Yo when he said that quote, I felt that in my soul. When all of your efforts in your entire life that you dedicated to changing an entire universe, regardless of how ethical it was, was all for naught. This hurts almost as much as my ex cheating on me.
Fun fact: Yoda mourned Dooku for the rest of his life on Dagobah, haunted by his greatest student; his greatest 'failure'. And yes, in spite of the whole, 'mourn them do not, miss them do not' stuff.
Touching as that is it really drives home their hypocrisy & how even the great master Yoda, a 900 year perfect example of a Jedi still wasn’t enough & failed Anakin, Dooku, Bariss, Quinlan, etc.
Yoda as amazing of a master he was, was an extreme hypocrite due to his dogmatic following of the Jedi order (yet he wasn’t even the most dogmatic among the Jedi). This is why I feel Yoda has the best arc out of all the characters present in all three trilogies as he’s constantly learning from his mistakes and changing himself, even as a thousand+ year old creature/spirit
@@Reiles_Cole It worked out for Sidious, but it wasn't exactly what Dooku was hoping for when he first left the order, lol. I think that's what the OP was saying
@@Progger11 no for Dooku he set Anakin on the path of bringing balance so even his sin is arrogantly on point. Anakin brings balance because Dooku set him to be Sidious's
I wouldn't even call him evil at all. I think at heart heis actually a good man, at least he has noble intentions. Sadly he was corrupted by Sidious and the dark side though.
@@nicowatzek325 count dooku started off with good intentions, his love for luxury and his quest for power corrupted him to the dark side. the dark side is a disease. Maul wasn't initially evil either. or his brother, Savage.
I can't believe how many people haven't read Dooku: Jedi Lost. One of the best Star Wars books ever written and it's in script form. They could turn it into a movie if they wanted to easily.
@@Jon-rv9oh Yeah, I'm sure it's great. I've never read a book that was an actual script like this one so it's like a movie in your head while you're reading it. I just wish they could have turned it into an actual animated film.
It's not his story though. It's taken from the book Dooku: Jedi Lost. It's a must-read if you want to really know his backstory and it's written in script form.
From a certain point of view Dooku made a an enormous personal sacrifice to do what he thought was right. He joined the Sith, started a war, and killed many people to point out the flaws of the Jedi and the Republic so something better could take their place. It is unfortunate that his idealism was used for nefarious purposes by Sidious.
He was also unique in that he had no desire (or an extremely muted one) to usurp Palpatine. He always discussed the larger goals, not his immediate profit.
@@nerdock4747 Ironically, Sidious had Dooku try and execute Asajj Ventress when she started to get stronger; paranoid of Dooku trying to kill him with her help. Obviously Dooku would be hard-carrying that fight as Ventress is nowhere near strong enough to truly challenge Palpatine. But still, although simply putting it down to bad TCW series writing, as a cynical means to move the necessary characters around in 2013 ish to make the Maul comeback possible, is tempting, it should show how strong Dooku really was. Palpatine was not totally safe from him.
@@ThePalaeontologist I would think it was obvious that Palpatine wasn't so much concerned with Ventress right that second so much as Ventress several years in the future. She was growing more powerful at an exponential rate, exceeded only by Anakin for obvious reason's. She evidently had an enormous amount of potential, likely more then Dooku himself.
@@ThePalaeontologist ....Yes, likely more then Dooku. By midway through the Clone Wars she already could give Anakin a decent fight, who himself could at least press Dooku. Granted, she did fall off in comparison to little Annie towards the end rather hard, but I would wager that's less a fall off and more Anakin's unholy potential coming into play. This despite Ventress not only starting from virtually nothing, but also being denied access to most Sith secrets and knowledge to boot. I will add that it is ultimately impossible to say at the end if the day, and that while Dooju was obviously close to as high as he could go, he DID seem to grow somewhat himself in power over the Clone Wars, too.
@@ghanphol Oh thanks so much. I have the actual novel but it's like twelve years ago that I read it. It was my favourite Clone Wars novel (that was translated into German) of that period. It just has more of a subtle and emotionally complex touch than much other material
@@Crafty_Spirit haha, I get you. It doesn't help that with a franchise as huge as star wars, lots of different people will end up voicing one character. I get confused a lot! Happy I could be of help 😁
That's from Dark Rendezvous if I remember correctly. Great book from what I heard, and that indeed is a great quote, unfortunately though it's not canon anymore
The sophistication and excerpts chosen match perfectly with your clips. I love how Count Dooku is essentially if Qui-Gon joined the dark side. But you can really see why he left the Jedi order with it's decline of being morally willing to moral complacency that eventually lead to the Jedi tapping into the dark side and compromise everything they once stood for.
I love how Grevious, Maul, and Dooku are shadows of Anakin's change to Vader, and that bit at the end where he says he wants to go home as he nears his end.....up there with Malak realizing as he dies he is nothing but a corpse now at the end of KOTOR....some of best Dark Side quotes I've heard so far I think...
Maul represents the urge, the goal you go to, even though you do it wrong way. Grievous is a representation of a loosing fight, a battle that you try to win even if it takes everything you have and had. Dooku is a reason you fight. A true consequences of your fight, and what you think they would be. Emperor is a false friend. The one that says to be your ally only to end up using you because he is too weak to acomplish his goals Vader is a fallen men, what's left of you after you loose everything, get used by a false friend and doesn't get rid of this urge to continue, to try to gain what you wanted. People like Phasma, Thrawn, Tarkin or Hux are those gullible ones believing that your case is right no matter what this would be. Kylo Ren is a part that tries to make you blend in something else so you can be accepted even if you know it's wrong In the end the question is not what to do, because if a change is needed it will to be done sooner or later. The question is how to make a change without becoming anything from above?
