Remember what they said when we were banished to the wasteland for life? They told us that the council was too powerful. There was nothing they could do.
I want you to keep that in mind as you watch this episode.
Everyone who has done a retrospective on Jak 3 has already pointed out how the council goes from being “too powerful” to something Ashlin can just dissolve suddenly and without warning, but that’s just because it’s one of those things that one starts to notice when replaying the game with fresh eyes.
It’s not that there isn’t a plausible explanation for it that one could concoct. I’m sure there are ways for a political body to lose that much influence so rapidly. The problem is that there’s no build-up. One minute, Vegar has the authority to banish Jak, and the next he’s immediately stripped of all power.
While this ultimately doesn’t matter because our story is largely just an excuse to justify the gameplay scenarios we’re given, Vegar’s machinations are the inciting incident that set the entire plot into motion. He is one of our major antagonists, but in one fell swoop he loses his place as a genuine threat. Considering who the other major antagonist is, that means no one is doing much heavy lifting to keep our interest in the story going.
But he’ll get to him later.
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