Yay a Doc thread! True story: when I first played the game, Jedi Knight was the first story I was playing through, and I was super psyched to get to the love interest. Then I got to Doc and was SO PUT OFF that I stopped playing for a week. (Bear with me here.) But then I finally went back to it and realized how great Doc is. Not only does the romance let me play my favorite trope -- slap/slap/kiss -- (I swear none of the others let you!) -- but he won me over just by being completely fantastically ridiculous. People always focus on the horndog part of his character and somehow miss how great his ridiculous storyline quests are. ("You had to be rescued from your own rescue mission. Classic Doc.") Anyway, I'm so glad we are FINALLY getting him back, and hopefully the new Jedi Knight I played through for him (because my main has not gone through KotFE in protest!) still has her romance flagged, even though she never got his letter.

To me, it always seemed like HK-55's character was created specifically FOR the sub reward. Bioware knew exactly what they were doing. They took a fan favorite character (an HK droid), made a new incarnation, stuck him into the new story for a few chapters -- and then killed him off. Then they told you you could get him back -- IF you subscribed for him. That irritated me so much that I only actually played the chapter itself recently (I was subbed all along anyway, so I got the reward). Anyway, I'm not gonna sway anyone either way, but because of that, I fall in the camp of "let people have the chapter" -- or at least HK himself. KotFE is a couple of years old now, and new players should have a chance to resurrect him. He was killed as sub bait.