Stopped reading at y’all
Y’all’d’ve
I’m not even southern tho
I can’t speak for others, but personally, my issue was the opposite. No one would realistically sit there and think about it for several seconds while getting actively crushed by an evil robot that wants to destroy their city. Her expression should be distressed, lost, scared, and possibly embarrassed. This is the first time she’s felt like she doesn’t have the solution to the problem in front of her. When she says the words, she should be speaking quickly, clearly, and with urgency, because she already realized the gravity of the situation before saying “I can’t beat this thing.” She shouldn’t be pausing, slowly and reluctantly whispering Taehyun’s name, and pausing again before barely-audibly asking for help.
Of course, it doesn’t help the story that Taehyun has nothing to offer except telling her not to stay out there for too long, and that otherwise useless comment just happened to give her an idea. I have no idea how she was even expecting Taehyun to help, since he seems to have no capacity to do anything other than remotely view and program things in her mech (which was already so damaged that none of that, other than overloading it, could be useful anymore).
There were definitely ways to make that moment work, but they missed it. It was supposed to be the key moment of the whole scene, but it felt so incredibly artificial that it seemed to take meaning out of the cinematic instead. They had already beaten the “D.va doesn’t like asking for help” horse to death throughout the entire short, to the point that it wasn’t necessary to string out that the moment where she flips, and they made her seem needlessly fake when the moment came.
I understand how they got there and can see the reasons they might have done it that way. However, there’s a line where media crosses from making a point into the realm of patronizing the audience, and I think they overshot that line significantly with the “help” moment.
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There is no “should” on how a character should respond to a conflict unless it vastly goes against the grain of their established personality. While yes, I do think that the dialogue here is unrealistic (I do quite like honing in on dialogue when I critique), I think that it isn’t too much of an issue given what Overwatch is marketed as and the purpose it serves (also anecdote: one time a microwave heating a plate caught the plate on fire and I reacted quite similarly to D.Va in a situation that isn’t quite as urgent, but yeah my family said I should have screamed “fire” instead of… not. But whatever that’s an anecdote). It shows that D.Va is still reluctant to shed her insistent autonomy despite knowing there is no other option.
I don’t think this is too much of an issue, though I see your point: D.Va gets the idea on her own. However, Daehyun is also the one activating self-destruct, standing over her gurney, and alerting rescue to her location. He does help, but yes he is more of a foil in personality.
I don’t think it was patronization at all; Overwatch has always appealed to the largest audience possible (something something Blizzney) and this is very consistent with their seemingly “rated T, but sorta family-friendly” approach.
I think it does a little bit. The thing that I wonder is why is the Korean omnic is the only one that can adapt this quickly while others seemingly can’t?
Was probably the first and only of its kind. Which is for the best; that thing seems brutal. It was likely their “superweapon”
It honestly show how fast it adapting. Imagine if one of it’s futures adaptations is to seek help from other omnic forces.
Eh, I don’t think you’re picking up what I’m putting down. All of that is fine and dandy, what isn’t fine and dandy is immediately going right back into doing what she was doing before the incident despite the story telling us she shouldn’t, and then showing us that it’s A-okay for her to do so.
It’s fine if you consider it quality writing and are assuming that it’ll take a toll on her mentally, we’ll never know because shorts don’t get follow ups in the first place. That’s why it’s important to actually have…resolution in them, this short didn’t really have any resolution, it was just action and a day 1 lesson that she should have already known working in a team to begin with seeing as she’s a soldier.
If you go back and actually listen to the way the dialog and on the nose exposition about DVa’s character is presented, you’ll realize that they tried really hard to present her flaws as mattering and that it heavily clashes with what is being shown on screen.
It’s just poorly written, poorly structured, and poorly handled. Friendzone guy being the worst offender in wasting time in the short didn’t help.
Also lol @ people who think that anyone who dislikes the short just dislikes DVa, hop off that nonsense and pay attention to what people who are actually bothering to explain why they dislike it dislike it instead of going “YOU JUST HATE DVA!11111!!”.
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Yup. We basically wound up right back where we started.
It really made me think, Shooting Star is to Dragons or to Honor and Glory as the Destiny campaign is to like Halo or Gears.
Like… I guess Destiny’s campaign can be pretty decent at times. It’s got cool moments–Ghaul getting BTFO’d by the Traveler was cool, but the problem is we never really see any true consequence to anything that happens in the campaign (Forsaken notwithstanding). The closest is The Dark Below and the consequent Taken King, but overall, Destiny struggles with an impactful storyline, and frankly, Shooting Star seems to suffer a similar malady.
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Her teammates aren’t dead though
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I may have misunderstood it, I’ll have to rewatch it when I have a free moment.
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Yeah no problem, also Michael Chu confirmed this too btw, but I do agree that it’s interesting that the team was clearly injured, as well as D.Va at the end but the news tries to cover it up by saying, “They’re fine, no pilots were harmed”
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Yep; you can see them at a press conference. All but D.Va are injured; two are in casts and one has a head/neck bandage.
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Can I also say a theory that could be something that has to do with her story?What if Korea has spent all their money on the Meka program? The original plan was for the long haul with their pilots but due to D.va being so good she defeated it the first time around. That means that their goes all their money. So they decide to make their money back by reactivating the Kuishin omnic. Another meaning for ghost could be that they are literal ghosts, dead omnics that are controlled having it attack to what Hana and the squad can handle, upping he difficulty every time thus why it seems to adapt. Then they promote D.va as the celebrity she is making the countries money back. From products, to movies and other products. They even put her on a pedestal by saying she didn’t get seriously hurt. Why? Because they want her to seem like she is superhuman. Not having a single amount of damage after a fall like that makes them cheer more and want to but D.va products. Also now they put her on vacation so that nobody will know about her real injuries.
Look. I might just in fact be blind or completely oblivious.
Someone send me new glasses. My current ones aren’t doing the job lol.
It’s all the WoW, definitely
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan Warbringers Azshara
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the sigh is me. sighing because errrbody wants to put all this headcannon to their waifu so it’s more then “I wanna pork D.va cuz skin tight bodyglove”
I haven’t actually been able to play since Wednesday! I’m house / pet sitting right now until monday and I do not have a laptop.
And starting Wednesday I’ll be pet sitting for someone else for another week.
On the plus side, making a lot of extra money.
Also, Warbringers: Azshara was awesome.
I don’t. She’s 19 and honestly that creeps me out.
It was!
And that’s a shame, but yeah extra spending money is really good! I FINALLY capped last night and now I’m looking at the world quests and just crying… Lol
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