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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 2097375" data-attributes="member: 4720">You would be surprised how many non-fans I know who STILL have no idea Palpatine is Sidious.  I just explained it AGAIN the other day when one of the undergrads in my lab was watching the trailer and freaked out when he saw Palpy charge Mace and his little posse."...the character design is wasted in a cheap death"Fixed that for you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  There was an interesting character design, but no character there to speak of.  And as for Dooku.... blasphemy!  I was thrilled to see an ACTUAL villain in the apprentice role instead of style over substance.Plus, the sword-fights with him did a much better job of looking like someone who knew what he was doing.  That asinine double-lightsaber was the second worst idea in TPM.It is, however, dramatically useless.  It is impossible to lose such a fight.  Without the constraint of a body hooked to the sword, it can slip around any attack instantly and end the fight in about 1/4 of a second.Besides, I find it to be of dubious coolness.  Using the Force to propel his 800+ year old body into battle is cool, even if I dislike some aspects of the execution.  Personally, I think they should have spent some more time studying the couple of Kali and Silat masters who are about 4'8".  How those guys fight a tall opponent is freakin' cool.</blockquote>

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