Dooku is such a great character. He's a dark side user yet he doesn't let it overtake him. He also makes genuinley good points about The Jedi Order and The Republic as a whole.
he is a man trying to usurp a system that isn't working for the people...if you look into history, there are countless like him - as a German mainstream thought is that millions of Germans just became Nazis somehow, evil butchers, ready to commit mass atrocities and to kill millions of people ..but that simply isn't true, all evil has an origin and back then the democracy imposed on the Germans was not working, people were starving, going as far as prostituting themselves on the streets of the capital, the system was corrupt, serving in their minds only foreign interests, endless profiteering and small-scale rebellions..the intentions of voting for the right-wing parties was not initially evil, they just yearned for safety and someone to 'right the ship'...similar conditions led to the fall of democracy in Russia in the 2000s.. if framed differently, many autocracies are a response to a failed organisation of society within the democracy that proceeds it...the results are often evil still - dooku is a more realistic character than sidious..someone thinking he is doing right by the people but ultimately corrupted on the way of achieving the result
If you think on it long enough, you begin to realise that Count Dooku was right from the beginning. He saw that the Jedi had become complacent with its position of influence within the Republic, that the Republic itself grew more corrupt as its power and influence had expanded over time unchallenged and that there still existed a great many evils in the galaxy that neither the Jedi or the Republic seemed concerned with confronting. His strive for a separatist movement was met with the hostility from the Jedi and Republic because they endeavored to forge their own path, free over the oppressive inadequacies of the Jedi and Republic, who were blind to their own flaws. Dooku never strived for Domination of the Galaxy, simply that he could achieve his full potential and make a lasting difference in the galaxy.
1:14 “The Jedi are supposed to protect the Galaxy and yet we remove ourselves from it. Cut ourselves out.” 2:12 “Have you ever considered that we may be on the wrong side? What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists? And the republic is the very evil we’ve been fighting to destroy.” The irony of both the Jedi and the republic not to mention the clones
@@Aeluron well I mean the bit about the Jedi’s true they failed the moment they became apathetic & hypocritical, but ironically they were all in the wrong side.
@@Aeluron The second one true the senate is corrupt and inefficent this is what Palpatine use for usurping power. + They don't even help the outer systema, Douku is right about the republic.
The most painful thing for Yoda that made his failure even worse, was that Dooku didn't fall to the darkside as a young man like Anakin, but as an old jedi veteran counting off his last years. Even after having been with the jedi for so long, having done so much good, he still fell. reminding Yoda once more of the fact how detached he was from reality, together with the council. This is why i consider Dooku to be an even greater tragedy than Anakin. Although both were very similar. Both had an inner conflict of identity and both desired power. both were dissolusioned by the jedi council and both went on to do what they believed was for the best, despite what everyone thought. The big difference is that Anakin fell as a young man in his prime, but Dooku fell at the very end.
I remember how in the episode where they have “The Box” Dooku introduces various bounty hunters, and one he mentions used to be a peaceful and gentle people, to which the manta thing laughs, and he says “How far they have fallen…” in this mournful voice that tells you he’s still trying to, in his own way, save the Galaxy, even if he must be destroyed to do it.
The deleted scene from AotC shouldn't be deleted. It informed us well, how Dooku left the order peacefully and only then became Sith - which nobody did know. It explains, why Mace didn't just kill him. They didn't realise that their old friend was the heart of the war.
“Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get grey. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but grey”. ANGEL, "HABEAS CORPSES"
I think there is a little more ambiguity to that. I love the Sith Lords. I think they are fascinating. Exploring what it takes to push people into the dark. But... I have to admit it is worrisome to me sometimes, the number of people who confuse that fascination with "Maybe they were right?" The Sith Lords are objectively worse people than some of the greatest tyrants, rapists, murderers and dictators in our real world history. The scale of what they do, and their rationalizations for it, are in someways worse than any serial killer or genocidal dictator the real world human race has ever produced. They are fantastic villains for it. I think Dooku started out an idealist, but he still a Sith Lord. I think we forget what means. To be a Sith Lord, isn't a snazzy title that lets you shoot lightning out your fingers. Its so much more than that. He wasn't a dark Jedi, or a Force user who dips into the dark in desperation. He was *Darth Tyrannus* , Dark Lord of the Sith; in another timeline, in another way, he could have supplanted Sidious with Ventress as his Vader. You can't use the Dark Side of the Force as proficiently as he does, without a truly beastly level of hate, cruelty, and pain. To be a Sith Lord, you need to *want* it. More than anything. More than love. More than a political ideal. A person for whom POWER is the ends, not merely the means. A person for whom the Self is the only fundamental reality. Vader may have started down the road in order to save Padme, but when the time came, he chose his power over his love. Dooku may have started down the road to serve Serranno, but in the end, when push comes to shove, he will serve himself over all. He was still a murderer, a war criminal, a slaughter of entire worlds. I don't think its enough to say he was right, but went about it the wrong way. His very ideology was corrupt from the start. Because his way wasn't a last resort. It wasn't the path he was forced down. It was the path he chose. When confronted with a broken system, his first impulse was to say "The correct thing to do now is to kill billions." And there is no way for that to be anything other than evil. In my opinion, part of the allure of the Sith Lords, is their all encompassing, mind numbing capacity for evil. They are the apex of selfishness, powerlust and the ultimate expression of the "might makes right" ideology that you will find at the core of every human atrocity ever committed.
@@benlowe1701 i mean you can apply it to real life, hitler was a nutjob for starting the war but that doesn't change the fact that after ww1 the germans were treated horribly wich ultimately gave rise to the hate wich led to his rise. I think at the end of the day a lot of people have the right intentions or so they think what they do is right but just go about it the wrong way wich lead them down the dark path
"I long to go home" is the saddest thing if you have old people in your life as its a thing they say before they die and it will break you every time they say it.
So many missed opportunities with Dooku’s story. I definitely believe a redemptive ark could’ve been possible and awesome to see. Even if he wasn’t fully redeemed, Dooku potentially realizing he did not fit into the final plans of Sidious would’ve been cool to watch unfold
@@magicalowl4322 i heard somewhere it was said that Palpatine told Dooku to go easy on Anakin and that the plan would be getting Dooku captured (and later released) and thats why Dooku looked at Palpatine shocked when he told Anakin to kill him.
Not all tragic villains need a redemption arc. Sometimes the lack of one, just as they realise their wrongs but before they have the chance to make amends, makes the character all the more sympathetic and profound.
