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Was it something I said?

Hey, stoners are probably the most agreeable people ever.

Y'know, I posted a comparison of this game's plot devices to the fountain in the other thread, but to add my two cents (which will be likely made pointless by the fact that Yahtzee, like all those dirty bastard good writer peoples, refuses to give us any straight answers into the game's plot).

First off, a few things I don't understand about certain theories.

One: If Cabadeth did NOT want the Bridge to happen, why didn't he try to kill Trilby in TN? I mean, Trilby is wandering around the Reality Shift completely unarmed, and Cabadeth showcases that, at least in that realm, he has nigh omnipotant abilities (at least it seems that he can show up whenever and wherever he pleases.), then why not just kill Trilby outright and spoil it for everybody, eh? For that matter, seeing as how Trilby's death ultimately had nothing to do with stopping the Bridge, and he really wanted the Bridge to not happen, there had to have been better ways of going about it then just killing Trilby Clones for DeFoe's sake. I mean, he could've removed the bomb entirely, or else done something more direct to prevent the Bridge's creation.

Two: Why would Cabadeth NOT want the Bridge to be built? I mean, it seems unlikely that he would have had any clue as to Chzo's plan to replace him. He acts confused/indignant in the final scene in 6DAS. If he'd known ahead of time that Chzo's bridge was not something he wanted to happen, why wouldn't he have tried to kill Theo outright, as a human, and eliminate any potential successors? Cabadeth seems to have at least SOME autonomy. He's certainly got some semblance of a mind of his own if we can make points that he's scheming to do...something.

Three: Then again, WHY can we even assume that Cabadeth has the mental faculties sufficient enough to concoct any sort of schemes? I mean, if we are to take anything from the Cthulu Mythos, from which Yahtzee clearly took inspiration, wouldn't it be safer to say that most of these higher powers are ultimately mindless? I mean, Shub-Niggurath is about as smart as a cow, but as powerful as a supernova--what's to stop us from assuming that Chzo would fall into the same category? And, even if Chzo is a smarty, why would Cabdeth be? I was under the impression that Cabadeth has lost his Mind--wasn't that it? My memory is fuzzy, but if the Mind, Body, and Soul are seperated, and Cabadeth is the Soul of the Tree, where's his mind or his body?

To support this, look at how the New Prince acts when you control him. He's...well, not bright. He thinks in purely simple, basic thoughts. Master. Pain. Guide. Pain. Punish. Pain. He shows no evidence of being able to think past anything more than just basic instinct that Chzo programmed into him. If he is anything like Cabadeth, wouldn't Cabadeth be similar?

Or, would this be why Cabadeth was removed? He was too smart? But then, that doesn't explain why I can't see a direct correlation between Cabadeth's schemes and the actual evidence in the games. He doesn't really go out of the way to kill Trilby and ruin everything for everyone early on in TN, when he first has the chance, and in 6DAS he's barely a threat to the main character, who deals with more direct assaults from John DeFoe than anyone else.

So. There, those are things I'm kind of unclear about.

Rasputin? Evil? Hardly.

In the grand scheme of Russian history, he really ought to be viewed as a hero of the eventual Soviet Republic, and also a hero in terms of forward thinking and medicine. Regardless of whether or not he was truly magical (and being a dreamer, I like to think he may have been), he did somehow manage to cure young Alexei of his terrible disease, and also prove his salt by being one of history's most colorful double agents.

His inhuman resiliance is only further testament to his almost legendary status in the realm of history's monotonies, going up there with folks like Blackbeard as people who put to task the staunch realists who try to find reason and logic behind everything.

Ok, I'm ranting, but if you really read up on Rasputin, I think you'll find that he's really not a bad guy at all. Perhaps his morals are slightly skewed than the rest of us, but I think he was ultimately not good or evil, he was just a person, a human being like all the rest of us.

Who could do magic.

And fights Hellboy.

And becomes an android who is sent back from the future to 1920's Japan in order to--ok, I need to stop referencing obscure video games now.

OMG that was an AWESOME secret ending.

I ought to quote that last line for random people.

Well, I beat it, and I did like the ending, if only because it's not particularly ambigous--it actually gives us all the details we need.

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I'm just glad that, ultimately, Trilby is victorious. Of all of these, he's easily my favorite character and he's one of the more interesting characters I've really seen in awhile, even if he seems to range quite oddly from being cold and detached to be crazy emotional, he's still a fairly deep sort of guy who is the ultimate hero of the entire series.

Also, for all the Time Travel business, isn't there that theory that time isn't taking place in a progression, but all at once? I mean, you've seen the Fountain, right? If Yahtzee hasn't seen it, I'll eat my hat, because 6DAS makes several homages to teh Fountain, especially with the Malcom Somerset character.

Example: In the Fountain (which is one of the finest motion pictures ever made you should go buy it and build a shrine in its honor), the main character is searching for eternal life, which is ultimately only granted after coming to terms with death. In the Fountain, the main character is dealing with the exact same tragedy in three different time zones, with slight differences between them, and they all coincide at exactly the same point. One of the incarnations of the main character is a shaven-headed man in a robe who ends up bridging all three timelines and interacting with everything involved in order to pave the way for enlightenment, and, ultimately, death.

In 6DAS, we have Malcom who ends up dying in order to become an all-seeing avatar of Destiny, who goes back between all three time lines in order to pave the way for the events that are yet to come, thus ultimately proving that time itself is not linear at all. Also, as the avatar, he becomes a bald-headed man in a robe. It's pretty interesting, really.

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