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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Yeah, like I said there was some bad story telling and characters, the Ewoks and their magic arrows was cringe worthy. I get the logic of it, but the execution was wrong.
They really could have fleshed out Grievous more, and they did in the Clone Wars, he was a pretty tragic character, duped and constructed by the Trade Federation to be a flat out genocidal killer. The book in terms of Labyrinth of evil and Revenge of the Sith did this great job of talking about Grievous from the viewpoint of Dooku and Sidious. He was a essential part of the plan to draw the Jedi into the final jedi trap and a sacrifice eventually to elevate Palpatine and his new order.
I think that some of the problem as well was that Lucas was locked on the three movie formula in the prequel while the story could have easily added an additional movie and added more depth to things.
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Grievous definitely had potential. The problem was they made him into a total buffoon and an excuse to show off lame CGI.
It would have been great if he'd been built up as a character. They also missed a big opportunity to use him as a predecessor for Vader. Palpatine could have used him as a test subject for building the Vader suit. It would have added to the evil of Palpatine, essentially steering Anakin towards his disfigurement and into the suit himself. Palpatine also had some ability of foresight, and he seemed to have the Vader suit ready. So he might have already known about the disfigurement. Either way it would have been nice to have a character like Grievous fleshed out and more tied to the bigger story.