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20 Random Tumblr Posts We Saw This Week That Actually Make Some Pretty Good Points The Revenge of the Sith novel is not merely one of my favorite movie novelizations, it's one of my favorite books period. Matthew Stover is just one of those writers. Just read Dooku last moments: "As he looks up into the eyes of Anakin Skywalker for the final time, Count Dooku knows that he has been deceived not just today, but for many, many years. That he has never been the true apprentice. That he has never been the heir to the power of the Sith. He has only been a tool. His whole life - all his victories, all his struggles, all his heritage, all his principles and his sacrifices, everything he's done, everything he owns, everything he's been, all his dreams and grand visions for the future Empire and the Army of Sith - have been only a pathetic sham, because of them, all of him, add up only to this. He has existed only for this. This. To be the victim of Anakin Skywalker's first cold-blooded murder. First but not, he knows, the last." - Revenge of the Sith novelisation, by Matthew Stover, pages 81-82 Palpatine has set the stage and had convinced Dooku that this was just another act in the play. Grievous kidnapping the Supreme Chancellor, and holding him captive aboard the Invisible Hand. The Jedi coming to his rescue, and Dooku meeting them. Eventually, after giving them a good fight, surrendering, being taken captive, able thereafter to negotiate an end to the war with the Supreme Chancellor, allowing the CIS a victory they could not claim on the battlefield. It was, as the book notes, a trap: but the Jedi were not the targets of the trap, but the bait. Dooku was the target: a piece on the board that Palpatine needed to be removed. He was the counterpoint to Grievous: controlled, refined, powerful, reasonable. Once Palpatine removed him from play, he could push the Senate to grant him further powers: the powers needed to stop the dangerous rampage of Grievous, who would prosecute aggressive war unrestrained by the more intelligent Dooku. Of course, the genius of it all was that Dooku did not know he was a pawn to be sacrificed until the very end: he saw himself as a major piece, one that would shatter the board and the game if removed. He hadn't realised that Palpatine was only using him to get to Anakin, and to push the war the way he wanted it to go. Treachery is the way of the Sith. Dooku forgot this, but was nonetheless a victim to it.

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