Dooku is the fallen idealist that had great ideas, he was one the few that could see through the lies and hypocrisy of the Jedis Unfortunately for him, he was just pawn, being lured and manipulated to the dark side, more and more What a underrated character
He is a total parallel to Anakin, both were jedi fallen to the dark side, both were fallen heroes, both wanted to protect their loved ones but ended up killing them and both were mere pawns for Sidious, unlike Dooku, Anakin survives the betrayal.
The most noble _goaled_ character in Star Wars was killed by someone he intentionally spared on multiple occasions after being betrayed by the 1 man in the galaxy he thought he could trust. Anakin ONLY survived most of their duels because Dooku let him.
Well, and Anakin's plot armor helped. Dooku was much more fleshed out in The Clone Wars show and a book I don't care to remember or look up. He is Tragic, and was one of many who started down the dark path with good intentions. He went out like a b1tch tho.
Dooku is one of the most if not the most classy jedi and sith, he valued honor and peace, even as sith he didn't intend to kill jedi, he wanted to make them join him an Palpatine. For me at least, besides the gigachad attitude, soothing voice and complex personality, Dooku has one of the most tragic stories in the series.
I love SO MUCH that you used that deleted scene of Jocasta Nu talking to Obi-Wan about Dooku, and Dooku talking to Padme. I wish it had been left in the original film. Amazing tribute.
@@GAMEOVER-ns1gz What are you even saying? Sidings threw the fight with Mace after going like 20 years without touching a lightsaber, and would go on to trash Yoda.
When you realized that Count Dooku was trying to change similarly like Revan before him. R.I.P. to Sir Christopher Lee for given a best performance of this character.
The carefully chosen clips are actually insane. How someone can pick apart that many important clips relevant to the shifting narrative is so much more impressive than it needed to be. When Padme talks about how the republic could be the evil, and it’s when the senate runs out of power so it showers them in red… as in their complicitness… The part where he says “war” and how he was just as clouded as the Jedi during it, and it shows the clip from the 2d cartoon. Bravo, bravo.
@@jacob_deere3522 they wanted to remove the over taxes systems that bleed their worlds dry and indipendance. The republic permitted corporations in its government and favoured profits over civilian lives. This angered dooku and myself as leaders fight for the people not mere items that can be given and taken like food for a pet. The droid army was another way to show humanitarian sides so practically no organics would suffer the pain of war on their side and like me see clone soldiers as slavery. I would have honestly joined the sepratists if their was a side I was forces to choose. But in the end both sides were led secretly by the sith so their downfall was inevitable.
@@ErrorNumber404 that was the only problem with the faction. If they weren't hijacked from the sith. They could have literally become the rebellion. Plus the republic was no better before the war started. Again because the sith took control of the republic.
One of the most beautiful, and one of the most tragic. Dooku forged his own path, trying to protect the vulnerable, and bring the corrupt to justice, even if it harmed his career he was always willing to do the right thing. In the end though, he became the very thing he swore to destroy, as the dark side tainted his ethical nature into cruelty, and corrupted his soul.
Darth Porg once again delivers an outstanding piece. Superb work, here's hoping we get more Dooku content at some point, I really enjoyed reading Master and Apprentice.
"Corruption like yours must be eradicated!" "For a Jedi to succumb to a surprise attack is rare, unless that attack came from someone one would trust. Like you. I will have the truth." "I used to bring Qui-Gon here as a boy. He was fascinated with this tree. Having been born on Coruscant, a planet of steel and stone, he knew nothing like it." Isn't it amazing how from his first appearance in AOTC until now after Tales of the Jedi he evolved from a side villain discarded by the main villain after his usage was expired into a second Anakin, with a backstory about as tragic as his'?
0:39 The transitions you've used are breathtaking! 1:48 And you've utilised so much material, the Micro Series, the Game Teasers, this is sophisticated, worthy of recognition in the archives of the Jedi Order!
beautiful, great understanding of this great characters struggle. dooku is the one star wars figure that feels so misunderstood. a great and very capable person being twisted into evil to bring about honor and justice but fell short because he was to old
Dooku more compelling bad guy than fricken palpatine. You really appreciate characters like dooku when you’re older. Everyone loves maul for obvious reasons. Dooku is actually the peoples champion he wanted best case scenario for everyone and the order no longer prioritized that so he left. Very compelling like I said
Watching this again after Dooku in Tales of the Jedi and it fits perfectly. Kudos to you for creating such masterpiece that stands to George’s and Filoni’s storytelling throughout the years.
Wow. This a stunning peace of editing. From your command of pacing, to your diligence in your incorporation of expanded media, to your matching of audio to visuals this is simply exemplary. I didn’t think it possible but I think you just shot even higher on my list of favourite fan editors than you were before.
Dooku was the best example of an actual Dark Jedi - and in term, became a Sith and ultimately a pawn. His hubris and pride was fed as well as his pot local idealistic ideas in order to be used as a tool and then thrown away.
I wouldn't mind getting Count Dooku series fully focused on him being discovered as jedi and his journey into the dark side , I surely think master Qui-gon jinn would approve 🥺
Dooku is one of those characters that sounds so fascinating in concept, but unfortunately suffers from poor execution. He has the perfect origin story for a villainous hero (seeking to use the Sith to achieve a better world, even perhaps avenge his padawan by usurping them), but is all too frequently depicted as just another mustache-twirling monster.
he was a lot better in the show, The Clone Wars. its like Anakin for example. really don't like him in the movies, but in the show i actually really like him cause he is more fleshed out. and that's the normally with all the characters. except Padme..........Padme still sucks, she sucks hard XD
@@scorpionlord9175 Imho the show just makes him seem like simple bad guy that does not even try to hide his evil. If you wanna see some great characterization of Dooku, look up the books and comics
@@jachymfoj uhh, lol, Dooku in the books is not nearly as noble in terms of his portrayal. He's an open xenophobe who even rejected Anakin as a potential pupil due to him having a prosthetic hand. At least in the shows and movies, they imply that he simply dug too deep of a hole for himself as Darth Tyranus.
