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scionick
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Ok, there are a number of different ways to approach this, but let's start with the catalyst: those who made the game. The Half-Life saga is strongly dependent upon science, so obviously the designers are a great deal interested in it in their real lives, and therefore, atleast the writer of the story is most definitely athiest or agnostic.
Gordon Freeman is a scientist, so in the eyes of an athiest/agnostic writer, the "enemy" of God/Ultimate Power (or whatever you want to call it). Side note: Gordon's signature weapon is a crowbar, a tool who's only use is to pry into things and get to places that were once off-limits.
The G-Man is a time-and-space controlling, God-like entity that appears in human form, always dressed in a business suit and carrying a briefcase. Why this appearance of a business man and/or government man? Being that Valve is a videogame design company and, as can be seen through its developed storylines, seems to have a distaste for those in power, it also seems easily reasonable that they are at the liberal end of the political spectrum and have a distrust towards big government and business in general. I mean, it's kind of obvious considering that the US military is your enemy throughout HL1, HL2 has you overthrowing a government by rebellion, and the whole saga revolves around a business-based conspiracy still unsolved. The writers at Valve clearly have a problem with authority.
The G-Man is, like Adminstrator Breen and the Nihilanth before, a collaborator who has succumbed to the might of those in greater power. He now works for them by controlling Gordon. This automatically makes Gordon and the G-Man "enemies," in the eyes of the story's writer. Of course, there can be any number of twists made in the plot.
The Human scientists have already developed teleportation in HL2, which is the control of space. In HL3, I strongly believe the Humans will develop a way to control time as well. Once these two powers are harnessed, Gordon will be able to match the G-Man in power and surprise the black-tied fellow.
Maybe the robotic sound of the G-Man's voice is to imply that humans will eventually evolve to a God-like state partly by way of science and technology.
I'm not sure if the G-Man will attempt to stop Gordon in his pursuit of bringing down his employers or help him in defeating them. Maybe the G-Man will not die by the hands of Gordon and instead be freed from servitude, another liberated by Gordon, the human freethinker. The G-Man does favor people who "overcome all odds" (like Jesus and other great prophets?). Or perhaps, the G-Man's employers are an alien race that wants to break their chains, and the other offers that the G-Man speaks of are from other alien races wanting to break theirs. Or, well... beyond this point, all is a truly a mystery as we simply don't know enough information. Valve left just enough information to speculate infinitely without being able to come to any conclusions.
I wonder if the G-Man created Gordon, in his image perhaps? Certainly they have similar looks. Maybe Gordon "is" the G-Man in that regards, the chosen human with the potential (there's that word again) to evolve to a God-like state.
EDIT: Hey, what if "G-Man" is really a clever reference to Gabe Newell, the writer (aka God) of the story?
Gordon Freeman is a scientist, so in the eyes of an athiest/agnostic writer, the "enemy" of God/Ultimate Power (or whatever you want to call it). Side note: Gordon's signature weapon is a crowbar, a tool who's only use is to pry into things and get to places that were once off-limits.
The G-Man is a time-and-space controlling, God-like entity that appears in human form, always dressed in a business suit and carrying a briefcase. Why this appearance of a business man and/or government man? Being that Valve is a videogame design company and, as can be seen through its developed storylines, seems to have a distaste for those in power, it also seems easily reasonable that they are at the liberal end of the political spectrum and have a distrust towards big government and business in general. I mean, it's kind of obvious considering that the US military is your enemy throughout HL1, HL2 has you overthrowing a government by rebellion, and the whole saga revolves around a business-based conspiracy still unsolved. The writers at Valve clearly have a problem with authority.
The G-Man is, like Adminstrator Breen and the Nihilanth before, a collaborator who has succumbed to the might of those in greater power. He now works for them by controlling Gordon. This automatically makes Gordon and the G-Man "enemies," in the eyes of the story's writer. Of course, there can be any number of twists made in the plot.
The Human scientists have already developed teleportation in HL2, which is the control of space. In HL3, I strongly believe the Humans will develop a way to control time as well. Once these two powers are harnessed, Gordon will be able to match the G-Man in power and surprise the black-tied fellow.
Maybe the robotic sound of the G-Man's voice is to imply that humans will eventually evolve to a God-like state partly by way of science and technology.
I'm not sure if the G-Man will attempt to stop Gordon in his pursuit of bringing down his employers or help him in defeating them. Maybe the G-Man will not die by the hands of Gordon and instead be freed from servitude, another liberated by Gordon, the human freethinker. The G-Man does favor people who "overcome all odds" (like Jesus and other great prophets?). Or perhaps, the G-Man's employers are an alien race that wants to break their chains, and the other offers that the G-Man speaks of are from other alien races wanting to break theirs. Or, well... beyond this point, all is a truly a mystery as we simply don't know enough information. Valve left just enough information to speculate infinitely without being able to come to any conclusions.
I wonder if the G-Man created Gordon, in his image perhaps? Certainly they have similar looks. Maybe Gordon "is" the G-Man in that regards, the chosen human with the potential (there's that word again) to evolve to a God-like state.
EDIT: Hey, what if "G-Man" is really a clever reference to Gabe Newell, the writer (aka God) of the story?
