He was the counterpoint to Grievous: controlled, refined, powerful, reasonable. Dooku was the target: a piece on the board that Palpatine needed to be removed. It was, as the book notes, a trap: but the Jedi were not the targets of the trap, but the bait. 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. The Jedi coming to his rescue, and Dooku meeting them. Grievous kidnapping the Supreme Chancellor, and holding him captive aboard the /nvisible Hand. 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. To be the victim of Anakin Skywalker's first cold-blooded murder. 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. That he has never been the heir to the power of the Sith. That he has never been the true apprentice. 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. Matthew Stover is just one of those writers. 8d 14.9K 305 The Revenge of the Sit novel is not merely one of my favorite movie novelizations, it's one of my favorite books period.
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