It just keeps cutting from one unrelated occurrence to the next without any convergence.
The first two WoW Cinematics also cut from random character doing random thing to random character doing random thing, but then they would converge by having those characters fight each other and stuff.
But TWW is just…
Earthen guy on the gym. Cuts to weird lady dancing. Cuts to lady dressing up. Cuts back to earthen guy on the gym. Cuts back to weird dancing lady. Cuts back to lady dressing up. Repeat. Then show Nerubian city and a random Nerubian face. The end.
There’s no cohesion. It’s just unrelated things back to back.
I really liked it because it wasn’t clear and lets my imagination run wild. Cinematics were gorgeous and now I’m curious to see where this goes.
I’m ok with some vagueness.
I was honestly confused that i had already seen this cinamtic except its just a longer version of what we already have.
Wouldve been nice to see some combat from from anyone. How do the harronir fight against the void? A battle scene wouldve made it better but its just preping
It’s not unrelated. The earthen, arathi and harronir are all preparing for some kind of conflict. Each prepping their own particular arsenal - earthen forge, arathi arms (not a joke about Faerin’s disability!), harronir magic. We then focus in on a menacing hole in the wall, zoom through and see the nerubian city, and a nerubian preparing some kind of concoction. That’s your convergence. It tells us that’s the focus of the forces prepping for conflict.
I don’t think it was boring. Visually, it was interesting.
Nice dancing moves, weird harronir lady lol
But it felt disconnected.
I understand that if you know what’s going on, you can connect the dots and reach the stuff that Magnarok described on post #8, but IMHO an opening cinematic should be clear storytelling on it’s own. It’s supposed to introduce TWW, not rely on the viewer’s previous knowledge of TWW.
Well you are right that I have some basic foreknowledge of the plot. I know nerubians bad, and these other folks seem nice. I know at least two of the characters’ names. So yeah that does make it clearer for me. But I still contend that the rules of visual storytelling matter. I don’t mean to sound like a smug film geek tool. Even though I probably do!
I just really thought it was an awesome cinematic. Holy hell that music was good!
It’s a montage! Even Rocky the Earthen Dwarf had a montage!
Actually, watching it again, that’s not really a lat isolation workout. it’s much more like the ‘wood chop’ core exercise. I felt compelled to share this revelation.
