10 Things You Learn From Re-Watching Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones

Something else that has also helped make Christopher Lee's magnetic work as Count Dooku feel like even more of a treat during a rewatch is the existence of all of the new brilliant media outside of the Skywalker Saga pictures.

Dooku's arc in the magnificent Tales of the Jedi animation alone helps paint a more detailed picture of a conflicted Jedi Master who had seen the corruption of the senate up close and was willing to take a walk on the dark side to put an end to it - even killing poor Jedi Master Yaddle before the events of Episode II to prove his loyalty to his new master, Darth Sidious.

Along with this show - and Claudia Gray's Master & Apprentice and Cavan Scott's Dooku: Jedi Lost books - making Dooku feel like a more fully-formed character, it also adds that little more weight to his words about Qui-Gon to Obi-Wan in Attack of the Clones, with the impact of the loss of his one-time Padawan hitting that little harder after seeing the two in action together during that show.

The same could be said of the Fett boys, Jango and Boba, too. 

Knowing just how much the death of Jango affected his son in the years that followed his decapitation on Geonosis - seen in his attempts to get revenge on Mace Windu in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series, for example - makes that moment in particular feel way more weighty on a rewatch. 

And you also come to appreciate just how underrated a performer Temuera Morrison is too, with the subtle differences between his cold-hearted, but dedicated father Jango and the slightly more caring badass he'd become as Boba in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett certainly being a noticeable feature here.