The carefully chosen clips are actually insane. How someone can pick apart that many important clips relevant to the shifting narrative is so much more impressive than it needed to be. When Padme talks about how the republic could be the evil, and it’s when the senate runs out of power so it showers them in red… as in their complicitness… The part where he says “war” and how he was just as clouded as the Jedi during it, and it shows the clip from the 2d cartoon. Bravo, bravo.
Dooku was one of the most misunderstood characters in the series. Seen as a villainous servant of the Sith when he was just a man who wanted change. He wanted better for the people of the galaxy, but he understood only power could change anything. And he was willing to do what ever it took in the pursuit of it. One of my favorite characters.
It is very interesting to have another aspect of the separatist ! There is compassion and this clip shows also the difficulty to say that Dooku and the alliance are evil !
This is why I love the prequel movies and The Clone Wars. It’s a complex and entangling web. You may be presented with who the “heroes” and “villains” are, but you see the bad points of the former and the good points of the latter.
honestly a show like kenobi on dooku's realisation of how the jedis lost their way with all their politics, his efforts to change it back to it s honourfull ways and his inevitable fall to the darkside would be fucking amazing
I long to go home. Truly tragic words. Man when you look back so many red flags a signs and the jedi where to blind to see Yoda in my opinion just sucks he did very little to stop these events.
"I am tired, Master. So tired. And like any old man, as the end nears, I long to go home".
The older I get the harder that hits.
That’s from dark rendezvous
Yo when he said that quote, I felt that in my soul. When all of your efforts in your entire life that you dedicated to changing an entire universe, regardless of how ethical it was, was all for naught.
This hurts almost as much as my ex cheating on me.
I just turned 20 and this definitely feels deep
@@kalvin187douglas Damn bro turned 21 and still hits, especially because I enlisted and staying away from home hurts more and more
@@trexoil7774 give it another 40 years…
Fun fact: Yoda mourned Dooku for the rest of his life on Dagobah, haunted by his greatest student; his greatest 'failure'. And yes, in spite of the whole, 'mourn them do not, miss them do not' stuff.
Maybe he gave up that hypocritical Jedi crap after Order 66
Touching as that is it really drives home their hypocrisy & how even the great master Yoda, a 900 year perfect example of a Jedi still wasn’t enough & failed Anakin, Dooku, Bariss, Quinlan, etc.
Yes…. What a _fun_ fact
@@ErrorNumber404 The sarcasm is strong with this one...
Yoda as amazing of a master he was, was an extreme hypocrite due to his dogmatic following of the Jedi order (yet he wasn’t even the most dogmatic among the Jedi). This is why I feel Yoda has the best arc out of all the characters present in all three trilogies as he’s constantly learning from his mistakes and changing himself, even as a thousand+ year old creature/spirit
It makes Dooku's inglorious death all the more tragic.
It was all for naught.
False. You miss the big picture. Without dooku Anakin wouldn't have fulfilled his destiny
@@Reiles_Cole It worked out for Sidious, but it wasn't exactly what Dooku was hoping for when he first left the order, lol. I think that's what the OP was saying
@@Progger11 no for Dooku he set Anakin on the path of bringing balance so even his sin is arrogantly on point. Anakin brings balance because Dooku set him to be Sidious's
@@Reiles_Cole Except Sheev won in the end didnt he.
@@worndown8280 no Anakin brought balance to the force.
As an average dooku enjoyer,this is truly a certfied dooku classic
same
from where are some of the voices they were saying because it wasnt from clone wars or prequels i think like the voices he was young
Count Dooku is underrated, I love him
Dooku is actually underrated.
Count Dooku is an all time classic villain
Dooku is kind of broken character... Can't call him completely evil, especially after hearing him says "I'm tired, Master..."
I wouldn't even call him evil at all. I think at heart heis actually a good man, at least he has noble intentions. Sadly he was corrupted by Sidious and the dark side though.
Do you know from when that Dooku line is?
@@nicowatzek325 count dooku started off with good intentions, his love for luxury and his quest for power corrupted him to the dark side. the dark side is a disease. Maul wasn't initially evil either. or his brother, Savage.
Some guy said perfect quote for this:
"The Path to Hell is paved with Good intentions"
I think he saw himself as the good guy
I can't believe how many people haven't read Dooku: Jedi Lost. One of the best Star Wars books ever written and it's in script form. They could turn it into a movie if they wanted to easily.
I read it now :D
Its even better in audiobook form, i highly suggest it.
@@Jon-rv9oh Yeah, I'm sure it's great. I've never read a book that was an actual script like this one so it's like a movie in your head while you're reading it. I just wish they could have turned it into an actual animated film.
@@Jon-rv9oh I like that the actor for Dooku also voiced the Sith Inquisitor in SWTOR.
@@minicle426 Christopher Lee?
The story telling in this video was absolutely incredible.
It's not his story though. It's taken from the book Dooku: Jedi Lost. It's a must-read if you want to really know his backstory and it's written in script form.
@@Snatchystashy Nobody claimed it was his story. It’s literally credited in the video description.
@@ryanbright1363 you be surprised how many people don't read those descriptions.
It's poetically done, it really is. And the music in the background adds so much to it too!
2:23 Russia: The Ukraine cannot be fixed. It is time to start over.
"But I could have been so much more!"
Hearing Young Dooku say that for the first time gave me chills
dooku should have his own series or movie
Silas Carson (Ki Adi Mundi, Nute Gunray) could play him. He has the height and looks a lot like Christopher Lee did in his Hammer Horror days.
yeah
Dude that would be awesome
Like 90 percent of characters can get their own stories.
Bro his lightsaber fights would be INSANE
From a certain point of view Dooku made a an enormous personal sacrifice to do what he thought was right. He joined the Sith, started a war, and killed many people to point out the flaws of the Jedi and the Republic so something better could take their place.
It is unfortunate that his idealism was used for nefarious purposes by Sidious.
He was also unique in that he had no desire (or an extremely muted one) to usurp Palpatine. He always discussed the larger goals, not his immediate profit.
@@nerdock4747 Ironically, Sidious had Dooku try and execute Asajj Ventress when she started to get stronger; paranoid of Dooku trying to kill him with her help. Obviously Dooku would be hard-carrying that fight as Ventress is nowhere near strong enough to truly challenge Palpatine.
