Anduin with PTSD. What am I missing?

Woaldan-moon-guard · November 6, 2023, 4:56pm

I posted this in another thread, I’ll post it here.

My issue is, as realistic an interpretation as Anduin’s PTSD is, it doesn’t feel particularly earned. He says the exact same words Saurfang does about “what I’ve seen, what I’ve done”, but it was far more raw and far better executed with Saurfang because you know just how messed up his life has been. Especially matched up with a green and idealistic recruit like Zekhan who thinks only in terms of the propaganda he’s been fed about war.

This seems to be a case where he’s skipped a step. Most characters of this type, made to do something bad potentially against their will, usually have a phase where they question what they’re doing…and then they make a mistake where they deliberately do something terrible and don’t realize it until they get slapped in the face with the consequences. THEN they are left in the state you see here in this cinematic.