Magic wrote:
Interesting thoughts!
I would note that it's doubtful Valarien realises that Duran is working for him, though.
There's that too. I doubt that he put "Former Confederate Ghost, Former Leader of the Confederate Resistance Forces, Former Special Advisor the UED and Former Consort of the Queen of Blades" on his resumé as Dr. Narud.
Magic wrote:(The UED's enslavement of the Zerg and the Second Overmind would have likely prevented or at least hindered the Hybrid's enslavement of the Zerg, and Kerrigan has that whole prophecy thing going).
How? They must have expected the Cerebrates to merge and become the second Overmind and had a contingency to deal with it.
No doubt the Second Overmind could have been controlled the same as the Original one was by the Fallen One, but I think the UED might have messed that up. While the Hybrids are powerful, he still needs control of the Swarm to accomplish his goals of killing everything.
If the UED had the Overmind drugged out and under their control, the Fallen One might not have been able to control it like he would otherwise have been able to do. Additionally, its continued surival would have have likely made the Hybrid's usurption more difficult, and not nearly as complete as it was in the future that the Original Overmind saw.
It looks like the Terrans are force outside of the Prophecy, and thus are the best positioned to stop it. They're a potential spanner in the works, and the UED was a really big freakin' spanner.
RazorclawX wrote:I think inevitably it's going to be all three races against the Hybrids in the end. The Hybrids have already shown they don't have any of the races' best interests in mind, and whatever sort of ragtag alliance there's going to be, Raynor's going to be at the center of it since he now has contact with all three races through Valerian, Kerrigan, and Artanis.
One of the things Blizzard kept stressing in interviews is Arcturus Mengsk's story is pretty much done, and the Dominion story is really about Valerian making his own way. I don't expect to see Mengsk do much else in the campaign at all, although I wouldn't be surprised if he kept sending people to kill Kerrigan (and let's face it, the Protoss would, too). Not to mention now that Kerrigan is no longer the Queen of Blades, the Hybrids are most likely going to step in to take control of them, and Heart of the Swarm will be Kerrigan finding a way to contest their control to spawn her own army to counter them.
Agreed, everyone vs the Hybrids is pretty much a given.
That's a shame about Mengsk, I think there's still alot of potential in his character, so it's kinda disappointing to see him pushed to the side like that. I hope he has more of a role in the future, but I'm pretty sure you're right about him and his fate.
I think my biggest problem with WoL is that there's plenty of already established villains/antagonists and yet they're ignoring/casting them aside in favour of a "big mysterious evil who's been pulling everyone's strings since the beginning!". Instead, Kerrigan gets redeemed by sufficiently advanced technology and Mengsk is just being swept under the carpet.
Alevice wrote:
From everything I have read, the damn plot has quite some vibes from RoC. Plus a few asspulls that just lessen the effect motivations and actions had over the events in the first game, just to blizz can have a retarded big bad that was there all along.
Blizzard can only tell one story.
But this time we've got someone going from evil to good, so that makes it completely different!
