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Kotor2 doesn't hate Star Wars
Quick addendum to the Kreia post, because this kept coming up and it drove me insane.
It gets said a lot, and I mean a LOT, that Kotor2 is Chris Avellone "tearing Star Wars apart", that Kotor2 is "Seething hatred for everything Star Wars stands for", that Kotor2 is about "How the Star Wars is bad, actually"
For a game that preaches thinking shit through, it is hilarious how much that stance is just not thought through. Because I'm kind of thinking the opposite, I think Kotor2 loves Star Wars.
Yes, sure, Kotor2 is "deconstructing" Star Wars, it's criticizing the heroic ideal of the Jedi, it's dunking on how metatextually the only thing that matters are these two Orders dragging everyone else into their shit.
But then there's the player character. Who stands up, in the literal center of this conflict, and goes "The Jedi are pretty good, actually."
You fight the Sith, you save the galaxy, you rebuild the order, you be the ideal Star Wars hero that everyone thinks this game is dunking on. People will throw criticisms of the setting at you and you, the player character, will be able to choose dialogue options that defend it.
Someone had to write that dialogue option. Someone had to think it was a worthy argument to make.
The people who wrote Kotor2 had to have a level of appreciation for Star Wars to be able to make such a genuine criticism and defense for it.
does the Barriss Offee fanfic I'm writing reference KOTOR 2 in like the second sentence? yes. obviously, yes. who do you think I am, even.
The movie theater life 😔
Corporate saw the success of our midnight showings and wants to do them more often now
with everyday that i work i hate deadpool more and more
That is a MAN
So Qimir can erase ppls memory but was gonna kill everyone cuz they saw his face
My season 2 prediction is that we're going to get a single line mentioning Hego Damask as a main backer for that Senator's reelection campaign
Cannot wait for Qimir to have to introduce Osha to his sugar daddy, whose private island they've been staying on this whole time.
I love looking at pro and anti tags because it's just so neat seeing all these different opinions on my favorite silly space franchise. It's just exciting to see it still resonate with people this much and as someone who loves a deconstructive piece of media as much as a constructive one it's just fun to see the different view points, hell yeah give me all these essays.
Running back and forth across the upper city bridges is the most annoying part of a KOTOR playthrough
don’t speak about elzar mann if you don’t understand his character ❤️
Yoooo I got hate mail this rules
Master Sol's is the path Elzar Mann would have taken if Vernestra hadn't called him on his BS and had him stand before the council
Freedom to wield your power the way you want without answering to the Jedi, huh? Now where have we heard that one before...
The most important tradition to follow in Canon
When your Padawan hyperfixation drives your fashion sense for the rest of your life
Alternatively my Clone Wars era Jedi Knight who is trying way too hard to live up to a historical standard
Info of the lovely artist who drew her for me
I was literally looking for this last night after getting the overwhelming urge to read Apprentice, Quest, and Last of the Jedi
Gonna be real here the Jedi Apprentice books aren't available in any electronic format (which also makes them hard to... um... acquire in ways Hondo Ohnaka would endorse) and a full set of physical copies w shipping to Canada will set you back $300 minimum so as a result I have only a rube's understanding of what actually happened to Obi-Wan before TPM other than Master and Apprentice and know fuck-all about Xanatos etc etc. And it's annoying bc the full set of Jedi Quest books legally bought is like 1/5th that cost solely because you can get them in ebook form.