| The whole game was darker and weirder than KOTOR. I agree the ending should have been handled better. But it did lead me to think of some things, about what Kreia was saying: how the Force has its own will, is seeking balance, and uses people for the purpose. Thing is, it used Kreia, too, as we know (given what happened 4,000 years later) that she did NOT succeed in her goal of destroying the Force.
By the end of the game, the Jedi are wiped out, the Sith too, and all that remains are a few scattered Force-weilders, plus Revan out there in the beyond somewhere. But obviously that was enough to rebuild both the Jedi and the Republic.
But look what happened in the Star Wars movies: THE SAME THING!! The Jedi lost their way somehow, the Sith arose, Annikin got turned to Darth Vader and wiped the Jedi out except for Yoda and Obi-Wan, then his son comes along, turns him back to the light side, and he does in the Emperor and himself. Leaving the Sith destroyed, and only Luke among the living Jedi to rebuild the whole thing.
The Prophecy about Annikin was that he would "bring balance to the Force." Clearly, the Jedi misunderstood that prophecy. He balanced the Force by wiping out both the light and dark side weilders, allowing everything to start over from scratch. Dovetail that with what's happened in these games, and it looks like the Force does that periodically. So the Force really does have its own agenda, and the Jedi and Sith only THINK they understand it.
I personally believe the closest anyone could come to matching the Force's agenda is to incorporate and purify passion, rather than suppressing it as the Jedi do, or surrendering to it as the Sith do. I've said in real life about certain religious/moral convictions regarding sex, "If sex is evil, then evil becomes sexy." Broaden that to all passions (including sex of course), and you can say the same about the Jedi teachings. It hands a big portion of human nature over to the Dark Side by defining that portion as being part of it. And so this tick-tock routine, with Sith and Jedi destroying each other, will keep repeating itself until the Jedi eventually get it right, if ever.  |