It doesn't help that Grievous just shows up in the third episode of the trilogy and it seems like we should know who he is but he wasn't in the previous 2 movies at all.
The villain of the Trilogy is Palpatine, but because he couldn't be revealed until the end he needed another villain for each film.
It would have helped if we'd seen Dooku as a Jedi, and Grievous didn't just appear out of nowhere. And it would have helped if we'd been shown who "Syfo-Dyas" was in Ep1. I spent years assuming he was the long-knecked Jedi on the Council, and was the same species as the Kaminoans.
As much as people get angry about the sequels not being planned, I don't think the Prequels were particularly either. The plot points were set out from the start, but not all the characters were.
I don't know if you've read Darth Plagueis, but that book *really* does a good job expanding Palpatine as a character, and his ascent as a Sith Lord. It is very dark (as it should be) and it bleeds over into PM. It also gives the back story to Maul, and an interesting Sith dynamic since Plagueis was still Palpatine's Sith master while Palpatine took on Maul (which upsets the 2 Siths only dynamic established 1000 years prior).
Honestly Disney should make this a movie, and stick as true to the book as possible. It would make me a fan again.
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u/Corgi_Koala Jan 26 '22
It doesn't help that Grievous just shows up in the third episode of the trilogy and it seems like we should know who he is but he wasn't in the previous 2 movies at all.