The villainy of Haazen

I've been thinking lately, about KotoR. More specifically, about Haazen. And I realize I'm not sure I agree with the decision to have him be the Big Bad of KotoR Season 1. KotoR was of course always going to need a "real" villain. Lucien was the series' Darth Vader - a tortured, troubled bad guy but with an open shot at redemption in the end. That much was obvious from the start. What was needed was a bigger threat, a root to all the bad stuff going on, a greater evil - one that both our real hero, Zayne, and Lucien are matched against in the end. Lucien's choice - redemption or damnation - would be between serving this greater evil or uniting with Zayne against it.
In short, KotoR needed a Palpatine. It could have been Krynda - and wouldn't that have been interesting! - but it wasn't. It was Haazen.

And this is something I found a bit disappointing. Haazen had the potential to be one of the most interesting SW-characters in recent memory. A man who grew up idolizing the Jedi, wanting nothing more than to be one of them, only to be rejected for not being good enough or strong enough. Who falls in love with a woman only to see a Jedi - his best friend - take her from him. A man who goes through hell during the war in servitude to them - and gets nothing back. A man who at every turn gets betrayed or let down by the people he so admires, and yet somehow, despite growing cynical and bitter perhaps, never wavers in his support of them, in his belief that their ways are the right ways, never lets anger or hate take over and lead him on some All Jedi must Die-crusade. Haazen as of KotoR, then: an old man, physically broken, bitter, cynical, "morally gray", nasty, yet somehow someone who deep down still admires the Jedi, still believes in their ways and their teachings. Someone who still wants to help make the galaxy a better place, and not destroy it or conquer it, still wants so bad to be a Jedi that he'll do his best to act like one, even if he is never going to be formally recognized. Someone who looks like a monster and may act like one occasionally, but who always remains on the side of the good guys.

I'm just... I don't know, I guess a little disappointed that the guy who looked scary and acted a bit weird turned out to be a rather standard hate-jealousy-and-anger-motivated villain.

Does anyone agree with me or am I just being silly?

 

They started the same way

They were one of the lowest of the jedi,always fooled by criminals{Dossa,Gryph}.Then something sudden happened and they gained strength from it.

 

I recall in Jedi: Aayla when Aayla and Aurra were fighting, Aayla said to Aurra something along the lines of, "You represent what I could have been. I represent what you could yet become." The same could almost be said about Haazen and Zayne, with Zayne in Aayla's place and Haazen in Aurra's place.

As for what you said Carlis, I agree that Haazen got the shaft from the Jedi Order, but he did hold bitterness towards the Jedi Order in general. That bitterness also incorporated his bitterness towards his idol Barrison Draay and his crush Krynda Hulis, and in both cases the bitterness was personal. I wonder if he saw the opportunity before him when Krynda started her Covenant, and twisted it as a means of getting revenge on those who betrayed him - the Jedi Order, Barrison Draay, and Krynda Hulis.