LogFAQs > #962979325

It's awesome that they got Christopher Lee to be in two Star Wars movies after getting Peter Cushing to be in the first one, but the character doesn't have much in the way of screen presence and the name Dooku sounds like a child's nickname for fecal matter. "Eww. You stepped in dooku!"

Darth Maul is the kind of villain you can put on a movie poster and make people want to see it. The prequel trilogy made several mistakes. Writing him out after the first one is one of the big ones. You might be arguing that the time skip made it essential, but the time skip is part of the problem. Anakin should have been a teen or young adult when the trilogy began.