How would YOU tie together the KOTOR endings?

[Grandpa]

Actually, Exar Kun is not a vague character. He already has a storyline in books.

The game gave no reference to the books or the comic series. As a self contained SW Universe type of thing, broader reference could've been made, had it been important to the story line of the game itself.

 

Hence, if Revan turns out to be simply a background character, they would not to have wrapped so much around him/er to pull off the new story.

 

 

I thought for sure Exar Kun (40 years previous to KOTRO1?) was referred to. I think Jolee Bindo may mention it and possibly Canderous Ordo. Not a big factor in the game though and it was provided only for background/flavor.

Right, but given the detailed stories found in the Exar Kun stories, the mention of him is fairly slight in KoTOR and has little bearing on the game itself, if any. It seemed to me that it was more of a way to give a hint to the unknowing that there is much more to the SW Universe than 5.5 movies and a really bad Christmas special.

[Indalecio]

I don't like the dark side being like demonic possession, it totally destroys the idea of "redemption" and the personal, more realistic and everyday side of temptation to do wrong, no matter how justified it seems.  In real life it DOES seem a little like possession, and the Darkside is described in such a way too... but an object possessing and making you bad stuff, regardless of whether you cared about that object or not, is absurd.  I think there's a reason that Jedi are at greater risk of falling to the Darkside - it's using the FORCE to do bad things that really ruins people, not just an occasional naughty action.

 

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I don't see think it was like demonic-possession in KOTOR, more like a drug-addiction. When you're addicted to drugs, you tend to do things you wouldn't normally do in order to get your next hit. When you call upon the Dark Side, you feel strong and powerful, but when that passes, you feel the same as you did before, and so you try to regain the feeling, and you'll do anything in order to do so. Redemption comes when you finally realize you have a problem and go into Force-rehab.

[nightcleaver]

Good. Just keeping you in line