas was that the republic could be like ancient Rome. Members of the praetorian Guard (imperial security) would often set up one of their own as a potential Caesar, or a regiment would declare their captain. The Jedi in this scenario would be like the guard preferring one of their own in power. Seciors had a great thing going in his TPM edit cutting all of the sidious scenes, there was much more of a phantom feel in that version. :) When I saw sith in theaters, it was like there was a train going by. Every car was where it had to be, but without anything substantial behind it.