Thereās a lot of Angela and Genji banter going back and forth and some of it is funny and cute, but Iām not glad that there isnāt much else between other heroes. Thereās no banter between Tracer and Winston or Winston and Angela. In comparison with Retribution, itās weak.
The ending to the event blew my mind, I donāt even know where to begin with that honestly.
But what got me the most? Genjiās attitude towards Blackwatch and Retribution. He god damn hates BW for some reason. These voice lines just obliterated me:
Tracer: "It must be hard for us to gather intel with Blackwatch sidelined.
Genji: āI wouldnāt know.ā
Tracer: āDonāt you talk to your old teammates?ā
Genji: no answer
And:
Winston: āWhat is capturing Maximilien going to achieve?ā
Genji: "Heās our first Talon lead since Venice.
Tracer: āAnd whose fault was that?ā
Genji: āI had nothing to do with it.ā
Tracer, incredulously: āYou were there, werenāt you?ā
Genji, jokingly: āI was a bystander!ā
Likeā¦ Holy heck. A bystander? He treats Retribution as a complete non-issue that he wasnāt a part of at all. He takes no responsibility, he experienced no emotion about Blackwatch falling apart and yet he vehemently defended Gabe over murdering Antonio even though he literally doesnāt care.
And he doesnāt care about Blackwatch at all. He doesnāt care about his former teammates, he doesnāt talk to them, doesnāt know how they are, doesnāt care that they took the fall that ruined their lives (McCreeās specifically), he just transferred to Overwatch where people coddle him more and where he can sit in Angelaās office and drink coffee with her.
I actually got pissed off hearing those lines. It says a lot about Genji, really. Thereās obviously something there that weāre not aware of, but to completely deny any involvement, responsibility and connection to a team and the members of that teamā¦ Iām actually speechless. Like, what have they done to him that he would just decide to ignore them like that? And to claim that he was a bystander in the disaster that was Venice? A bystander that had no qualms going in, following orders, killing people and defending an unlawful execution of an unarmed citizen? And after all that, he leaves Blackwatch and doesnāt even talk to them. Wow Genji. Blizzard, tell me what the hell happened.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.