So when I played Kotor the thing I loved doing while running all over the place was pressing the button that made my character twirl my lightsabers. Something about the sound effect and the lightsabers flashing was just cool. Why don't we have something like that in Swtor? We have "z" which lets us pull out our weapons and put them away, but we can't do anything cool with the weapons while they are out. That makes me sad.

The New Sith War was 1000 years before the Battle of Yavin. It led to Darth Bane and the "Rule of Two" ... which always made me wonder. How did the Jedi know about the "Rule of Two" if they thought the Sith were gone after the war. Darth Bane and his apprentice went underground and disappeared, unknown by the Jedi.

Ah, the delightfully bad writing of George Lucas.

Operative: Since I'm a healer I don't need Dr Loken - I'll swap him for Blizz. Also I don't really like Vector - I'll swap him for any force using companion. Smuggler: Corso gets on my nerves, I don't know why. Give me Kaliyo. That's about it.

It's all in the translation. I prefer the translation "emotion, yet peace" to "there is no emotion, there is peace" The second sounds like it's being said by a robot. The former implies self-control to the absolute of the second. (mocking tone) Obi-Wan - "Only a Sith deals in absolutes." "There is no emotion, there is peace." /end tone. Of course there is emotion! The point is to be the master of your emotions. The Dark Side does not own a monopoly on emotions. They've got fear, hatred, anger, lust, envy, arrogance and greed down pretty good. The problem with the Jedi is that they think they need to be in an emotional grey zone to be good Jedi, but they're missing the balance. It's not the lack of emotions they need to seek, but the positive emotions: love, forgiveness, trust, charity, honor, joy, gratitude, hope, pride, humor and kindness. It's being able to be at peace with your actions that the Jedi should seek, not a state of emotionless peace. The Sith destroy their emotional distractions or turn them into rage to fuel their self-destructive force. The Jedi need to embrace their positive attributes, not repress them. That's the flaw with the interpretation of the Jedi Code.

Coming from a foundation of the Expanded Universe, in the case of the Old Republic the Tales of the Jedi series in particular, I was always troubled by what I felt was an improper Jedi attitude presented in the KotoR games and prequel trilogy concerning the Jedi. Jedi have a very restricted code and are withdrawn from others and that did not sit well with me. Knights of the Old Republic (and its sequel), set 40 years after the Exar Kun war, featured a Jedi Council that seemed markedly different in ideology to the masters from Tales of the Jedi. Jedi had a very open attitude towards marriage, they lived as part of society and were not withdrawn from the galaxy, they had an active role in politics and were a force for good on the whole. So what happened? The destruction of Ossus in the Sith War of Exar Kun had a bigger impact than I had at first suspected. The Jedi had three capitols: Tython (their historical capitol), Coruscant (their political capitol), and Ossus (their cultural capitol). Ossus was home to the great Jedi library, putting the ones of the other planets to shame. But a library has more than dusty tomes, it is a collection of histories. It would have their poetry and music and philosophy, stories of heroes and such. At the time just before the Sith War the Jedi were a very different order, and I think that was the reason Ossus was a target - to break the Jedi and turn them into something else. At the time there were hundreds of thousands of Jedi in the galaxy. Teachings were far more open than at any other time. Students were free to pursue knowledge with very few restrictions. Modern Jedi thinking would say that such attitudes would lead to the dark side, but that was not the case with the Sith War. When Exar Kun fell he only was able to temp away a handful of Jedi - and even then only through Sith trickery. The dark force users in the Sith War were not fallen Jedi at all (save Ulic Qel-Droma) but the Krath, a dark side order apart from the Jedi. The main blow to the Jedi and the Republic came from the Mandalorians - who would later return for the war which involved Revan. Onderon, Coruscant, and Ossus were the major targets of the Sith War. Ossus was hit the hardest, one of its binary suns going supernova devastating the surface. The effects of the attack were more subtle though. The Jedi did not expand back to where they had been after the war. I believe the masters felt they were too vulnerable as they were. This is the seed of fear that has infested the Jedi Order. Removing themselves from the galaxy at large has only made the galaxy less safe, and their Order a shadow of what it once was. It is not love that leads to the dark side, it is not fear. The Masters' fear of loss has led them to more closely control their fellow Jedi, restricting them into following dogmatic interpretations of the Jedi Code that focus too much on the unifying force and not enough on the living force. Revan would not have fallen if the Jedi had been the same order it had been 40 years before. Consider one last cultural thing before conclusion: The Empire - a culture of control and restriction and slavery has the Sith Order based on freedom and power. The Republic - an open and accepting society based on democracy has the Jedi Order centering on ideals of stoic conservatism and ordered rules. Something's not right here... not right at all. (regarding the prequel trilogy's attitude regarding Jedi - same story only it's a conservative swing that came in the wake of the New Sith War - which was really a Jedi Civil War as it was led by a former Jedi Council member).

Should it really move when he talks? I know he still has a jaw, but when you see his hologram talk in the flashpoint briefing scenes I've noticed that his mouth moves when he talks, the act of which stretches out the metal breathing apparatus on his face. It is a little distracting to see metal bend and contract like that. He's talking about some important mission for the empire and here I am thinking "is his jaw really that strong? How does the metal bend back into place when he closes his mouth?" Something I think they should fix.