Although it’s mainly down to playing games as him (a lot more hours, a lot less dialog) Kyle Katarn did some understandable flip-flopping from imperial trucker, to pirate (I think), to rebel, to Jedi, to the dark side and back.

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3 identical posts about redundancy...

IMO it does borrow from the internal/external styles in (e.g.) QiGong where external is in line with physical conditioning and exerting control on the physical world & internal on mental & spiritual control.

One of the problems is, the love story just wasn’t that believable to me. I didn’t feel it.

I quite liked the “tempted by the light side” angle - is presenting the Jedi as the bad guys again, giving in to that temptation would represent a fall from grace for Kylo.

From a ”real world” perspective, the climactic scene with a high ranking member of a powerful and militant religious group confronting a democratically elected leader with murderous intent could have been presented with more sympathy to the Anakin/Palatine viewpoint.

From a ”real world” perspective, the climactic scene with a high ranking member of a powerful and militant religious group confronting a democratically elected leader with murderous intent could have been presented with more sympathy to the Anakin/Palatine viewpoint.

From a ”real world” perspective, the climactic scene with a high ranking member of a powerful and militant religious group confronting a democratically elected leader with murderous intent could have been presented with more sympathy to the Anakin/Palatine viewpoint.