Why should they give Knights of the Old Republic a shot?
JJM: The core dilemma of Knights of the Old Republic is a very simple one that fans who have seen nothing but the movies should be able to plug into right away. Unlike the films where a Jedi student betrayed his master, here, a Jedi student–and a poor one, at that–was betrayed by his masters, and blamed for the murders they committed. His quest to find out why is resolved in Commencement, the first trade paperback-but it’s at that point that his second quest begins: getting someone to believe the truth. And this is a quest that has already taken him across the galaxy–and that will take him still further, in a cat-and-mouse game with the Masters whom he has sworn to bring to justice, one way or another. It gets into questions about destiny. If someone could have stopped Anakin Skywalker before he fell, what would they have been justified in doing? And what would Anakin have been justified in doing in response? So there are big questions like these–but also, the series delves into pe
