Originally posted by: Arklaine
Has Trooperman done away with the idea of force lightning for Dooku entirely?
I’ve not read right back down the thread for a while so I can’t remember the specifics, but I thought he was going with the idea of Dooku being a Sith… However, I admit I don’t know the mythology (for the prequels, at least) well enough to know whether that validates force lightning in itself?
I certainly didn’t have a problem with him using it, even though Plap’s other boys never saw the need… Maul was more of a swordsman, and Vader was more of a sliced up despot who controlled through force of will and, er, THE force. I felt the variety of the apprentices and their abilities gave the three new films a bit more interest than they might have had.
I view it tiny bit differently. Lightning is for one guy only, the emperor. Dooku I think of dooku in terms of how he is, not by what he does. He's a much more advanced and accomplished jedi/sith than all the rest except Sidious pretty much, so why make lightning look like such a pitiful and cheap tactic to use in battle when a lightsaber can so easily block it. Did he not notice the big glowing blue thingy obiwan was holding. It just makes dooku look like an idiot.... It's sooo painfully obvious GL didn't really put more than two seconds of thought into his character and just wanted count dracula in his movie unlike peter jackson who cast the perfect person for the role he needed. So dookie, like Yoda, I would have liked to have seen never eva pick up a brute force weapon since like Yoda told luke, "his ally is the force and a powerful ally it is.... Your weapons, you will not need them..." It's like reachihng true mastery requires one to acknowledge more than "crude matter" Oh well, that went out the window and splattered all over the cgi ground.
Vader has been said to be the ultimate combination of all the pt villians. Maul: the primal, hateful animal. Dooku: Logical, cool-headed, honorable kind of evil. Grievous: Mechanical menace. So I like that whole dynamic too. It's like his destiny was around him all along or something.
Well that's my view. I wish there was a level of force use that went beyond bashing sticks of light together as well as a powers reserved for only the greatest of dark side users. It just seems weird that dooku could be so dominant in ep2 and go out like a boba in ep3, but that's star wars for you...
