Well, okay...I don't stan them.
But I have mixed feelings about them.
As a kid I was really into Star Wars and looked up to the Jedi, so I think it's a hold over from that.
The Jedi are flawed, foolish, short-sighted and kind of cowardly (among other things) and The Republic is a stagnant beasts with an inefficient anachronistic and byzantine system where the worst kind of poverty has existed for millennia.
...But I still kind of like them, despite their tragic faults.
Well...Idk if I like The Republic as depicted in Star Wars, in some ways I hate it.
But the idea of a galactic society where hundreds if not thousands of peoples and cultures are brought together to coexist is one I really like, and I can understand in the early days why the Jedi would of supported the creation of such an organization.
Of course it is just that, an idea , and the lore is filled with the many ways The Republic as a bourgeoise order failed these ideals.
Ultimately I think the Jedi erred in so closely associating themselves with and mooring themselves to a state.
Their understanding of the force and themselves is also incomplete or lacking, I think.
But at the end of the day I still like the little space wizard monks.
I respect their aim in controlling their emotions (even if it often materializes in suppression instead) and in being diplomats and peacekeepers for the galaxy (even if it often materializes in propping up an unjust status quo).
But now I am starting to ramble about children's media, which is an unforgivable crime, so I'll stop.
KOTOR is best played as a grey jedi where you accept, but don't fully embrace your past as Darth Revan.
It's so much more satisfying and compelling then being a milqutoast Jedi who is like "that's not who I am anymore, guise."
Edit: also mod it so you can get the Darth Revan amour after the reveal because it looks cool and it's a shame you can only wear it for like the final boss fight and only if you chose the dark side ending in the base game.
Edit Edit: also also save Korriban for after the reveal, it works alot better thematically and Yuthura is best girl.
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The Sith Academy, aka "We thought Slytherin was too subtle". Everyone there is so comedically petty and self-serving you wonder how the Sith ever managed to take over anything
Well, idk how the empire was managing their education system, but their new leader at that point was Darth Malak who just killed his own master in the middle of a huge battle, so maybe it's on brand for him.