I agree with a large majority with what you have said, however I would argue that while the tadpoles potentially represented much more of a threat in EA, due to the nature of being unable to see the outcomes of our actions past Act 1, I can’t really agree that that was compelling evidence to support the tadpoles overall as a better narrative device back then simply because we had no clue where the plot was going (and likely never will). I feel that it was equally flawed in part because Daisy had just about as many problems as the Emperor, but simply in a different vein.
Did it feel more compelling? Perhaps, but I think that was simply because we don’t know what would have happened. It did feel a lot darker and more foreboding in regards to a loss of self, but again, not knowing the outcome of the story overall allows us to speculate to heights that would have still likely been unachievable. Obviously I’m not saying what we got in the end over EA was an improvement in this specific regard, merely that we can only really speculate with what we did get and cherry pick the potential that EA represented.
Also, and I could be reading the plot and writing entirely wrong (my memory is a little fuzzy due to losing a large majority of my save files by accident), so feel free to correct, but isn’t it suggested or outright mentioned that Mindflayer Tav is merely a facsimile of the original? Isn’t it just a copy that happens to have their memories? I guess that’s another argument of whether someone really is still themselves after such a transformation, but still.
Last edited by Moongerm; 28/12/23 04:21 PM.
