Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

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Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

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I know I wondered at the time, as articles had suggested, if she really had died of a broken heart. I found that strange as she’d just given birth and she didn’t strike me as the sort of person who’d easily ‘abandon’ those she loves. Battle Above Coruscant · Battlefront II · Disney Magic Kingdoms · Episode III: Revenge of the Sith · LEGO · Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookiees · Star Wars Galaxies: Trials of Obi-Wan Palpatine: When I die, my knowledge dies with me. Unless, that is, I have the opportunity to teach it ... to my apprentice ... While the duel between Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Count Dooku is relatively short in the movie, its appearance in the novelization depicts it as the longest one in the story. Added elements include Dooku using the Force to fling chairs and tables against the two Jedi. In the film, Obi-Wan overhears Grievous briefing the Separatist Council about their new hideaway on Mustafar before they depart in front of Kenobi's eyes. In the book, the Council departs days before Kenobi's arrival. Grievous witnesses them frightfully scurry onto their starship.

Stover has given us more detail on the political side of the story. Far from being dry and boring, even these scenes are infused with drama.

Everyone Is a Suspect: The Jedi hunt for Sidious ultimately doesn't benefit much from the discoveries of Labyrinth of Evil. Even without the Jurisdiction Friction with the Chancellor’s Office, the intel the Jedi uncovered during Labyrinth— that Sidious is a bipedal humanoid and has easy accesss to 500 Republica and thus to Papatine –- doesn’t significantly narrow down the field of suspects. There are still far too many possibilities, from aides to Vice-Chancellor Mas Amedda; Mace also wouldn't put it past Sidious to be hiding among Palpatine's Guards. The irony of course is that, by all that same deductive/evidentiary logic, Palpatine should also be considered a suspect, but they’ve written him off as Beneath Suspicion since he already all but rules the galaxy. Boga had known, somehow...the dragonmount had known what Obi-Wan had been incapable of even suspecting, and without hesitation she'd given her life to save her rider. Villainous Breakdown: Dooku's starts when he realizes he underestimated Obi-Wan and Anakin, and it culminates in him begging for his life when Palpatine's Uriah Gambit becomes all too clear to him. This part was removed from the movie since Christopher Lee thought it was out of character, so Anakin just executes him without Dooku saying a word.

Entertainingly Wrong: Until Anakin reveals the truth, the Jedi Council, Mace Windu in particular, believes that Palpatine is merely a (possibly unwitting) puppet of Darth Sidious, rather than the Dark Lord himself. The battle sequence is expanded in the book, and detailed descriptions of a small number of maneuvers are included, such as the Slip Jaws maneuver. Also, the damage caused to Obi-Wan's fighter by the Buzz Droids is much more severe, to the point where his ship has lost all maneuverability. Yoda suffers this at Sidious's hands. He admits that he had grown arrogant and inflexible, and the Jedi complacent, making their defeat against the Sith inevitable. After years of civil war, the Separatists have battered the already faltering Republic nearly to the point of collapse. On Coruscant, the Senate watches anxiously as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine aggressively strips away more and more constitutional liberties in the name of safeguarding the Republic. Yoda, Mace Windu, and their fellow Masters grapple with the Chancellor's disturbing move to assume control of the Jedi Council. And Anakin Skywalker, the prophesied Chosen One, destined to bring balance to the Force, is increasingly consumed by his fear that his secret love, Senator Padmé Amidala, will die.Towards the end of the book, it's implied there's an anti-droid feeling beginning to spread around Coruscant. In the novelization, we glimpse more of the tragic couple's relationship and how it headed so rapidly toward its downfall. The scene where Padmé tells Anakin she is pregnant with their child is extended: Desperate to find a way to save the one he loves more than anything, Anakin finds himself torn between Obi-Wan and Palpatine. Stover makes various factors more obvious – the clouding of the Force, the Jedi’s decreased numbers from being spread throughout the galaxy because of the war, and their dependence on their clone troopers. Mistaken for Cheating: Anakin thinks this of Padmé and Obi-Wan, courtesy of Palpatine's insinuations.

One-Man Army: Jedi in general, but especially Obi-Wan and Anakin, the latter of whom is described as "a brigade's worth of firepower in his own right." And then there was Palpatine, of course: he was beyond power. He showed nothing of what might be within. Though seen with the eyes of the dark side itself, Palpatine was an event horizon. Beneath his entirely ordinary surface was absolute, perfect nothingness. Darkness beyond darkness. Yet it was as though when he had crushed the dragon under his boot, the dragon had sunk venomed fangs into his heel. In the novel, Dooku is depicted as being clearly overpowered by the Jedi, with both Obi-Wan and Anakin being nearly as powerful as he is. He panics and spends most of his energy to take out Obi-Wan before Anakin kills him.Unusual Euphemism: C-3PO suggests on Padmé's behalf that she and Anakin might "avoid a public scene" all afternoon and all night.

Anakin's guilt at killing Dooku in cold blood is expanded upon compared to the movie, showing his inner thoughts reflecting upon his actions. We Do the Impossible: It's explicitly stated that Anakin stands out in this regard, even for a Jedi. Obi-Wan even reflects on this at one point: "But for Anakin Skywalker, the completely impossible had an eerie way of being merely difficult." Centipede's Dilemma: At one point during the duel, Dooku taunts Anakin over the anger in his heart and his fear of said anger. This causes Anakin to worry about controlling his anger, ruining his ability to fight. He's even compared to the Corellian multipede. The book's main achievement is the way it gets into the mind of Anakin Skywalker, as a person who's absolutely paralyzed by a fear of loss despite being tremendously powerful. He remembered Obi-Wan telling him about some poet he'd once read—he couldn't remember the name, or the exact quote, but it was something about how there is no greater misery than to remember, with bitter regret, a day when you were happy...

A subtle one: Yoda muses that the Jedi cannot hope to defeat the Sith as they are now in open combat. As it turns out, when Palpatine is defeated, it will be through The Power of Love instead. Palpatine: I am. I am also your friend. I am also the man who has always been here for you. I am the man you have never needed to lie to. I am the man who wants nothing from you but that you follow your conscience. If that conscience requires you to commit murder, simply over a ... philosophical difference ... I will not resist. Anakin, when I told you that you can have anything you want, did you think I was excluding my life?



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