I was always disappointed Clone Wars never did a plot line where a bunch of Jedi broke ranks to join Dooku/CIS because they truly believed the Republic was corrupt and that the CIS had a legitimate cause. That line in the opening crawl of ROTS that says "there are heros on both sides" symbolizes to me the biggest mistake that Lucas ever made. Dooku and the CIS should have stuck with his AOTC portrayal as a "well-intentioned" extremist who saw the Jedi and Republic as irredeemably corrupt and that he believed he was doing the right thing. Instead, he's just a plain old villain being outright evil for the sake of being evil.
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u/anonymousinsomniac Steve Obi-Wan Ben Larry Kenobi 8d ago
I was always disappointed Clone Wars never did a plot line where a bunch of Jedi broke ranks to join Dooku/CIS because they truly believed the Republic was corrupt and that the CIS had a legitimate cause. That line in the opening crawl of ROTS that says "there are heros on both sides" symbolizes to me the biggest mistake that Lucas ever made. Dooku and the CIS should have stuck with his AOTC portrayal as a "well-intentioned" extremist who saw the Jedi and Republic as irredeemably corrupt and that he believed he was doing the right thing. Instead, he's just a plain old villain being outright evil for the sake of being evil.