You mean dancing around the canonicity of the issue ? 
Me’dan got nuked from orbit. It just took them awhile.
He’s still officially canon. He just never became the Guardian 
Set up:
Ji’nara finally has it with Alarak being Alarak. She took advantage of some situation where most of Alarak’s are occupied to surprise him with Rak’Shir and won. Due to some contrived miracle, he survive this new form of Rak’shir. (The Rak’shir is a bit different since it didn’t occur on Slayn.) Now broken and weak, the former Highlord must learn to be a different person (which end up being exactly the same) and learn the value of life with the help of a particular matriarch of the Nerazim. Before he could challenge Ji’nara this time with an army of Nerazim in addition to some of his former Ascendant. And bring Tal’darim into the fold; completely this time.
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I don’t understand why they cannot just invoke time travel or multiverse or something. If they don’t like the current continuity then they should make a new one with the stuff they like.
So literally the zaniest & dumbest thing possible is what they went with? Nice.
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But you see it is hilarious because the bot’s name is Gary. GARY! Who’d name a bot Gary, that’s a person’s name! Classic Stetmann.
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Add me to the list of people who think that somebody at blizzard thinks drugged Stetmann is significantly more funny than he actually is.
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Oh definitely. But he’s a heck of a lot better than poorly done teen nerd Stetmann. I generally agree with the direction they have taken the character overall though.
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You mean the two whole sentences he says sometimes when you click on him in Wings? Calling him a character in the first place is pretty generous.
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The red stapler reference was alright.
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He has his lines for the keystone after you get each fragment, though many are stolen by Ariel if you have her onboard. He also gets a few paltry lines for when you first enter the lab and in “The Belly of the Beast”.
I liked how your alleged scientific expert deduced that they might be part of the same object because they look like they might fit together.
Way to hold yourself to a rigorous scientific standard. Not that he’s wrong, but Ariel looks a tiny bit deeper than that.
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Ariel is an actual character, although she is a freaking hypocrite.
Meinhoff: ugh nest, burn it down
In between: THEY ARE PERFECTLY HEALTHY, WHAT ARE YOU EVEN SUGGESTING.
Haven: my people, boo hoo
That’s why I like Matt so much more.
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The Terran adjutant was a better character than Hanson, Stetman or Dehaka. I’ll never forget that one time when she warned us about a class 12 psionic waveform approaching.
And that goes double for Mr. Malmsteen.
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I mean the WoL adjutant is bae. She does a lot of hard work and asks for nothing in return.
Jimmy: Could you…
Adjutant: Got ya dawg, already encrypting.
Also, Tychus tell Jimmy that there are multiple air bogeys incoming, ETA right the hell now. I am sure he will appreciate that.
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To be honest, Raynor, Kerry and Mengsk are the only characters I actively dislike. They’re flat as cardboard, psychotically insane, and twist the whole universe around themselves. Everybody else I just feel “meh” about but while they’re equally flat as cardboard they have no influence on the story whether positive or negative because they were only ever accessories to the big three’s soap opera.
I think even drug-addled mutated Stetmann could have been interesting if actual effort was put into the character rather than treating mental illness as a joke.
I thought the game campaigns from SC1-SC2 had mediocre writing at best, but at least the scripts maintained a consistently serious tone despite the excessive melodrama and blatant absurdities.
Whoever is writing the Stemann arcs is deliberately writing lolrandom comedy and it’s not even funny, either. Abathur’s throwaway dialogue about zerg being allergic to citrus fruit is funny. LotV’s absurd melodrama and atrocious dead-eyed over-the-top acting is funny. Warfield sending out Gorgons like clockwork to be destroyed like an idiot is funny.
Stemann isn’t funny. That’s the worst kind of comedy!
For comparison: there’s this kingdom of heroic knights and noble nobles and loyal subjects. The twist is that they’re this is Warhammer Fantasy and the peaceable kingdom is actually a delusion/hallucinations. To everyone else, they’re hideous flesh-eating monsters. That’s the whole shtick of the Ghoul Kingdoms.
Here’s a simple way to fix Stetman: have him act like a normal person from his own perspective, but to everyone else he’s clearly insane. He perceives his robots as people who hold conversations with him. He perceives Bel’Shir’s blatant demon possession as his ex-boyfriend, who has been dead for years. He perceives humans as hideous Lovecraftian monsters a la The Song of Saya. He thinks forcibly exposing people to lethal levels of tiberium is curing them of the Black Plague. It’s not that hard to write!
I mean, it’s kind of implied that he does not realize his own insanity. We just don’t get any story from his first person perspective.
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Do you have anything against ugliness? We can’t choose our appearance, you know? Also, we’re all flesh eating the only difference is that we learn to cook our meat.
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