so anduins blade is now a runeblade and the story feels more confusing.
If we are getting the maw raid or whatever next then Idk what to think was kinda looking forwards to something else.
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Sigh ⊠they could have taken a more prolongued road with her, but ⊠ugh.
Sheâs denied âthat choiceâ to Thousands at this point. Of every race and every faction. They were plunged into the very hellscape she resents being thrown into, and judging by our lovely legendaries ⊠their souls are being ground down into Iron Ore and crafted into weapons. What is with this weird fascination with Anduin? Ugh ⊠god damnit, I knew she wouldnât become a loot pinata, but ⊠sigh.
A part of me hopes she just does make her choice and screws Anduin, and then we can go from there. If sheâs so convinced that her âlack of freedomâ and âlack of hopeâ is âThe Way the World Truly Isâ ⊠then she should commit. Because, as she frames it, âshe has no choiceâ. Sheâs convinced herself of that, and nightly musings with a naĂŻve Teenager shouldnât change that. Talk-no-jutsu always sucks.
EDIT: On a different note, Rune-Blade Shalamayne looks pretty dope.
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at this point she is damned, her crimes are vast.
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Kinda get the vibe that the only reason why sheâs hesitating now is because Anduin is a main character. Seems awkward to try to make herself seem doubtful now after she didâŠwell, everything before this.
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I mean, She did discover the 4th wall in the last episode.
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Anduin needs to get with Naruto to properly learn the Talk no Jutsu.
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He is a little antagonistic with his attempts isnât he lol? Its sort of funny that you can have Naruto literally beating his world-view into much older opponents (who have been convinced of themselves for a decade), but still come off as throwing less jabs than Anduin threw at Sylvie here. Heâs not greatâŠ
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Kill him Sylvanas. Redeem yourself.
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Called it⊠so far back.
Iâm annoyed that they squished this arc so thoroughly, if it had been over the course of four expansions instead of two, it would have been really great. This is what I think the writing team was speaking of when talking about their plot, thatâs why thereâs such a disconnect between us and them, because they see what their overall plan was, as opposed to what we actually get.
At this point thereâs a serious disconnect between the Sylvanas shown here and the one we see in BfA, or any other time other than pre-Cata. On one hand theyâve been trying to retcon her as âalways badâ as far back as the Wrathgate, but on the other hand she shows real conflict here.
Anduin being able to shake her resolve doesnât bother me too much, weâve seen it happen before, and itâs not like characters havenât been persuaded from their paths at the last minute before, or shown regret. Kilâjaeden, for instance, or in a more marked level, Alganon. But this Sylvanas, while (in my opinion) better written than BfA Sylvanas, is a far cry from what she was in terms of characterization seen in the latter version.
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True. Nothing like a blindingly naĂŻve optimist to shake up the beliefs of a bitter nihilist. Though, I donât think it should be sufficient if sheâs really convinced herself she doesnât have a choice. Because despite Anduinâs claim here âThat she holds the powerâ ⊠she doesnât really. The person who gave her the order to hurry the hell up and get things done holds the power. The system that she believes discarded her into the Maw in the first place, still holds power. Even with her power now, she probably held more power as Warchief as she does in that room. That argument should NOT work with the worldview theyâve portrayed for her.
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Dang it blizz
Why are we upset now?
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Given we made a being who had seen dozens of worlds become reoriginated change his mind by beating him up enough, it doesnât surprise me, especially with Anduin.
Plus, Iâve thought for some time that Anduin isnât entirely the goody-goody people label him as. He wants peace, and is a scholarly, gentle nerd trapped in the role of a warrior king, but there are moments where heâs pretty cunning and manipulative. My issue is the disconnect between the versions of Sylvanas, with this one aligning a lot more with Legion era Sylvanas, the one that fight alongside Varian and seemed to actually respect him, than any of the others.
I can see that Sylvanas being swayed by Anduin, but not the one from literally an expansion ago, nor the one from Cataclysm. Burning Crusade and Wrath Sylvanas I can see also being swayed.
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I am laughing my *** off having trouble staying alive thanks to a lack of breath
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Personally Iâm peeved that now that itâs time for her to be more sympathetic, they gave this Sylvanas a more attractive model and armour set than before. She hasnât looked this conventionally attractive since Wrath.
Donât think I didnât notice, Blizzard. Iâm on to youâŠ
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Because Anduin is talk-no-jutsuing down a woman who created a World War just to rack up as large of a kill count on every side as she could. And that hesitance and uncertainty in her (while even I, who expected her to Use us and Bail, feels more in character for her) ⊠is not whoâve weâve seen up till now. This Sylvanas has committed Nightmares and sacrificed everyone for her goals, yet sheâs faultering on the precipice because of a Teenager. And, yes, it has been established that her first instinct with someone who she still sees as foolishly clinging to hope is to try to break them of that; however her second instinct is to try to force them through some antagonistic act to compel them to see things her way.
So ⊠Sylvanas should âcommitâ to whatever the Jailor plans to do with Anduin. Both in her personal trigger of trying to snuff out the illusion of âhopeâ, and her belief in her own powerlessness sheâs convinced herself of. BOTH of these motivations should push her into âpressing that Mournlamayne Buttonâ.
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Anduin: âHey Sylvanas, do you member that Arthas killed you?â
Sylvanas: holy crap heâs right
Sylvanas: maybe murdering people is wrong
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Number one rule of fantasy. Hot people canât be bad people. Only uggos like Orcs are true villains. Anyone conventionally attractive is just damaged or misguided, and just needs to âsee the Lightâ.
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My only major complaint about the cinematic isâŠwhy does it seem like Anduin is the only character in the WoW universe that is able to go all therapist onto people and make them second guess themselves and their actions or just make them slowly walk toward becoming a better them?
We have it with varian, Jaina, saurfang, garrosh, Sylvanas, Baine.
I think Iâm starting to understand why tyrande doesnât actually want to talk to him while sheâs in nightwarrior mode.
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Does anyone actually care about the characters anymore??
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