Can You Redeem Count Dooku In The Eyes Of Your Fa...

1. It’s not easy to make people change their beliefs, and if your father-in-law isn’t in a receptive mood, you may as well kiss any possibility of absolving Count Dooku goodbye. How will you go about broaching the subject?: I will ask to tag along on his after-dinner walk around the neighborhood and loosen him up with some idle sports talk. Then, using all my tact, I will bring up Count Dooku.; I will talk to my gentle mother-in-law in the hopes that I can enlist her aid in shining a positive light on Count Dooku.; I will just come out and say it: “Count Dooku is a good man.”; It’s a lost cause. I’ve tried before, and he’s uninterested in changing.

2. Your father-in-law considers the flashy fight sequences to be the coolest thing about Star Wars, and he thinks Obi-Wan Kenobi’s fight against a cheating, four-armed Count Dooku is the coolest one of all. How will you explain that, despite being a sith lord, Count Dooku is first and foremost a man of honor and would never cheat in battle and that your father-in-law seems to be confusing Count Dooku with General Grievous?: I will take him out golfing and wait until the back nine before offering the observation that Count Dooku is a simple, two-armed man not so different from him and me and leave it at that.; I will ask my mother-in-law to sneak in a few words during grace about how we must strive to forgive the trespasses, real or imagined, of Count Dooku.; I would refuse to hit around the shuttlecock in the backyard until he acknowledges that he’s confusing Count Dooku with General Grievous.; I will do my best to keep things pleasant at family gatherings, but we will never be close.

3. Your father-in-law seems to think that Count Dooku is a vampire. It’s unclear exactly where the wires got crossed, but you’re in for an uphill battle if you can’t clear this up. How will you handle this?: I will use a couple company tickets to a hockey game and see if a few beers won’t open up a dialogue about Count Dooku’s humanity.; I will ask my mother-in-law to start reading the novelization of Star Wars: Episode II before bed so that she can casually start a conversation with him about how interesting she finds it that Count Dooku is definitely not a vampire.; I would say that assuming Count Dooku is a vampire is just as bad as the time that his brother David assumed he didn’t want to go out on the boat last July 4th because he had said he was tired earlier in the day.; He believes what he wants to believe. He’s the kind of person who, once he gets it in his head that Dooku’s a vampire, not even telling him that he used to be a Jedi will get him to reevaluate.

4. When your father-in-law plays Star Wars with your daughter and he has to be Count Dooku, he invariably cackles like a caricature of an evil villain and chases your daughter around, unaware or simply unwilling to consider for one moment that perhaps there was a valid reason Count Dooku became disenchanted with the Jedi and senators and ultimately turned to the dark side in a desperate, misbegotten bid to fix the galaxy. What will you say to him?: If my daughter is involved, I will have to step in and insist that he pretend to be a more nuanced, superego-driven Count Dooku or I’m taking my family home.; I will ask my mother-in-law to set off their intruder alert to distract him from further imprinting such a morally bankrupt Count Dooku on my daughter’s impressionable mind.; I won’t say anything. I can’t protect my little girl from hasty presuppositions of Count Dooku her whole life. She needs to learn how the world is.; I don’t even care anymore. I will let them play their game while I break the seal on his fancy liquors he keeps in his cellar.

5. Finally, if you were to get your father-in-law to admit he was wrong about Count Dooku, what would you do?: I would give him a big hug and thank him for being so open to change. As I embrace my father-in-law, I would lean close and whisper in his ear, “I knew you’d come around on Dooku.”; I would clap my hands over my head and gloat and embarrass him in front of the whole family as an example to everyone that anyone who short-shrifts Dooku, no matter if they come around eventually, pays a price.

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