Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

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Explosive Instrumentation: The Neimoidians that are not killed by Grievous die when their consoles explode under Republic fire. In the film their fates are mostly unseen, though the film does show the occasional battle-droid snuffing it. Anakin Skywalker, recognizing the consequences of what he did by revealing Palpatine, rushed to the Chancellor's office. Shaak Ti stood in his way and tried to convince Anakin not to go, but Anakin rudely refused to obey the Jedi Master. Count Dooku, conversing with his master, the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, wonders if it’s possible to give Kenobi one last chance to join them, arguing that the ‘ “support of a Jedi of his integrity would be invaluable in establishing the political legitimacy of our Empire. ”’ 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? 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.

Palpatine owns a sculpture made of solid neuranium, a mineral so dense that most sensors cannot penetrate it. A more powerful gravimetric detector would have shown that one part of the sculpture has just a little less mass than it should, because it contains Sidious's Sith lightsaber. He not only does this with Obi-Wan and Anakin, Palpatine and Dooku, but also with Yoda, Padmé, Mace Windu, Bail Organa, even with C-3PO. Obi-Wan: Your outburst in the Council was an eloquent argument against granting you Mastery. How can you be a Jedi Master when you have not mastered yourself? Desperate to find a way to save the one he loves more than anything, Anakin finds himself torn between Obi-Wan and Palpatine.

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We Can Rule Together: Anakin actually makes this offer to Padmé, saying that Palpatine can call himself "The Emperor" and make himself the most-hated man in the galaxy and then they can overthrow him and rule together. Padmé, who has been a tireless advocate for democracy, is naturally appalled. Body Motifs: The novelization does this with Anakin's mechanical hand. It aches when Count Dooku is near, crushes things when he's angry, and is mentioned often. It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith— Pragmatic Adaptation: The novelization is a departure from the other movie novelizations in that it isn't just a prettied-up transcript of the movie. Matt Stover changed parts of the script given to him and expanded on some points while minimizing others, and introduced symbolism and imagery totally original to the text. George Lucas approved all of the changes he made.

And There Was Much Rejoicing: Downplayed, but when Mace learns that Dooku is dead, he almost smiles, knowing that without Dooku, the Confederacy will collapse. Stover’s explanations with regards to the characters aren’t info-dumps. They add to and flesh out the characters, making them more whole, and that, in turn, enhances the story. 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 The Revenge of the Sith · The Film Novel · Little Golden Book · Read-Along Storybook and CD · The Prequel Trilogy Stories In the fight, Mace Windu realized that Sidious's shatterpoint was Anakin Skywalker himself. When Anakin approached Mace, who was struggling to deflect the lightning blasts, Mace sensed that Sidious did not fear Anakin at all, and that the Sith Lord would make no move to defend himself. Mace concluded that this was the shatterpoint of the Sith, and the absolute shatterpoint of the dark side itself.Later, in a Meaningful Echo, the Clone Wars themselves are described as "the perfect Jedi trap" because war itself has been used to darken the Force and weaken the Jedi, but because they are Jedi, they can't not fight in defense of the Republic—a Republic that has already fallen into their enemy's hands, though they know it not. "By fighting at all, the Jedi lost."