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star wars - In Attack of the Clones, was Dooku really conflicted?


Clearly, Dooku / Tyrannus was not being completely honest about his motives. Clearly he desired power, and was willing to kill to get it. But several instances hint at a deeper motivation:



  • His attempted seduction of Obi-Wan on Geonosis,

  • His reaction to Anakin's defeat in the duel,

  • the fact that he was a profoundly respected Jedi before he turned to the dark side.



The reaction scene is inexplicable otherwise (unless, of course, you have an explanation). And it seems to me that Christopher Lee was playing it this way regardless...


Thoughts? Anything in extended universe or production info?



Answer



Dooku left the Jedi order because he was deceived by order's inaction and he was disillusioned by the corruption of the Republic. Then Sidious lured him to believe the new order would be for the greater good of the Galaxy, his fall to the Dark Side followed shortly.


He was pursuing his ideal: a new government dominated by human and driven with a hand of iron. Since he was tired of the Jedi order's attitude, he was dreaming to replace it by an Army of Sith, which would apply the empire's law using fear and force (both physical force and Dark Side), being peace enforcer instead of guardians.


Finally, I would refer to this answer from BennyMcBenBen to an other question about Dooku. I suggest you to fully read it, be here a single quote paragraph from his answer, which is itself a quote from Revenge of the Sith novelization by Matthew Stover (2005). (emphasis mine)



[...] A captivity that would allow him to sit out the rest of the war in comfort; a captivity that would allow him to forswear his former allegiances-when he would conveniently appear to finally discover the true extent of the Separatists' crimes against civilization-and bind himself to the new government with his reputation for integrity and idealism fully intact. The new government ... This had been their star of destiny for lo, these many years. A government clean, pure, direct: none of the messy scramble for the favor of ignorant rabble and subhuman creatures that made up the Republic he so despised. The government he would serve would be Authority personified. Human authority. It was no accident that the primary powers of the Confederacy of Independent Systems were Neimoidian, Skakoan, Quarren and Aqualish, Muun and Gossam, Sy Myrthian and Koorivar and Geonosian. At war's end the aliens would be crushed, stripped of all they possessed, and their systems and their wealth would be given into the hands of the only beings who could be trusted with them. Human beings. Dooku would serve an Empire of Man. And he would serve it as only he could. As he was born to. He would smash the Jedi Order to create it anew: not shackled by the corrupt, narcissistic, shabby little beings who called themselves politicians, but free to bring true authority and true peace to a galaxy that so badly needed both. An Order that would not negotiate. Would not mediate. An Order that would enforce. The survivors of the Jedi Order would become the Sith Army. The Fist of the Empire.



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