All 6 episodes of Tales of The Jedi began streaming last week on Disney Plus. While the show features characters like Ahsoka, Yaddle, Bail Organa, and even Anakin and Obi Wan Kenobi, it does an exceptionally fine job of shedding some light on the life of Count Dooku. Dooku's fate is eerily similar to Anakin's. Both are seduced by Palpatine to join the dark side, but both are equally disillusioned by The Jedi Council's growing political alignment which made them puppets of the Senate instead of the protectors of the people they originally were.
It's obvious that Dooku believes that the Jedi should favor ordinary and helpless people instead of powerful politicians, but there's no one to listen to him. His views are contrasted by Mace Windu, who follows orders of The Jedi Council almost blindly. Dooku likely begins to feel more isolated as time goes on, and by the time Yaddle reaches out to him, following the death of his former Padawan Qui Gon Jinn, Palpatine has already made him believe that it is too late for him. Neither Dooku nor Anakin's fall happens over night, but was instead a product of several years of disappointments.
The despair Dooku feels over the death of Qui Gon is another parallel between Anakin and his fall to the dark side. Anakin goes through the same grief over his mother's death, which was probably preventable. Dooku believes the Jedi Council is responsible for Qui Gon's death. When Yaddle talks to him about Qui Gon, Dooku tells her that it's time to let Qui Gon go, because he has become one with the force. Yaddle obviously understands Dooku's nature, and knows that Dooku's words and actions may not match, and letting Qui Gon go won't be an easy task for him. The act of letting go becomes impossible in Anakin's case as well, as he is unable to reconcile with his mother's death or even with the idea that he might lose Padme.
But throughout their emotional turmoil, Dooku and Anakin are incredibly lonely and vulnerable to Palpatine's manipulation. Both end up becoming pawns in Palpatine's game and don't realize that he's not their friend, but just using them as a means to attain his ultimate goal. Once Palpatine is able to recruit Dooku, he disposes of Maul. The same thing happens to Dooku when Palpatine sees that it is inevitable that Anakin will join him. All of Palpatine's apprentices served as nothing but pawns for him in his games, at the cost of everything they held dear.
Both Dooku and Anakin's fates are equally sad and preventable had the Jedi been present and flexible enough to see them for who they were. Perhaps if these two characters had felt that they had someone who understood them, things would have turned out differently for the entire galaxy. But the Jedi Council failed to recognize the signs of disillusionment not only in Dooku but in Anakin as well, and their philosophy completely failed both of them. Both Anakin and Dooku would have probably proved to be great assets to the Republic and even The Jedi, had they been given the proper emotional support, instead of being ignored.
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