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I don’t really like any of the Prequel villains, except Palpatine I guess. The appeal of Darth Maul is obviously that he looks like Satan and he does backflips. Which admittedly, is cool. But he has virtually no dialogue, and even worse, no connection with the main characters. If you think about it, the entire ending light-saber battle in The Phantom Menace has pretty much no actual plot related logic. The Jedi just encounter Maul, they stare at each other menacingly, and then fight. “They fight” says the script. Why is Darth Maul even there on Naboo at this point? I guess he’s just there for generic security reasons, but whatever.
After Maul kills Qui-Gon, a relationship between him and Obi Wan is now established. This could have been leveraged for some character drama, but instead Maul dies minutes later.
Christopher Lee is awesome, and continues the tradition (established with Moff Tarkin) of casting classic horror actors as second-tier bad guys. But Dooku’s implied backstory as a “gray” conflicted Jedi who might actually be on the right side of history is completely squandered the moment he turns into a generic end boss for Anakin and Kenobi to fight.
And General Grievous… I mean… I realize that Star Wars was always basically a glorified Saturday morning cartoon for general audiences, but Grievous is just too much of a moustache-twirling Saturday morning cartoon villain. You need to tone down that shit for live action, but Lucas didn’t seem to grasp that. I think when Grievous whipped out 4 lightsabers and started twirling them around is about the moment I sighed and gave up on Revenge of the Sith.