Another Star Wars trilogy?

[Jeritron]

Originally Posted by Fignuts Boba's is excusable tbh, as there was no way of knowing how popular he would be. Grievous really irks me though.He was such a badass character, both in design, and backstory. He was easily the coolest part of the original clone wars cartoon. Just ass raped a handul of jedi at once, without even using all 4 arms. Would be fine if that was EU, but it's not. Those cartoons were canon, so his immediate transformation into a giant pussy stung a bit. His actual death was fine, it was the fight itself which was dissapointing. He went from killing jedi by the dozen to getting owned by one. Yeah, it's obi-wan, but for as much as they hyped grievous up, he should have been the dominant one in the fight, and the lightsaber part should have been longer.

I felt Grievous was supposed to be a dastardly moustache twirler in the film though. His consistent ability to run away like a coward and keep coming back seemed like his whole gig.
They made him more of a badass in the EU, but they have a tendency for doing that with characters fans like.

In general I feel like Lucas was too heavy on the secondary villains in the prequels to begin with.
Tarkin, Boba and Jabba were all very important to the plot of the original trilogy.

Maul, Jango, Dooku and Grievous were important too, but I felt like they weren't thought out as well. Especially Dooku. He seemed like deus ex machina personified. He was just in there as this important Jedi and leader with no prior mention, and it was clearly just to patch the plot. Then he was done with before we ever really knew him.
Grievous was done similarly, but at least there was a sense of him being a player all along that just hadn't figured into the main stories yet.

I feel like Maul and Grievous could have easily filled Dooku's duties, and it would allow them to be more developed and in more than one movie each, while also cutting down on extra characters.
I'd much rather have seen the Jedi unsure of whether Maul was the leader or apprentice, and combat him on the seperatist side. He could perform all of Dooku's duties as an apprentice and be the one Anakin offed in front of Palpatine. He wouldn't have felt as thrown in there in 2.

And Grievous could have of course been the political and military figurehead of the Seperatists from Ep2 onward, which he ended up becoming anyways.

More developed characters that are a part of the story longer feel more natural, rather than disposable tools to advance one part of the story and look cool.