Alexander_Q
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Laivasse - I apologise for my arrogance, you make a strong argument. A few comments:
-Thanks for the briefs on aforementioned physics concepts. It appears you do know what you are talking about, and I apologise for implying that you didn't.
-I don't think Eli or Kleiner are aware of the Advisor's abilities or even of the advisors at all. Thus anything said by Kleiner would be a narrative foreshadowing but not an indication that the character knew anything. To make Eli's death more disastrous and indeed to serve the purose of foreshadowing, it is beneficial to first explain the worst case scenario - Eli is both useful to the rebellion as a leader and also has the most knowledge of the rebellion. This is learned from the aforementioned conversation and via Half Life 2 - Ep 1. Thus, when Eli dies, the two worst possible things have happened - his knowledge has been captured and a great leader is no longer available. If it were true, it would mean that the two worst case scenarios had been foreshadowed, and then put into effect.
I doubt anyone in the rebellion knows about the advisors (except for the vortigaunts) and they have, as is mentioned, been in a larval state in the citadel until recently. Otherwise they would have been cruising around killing rebels from the start.
If they could have brain sucked breen, they wouldn't have. He is the human face of the combine and serves their propoganda well.
The advisors abilities are not explained because there is no character to explain them to you, especially not via summaries of actual scientific experiments. They can only be alluded to by various narrative devices, and foreshadowing.
Of course human sacrifice served a purpose, it just wasn't to ensure a good harvest. You're forgetting that much of the human brain developed to accommodate the capacity for deceit - people have been lying for thousands of years. The Aztecs, for example, used human sacrifice as a socially acceptable way of getting rid of people they didn't like. They also used their ability to predict eclipses (and the withholding of this knowledge from the public) as a way to scare the public and also to invent invisible gods who had absolute authority.
No living creature has ever done anything that did not serve a purpose.
If you see Advisor's as actually advising Breen on the Combine directive, then fine, perhaps their name isn't that relevant.
Valve could avoid the brain-sucking conclusion by calling them slug-kings, having them eat livers, and having no mention of "how terrible it would be if the combine got Eli's knowledge".
-Thanks for the briefs on aforementioned physics concepts. It appears you do know what you are talking about, and I apologise for implying that you didn't.
-I don't think Eli or Kleiner are aware of the Advisor's abilities or even of the advisors at all. Thus anything said by Kleiner would be a narrative foreshadowing but not an indication that the character knew anything. To make Eli's death more disastrous and indeed to serve the purose of foreshadowing, it is beneficial to first explain the worst case scenario - Eli is both useful to the rebellion as a leader and also has the most knowledge of the rebellion. This is learned from the aforementioned conversation and via Half Life 2 - Ep 1. Thus, when Eli dies, the two worst possible things have happened - his knowledge has been captured and a great leader is no longer available. If it were true, it would mean that the two worst case scenarios had been foreshadowed, and then put into effect.
I doubt anyone in the rebellion knows about the advisors (except for the vortigaunts) and they have, as is mentioned, been in a larval state in the citadel until recently. Otherwise they would have been cruising around killing rebels from the start.
If they could have brain sucked breen, they wouldn't have. He is the human face of the combine and serves their propoganda well.
The advisors abilities are not explained because there is no character to explain them to you, especially not via summaries of actual scientific experiments. They can only be alluded to by various narrative devices, and foreshadowing.
Of course human sacrifice served a purpose, it just wasn't to ensure a good harvest. You're forgetting that much of the human brain developed to accommodate the capacity for deceit - people have been lying for thousands of years. The Aztecs, for example, used human sacrifice as a socially acceptable way of getting rid of people they didn't like. They also used their ability to predict eclipses (and the withholding of this knowledge from the public) as a way to scare the public and also to invent invisible gods who had absolute authority.
No living creature has ever done anything that did not serve a purpose.
If you see Advisor's as actually advising Breen on the Combine directive, then fine, perhaps their name isn't that relevant.
Valve could avoid the brain-sucking conclusion by calling them slug-kings, having them eat livers, and having no mention of "how terrible it would be if the combine got Eli's knowledge".
