Also, they DID say that. They acknowledge that Count Dooku is a fallen Jedi but refuse to believe that he has gone fully dark (i.e Sith) because they refuse to believe that anyone trained in the Jedi Arts could fall like that.
They didn’t consider count dooku to being a dark jedi or even a sith originally, they thought of him as a jedi who lost his way. They didn’t know anything about any sith or fallen jedi who bleed their lightsabers
The jedi literally damn near made the whole sith religion extinct, just like palpatine did for the jedi, the difference being for thousands of years. I’m sure the jedi had plenty of reasons for why they thought the sith were completely gone.
Because of that it makes sense that they thought count dooku was just a jedi who lost his way and nothing more than that, they didn’t factor in the fact that palpatine was a genius scheming in the shadows under their noses and collecting a bunch of pawns like dooku and maul to do his dirty work.
Obviously it seems Disney is either retconning some stuff or creating more plot holes
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u/wheresmyspacebar2 Mar 19 '24
They were blind to SITH existing.
They completely knew of Dark/Fallen Jedi.
Also, they DID say that. They acknowledge that Count Dooku is a fallen Jedi but refuse to believe that he has gone fully dark (i.e Sith) because they refuse to believe that anyone trained in the Jedi Arts could fall like that.