WoW characters exist to look directly at the camera and monologue the plot to you.
They should make it so that those cut scenes with your character in them always have the Jim from the office zoom in whenever something happens.
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I personally think it would be amusing if we just had a floating head or something monologue the plot to us so the characters could be characters.
Nice to see Thrall’s son get the soap opera treatment of being a child in one scene and then magically and inexplicably an adult in the next scene. (I think canonically he’s supposed to have been born at the end of Cata, so like 11 or 12. So his age got sped up for the sake of Thrall’s plot).
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He’s a teenager or young man right now, which Blizzard has never done a model for. So his son is just a real tiny adult orc and it’s so weird.
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Give us 2/3 height orcs with gangly arms and pimply faces, Blizzard.
Do it, or we riot.
Braces on their tusks. Red eyes all big behind coke bottle glasses.
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i honestly think this is an issue only if you exist in the marvel cinematic universe level of the media iceberg, tbh, and if you take 20 seconds to dig past the super obvious, you’ll find there are a lot of pieces of media that are interesting and have depth.
WoW has always been on the MCU tier of the iceberg and i’m kinda done expecting it to be anything more than that. if i want deep, interesting, flawed character writing, the 2024 Ursula K Le Guin Award shortlist just dropped.
At a certain point we have to ask “does the thing really need to be better or do we need to stop consuming the media equivalent of twinkies and being surprised that they’re empty calories?”
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Oh. They’re doing Me’dan again.
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At least its not a Gary Stu this time around. Durak is, AFAWK, without the spiritual quality to become a Shaman, and has no special powers other than “Your Dad works for my Dad.”, and he’s too much of a Good Boi to use it.
So what you’re telling us is he’s a nepo baby.
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Looking at one of the more recent interviews talking about lack of horde representation, I am personally not as opposed to it’s lack now since Metzen being back translates to: Only orcs, the worst Horde race, get any form of it.
I have heard a few times that Sylvanas Windrunner was created as a character because the writers wanted an Alleria-type figure leading the defense of Quel’thalas, but Alleria was away, so they made a sister with similar traits.
And I’ve also heard seperately that Vereesa was made for much the same reason, because the author wanted an elf ranger but Alleria was stuck elsewhere (and also already taken, because Vereesa’s purpose was to be the gf of the book’s main character).
So if that’s true, and I don’t have a source other than ‘word of mouth by people who said their friend read it in an interview somewhere’, but that would make it seem like they’ve all got human boyfriends because they’re all shades of the same initial archetype, that different writers played ‘what if’ with.
I have heard that Sylvanas Windrunner was invented because Chris Metzen wanted Sylvester the cat to lead the Forsaken and called the police on Blizzard staff that tried to explain they didn’t have the rights to it.
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Strangely enough, Durak seems to be desperately fighting that image, and Thrall and Aggra take great pains to not overly favour him in the few public scenes where he’s alongside others of his age-group.
So just like all nepo babies…
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