I do not care if Cornell West is black. He is a rabble-rousing huckster who is not above using his race. Rod Parsely is a bible thumping lunatic who happens to be white. Alan Keyes is a reasonable conservative who happens to be black.
Like I said, me pointing out your race thing came out a bit more snittily than I intended for it to.
Yoda was defending Anakin and Kenobi who were very much out classed by Dooku. That was the stake of the fight. Yoda using a lightsaber, rather than mind tricks, is complained about because it deviated from what the audience just expected because of the original movies."Zero build up" can't really be explained any more concisely. There was no suspense. As for its meaning, as far as I was concerned, it didn't matter whether Yoda or Dooku won. What was at stake? Maybe I missed something. Just seemed like a grudge match.
If you do not mind discussing it here, what exactly does that entail? It sounds like you look at demographics and try to reach audiences, (much to the presumed delight of advertisers).I'm an evaluator for a media company.
Grades are a powerful incentive to clam up. (Aside from storming out of a class run by a woefully under-prepared cretin last fall, I have generally mellowed out as well.)I've gotten much better at reining it in, believe it or not!
I am unsure what the in-context reasoning is. My guess is that two likely allows for enough internal tension and competition for Sith to never by complacent. But, the real reason seems to be narrative expedient.Oh, hey, big question: "Always two, there are; master, and apprentice". Can someone write out a little Sith Pairs Timeline for me so I understand who these pairs were throughout all six movies? I don't get it.
The Sith Lords:
Plageous the Wise and Sidious: Plageous either discovered, or at least refined, the trick of using the force to create life. At some point, he either taught Sidious the trick, or he created at least one such being before Sidious smothered him with his own teddy bear. it is implied that Anakin is the product of the "create life" trick, arguably giving him Sith lineage. (Source books indicate that Maul has similar origins.)
Sidious/Maul: Shown in episode 1. There is little shown about their relationship. They are noteworthy largely for the Jedi's reaction to them. (They seem to think that Maul is the master, owing to how terrible he seems. It is assumed that few if any living Jedi remember even seeing a Sith.) Maul killing QGJ effectively puts Anakin in the hands of an unprepared, if well meaning, master.
Sidious/Tyrannus: It has to be assumed that being a Sith is a very specific state of haven "gone over", and that it is possible for a Jedi to be teetering while a Sith cultivates a new apprentice. The time-line implied by Episode 2 would have Tyrannus "ready to go" right around when Maul died. The peripheral comics and cartoons imply that Tyrannus had taken an apprentice, presumably intending to kill Sidious and replace him as master. Tyrannus also tries to recruit Kenobi, (his intellectual grandson), in Episode 2. Tyrannus was originally trained by Yoda, and went on to train QGJ. In a sense, he can claim a spot in Anakin's lineage.
Sidious/Vader: The circle completes itself. Vader is damaged goods, giving Sidious incentive to want to replace him. (Remember, Vader is the *only* character in the movies for whom force lighting is more than an annoyance. The cyborg bits are less a solution than a "best possible choice" for him being crippled.) Vader of course wants to rule with his sone at his side. Both try, and fail, to recruit Luke. And, in true Sith fashion, they end up killing each other.
Presumably, by the end of Episode 6, Luke is balanced with just enough of the light and dark sides of the force to keep the Sith from being a problem at least for the remainder of his life.
Dom
-but the really fannish comics kind of screw that up.
There was also speculation that Sidious was a former Jedi. But, some really bad EU comics put paid to that.