But still, although simply putting it down to bad TCW series writing, as a cynical means to move the necessary characters around in 2013 ish to make the Maul comeback possible, is tempting, it should show how strong Dooku really was. Palpatine was not totally safe from him.
@@ThePalaeontologist I would think it was obvious that Palpatine wasn't so much concerned with Ventress right that second so much as Ventress several years in the future. She was growing more powerful at an exponential rate, exceeded only by Anakin for obvious reason's. She evidently had an enormous amount of potential, likely more then Dooku himself.
@@papapalps2415 Haha no, not more than Dooku.
@@ThePalaeontologist ....Yes, likely more then Dooku. By midway through the Clone Wars she already could give Anakin a decent fight, who himself could at least press Dooku. Granted, she did fall off in comparison to little Annie towards the end rather hard, but I would wager that's less a fall off and more Anakin's unholy potential coming into play. This despite Ventress not only starting from virtually nothing, but also being denied access to most Sith secrets and knowledge to boot.
I will add that it is ultimately impossible to say at the end if the day, and that while Dooju was obviously close to as high as he could go, he DID seem to grow somewhat himself in power over the Clone Wars, too.
"I feel them all, the dead. Beating in me like a vein about to burst" hell of a good line
Was that Qui-Gon? I havent seen the show
@@Crafty_Spirit It's from the audiobook of Yoda, Dark Rendezvous. It's Dooku who says it
@@ghanphol Oh thanks so much. I have the actual novel but it's like twelve years ago that I read it. It was my favourite Clone Wars novel (that was translated into German) of that period. It just has more of a subtle and emotionally complex touch than much other material
@@ghanphol But in my ears he sounds so alike to Liam Neeson 😅
@@Crafty_Spirit haha, I get you. It doesn't help that with a franchise as huge as star wars, lots of different people will end up voicing one character. I get confused a lot!
Happy I could be of help 😁
After Tales of Jedi, this fit more than ever
"I am tired, master. So tired. And like any old man, as the end nears, I long to go home" gotta be on of my favorite quotes from dooku.
That's from Dark Rendezvous if I remember correctly. Great book from what I heard, and that indeed is a great quote, unfortunately though it's not canon anymore
The sophistication and excerpts chosen match perfectly with your clips. I love how Count Dooku is essentially if Qui-Gon joined the dark side. But you can really see why he left the Jedi order with it's decline of being morally willing to moral complacency that eventually lead to the Jedi tapping into the dark side and compromise everything they once stood for.
I don't think Qui Gon would of done some of the things Dooku did like get involved in the slave trade.
@@rc59191 As a light force user no, that's why I said if he was a dark side force user
@@FATE522 you can use the dark side and still have a code and morals. We don't see it often but it does sometimes happen.
@@rc59191 Okay and where is it justified?
@@rc59191 Yeah, like Lana Beniko from SWTOR, she's a sith with some sort of code and morals.
Rest In Peace, “Christofer Lee” you have done amazing in “Star Wars II & III”
Don’t forget lord of the rings :)
I love how Grevious, Maul, and Dooku are shadows of Anakin's change to Vader, and that bit at the end where he says he wants to go home as he nears his end.....up there with Malak realizing as he dies he is nothing but a corpse now at the end of KOTOR....some of best Dark Side quotes I've heard so far I think...
Maul represents the urge, the goal you go to, even though you do it wrong way.
Grievous is a representation of a loosing fight, a battle that you try to win even if it takes everything you have and had.
Dooku is a reason you fight. A true consequences of your fight, and what you think they would be.
Emperor is a false friend. The one that says to be your ally only to end up using you because he is too weak to acomplish his goals
Vader is a fallen men, what's left of you after you loose everything, get used by a false friend and doesn't get rid of this urge to continue, to try to gain what you wanted.
People like Phasma, Thrawn, Tarkin or Hux are those gullible ones believing that your case is right no matter what this would be.
Kylo Ren is a part that tries to make you blend in something else so you can be accepted even if you know it's wrong
In the end the question is not what to do, because if a change is needed it will to be done sooner or later. The question is how to make a change without becoming anything from above?
Dooku is such a great character. He's a dark side user yet he doesn't let it overtake him. He also makes genuinley good points about The Jedi Order and The Republic as a whole.
Yes that is absolutly true!
he is a man trying to usurp a system that isn't working for the people...if you look into history, there are countless like him - as a German mainstream thought is that millions of Germans just became Nazis somehow, evil butchers, ready to commit mass atrocities and to kill millions of people ..but that simply isn't true, all evil has an origin and back then the democracy imposed on the Germans was not working, people were starving, going as far as prostituting themselves on the streets of the capital, the system was corrupt, serving in their minds only foreign interests, endless profiteering and small-scale rebellions..the intentions of voting for the right-wing parties was not initially evil, they just yearned for safety and someone to 'right the ship'...similar conditions led to the fall of democracy in Russia in the 2000s..
if framed differently, many autocracies are a response to a failed organisation of society within the democracy that proceeds it...the results are often evil still - dooku is a more realistic character than sidious..someone thinking he is doing right by the people but ultimately corrupted on the way of achieving the result
If you think on it long enough, you begin to realise that Count Dooku was right from the beginning. He saw that the Jedi had become complacent with its position of influence within the Republic, that the Republic itself grew more corrupt as its power and influence had expanded over time unchallenged and that there still existed a great many evils in the galaxy that neither the Jedi or the Republic seemed concerned with confronting. His strive for a separatist movement was met with the hostility from the Jedi and Republic because they endeavored to forge their own path, free over the oppressive inadequacies of the Jedi and Republic, who were blind to their own flaws. Dooku never strived for Domination of the Galaxy, simply that he could achieve his full potential and make a lasting difference in the galaxy.
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“The Jedi are supposed to protect the Galaxy and yet we remove ourselves from it. Cut ourselves out.”
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“Have you ever considered that we may be on the wrong side? What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists? And the republic is the very evil we’ve been fighting to destroy.”
