Revan/Headscratchers

• Meetra Surik. Just... "Meetra Surik". What was Drew thinking? Was it really that difficult to leave the Exile's name ambiguous?
  • I agree about the name, but eventually, it was going to have to come out. Revan knew her personally after all and it would sound awkward if everyone referred to her, inexplicably, as "The Exile" or "The General."
• Did the entirety of the second game outside of the Exile defeating a nebulous 'Darth Traya and her followers' get retconned into oblivion? None of the Exile's followers get mentioned in even the most cursory way outside of Kreia. The whole 'Exile creates force bonds and feeds on others' thing? Not a hint. The Exile's followers as the seeds of a new Jedi Order? Apparently not; a new Jedi Council seems to have sprung up magically from nowhere, all unnamed, while Bastila seemed to be remarkably undisturbed by the whole Jedi Order being hunted to virtual extinction all around her. The idea that Revan was corrupted at the Trayus academy and/or launched his invasion in order to strengthen the Republic, or that an increasingly Dark Side corrupted Revan strategically sacrificed those soldiers who weren't sufficiently loyal to him at Malachor V? Well, now he and Malak never even really chose to go Sith to begin with; they were brainwashed and only went Sith after meeting the Emperor! Its one thing to address plot threads from the sequel and then show them as untrue or spin them in a new direction; in this case, all details of the sequel plotline beyond Broad Strokes appear to have simply been excised without fanfare.
  • The Exile leaving behind her companions makes perfect sense, especially if they're rebuilding the Jedi Order. They're kinda busy, and she has this thing about mimicking Revan. He didn't bring any companions, so neither did she. Though I agree that it would have been nice to get some mention of that. Would've taken two lines. And her Force bonds are related to that: Without companions, her power isn't really useful. But a few words about how she instinctively forged a bond with Scourge, or how the bond with Revan was how they sensed each other the second she got within a hundred thousand kilometers would have been nice.
  • Give that she was Stuffed Into the Fridge I'm guessing Drew really didn't like her
  • Drew doesn't play well with other people's creations. Look at the retcons he made to Kevin J. Anderson's original take on Darth Bane.