I thought that the initial explanation of the Expanded Universe/Prequel Trilogy discrepancy in how Jedi of the Old Republic deal with romance and emotion was that they didn't have a problem with it until the Ruusan Reformations, one thousand years before the movies. When Kotor came out it retconed that by having a PT style Jedi Order millenia years before the New Sith Wars and now getting a coherent explanation from the EU on the subject is impossible.

Jedi philosophy at it's core is about extreme selflessness. Sith ideals similarly boil down to extreme selfishness. That's why they have they have the views on emotion and love that they do. For the Jedi loving one person may blind someone to protecting and defending others. For Sith loving someone else distracts someone from the quest for more personal power.

You're seriously asking for examples of racism of the Empire? And a handful of individuals keeping illegal slaves is not the same as the Empire having slavery as one of it's primary institutions.

The Republic doesn't have the extreme racism and slavery of the empire either. And I fail to to see how fighting for an immortal despot is better than a democratically elected government.

To be honest I've always felt like the Jedi would have been justified trying to attack the Sith Warrior even when he doesn't attack first, especially given the situations. If a Jedi runs into a wierdo sith who claims to mean them no harm, it's not unreasonable to conclude he is either lying or is deluding himself. Because even if he himself earnestly means them no harm, he still works for an organization that does and if they let him go he will continue to advance their agenda. And that would be bad for them, particularly in the case of hunting for a special padawan. My Sith Warrior was fairly unsubtle when dealing with Jedi, so it was never a big deal for him, but when I looked at the other options one could take online, the thought that most often came to me was "Man these Jedi are fools."

Apart from the one on Balmora, I did notice that most the Jedi that the Sith Warrior runs into (as far as I've played so far) appear to be fairly easily manipulated.

I noticed that too. I would imagine that with so much dialogue errors will creep through. I think the most amusing one I saw was the female Sith Warrior telling a dessert monster that she would not back down. Of course that was just an odd sounding delivery.

When? There wasn't a single sith that wasn't evil in either game. Sith were always intended to be the bad guys in Star Wars fiction. It isn't recent portrayals given them a bad rep, they've always been that way because they were always supposed to be. Sith doctrine is about more than just passion, at it's core it's about extreme selfishness and unrestricted pursuit of power at all costs.

There is no reason. It's just to make the games feel more like the movies.

The Jedi have a artifact specifically intended to record Jedi Masters who fell to the darkside and were redeemed.

I don't think even the "shoots first Han Solo" would ever kill a child. So really the difference you are describing sounds minimal to me. There's still more to define his character than that one scene.

I did have a lot of trouble with this quest. I think I needed 7 or 8 times with my Sith Inquisitor, despite leveling up at least once over the course of them and using many stims. Then when I finally got to that part with my warrior I beat it my first try.

Uh,I think a dark Jedi would have just killed Darth Vader.

I'd say that 10 seconds of one throwaway scene "fundamentally changing his character" more than the entire rest of the 3 movies he's in is totally hyperbolic, but even your post seems to imply it's an overstatement. It changes him from Chaotic Good-ish to Chaotic Good? That makes no difference to me.

Maybe I'm just some weirdo minority Star Wars fan but frankly I've never cared who shot first: one way or the other. Heck it was a while before I even noticed Greedo shot first in the special editions.

Was that Shaak Ti, perhaps?

I'm also a fan of the Gree droids, and with or without their simple happy language words.

Technically I thought this was him

I don't really think child murderers are exactly reliable authorities on morality, usually.

How does that make sense? The Sith were supposed a primitive people hidden away on a world at the opposite end of the Republic when the exiled Dark Jedi found them. And even the territory they might have gained from leftover hyperdrive technology from the Rataka only led them as far as the nearby worlds. If they were already known to the Jedi, then how did Hyperspace explorers stumble upon their world in the old comics? How could they have gotten from Korriban to Tython? I mean wasn't that the whole reason for the name of the Great Hyperspace War? That they were an isolated, hidden empire? I thought Naga Sadow was supposed to be the first one to establsih contact with the Republic and he only convinced his fellow Sith to follow through with his plan because the Republic was still largely unknown to them and he exploited their fear?

Not exactly. The Sith Order has it's roots in Jedi that were exiled after turning to the darkside. They cross bred with the Sith species they found on Korriban after losing a war with the rest of the Jedi order.

From what I understand, she has four conversations with you on your ship (or cantina) where she asks you to take the collar off. If you refuse each time, then the last conversation will replay over and over every time you try to talk to her on the ship until you agree to take it off or finish the game.

Regardless of what I thought of the prequels, I never expected there to be any other movies. I'm kind of surprised anyone thought Lucas would make more. I'd long figured he wasn't going to go through the effort of making another 3rd trilogy, even before the prequels were done.

I don't think you need to kill both her parents and Yonloch. There is the question of whether you tortured Noman Karr as well, but I think the biggest factor is your alignment. My Sith Warrior was darkside and I spared her parents but kill the Jedi Master, and I got a simple choice to turn her to the darkside or not.

This could be because I have no other high level SWs to compare it to but I don't remember a lot of characters noting how pure of a sith I was with my Pureblood Sith Warrior. At least in the first 40 or so levels.