The irony of both the Jedi and the republic not to mention the clones
The problem is everyone is being manipulated by one man and well this is from Dooku's POV not whats actually happening.
@@Aeluron well I mean the bit about the Jedi’s true they failed the moment they became apathetic & hypocritical, but ironically they were all in the wrong side.
@@Aeluron The second one true the senate is corrupt and inefficent this is what Palpatine use for usurping power. + They don't even help the outer systema, Douku is right about the republic.
@@Ijahlovesa it’s dooku as a young Jedi I thought. Either that or his master which was Syfo Dias I thought
@@blackadam6445 I thought it was Ventress…wait no I’m thinking of a different line in this video
The most painful thing for Yoda that made his failure even worse, was that Dooku didn't fall to the darkside as a young man like Anakin, but as an old jedi veteran counting off his last years. Even after having been with the jedi for so long, having done so much good, he still fell. reminding Yoda once more of the fact how detached he was from reality, together with the council.
This is why i consider Dooku to be an even greater tragedy than Anakin. Although both were very similar. Both had an inner conflict of identity and both desired power. both were dissolusioned by the jedi council and both went on to do what they believed was for the best, despite what everyone thought. The big difference is that Anakin fell as a young man in his prime, but Dooku fell at the very end.
I remember how in the episode where they have “The Box” Dooku introduces various bounty hunters, and one he mentions used to be a peaceful and gentle people, to which the manta thing laughs, and he says “How far they have fallen…” in this mournful voice that tells you he’s still trying to, in his own way, save the Galaxy, even if he must be destroyed to do it.
The deleted scene from AotC shouldn't be deleted. It informed us well, how Dooku left the order peacefully and only then became Sith - which nobody did know. It explains, why Mace didn't just kill him. They didn't realise that their old friend was the heart of the war.
“The Republic cannot be fixed, it is time to start over”
Based
literally the European Union
and the US
@@matthewchitcarof5692depending on how you want to restart and why I agree
when you realise that dooku wasn't even wrong, he just went about it the wrong way, like most people " the path to hell is paved with good intentions"
“Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get grey. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but grey”.
ANGEL, "HABEAS CORPSES"
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@@amitkenan3878 dooku is kinda like as shown in here qui gon, or even ahsoka, or anakin.
I think there is a little more ambiguity to that. I love the Sith Lords. I think they are fascinating. Exploring what it takes to push people into the dark. But... I have to admit it is worrisome to me sometimes, the number of people who confuse that fascination with "Maybe they were right?" The Sith Lords are objectively worse people than some of the greatest tyrants, rapists, murderers and dictators in our real world history. The scale of what they do, and their rationalizations for it, are in someways worse than any serial killer or genocidal dictator the real world human race has ever produced. They are fantastic villains for it.
I think Dooku started out an idealist, but he still a Sith Lord. I think we forget what means. To be a Sith Lord, isn't a snazzy title that lets you shoot lightning out your fingers. Its so much more than that. He wasn't a dark Jedi, or a Force user who dips into the dark in desperation. He was *Darth Tyrannus* , Dark Lord of the Sith; in another timeline, in another way, he could have supplanted Sidious with Ventress as his Vader. You can't use the Dark Side of the Force as proficiently as he does, without a truly beastly level of hate, cruelty, and pain. To be a Sith Lord, you need to *want* it. More than anything. More than love. More than a political ideal. A person for whom POWER is the ends, not merely the means. A person for whom the Self is the only fundamental reality.
Vader may have started down the road in order to save Padme, but when the time came, he chose his power over his love.
Dooku may have started down the road to serve Serranno, but in the end, when push comes to shove, he will serve himself over all. He was still a murderer, a war criminal, a slaughter of entire worlds.
I don't think its enough to say he was right, but went about it the wrong way. His very ideology was corrupt from the start. Because his way wasn't a last resort. It wasn't the path he was forced down. It was the path he chose. When confronted with a broken system, his first impulse was to say "The correct thing to do now is to kill billions." And there is no way for that to be anything other than evil.
In my opinion, part of the allure of the Sith Lords, is their all encompassing, mind numbing capacity for evil. They are the apex of selfishness, powerlust and the ultimate expression of the "might makes right" ideology that you will find at the core of every human atrocity ever committed.
@@benlowe1701 i mean you can apply it to real life, hitler was a nutjob for starting the war but that doesn't change the fact that after ww1 the germans were treated horribly wich ultimately gave rise to the hate wich led to his rise. I think at the end of the day a lot of people have the right intentions or so they think what they do is right but just go about it the wrong way wich lead them down the dark path
He's been my #1 Star Wars character since 2002.. miss Sir Christopher Lee forever💥 Thank you for creating this.
Personally I prefer Sheev, but Yan is certainly up there.
Dude added serious clout to the idea of a what a real Sith lord should be. Not for teh evulz but a wielder of great power for a cause.
@@fanaticbogey Great comment👍
"I long to go home" is the saddest thing if you have old people in your life as its a thing they say before they die and it will break you every time they say it.
So many missed opportunities with Dooku’s story. I definitely believe a redemptive ark could’ve been possible and awesome to see. Even if he wasn’t fully redeemed, Dooku potentially realizing he did not fit into the final plans of Sidious would’ve been cool to watch unfold
sadly they wasted his potential. i really like him, sad they just killed one of the best sword fighters in the galaxy so easily
@@magicalowl4322 i heard somewhere it was said that Palpatine told Dooku to go easy on Anakin and that the plan would be getting Dooku captured (and later released) and thats why Dooku looked at Palpatine shocked when he told Anakin to kill him.
@@magicalowl4322 Easily? He beat Obi-wan and only lost to the literal Chosen One.
Not all tragic villains need a redemption arc.
Sometimes the lack of one, just as they realise their wrongs but before they have the chance to make amends, makes the character all the more sympathetic and profound.
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That’s what Palpatine told him but in the novel Dooku realizes he is fighting an uphill battle and starts trying
After Tales Of The Jedi, this video is even better, the story of Count Dooku is so tragic 💔
Indeed. Before the tragedy of Darth Vader, there was the agony of Darth Tyrannus.
