More like Anakin his apprentice, whom Palpatine had spent the last 13 years luring to the Dark Side? He had prepared Anakin for that reason from day 1, killing Darth Plageus and stealing Anakin away from him, having Anakin's mother kidnapped and kept barely alive etc.Admiral Breetai wrote:my only gripe with ep 1 and indeed the prequel..is that the emperor came off like a severe moron. between being saved because traffic was light that night he decided it would be brilliant to try and fight a man known as the greatest duelist in the order...and gravity bailing him out..when it would of been a heck of allot easier to either run away as fast as he could or...just I dunno fight a delaying action till back up arrived
He counted on Anakin, and it paid off. Anakin was not exactly one to be slowed by traffic!
Likewise, a Sith-lord can beat anyone who's not with the Dark Side; clearly Mace was pretty unstable when it came to that, and that's why he turned to the Dark Side at the last moment of weakness--- and that's what sealed his fate; if he had stayed in the light and simply arrested Palpatine, then Anakin wouldn't have intervened.
Even Dooku was only able to be beaten, because Palpatine allowed it; Dooku didn't have the power to throw Obi-wan across the room like that, but Palpatine gave him the power in order to get Obi-wan's influence out of the way, and isolate Anakin to turn him to the Dark Side, by having him kill Dooku when he was beaten helpless
Clearly, Obi-wan wouldn't have allowed Anakin to do that, ; that was more than revenge for taking his hand, since Anakin had already taken both of Dooku's-- before that, he could have made Dooku some replacement hands, and clearly the Sith-lightning wouldn't work anymore.
But killing a helpless prisoner was an important step that Palaptine needed for Anakin to take-- followed by Palpatine's killing Anakin's mother, so that Anakin would kill the entire tribe of raiders on Tatooine, setting him up with Padme etc. Palps was behind it all.
Again, Palpatine created those issues; originally, Anakin was created by Darth Plageis, brought out of the Force rather than natural conception; but Palpatine killed Plageis, and so Anakin and Schmi wound up as slaves, rather than Anakin being raised as Plageis's son.his two confrontations..and anakins revealed clingy issues and his subsequent forgetting of them and gleefully torturing clingy mans son in front of him.
Again, he's a composite of actual dictators in history-- and fits their style very well, from Napoleon onward: i.e. composed in public, but insane in reality.sort of make him a bit of an idiot..or at the very least a mind bogglingly arrogant soul..though that fits I suppose..
Maul was a kabuki-dancer, but Yoda was the biggest muppet of all.beyond that muppet fu mace dooku and maul kinda made up for the failings..of the prequels to me any ways