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FortuneCookie posted...

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.

Anakin would have been even less likely to be accepted as a Jedi at that point. He was too old at age 9. A 20-year old Padawan trainee? I don't even think Qui-Gon would have given him a second look. Luke only got it because of his heritage and because Obi-Wan and Yoda were out of options.