u/celticdude234

So they uncover a money laundering scam between a military contractor and a US senator where $9B in cash was stolen using Iraq reparation funds. All of this is because a soldier who witnessed the pickup in Iraq was shot for his trouble by the contractor's mercenaries. The contractor refuses to cooperate with the investigation, the senator helps cover it up, and the soldier is left paralyzed from the waist down in an underfunded hospital.

So at the end the job is done, the villains exposed, and to tie things up the team drive a semi truck with 2 pallets full of cash over to said hospital and are just like "here you go, now you can treat everyone!"

......bitch, WHAT??? What the hell is that doctor supposed to do with 2 pallets of hot cash that's literally part of a national news story right now?? And also, that's not how money works! You can't just buy medical equipment and resources, expand operations, or pay doctors and support staff in cash, and you sure as shit can't deposit it. Fucking what 🤣

Loving the show so far, this is said with love lol

Edit: what they could have done is sent an anonymous donation through proper channels with their own money, and launder the cash themselves, since they're all multimillionaire criminals to begin with and would have to know how to do that.

Edit 2: I feel like there's one person who probably takes this show way too seriously going through and downvoting everyone giving the god's honest truth of "it's dumb, but fun. Suspend disbelief 🤷‍♂️"

Note: You'll have to forgive/correct me if I'm way off base here. I've never played SWTOR so I don't have firsthand game-playing experience of how this story is portrayed, but I did follow up on the lore and found myself disappointed.

You have 2 incredible games that lay the groundwork and intrigue for a sinister mystery. Revan leaves known space seeking answers, then Meetra follows soon after, knowing he'll need help from his most trusted general. All of it was left in the air and the potential was infinite.

Then SWTOR comes out set a few hundred years later, and of course they have both a desire and almost a mandate to answer that question, so they're like "whelp, they were killed/captured and now they're force ghosts or something 🤷‍♂️". It honestly felt like such squandered potential, and all because they wanted to make an MMO to capitalize on the "oh so lucrative" WoW fad.

I feel like MMO writing is considerably lazier for reasons I can't quite put my finger on, and certainly not up to the passion standard set by the KotOR games. They knew how to lay a story in shadow and prompt speculation and exploration, without giving solid answers (which is why we're still playing it decades later). Then a bright and shiny addition to the IP that has to have mass market appeal which obviously wants and needs to capitalize on the existing fan base and MUST have clear cut, equally sized factions shines a bright, stupid spotlight on all of it, disregarding the nuance laid out in the previous games. No hidden Sith cults striking from the shadows, no manipulating galactic events from outside of it through the dark side of the Force, just another 2 army, stabby, swooshy, shooty, all-out war, which is comparatively boring.

Like I said, maybe I'm wrong about how SWTOR did it, but continuation of the story in a way that tied both games into a potential third is what we deserved. The problems that were around the possible development of KotOR III are well documented, it's just a shame that the same visionaries couldn't finish the story arcs they started.