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Cyber_Cheese
Australia3615 Posts
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staplestf2
United States147 Posts
On March 23 2011 10:17 Lexpar wrote: We're all idiots. It took us half a year to realize the one cool thing about SC2's story. so not everyone got this the first time they saw it? cool i guess that makes be super observant or something. | ||
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vol_
Australia1608 Posts
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KillerPlague
United States1386 Posts
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Blasterion
China10272 Posts
On March 24 2011 04:20 KillerPlague wrote: i don't see why he couldn't have had a fully loaded handgun. no shame in having to take more than 1 shot. Just start unloading a full magazined gauss into Mengsk xD | ||
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emc
United States3088 Posts
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nitdkim
1264 Posts
Jack Sparrow and Jim Raynor has many similarities. I guess there is a Protagonist 101 class that all the writers attended in College. | ||
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Obsolescence
United States270 Posts
I don't think there was any symbolism in the way Raynor used his bullet. He knew he couldn't bring a rifle to bear on Tychus in time. He used that bullet at that time in that situation because it was necessary. Clearly, he was saving it for Mengsk. That's why he drops his rifle and draws his pistol when he enter's Valarian's chamber. Tychus definitely hesitated on purpose, but I don't think it was from some sense of self-sacrifice. I think he just wanted to make sure that Jimmy wouldn't just kill him as soon as he did it. When Jimmy gave him the ambiguous test, "we all got our choices to make," he chose wrong and Jimmy did what he would have had to do if Tychus had killed Kerrigan anyway. | ||
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Euronyme
Sweden3804 Posts
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Patton1942
United States66 Posts
. When tycus is watching the old vids I'm almost positive that we see jimmy shooting his pistol multiple times. someone also mentioned that he shot the TV as well. I am assuming that a soldier going into a war zone would in fact carry a fully loaded pistol. | ||
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PH
United States6173 Posts
On March 23 2011 10:17 Lexpar wrote: We're all idiots. It took us half a year to realize the one cool thing about SC2's story. Wow. You made my day. | ||
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Gaspa
Brazil109 Posts
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Obsolescence
United States270 Posts
I can't believe that this is the first cool thing anyone could find in the story. Comments like these cause me to take the "wtf-sc2-story-sucks" community much less seriously. | ||
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Fateless
United States99 Posts
On March 22 2011 07:34 Falcon-sw wrote: Playing through the campaign again, I noticed just before boarding the Dominion flagship, Raynor checks the chambers in his handgun and there's only one bullet in there. I assume this means he's been saving it for Mengsk, but as it's Valarian onboard, he never uses it. Until he kills Tychus. With his handgun. Am I right in assuming he uses the bullet meant for Mengsk on a friend? That's gotta suck. Pretty awesome observation dude, what do you do for a living? | ||
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Falcon-sw
United States322 Posts
On March 24 2011 23:43 Fateless wrote: Pretty awesome observation dude, what do you do for a living? Kinda stuck between a career in print journalism and breaking into IT. And thanks.  | ||
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j3i
United States357 Posts
On March 23 2011 15:56 AndyBear wrote: too bad he can't reload or anything. yeah his gigantic marine hands wouldn't be able to... which begs the question: is his revolver regular sized or marine-useable sized? I feel like I've seen him use it with and without the suit but that would be impossible since the marine hands are much larger. | ||
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Bhaalgorn
Slovenia214 Posts
Zeratul and the dark templar were able to permanently kill a cerebrate since they wielded the same cosmic energy as the Overmind . Yet Kerrigan easily regenerates her wing after Zeratul chops it off. Does that mean she uses the same kind of energy as zealots(for example) or some other kind of psy powers? | ||
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Ghost151
United States290 Posts
On March 22 2011 08:18 BadWithNames wrote: I always assumed it was meant for Mengsk...or Kerrigan in the event she couldn't be saved. I thought that events of Brood War made it pretty clear he intended to "save" Sarah with this bullet. To me it seemed that (potentially) using it on Mengsk after boarding the flagship was improvised, as Raynor had no problems dealing blows to Arcturus through his own previous methods of guerilla warfare and raiding tactics. In fact, he's doing so good at this that Mengsk was forced to use his control of the media to marginalize Raynor as much as he could by the time Wing of Liberty happens. So in my take on the events, Raynor's choices were: A.) Jimmy's original plan: mercy kill Kerrigan like he promised he would in the events of SC:BW, since she'd become a monster ( or out of vengeance for everything she'd done since becoming the Queen of Blades, if you saw it that way) i.e. A way to "save her" B.) With the new info from the Prophecy, choosing to literally save her by killing Tychus instead. Regardless of your PoV, the symbolism of one bullet in the chamber is the same: Jimmy can only act once, so he must make a choice somewhere down the line. IMO the bullet being saved for Mengsk is not as powerful as the implications of using on Kerrigan. Everything has happened because of Mengsk treachery, yes, but Jimmy loved Sarah. The only thing that could have a stronger effect on him emotionally than Mengsk doing that to her would be seeing her become the monster that she is, and doing the things she did. At least I think so. | ||
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Dimagus
United States1004 Posts
On March 25 2011 02:49 Bhaalgorn wrote: Well,if we're already talking about interesting bits in the SC2 story how about this: Zeratul and the dark templar were able to permanently kill a cerebrate since they wielded the same cosmic energy as the Overmind . Yet Kerrigan easily regenerates her wing after Zeratul chops it off. Does that mean she uses the same kind of energy as zealots(for example) or some other kind of psy powers? I think it just means she isn't dead and zerg regenerate their injuries, especially on creep. Perhaps he would have better luck chopping her head off. | ||
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Tracedragon
United States948 Posts
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