Dooku is the fallen idealist that had great ideas, he was one the few that could see through the lies and hypocrisy of the Jedis
Unfortunately for him, he was just pawn, being lured and manipulated to the dark side, more and more
What a underrated character
He is a total parallel to Anakin, both were jedi fallen to the dark side, both were fallen heroes, both wanted to protect their loved ones but ended up killing them and both were mere pawns for Sidious, unlike Dooku, Anakin survives the betrayal.
Yep. For me Dooku's character is the epitome of tragedy and how the mighty fall.
The most noble _goaled_ character in Star Wars was killed by someone he intentionally spared on multiple occasions after being betrayed by the 1 man in the galaxy he thought he could trust.
Anakin ONLY survived most of their duels because Dooku let him.
Well, and Anakin's plot armor helped. Dooku was much more fleshed out in The Clone Wars show and a book I don't care to remember or look up. He is Tragic, and was one of many who started down the dark path with good intentions. He went out like a b1tch tho.
Dooku is one of the most if not the most classy jedi and sith, he valued honor and peace, even as sith he didn't intend to kill jedi, he wanted to make them join him an Palpatine.
For me at least, besides the gigachad attitude, soothing voice and complex personality, Dooku has one of the most tragic stories in the series.
I love SO MUCH that you used that deleted scene of Jocasta Nu talking to Obi-Wan about Dooku, and Dooku talking to Padme. I wish it had been left in the original film. Amazing tribute.
Dooku is such an underated character, love this!
He's become more powerful than any Jedi, yet ignored by most people 😞
@@Fra93TheGrande Very powerful - but not as powerful as Mace Windu (especially while using vaapad) or Yoda. Even Sidious couldn't compete.
@@GAMEOVER-ns1gz ummmmm in not sure about that
@@GAMEOVER-ns1gz What are you even saying? Sidings threw the fight with Mace after going like 20 years without touching a lightsaber, and would go on to trash Yoda.
@@fiddlesticks7245didn’t throw the fight it was confirmed he beat him by Lucas
When you realized that Count Dooku was trying to change similarly like Revan before him.
R.I.P. to Sir Christopher Lee for given a best performance of this character.
This is seriously a masterpiece
Agreed!
The carefully chosen clips are actually insane. How someone can pick apart that many important clips relevant to the shifting narrative is so much more impressive than it needed to be.
When Padme talks about how the republic could be the evil, and it’s when the senate runs out of power so it showers them in red… as in their complicitness…
The part where he says “war” and how he was just as clouded as the Jedi during it, and it shows the clip from the 2d cartoon. Bravo, bravo.
This is beautiful. The motive of Count Dooku and what the Confederacy was fighting for is truly underrated.
Agree!! The CIS was truly one of the most interesting things of the clone wars!
What were they fighting for, I don’t understand. Is it just to have a world with no fighting?
@@jacob_deere3522 they wanted to remove the over taxes systems that bleed their worlds dry and indipendance. The republic permitted corporations in its government and favoured profits over civilian lives. This angered dooku and myself as leaders fight for the people not mere items that can be given and taken like food for a pet. The droid army was another way to show humanitarian sides so practically no organics would suffer the pain of war on their side and like me see clone soldiers as slavery. I would have honestly joined the sepratists if their was a side I was forces to choose. But in the end both sides were led secretly by the sith so their downfall was inevitable.
@@Generalphoenix8438 on ideals alone, great idea. Execution however….. hundreds of millions of dead and many war crimes
@@ErrorNumber404 that was the only problem with the faction. If they weren't hijacked from the sith. They could have literally become the rebellion. Plus the republic was no better before the war started. Again because the sith took control of the republic.
Am I the only who thinks this will be one of the best Star Wars projects that should be made
“Dooku Jedi lost” is one of the greatest pieces of literature Starwars has ever made
Beautiful! almost makes me tear up, he was such a lonely man.
Dooku is by far one of the most beautiful characters of star wars
"Dooku is by far one of the most beautiful characters of star wars" Wow! What a lovely way to put it. And yes, I agree with you.
@@00andrescab00 yes! Definetly
@@00andrescab00 I have found my people
@@LordVader1094 Me too
One of the most beautiful, and one of the most tragic.
Dooku forged his own path, trying to protect the vulnerable, and bring the corrupt to justice, even if it harmed his career he was always willing to do the right thing.
In the end though, he became the very thing he swore to destroy, as the dark side tainted his ethical nature into cruelty, and corrupted his soul.
Dooku has so much depth to him, I'm really glad he's gotten more chances to shine in the new shorts and hope one day to get a full blown Dooku show.
Darth Porg once again delivers an outstanding piece. Superb work, here's hoping we get more Dooku content at some point, I really enjoyed reading Master and Apprentice.
Where is the voice dialogue from? Sounds like the Outsider from Dishonoured at one point. Anybody know who says "but I could of been so much more!!!"?
Christopher Lee brought Dooku to life like no other actor coule.
Dooku is such an underappreciated character
Count Dooku, the Sith Who Cared.
Finally dooku got what he deserved as a character in tales of the jedi
No
Dude, this needs to be remade with Dookus new Tales of the Jedi episodes
If only they listened to you sir Dooku if only 😢 how many lives could’ve been speared.. what a tragedy
"Corruption like yours must be eradicated!"
"For a Jedi to succumb to a surprise attack is rare, unless that attack came from someone one would trust. Like you. I will have the truth."
"I used to bring Qui-Gon here as a boy. He was fascinated with this tree. Having been born on Coruscant, a planet of steel and stone, he knew nothing like it."
Isn't it amazing how from his first appearance in AOTC until now after Tales of the Jedi he evolved from a side villain discarded by the main villain after his usage was expired into a second Anakin, with a backstory about as tragic as his'?
omule te vad peste tot la videoclipuri cu dooku. Esti bazat rau.
0:39 The transitions you've used are breathtaking! 1:48
And you've utilised so much material, the Micro Series, the Game Teasers, this is sophisticated, worthy of recognition in the archives of the Jedi Order!
After the Obi Wan series, we need a Dooku series.
Dooku and Maul are the best characters in Star Wars, and those tributes made me fall in love with them.
