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Second, if someone dies without a will in Britain, their possessions automatically pass to their direct descendants. Also, since we have to play the all-the-important-bits-happen-outside-the-game game, I believe it is established in the first comic that Lara herself tied up the money so she couldn't touch it. That means that legally the estate has passed to her. So again, CD has not done a minimum of due diligence here. Again, they're telling one story and contradicting it poorly later on. This is what infuriates me. Someone should be paying attention. Someone should be clever enough to write something that bears some resemblance to how the world actually works or how people actually behave. |
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CD did not failed the story of Ana and Konstantin by not telling us exactly what disease Ana suffers from. They failed their story by putting an important piece of their story in an optional document. That is a bigger failure than not telling us the name of Ana disease.
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And there's a bit of a misunderstanding: I didn't quote the examples as proof for Ana being morally grey, but because of Konstantin. Dennis's Mom wrote that Konstanting wants to help his sister which makes him good. Before that she wrote that someone who thinks that killing people is okay to get to their goal is evil. But that's what makes Konstantin morally grey: He has a good cause: Helping his sick sister. But he tries to get to this goal by murdering the remnants, which certainly is a questionable way of getting to this goal and thus he can be considered morally grey. Not necessarily with the exact definitions of the linked TV Tropes articles, but the typical "grey morality" is exactly this: Someone who has a noble goal but does questionable or even evil things to reach it. When I searched for pages about grey morality, I hoped to find a more specific page, but alas, I only found the "white vs grey", "black vs grey" and "grey vs grey" pages of TV Tropes. |
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That's at least a "14" on the Most Evil scale. It only goes to 20. Morally grey is Magneto. He and the other mutants are persecuted for no reason other than humans fear them. He considers his actions self defense and there is some truth to that, but his shotgun and no compromise approach make him the villain. Morally grey is Walter White, making meth to make money to leave his family after he dies of lung cancer. He doesn't stay grey though. He crosses into evil when he watches Jesse's girlfriend choke to death on her own vomit. (The genius of Breaking Bad, of course, is that even at the end, you still root for Walter. That's good writing.) Ana and Konstantin's motives are completely egocentric. There's something they want that only benefits them. Had CD actually considered anything beyond the next shootout, they might have actually made Ana somehow indispensable in their coming apocalypse. If she died, the world couldn't be "cleansed from sin" or something. Give them a fully realized plan and vision rather than super generic and vague "you are not going to die!" and "we will cleanse this world from sin!" cutscenes. Saving the world is a reason to kill thousands of people, at least according to every terrorist ever. |
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04-08-17, 04:32 | #66 |
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Exactly. Plus, Konstantin's motivation is only partially that he wants to save his sister; a big part is that he thinks God wants him to murder lots of people. This has always been considered a “less good” intention. That he got tricked by his sister does not change that, it only makes her more evil. Though if he’ll,s stupid enough to believe it then he kind of deserves it.
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