This is nice, but I feels somewhat incomplete without Dooku's analysis of Anakin's technique. "Mechanically inexorable, impossibly powerful. A Destroyer Droid with a lightsaber."
The novel explains what the movies can never do, explain what’s running through the characters heads. Dooku’s death was disturbing honestly because of how he knew he had always been betrayed. And at that moment he knew there was nothing he could do to change his fate.
For real. Watching Episode 3, I never really appreciated the weight of this scene. To be honest, I wondered why Anakin would even hesitate to kill Dooku after everything he's done. Watching this as a kid, the worst part of this scene is how Dooku's head falls after it's cut: but you might even miss that the first time (I did) But this is art. I never even thought about how afraid Anakin was in this scene (especially if you only count the movies and this is just the second time they've met) I always just assumed he was ready for it considering his good mood earlier as well as his hubris from being the chosen one. And the metaphor of the dragon was interesting too. It makes the dark side seem more natural in a way, like unleashing your inner beast upon your enemies. And Dooku begging for his life makes Anakin's hesitation make so much more sense. He has no problem killing people who present a threat, especially in TCW, but he didn't see the dark lord in that moment- he saw an idealist who got in over his head and didn't want to die. No wonder why he didn't kill him at first. Not to mention that, with the Force, it's possible he even felt empathy towards him and felt his fear. And what I also love about the depiction of Dooku in this novelization is how human he is. Sure, he does terrible things, but he still has opinions, taste, and feelings just like everyone else. An example that comes to mind is how he hates Anakin's robotic hand and thinks the honorable thing would've been to stay human and learn to fight with one hand. I also wondered why he never snitched on Palpatine, but now I get it, it's because he was so paralyzed with fear, so hopeless that all he could do is beg for his life and lament his fate. He was barely able to speak- let alone convince Anakin that Palpatine was the sith lord. Palpatine was always one step ahead- Dooku's fate had already been sealed.
The reason is because when you're writing a novel you have unlimited time to stretch out a scene and provide as much detail as you want in addition you can go into the actual minds of the characters as they're thinking it with the dialogue You can't freaking do that with a movie! You have 2 hours to tell a story you can't have all the details in there
"Grievous shook his head in detest. The general leaned over the screen showing his accommodation room, and saw the energy scorched ruins around the empty general's chair. And that... there... it appeared to be a dead body. Covered with armorfabric cape."
Dooku died knowing the truth at least. He did not have time to let that sink in. He became too arrogant, believing he knew all the scheme just because he aligned with the one being who controlled the whole galaxy. He believed he was morally above the Jedi, the clones, the Republic, his own CIS and even his family just because he knew deep things that others did not. Pong Krell followed that path. Now I have a conflict with the Plagueis novel and Jedi Lost, they tell different stories but both are awesome. What does not change is the fact that he trusted a serpent who made him betray everything he cared about and ultimately, karma paid him a visit. If his senses were right, we would have been like Qui- Gon.
I bet for a while before Vader fully got used to his suit he regretted replacing Dooku with Anakin but even after Anakin got the entirety of his suit figured out he still wanted to replace him with either a revived Malgus, Merek, Or another Skywalker yeah.
1. Wasn't there a sequence in the ROTS novelization where Dooku perceived each person in the Force? Where he saw Sidious as a Black Hole in the Dark Side? 2. Would Dooku have been a better apprentice to Plagueis than Sidious?
In reference to the first question, yes. he saw Obi-Wan as a luminous transparent window onto a sunlit meadow of the force. Anakin was a storm cloud. and Palpatine was a black hole as you stated.
His furnace heart, the fear is out there in the fight/not in his head, Watto's fist cracks out; yeah, NONE of that's in the movie and THAT'S great stuff, i'nit?
Damn, I wish you included the duel between obi-wan and anakin. That's the most interesting part. They fool dooku into thinking they learned nothing since Geonosis and Dooku's appreciation for their tactics impresses him but also scares him.
@@thesentinelsfootballchanne3212 Yeah, I'm terribly sorry about that. I tried cutting it down and TH-cam still won't allow it. Thanks for understanding and enjoying the content!