Count Dooku is one of my favorite Star Wars characters. Thank you for making this.
This hits harder after Tales of the Jedi. I need a remake of it with the scenes of TOTJ.
This definitely needs a remake. It's so good
Especially after Tales of the Jedi
Farewell Count, your struggle will never be forgotten. The separatist spirit will never fade...
You're one man against a galaxy full of scoundrels
beautiful, great understanding of this great characters struggle. dooku is the one star wars figure that feels so misunderstood. a great and very capable person being twisted into evil to bring about honor and justice but fell short because he was to old
Dooku more compelling bad guy than fricken palpatine. You really appreciate characters like dooku when you’re older. Everyone loves maul for obvious reasons. Dooku is actually the peoples champion he wanted best case scenario for everyone and the order no longer prioritized that so he left. Very compelling like I said
Dooku is next to my favorite character. You've captured him perfectly despite the inconsistencies across the lore
“Signature look of superiority”
"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." Harvey Dent
Watching this again after Dooku in Tales of the Jedi and it fits perfectly. Kudos to you for creating such masterpiece that stands to George’s and Filoni’s storytelling throughout the years.
Finally giving dooku the credit he deserves.
Wow. This a stunning peace of editing. From your command of pacing, to your diligence in your incorporation of expanded media, to your matching of audio to visuals this is simply exemplary. I didn’t think it possible but I think you just shot even higher on my list of favourite fan editors than you were before.
This is the movie I didn’t know I wanted.
Dooku: Jedi Lost was written in script form. If you haven't read it yet do yourself a favor because it's amazing.
My favorite character in Star Wars…period. A hero.
Yeah he truly was. It's tragic what he turned into in the end, the dark side truly does corrupt all.
i never thought anyone could make something like this for Tyrannous, but you did!!
Dooku was the best example of an actual Dark Jedi - and in term, became a Sith and ultimately a pawn. His hubris and pride was fed as well as his pot local idealistic ideas in order to be used as a tool and then thrown away.
So Good, So good for Dooku lover like myself. Who love him for his convictions
Count dooku is one of my fav characters. And the fact the awesome Christopher lee is icing on the cake. An absolute legend
How can ppl not like the prequels is beyond me .. the drama and politics of it all
One of the most underrated characters in star wars.
I wouldn't mind getting Count Dooku series fully focused on him being discovered as jedi and his journey into the dark side , I surely think master Qui-gon jinn would approve 🥺
What a great insight into the reasons Dooku lost faith in the Republic.
This is why you are one of my favorite RUclipsrs! You integrated the audiobook, brilliant work!
Imagine the potential a new Dooku video can have with The Tales of The Jedi content released for Dooku.
Rip Sir Christopher Lee a legend
This made me cry… I love Dooku as a character now
"Inside every old man is a young man wondering what happened" - Terry Pratchett
Dooku is one of my favorite star wars characters, his story is so fascinating to me
dooku is the best character in star wars, I've said this ever since I was a child.
Dooku is one of those characters that sounds so fascinating in concept, but unfortunately suffers from poor execution. He has the perfect origin story for a villainous hero (seeking to use the Sith to achieve a better world, even perhaps avenge his padawan by usurping them), but is all too frequently depicted as just another mustache-twirling monster.
he was a lot better in the show, The Clone Wars.
its like Anakin for example. really don't like him in the movies, but in the show i actually really like him cause he is more fleshed out.
and that's the normally with all the characters. except Padme..........Padme still sucks, she sucks hard XD
@@scorpionlord9175 Imho the show just makes him seem like simple bad guy that does not even try to hide his evil. If you wanna see some great characterization of Dooku, look up the books and comics
@@jachymfoj i said he was better, not that he was perfect.
and all the characters(except Padme) were a lot more fleshed out and more enjoyable.
Dooku Jedi Lost is the best dooku story out there
@@jachymfoj uhh, lol, Dooku in the books is not nearly as noble in terms of his portrayal. He's an open xenophobe who even rejected Anakin as a potential pupil due to him having a prosthetic hand. At least in the shows and movies, they imply that he simply dug too deep of a hole for himself as Darth Tyranus.
Dooku is highly underrated. Would've love to see more of his origins
The carefully chosen clips are actually insane. How someone can pick apart that many important clips relevant to the shifting narrative is so much more impressive than it needed to be.
When Padme talks about how the republic could be the evil, and it’s when the senate runs out of power so it showers them in red… as in their complicitness…
The part where he says “war” and how he was just as clouded as the Jedi during it, and it shows the clip from the 2d cartoon. Bravo, bravo.
Dooku was one of the most misunderstood characters in the series. Seen as a villainous servant of the Sith when he was just a man who wanted change. He wanted better for the people of the galaxy, but he understood only power could change anything. And he was willing to do what ever it took in the pursuit of it. One of my favorite characters.
It is very interesting to have another aspect of the separatist ! There is compassion and this clip shows also the difficulty to say that Dooku and the alliance are evil !
This is why I love the prequel movies and The Clone Wars. It’s a complex and entangling web. You may be presented with who the “heroes” and “villains” are, but you see the bad points of the former and the good points of the latter.
This was amazing. Dooku is such a great character and I believe this video represents him so well.
This is very, there Is a difference between a fall and a sacrifice, dooku sacrifice himself just like and old jedi sacrifice himself for compassion
Man last time I was this early, Dooku still had his hands
"I long to go home"
Damn.
So happy to see you uploading again, absolutely adored this!
honestly a show like kenobi on dooku's realisation of how the jedis lost their way with all their politics, his efforts to change it back to it s honourfull ways and his inevitable fall to the darkside would be fucking amazing
An excellent homage to my favorite Star Wars character. Good stuff sir.
The new "Tales of the Jedi" makes his character, Dooku, even better.
Every time I have looped this video, only makes me want a Count Dooku series.
Some bits realy give me GoT fibes like the way its spoken, the music. Amazing
Great now I want a dooku series
I long to go home. Truly tragic words. Man when you look back so many red flags a signs and the jedi where to blind to see Yoda in my opinion just sucks he did very little to stop these events.