Jackpumpkinhead said:
So this thread got me thinking about 8 months or so ago. i really liked the idea that Dooku should be shown earlier in the film. IMHO i also think that Dooku should also be made a villain from the beginning. no more of this "is he bad or is he good" crap, when ROTS just straight up makes him bad. it is unnecessary to the story. going with that idea i also feel as though the scene when obiwan and dooku talk is rediculous as well. why would dooku just not tell obiwan that palpatine is the bad guy and end it all? then absolutely nothing is done with this information later in the film or in ROTS. with those ideas in mind i worked on this little project for my own edit and hope that something similar will be done with Ady's version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9MtRYmqkRc&feature=youtu.be
lemme know what you all think
I always felt that he was a wasted character as well. However, I much preferred his ambiguity in AOTC over his outright evilness of ROTS. And the fact that they got rid of Lee and replaced him with a CG coughing robot is just another of the many travesties of the PT.
Ever since my first viewing (and there have not been many) of AOTC I have always wished that there was a way to make him an "in-between" of some sort....either a double agent, or a Jedi fallen by the wayside. Never full on evil, OR good. The PT was sorely lacking in interesting characters that we care about or identify with, and I think Dooku could have been one of them if only made just a little more tragic. I had envisioned a situation where Anakin kills him (possibly after his appearance in TPM and AOTC.....I really like the idea of shifting his roles into the other films as he serves zero purpose in ROTS), and then finds out that he was in fact working for the Jedi, and that the Jedi WERE aware of a plot to take over. Anakin struggles with the fact that he killed a good guy, and then in a nice twist he admits to someone that he actually ENJOYED killing him. This would be a nice throwback to the idea of him actually being seduced by the dark side. Therefore Anakin's struggle (instead of being tricked into joining Palpy) is all about wanting to be good, and to be loved by his friends, but also desirous of the feelings of power that evil acts can enable. We all know how that particular struggle ends, but it would be far more entertaining to watch him fight his demons than get bamboozled by Palpatine.