Originally Posted by Nerovar
Originally Posted by Milkfred
Originally Posted by Nerovar
PS: If you want to look for other hints of rewrites and incongruity, compare the Gale act 2 ending with the Gale act 3 ending and see if you notice anything.

What's the incongruity? I'm guessing that in Act 3 the option to nuke the brain works out for the better when in Act 2 it did not?

In act 2 it results in all the now unrestrained tadpoles 'detonating' creating a mindflayer plague along the Sword Coast. When Gale does the same thing in act 3 the tadpoles magically vanish and we get a happy ending.

Thought so. Yeah, that feels like an inconsistency in how the tadpoles work. I feel like the story can't quite decide where the tadpoles turn the host into a Mind Flayer as a sort of natural process, or whether it only happens when the Elder Brain specifically commands the tadpole to do it. Act 2 goes with the first interpretation, whereas Act 3 goes with the latter then, I suppose? Seems like it could be another element that was tied up with removing Daisy.

Last edited by The Red Queen; 23/08/23 02:25 PM. Reason: Added spoiler tags