My apologies for jumping into this so late, but I was interested by your Dooku speculations and wondered whether you had ever read the Clone Wars novel Yoda: Dark Rendezvous by Sean Stewart, which goes into the relationship between Yoda and Dooku. It's a fascinating read, by turns laugh-out-loud funny and achingly moving. According to Stewart's take, Dooku's major flaw (as you surmise here) was pride, and even though Yoda saw this when Dooku was a child and tried to lead him away from it, he never managed to let it go. I could rave for ages about how brilliant this book is, but not without spoiling it or quoting huge chunks, so I'll refrain, but I highly recommend that you check it out if you get the chance.
I think Dooku genuinely wanted to reform the Republic, but did he want to bring down the Sith? The trouble is, as ROTS illustrates quite neatly with the parallel images of Anakin holding Dooku at swordpoint and Windu doing the same with Palpatine, that by the time the Clone Wars began, the Jedi and Sith weren't all that different. Dooku may have come to the conclusion that the Sith's independence and their lack of compunction about the means they used to reach their ends would make them more likely to achieve the reform he wanted to carry out, and that the Jedi's self-image as "the good guys" was just hypocrisy and a refusal to acknowledge their own flaws.
I don't have a very high opinion of him, despite the justice of this assessment, because he was so ruthless in using the people he needed to use -- most obviously the Separatists, but (in the Clone Wars/EU materials) people like Asajj Ventress and Sora Bulq as well.
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Date: 2005-08-13 02:40 am (UTC)I think Dooku genuinely wanted to reform the Republic, but did he want to bring down the Sith? The trouble is, as ROTS illustrates quite neatly with the parallel images of Anakin holding Dooku at swordpoint and Windu doing the same with Palpatine, that by the time the Clone Wars began, the Jedi and Sith weren't all that different. Dooku may have come to the conclusion that the Sith's independence and their lack of compunction about the means they used to reach their ends would make them more likely to achieve the reform he wanted to carry out, and that the Jedi's self-image as "the good guys" was just hypocrisy and a refusal to acknowledge their own flaws.
I don't have a very high opinion of him, despite the justice of this assessment, because he was so ruthless in using the people he needed to use -- most obviously the Separatists, but (in the Clone Wars/EU materials) people like Asajj Ventress and Sora Bulq as well.