Usually a sith Lord will tell his apprentice about his sith Lord teacher. darth sidious never told count dooku about darth plagueis THAT SHOULDVE BEEN A RED FLAG FOR DOOKU.
How would Dooku ever know that was a tradition without Sidious telling him? The Sith were secret for a thousand years. And why wouldn’t Dooku know anything about Plagueis? Or is that a Clone Wars show thing?
@@ryanpennington9592 sidious knew about tenebrous(plagueis teacher) through plagueis yet dooku didn't know about plagueis or tenebrous but sidious did tell Anakin about plagueis and if you count maul even he didn't know about plagueis or tenebrous. fun fact about plagueis knew about venimus tenebrous hidden apprentice plagueis could have kept him a secret from sidious but didn't. Its tradition to pass knowledge from previous generation to a new one for example if a sith teacher shares names its not a problem because its not a technique but sidious won't even talk about any of that THAT'S A RED FLAG
Sidious told Tyranus that his master Plagueis was actually Damask. Simple, logical, and gave 70-83 year old Dooku one more reason to the countless other ones to join the Sith.
WRONG!! The book itself explains: in tusken camp, he lost his head, he was an unthinking force of nature, and even after it felt like someone else did it.
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Since many of you were asking for more excerpts from the Revenge of the Sith novelization, well here you go. You're welcome.
This is nice, but I feels somewhat incomplete without Dooku's analysis of Anakin's technique. "Mechanically inexorable, impossibly powerful. A Destroyer Droid with a lightsaber."
Buntsbooks where's the duel man?
The novel explains what the movies can never do, explain what’s running through the characters heads. Dooku’s death was disturbing honestly because of how he knew he had always been betrayed. And at that moment he knew there was nothing he could do to change his fate.
For real. Watching Episode 3, I never really appreciated the weight of this scene. To be honest, I wondered why Anakin would even hesitate to kill Dooku after everything he's done.
Watching this as a kid, the worst part of this scene is how Dooku's head falls after it's cut: but you might even miss that the first time (I did)
But this is art. I never even thought about how afraid Anakin was in this scene (especially if you only count the movies and this is just the second time they've met) I always just assumed he was ready for it considering his good mood earlier as well as his hubris from being the chosen one. And the metaphor of the dragon was interesting too. It makes the dark side seem more natural in a way, like unleashing your inner beast upon your enemies.
And Dooku begging for his life makes Anakin's hesitation make so much more sense. He has no problem killing people who present a threat, especially in TCW, but he didn't see the dark lord in that moment- he saw an idealist who got in over his head and didn't want to die. No wonder why he didn't kill him at first. Not to mention that, with the Force, it's possible he even felt empathy towards him and felt his fear.
And what I also love about the depiction of Dooku in this novelization is how human he is. Sure, he does terrible things, but he still has opinions, taste, and feelings just like everyone else. An example that comes to mind is how he hates Anakin's robotic hand and thinks the honorable thing would've been to stay human and learn to fight with one hand.
I also wondered why he never snitched on Palpatine, but now I get it, it's because he was so paralyzed with fear, so hopeless that all he could do is beg for his life and lament his fate. He was barely able to speak- let alone convince Anakin that Palpatine was the sith lord. Palpatine was always one step ahead- Dooku's fate had already been sealed.
The reason is because when you're writing a novel you have unlimited time to stretch out a scene and provide as much detail as you want in addition you can go into the actual minds of the characters as they're thinking it with the dialogue
You can't freaking do that with a movie! You have 2 hours to tell a story you can't have all the details in there
"Grievous shook his head in detest. The general leaned over the screen showing his accommodation room, and saw the energy scorched ruins around the empty general's chair.
And that... there... it appeared to be a dead body.
Covered with armorfabric cape."
Darth Sidious: Your Role as Saturday cartoon villain has outlived it usefulness, Darth Tyranus you have been Replaced!
This has to be one of the best lightsaber duels
Book duels
It's like 20 seconds in the movie
It is!.
Dooku: (gets his head chopped off)
Palpatine: (insert Nelson Muntz' 'HA-HA!')
It was at that moment, he knew.. (Dooku) fck up
A jedi trap indeed! but they were not the quarry, they were the bait.
