jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20255 min readKOTOR II Companion Analysis: The Disciple[The following article gives heavy spoilers for Knights of the Old Republic I and II.] Of all the KOTOR II companions, this one is...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20255 min readKOTOR II Companion Analysis: HK-47[The following article gives heavy spoilers for Knights of the Old Republic I and II.] HK-47 is a character that the writing team could...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 202510 min readKOTOR II Companion Analysis: GOTO[The following article gives heavy spoilers for Knights of the Old Republic I and II.] “You do not know the indignity of being...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20256 min readKOTOR II Companion Analysis: Bao-Dur[The following article gives heavy spoilers for Knights of the Old Republic I and II.] The most enigmatic companion with much to write...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20254 min readKOTOR II Companion Analysis: Hanharr[The following article gives heavy spoilers for Knights of the Old Republic I and II] An evil Wookie. Such a simple concept, but never...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20257 min readKOTOR II Companion Analysis: Mira[The following article gives heavy spoilers for Knights of the Old Republic I and II.] “There’s a lot of lost people out there...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20259 min readKOTOR II Companion Analysis: Mandalore[The following article gives heavy spoilers for Knights of the Old Republic I and II.] Still the best Mandalorian in my view, a...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 202510 min readKOTOR II Companion Analysis: Atton Rand[The following article gives heavy spoilers for Knights of the Old Republic I and II.] As mentioned in the series introduction, as the...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20254 min readKOTOR II Companion Analysis: T3-M4[The following article gives heavy spoilers for Knights of the Old Republic I and II.] Before playing The Exile, at the very beginning...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20257 min readAn Introduction to The KOTOR II Companion Series"You see, the war, the true war, has never been one waged by droids, warships, or soldiers. They are but crude matter, obstacles against...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20253 min readOne Small Scene: “Are we still so far from real, to you?”At the end of Double Jeopardy , following a team of human beings and their android counterparts before the rounded out finale of the...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20253 min readOne Small Scene: “He was my enemy too at one time.”The words themselves suggest a lightness, something pensive or forgiving when it is of nothing of the sort, espoused by a jolly dictator...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20253 min readOne Small Scene: “I will miss our conversations.”In the midst of the romanticised death of the traditional samurai, gunned down by an unscrupulous businessman, the opportunistic foreign...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20254 min readOne Small Scene: “Living on this station is torture for me, Doctor.”“Living on this station is torture for me Doctor. The temperature is always too cold, the lights always too bright, every Bajoran on the...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20253 min readOne Small Scene: “No, it’s Not Linear.”“ I was ready to die with her ”, Benjamin Sisko opines during first contact with an alien race unbeholden to time and space. Again and...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20252 min readOne Small Scene: X9 Playing the Saxophone to Lu Lu“Lu Lu. Sweet thing.” That beautiful saxophone riff is a little more at the forefront, and not an aesthetic affection while watching...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20254 min readOne Small Scene: “I’ve done many terrible things Claudius.”Livia Drusilla Julia Augusta says continues her discussion with her nephew Claudius. Chalked with perfume to suggest her age, Siân...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20256 min readOne Small Scene: “When this world began…”[Spoilers from Boardwalk Empire, Season 4 will follow] After excusing herself to go on stage and sing for the crowd, Dr Valentin...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20254 min readOne Small Scene: “To the death, Tybalt.”‘To the death, Tybalt,’ he said. He put his bolter in Marr’s mouth, and pulled the trigger. Scrambling in the dark, the underground...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20253 min readOne Small Scene: Leaves from the VineIn an episode divided into vignettes already, the ending of Iroh’s particular story of a day in Ba Sing Se punctuates a very quiet, but...
