Was he also hoping to shake the Jedi Order up? Destroy the Sith from the inside... if Dooku thought by causing an external problem, that the Republic would sort itself out and revitalize.
You make some great points here. It makes a lot of sense that he wanted to shake the Order up. Someone had to initiate Qui-Gon's maverick attitude, and it probably was Dooku. He said it was a shame he never had a chance to know Obi-Wan, so he could have easily assumed that Obi-Wan would be as much a maverick as his former master. That would be an encouragement to Dooku, he probably naturally assumed Obi-Wan would listen to his 'voice of reason.' junediamanti makes a good point about you make the appeal to an enemy you wish to recruit and his initiation is to take the place of your apprentice. If Dooku saw or heard of Obi-Wan actively looking for the Sith, taking his advice, I wonder if he would have approached him again.
I can't agree with Dooku wanting to destroy the Sith from the inside, I do think he thought the Sith was the best way to change the Order. I wonder if Dooku thought to rebuild the Order, not as Sith, but after what he thought the Jedi should be. He was one of the Lost 20, which, in my mind, means he made some dramatic exit from the Jedi Order to be labeled as such. But that leads to the question, how did Dooku expect to get rid of the Sith?
Personally, I think he was listening to the will of the Force, filtered and distorted through his own emotions. It's scary that only a rogue Jedi could actually hear the will of the Force and follow it. I agree that he knew the Order needed changing, and I wonder why he heard it, when so many others couldn't.
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Was he also hoping to shake the Jedi Order up? Destroy the Sith from the inside... if Dooku thought by causing an external problem, that the Republic would sort itself out and revitalize.
You make some great points here. It makes a lot of sense that he wanted to shake the Order up. Someone had to initiate Qui-Gon's maverick attitude, and it probably was Dooku. He said it was a shame he never had a chance to know Obi-Wan, so he could have easily assumed that Obi-Wan would be as much a maverick as his former master. That would be an encouragement to Dooku, he probably naturally assumed Obi-Wan would listen to his 'voice of reason.'
I can't agree with Dooku wanting to destroy the Sith from the inside, I do think he thought the Sith was the best way to change the Order. I wonder if Dooku thought to rebuild the Order, not as Sith, but after what he thought the Jedi should be. He was one of the Lost 20, which, in my mind, means he made some dramatic exit from the Jedi Order to be labeled as such. But that leads to the question, how did Dooku expect to get rid of the Sith?
Personally, I think he was listening to the will of the Force, filtered and distorted through his own emotions. It's scary that only a rogue Jedi could actually hear the will of the Force and follow it. I agree that he knew the Order needed changing, and I wonder why he heard it, when so many others couldn't.