Maybe in the Clone Wars animated series, but movie characters should be able to stand on their big screen presence alone. In the movies he was poorly presented.
The fact that he would able to stave in a human skull with a single punch and wields four Lightsabers in a manner that can only be beaten by some of the best masters on the Jedi Council says otherwise. It’s only his weakness of not having Force-sensitivity that shoots him down, and that was a feature of his character in media other than the films as well.
General Grievous name is really stupid.
Also, General Grievous name is really stupid.
Also, General Grievous name is really stupid.
Nope, I agree with
@NIGHTBRINGER, Grievous is a pretty cool name for a bad guy.
I would have thought a man with your intellect and productivity would give a better argument than paraphrasing an infantile weakling like Plinkett. There is no explanation as to
why you think Grievous’ name is stupid, only that you think it is. I could easily play that game by questioning why Darth Vader’s name sounds so similar to ‘pater’ (Latin for ‘father’), that an especially intelligent person could have spotted that Vader was going to be revealed as someone’s father before Episode V even came out and thus spoiling it irreparably, and that we haven’t seen his wife, Darth Mater, yet. (Disclaimer: I actually think all the names of the main film villains are good, including Vader’s, I was just using that as an example to show how silly it is to resort to such silliness as that particular Plinkett critique ). I’m only going to take this point seriously when you give a more mature explanation to your viewpoint.
He had no appearance at all in episode 1 and 2 and in episode 3 he was THE villain.
Again I agree with
@NIGHTBRINGER, while Grievous did feature in a significant amount of Episode III, Episode III revolves around the betrayal of Palpatine and the creation of the Empire. Like Dooku and Maul before him, Grievous was just a pawn used to distract the Jedi from investigating more into finding out the mastermind behind the war, and Grievous actually does this pretty well. By luring Obi-Wan to Utapau, Grievous gives Sidious the chance to groom and manipulate Anakin some more while his master is not present, which ultimately sends him on the path to helping Sidious against Mace and turning him to the Dark Side.
There was no explanation for why the heroes knew which ship he was on.
Simple - given that Episode III is set at the end of a 3-year war, it is likely that they’ve fought previous battles where the
Invisible Hand has been the command ship, and used this logic to establish that would be the most likely place Grievous and his prisoner would be located. Use some imagination and don’t just take things at face value.
There was no reason given for why the heroes had to capture him and not just blow up his ship.
It’s made pretty clear that Chancellor Palpatine being ‘kidnapped’ by Grievous was the reason they had to board the
Invisible Hand - the Republic forces couldn’t just turn every gun they had on Grievous’ ship because that would be a sure way to blow up their Supreme Chancellor along with Grievous. What’s more, if they managed to capture Grievous they would be able to interrogate him to try and find out who the mystery Sith Lord was.
If Grievous was the McGuffin there was no reason Anakin and Obi Wan had to go after him by themselves.
Sending two especially fast and nimble Jedi Interceptors to board Grievous’ ship is much less conspicuous than sending a massive gunship full of Clone Troopers and Jedi - if the Separatists saw the latter coming they’d instantly know the Republic forces were trying to rescue the Supreme Chancellor and would turn every gun they had on it to blast it to pieces miles before it even got to the
Invisible Hand. Two small Jedi Interceptors hidden in the middle of a wing of ARC-170s would not only get to the
Invisible Hand a lot quicker but would also give the illusion they were simply out there defending the Republic Star Destroyers from Separatist fighters.
If Grievous was so important there was no reason Anakin should take a detour to a save an expendable clone trooper.
The Jedi feel compassion to all other life forms, and it is a core principle of the Jedi path to help anyone in trouble, especially the Clones who showed such loyalty to their Jedi Generals before Order 66. Seeing them as expendable on the other hand is a Sith mentality that was happily applied to the Empire’s Stormtroopers because the Empire was evil.
It was bad CGI when Grievous did a bunch of lightsaber waving near Obi Wan and he didn't react it all. It was bad CGI when Obi Wan didn't take advantage of the five second opening to stab him.
Both of those aren’t problems with the CGI, they’re (superficial) problems with the choreography, and the facts that Obi-Wan wins anyway and that the choreography of the Prequels is still unsurpassed in live-action Star Wars films in the eyes of many make these points rather moot.
That is a fair criticism. You really had to watch Genndy's Clone Wars to understand Grievous' placement in Episode III. Like you said, the movie should stand on its own.
I thought Grievous‘ appearance in Episode III stood well on its own to be honest, because the cough could have been just a side-effect of his cyborg transformation like Vader’s asthmatic breathing (let’s face it there was no explanation to Vader’s cyborg nature in the OT, which was one of the reasons the Prequels were made in the first place). Additionally if you saw the Genndy series first it would have spoilt the big reveal of Grievous being a Lightsaber duellist in Episode III, whereas if you see the film first like I did it reveals the reason why Grievous collects lightsabers without spoiling anything.
What’s more, despite the fact it makes Grievous look a better combatant, the Genndy series still suffers from a lot of artistic licence and altered laws of physics as any other 2D cartoon does, and I personally can’t really take it very seriously as Star Wars media when compared to the films and the 2008 CGI series. Would Grievous have been able to beat all those Jedi without cartoon-physics making his limbs more elastic and his lightsaber strikes faster? I’m sceptical about that.