Dooku died knowing the truth at least. He did not have time to let that sink in.
He became too arrogant, believing he knew all the scheme just because he aligned with the one being who controlled the whole galaxy. He believed he was morally above the Jedi, the clones, the Republic, his own CIS and even his family just because he knew deep things that others did not. Pong Krell followed that path. Now I have a conflict with the Plagueis novel and Jedi Lost, they tell different stories but both are awesome. What does not change is the fact that he trusted a serpent who made him betray everything he cared about and ultimately, karma paid him a visit. If his senses were right, we would have been like Qui- Gon.
Give Stover his flowers he wrote a masterpiece
I bet for a while before Vader fully got used to his suit he regretted replacing Dooku with Anakin but even after Anakin got the entirety of his suit figured out he still wanted to replace him with either a revived Malgus, Merek, Or another Skywalker yeah.
Palpatine did and-or would've done all that!
Huh?
Dooku: "Just how can I be so damn stupid!?!?"
8:15 - 8:20 nuff said
HE WAS DECEIVED FOR MANY YEARS
1. Wasn't there a sequence in the ROTS novelization where Dooku perceived each person in the Force? Where he saw Sidious as a Black Hole in the Dark Side?
2. Would Dooku have been a better apprentice to Plagueis than Sidious?
In reference to the first question, yes. he saw Obi-Wan as a luminous transparent window onto a sunlit meadow of the force. Anakin was a storm cloud. and Palpatine was a black hole as you stated.
@@Shonenfanboy1048 Thank you. Makes me wonder what Mace or Yoda would have looked like through the Force?
@@factfiend1000 ooh. that's an interesting question. Yoda would probably be similar to Obi-Wan and Mace would probably be similar to Anakin
@@Shonenfanboy1048 What about a White Hole in the Force for Yoda?
@@factfiend1000 it's possible. But of course we can only speculate.
Dooku is so underrated
DOOKU KNEW THIS WAS THE END. QUI GON AND ASAJJ VENTREESS WAS RIGHT
His furnace heart, the fear is out there in the fight/not in his head, Watto's fist cracks out; yeah, NONE of that's in the movie and THAT'S great stuff, i'nit?
Damn, I wish you included the duel between obi-wan and anakin. That's the most interesting part. They fool dooku into thinking they learned nothing since Geonosis and Dooku's appreciation for their tactics impresses him but also scares him.
One word, copyright.
@@buntsbooks Ah, that sucks. But thanks for the uploads.
@@thesentinelsfootballchanne3212 Yeah, I'm terribly sorry about that. I tried cutting it down and TH-cam still won't allow it.
Thanks for understanding and enjoying the content!
@@buntsbooks you can make an Odyssey account to post the uploads that you can't do here.
Anakin SMOKES Count Dooku........."...you are on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of Master."
WOT?!
Amazing
Usually a sith Lord will tell his apprentice about his sith Lord teacher. darth sidious never told count dooku about darth plagueis THAT SHOULDVE BEEN A RED FLAG FOR DOOKU.
How would Dooku ever know that was a tradition without Sidious telling him? The Sith were secret for a thousand years. And why wouldn’t Dooku know anything about Plagueis? Or is that a Clone Wars show thing?
@@ryanpennington9592 sidious knew about tenebrous(plagueis teacher) through plagueis yet dooku didn't know about plagueis or tenebrous but sidious did tell Anakin about plagueis and if you count maul even he didn't know about plagueis or tenebrous. fun fact about plagueis knew about venimus tenebrous hidden apprentice plagueis could have kept him a secret from sidious but didn't. Its tradition to pass knowledge from previous generation to a new one for example if a sith teacher shares names its not a problem because its not a technique but sidious won't even talk about any of that THAT'S A RED FLAG
Sidious told Tyranus that his master Plagueis was actually Damask. Simple, logical, and gave 70-83 year old Dooku one more reason to the countless other ones to join the Sith.
Permission
Terrifying
It wasn’t Anakin’s first cold blooded murder though, he murdered the entire tribe of tuskens. (Even if they deserved it)
WRONG!!
The book itself explains: in tusken camp, he lost his head, he was an unthinking force of nature, and even after it felt like someone else did it.