Chat corner 39: The Return of the Jedi

[annathecrow]

Welcome to this week’s chat corner!

Optional prompt

This week, the topic is the last movie of the Original Trilogy, “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi”. Any thoughts? Does it make you happy or sad or both? Any favorite part?

 

Comments

[extrapenguin]

I came across the community gar_hq and this post on medals awarded to clones.

I also posted about my SWTOR class story experience with the Jedi Consular chapter 1.

[kittywhite]

Consular is my favourite class story because I actually felt like I was doing the actual job of a Jedi (I’m sad that people hate on it so much, I hated the Knight story for comparison). Chapter 2 is the best I feel but I felt pretty damn accomplished by the final on Corellia.
The way you advance so quickly through the ranks of the order and are entrusted with so much responsibility at such a young age also gave me a new perspective on things and by the end I admit I made a few dark side choices out of compassion fatigue. Why was it always me? (I know, I’m the main character!)
Companions were an interesting bunch but I think that was the point, to have to work together with people from totally different walks of life and sometimes even opposing views to your teachings.
I sort of want to play it again when 7.0 hits and make a ridiculous dark side play through with a Sidious style Sorcerer scheming to destroy the order because apparently they still trust you even if you keep killing everyone *zap zap*

[extrapenguin]

I also much prefer the Consular to the Knight so far! (And the Knight... it doesn't have the ludonarrative dissonance baked into the very concept of the class the Smuggler has and the Bounty Hunter will probably also have, but it's my least favorite of the class stories that are organically part of their faction. Not helped by the fact that I played Imperial Agent immediately after and was retroactively outraged at the way the Knight story mishandled the Chapter 2 conclusion thing compared to the Agent's Chapter 2.)

I only have Qyzen and Tharan so far, but I agree on the companions – the set reminds me a bit more of the Agent, with its thematic companions, as opposed to the Knight's, who somehow remained generic (even if T7-01 is amazing and I love him). I'm meh on Tharan, but Qyzen has really grown on me. There's a depth to him, and I like how complicated he's allowed to be even if his core concept is pretty simple. My Shadow ended up killing all the rakghouls on Taris instead of stealthing through so that Qyzen could get his Scorekeeper points.

a ridiculous dark side play through with a Sidious style Sorcerer scheming to destroy the order because apparently they still trust you even if you keep killing everyone *zap zap*
This sounds amazingly fun! Do report back should it happen.

[annathecrow]

Ooooh, that post about medals is crunchy, thanks for the link. I'll need to lurk around that comm a bit.