Well at least he’s got chicken.
What’s really funny to me is that Sylvanas ended up being the same person, but she gets a mulligan while Arthas gets told go go die in a corner because he’s a bad person and everyone hates him.
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He should have had them all wear masks, social distance 6 feet apart and take a potion and the mages wipped up overnight and have no idea if it would work :^)
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Sylvanas was even worse in my opinion. She made the choice to slaughter innocent people. How is it possible she gets a damn pass? I didn’t even think of that.
I wonder what the writers of WotLK think of BfA/Shadowlands.
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Probably should have distributed masks to all the uninfected citizens, would have saved them.
There’s weirdly a lot of COVID jokes about this lol.
Blizzard clearly didn’t think through any of the choices they made for the character development of Sylvanas though. Not even a tiny bit.
And rather than not understanding that there weren’t any other options; I always took it as the people who loved Arthas were just taken aback by his ability to slaughter his own people, with little to no hesitation and with his own hands. But idk, haha.
This was mainly due to Danuser and his hate for the og lore. He and his creation SL single handedly just did that, destroyed Arthas and the legacy of the og lore what made Warcraft.
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This is the arc that makes me wish MY VISION of “Classic+” would have went. What if Arthas wouldn’t turn into the litchking and Arthas, Uther and Sylvanas etc stay alive.
The purging of Stratholme was the correct decision. Because 1) there was no way to tell who had been infected or not and 2) it spread very fast with no 0% chance of survival, and 3) people had already started to turn by the time Arthas arrived.
Even to this day in the lore, no cure has been found for the undead plague.
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To be honest the problem is people keep thinking that Stratholme was a small town and that they had weeks or something or a magic detector.
The light pre Draenei and Naaru showing up was nebulous and couldn’t really be used to properly detect and cure as well as canon characters do now. I remember right from that old game the population of stratholme was like 25k. Arthas straight up did not have enough people to quarantine that city.
Malganis and other necromancers were in the city and could rush turn all the populous. It was also spread by grain, which is a really common food stuff that so much food especially back then used meaning nearly everyone was infected, the people that weren’t you wouldn’t be able to tell and would likely be killed or infect by the others before you got to them.
SPOILER FOR THE LAST OF US:
I think a good comparison to this would the Last of us live action show version. In the show the Cordyceps was spread by infected grain, so much food used it that it infected a massive amount of people immediately. The turn time was like a day, the doctor they brought in who specialized in fungi (kind of like bringing in a priest of the light for the scourge) straight up says they can’t make a vaccine or cure since it doesn’t work like the kind of things you can cure. Even if they could they had no time to study it before it gets out of control.
So her opinion was just kill everyone in the city with a bomb and hope not enough of the grain or enough of the infected got out the city to cause it to start all over again. We see other soldiers in America try the same but they took too long so grain and people got out leading to the end of the world.
This was the same situation Arthas was in, the difference was that he had more time than the people in the last of us so when he came to the same conclusion he was able to succeed in killing everyone in the city stopping the grain or infected from spilling out and causing other towns and cities from being infected as well. Granted similar to the Last of Us it ended up failing since people still could not find a cure and there was still people spreading the plague.
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Boom. Drop da mic.
Boom. Another mic dropped.
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they would have been infected and died if he sat there hoping for a cure or did something else. they were trapped in a city surrounded by plague and undead.
and if blizzard kept the original ideology of the light, that would probably make sense, but with the current belief of what the light is it doesn’t matter if he crossed that threshold and he should still hold strong command over the light because he believed what he did was right.
What’s the current belief?
Yeah, it’s a sticky one, all right. There are no good answers here.
There were really only two options: quarantine or cautery. I would say that of the two, quarantine is marginally safer, since you don’t expose your own force to contamination so much. But they’re both awful choices, and they’re the only ones available.
Uh, he did do the right thing.
If a recent pandemic was anything to go by, there were entirely people who’d pretend to be okay, succumb to it, and infect everyone else who hadn’t lied.
There’s a time for compassion and a time for doing things. In the old days, they boarded up your homes or walled off your area and let things take their course. Then again, with mutating zombies that can rip down barricades, it’s usually best to just get rid of them. The city couldn’t be saved.
If you lived next door to a group of people who were going to turn into flesh eating zombies, you’d probably not be too concerned with the ethics of taking them out before they spread like a living virus and hunted every last living being to extinction. This isn’t something to possibly nip in the bud. It had to be exterminated. You would have had to find every single individual who didn’t eat any bread for the past several days or weeks.
Something tells me we didn’t have Gluten-Free Karens walking around Stratholme.
-Drops mic.-
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Exactly what he did, he made the right choice. I guess he could have burned it completely to the ground to make sure.
It requires an immediate response. Researching a cure for an undead plague would have taken too long. We see the civilians turning minutes after he decides to purge them. That whole list someone wrote above is great and accurate, if this were a slowly progressing plague. It was very clearly NOT that.
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The correct answer is why didn’t we let the infinite timeflight do their thing.
This whole Titan Timeline stuff seems like the real villainy we don’t understand.
I would’ve turned to Uther and ask him: What should we do, Uther?
And then turned to Jaina: What should we do, Jaina?
These were fast to judge him on his decision, but I wonder what would’ve been if they were to make the decision.