Kerrigan and Zeratul's Encounter: Method Behind Madness?

[GnaReffotsirk]

How can one empathize with an emotion that comes out without any logical basis? A random emotion is insanity in the works, but authors who can root their audience in emotion driven stories must still propose a solid basis from which those emotions emerge.

Anyway, I thought that in that sequence Karass was actually more of a threat than Zeratul was. Karass was with a contingent of protoss harassing Kerrigan's forces.

She could have left due that, and thought she had no time to deal with Zeratul (as it will take some time to actually be rid of him) and actually just leave him angry at her or let him go. Zeratul wants to strike kerrigan regardless to redeem himself or avenge the Matriarch, while Kerrigan taunts him by implying to forget it, and that it really doesn't matter.

It's a mixed scene of everything, imo.

[Norfindel]

It doesn't makes too much sense, i think. She speaks as if everything is lost, and she's just awaiting oblivion to take her, but she continues to do things. She's searching for the artifacts (we don't even know why, probably neither the "writers").

We don't really know anything after playing the whole WoL campaign. Just that the Hybrids are going to destroy everything, and that Kerrigan is the key to stopping them from taking over the Swarm. Worse, they don't even leaved us with good unresolved questions, as a lot of situations just didn't make any sense, and they broke the suspension of disbelief more times than i can count.

After 12 years, they could had put more thought into this.

[Kimera757]

While the story about the artifact is critical to StarCraft II as a whole, to Wings of Liberty it was just a side story.

We aren't going to be told the whole story until Legacy of the Void. It's natural we'll be mystified.

[GnaReffotsirk]

A good point there Norfindel.

[Turalyon]

We aren't going to be told the whole story until Legacy of the Void. It's natural we'll be mystified.

Oh, I'm mystiified alright. I'm mystified at how blatant they can be in stretching this paper-thin plot.

[Norfindel]

While the story about the artifact is critical to StarCraft II as a whole, to Wings of Liberty it was just a side story.

We aren't going to be told the whole story until Legacy of the Void. It's natural we'll be mystified.

Wow, are you saying the fight against Mengsk was the main plot? Then it sucks even more. It really feels like the other way around. It feels like a lot more of the game revolves around the artifact than around Mengsk, not to mention the game's ending is part of the artifact storyline.

No need to say that they don't know how to write a story if the fight against Mengsk was supposed to be the core of the story. It isn't even resolved, Mengsk is still there in his throne. It really sucks.

[Zeraszana]

Wow, are you saying the fight against Mengsk was the main plot? Then it sucks even more. It really feels like the other way around. It feels like a lot more of the game revolves around the artifact than around Mengsk, not to mention the game's ending is part of the artifact storyline.

No need to say that they don't know how to write a story if the fight against Mengsk was supposed to be the core of the story. It isn't even resolved, Mengsk is still there in his throne. It really sucks.

nah, the core was save the girl, mengsk was like some flavor in my opinion

[Kimera757]

Wow, are you saying the fight against Mengsk was the main plot? Then it sucks even more. It really feels like the other way around. It feels like a lot more of the game revolves around the artifact than around Mengsk, not to mention the game's ending is part of the artifact storyline.

I think the main story of Wings of Liberty was the fight against Kerrigan, including Raynor having to "man up" and pick a side.

(Personally I think he screwed up; while Kerrigan's alive, I have to wonder just how good a Swarm leader she could be. Will she be re-infested in Heart of the Swarm?)

The strands of the prophecy and Raynor's decision will eventually collide in Legacy of the Void.

[Norfindel]

Difficult to tell. If she is re-infested, i think that she would be a bitch again.
Not too sure about what will happend, as the Zerg been in control of a Terran for long would be strange. I think they really shot themselves in the foot this time, unless they don't intend to do any other SC game.

I would prefer that the Swarm remains in control of another entity, really, but they should be weakened (they probably are, seeing how Char, their "home", was wiped clean of all Zerg life, and that surely includes structures).

I never liked Kerrigan, at least not so much as to be the leader of the Zerg, anyways. I would had just allowed the Cerebrates to continue to run the Swarm, but they would have their own ideas of how the Swarm is to be managed, and that means occasional conflicts. They wouldn't be an unique mind anymore.

I think that they created a bad scenario at the end of BW, by twisting the balance of forces so much. The Zerg should never have so much power, as there's no reason why they wouldn't continue attacking, and kill everyone. Granted, the Xel'Naga temple didn't allow them to attack Shakuras, but the Terran wouldn't exist anymore had they continued their attack.

The Protoss cannot be in the same situation, because they would wipe the Zerg from existance, and neither the Terrans, who would probably do the same, and even try to destroy the Protoss, depending on who's in charge.

[Turalyon]

The whole "Kerrigan being un-infested" opens up a can of worms.

If she really is uninfested and proceeds to regain control over the Zerg and eventually defeat the Dark Voice, how can they realistically justify Kerrigan being more powerful than she was in her infested form?

If they infest her again, are they going to make a contrived notion of infestation where there's no psychosis to justify it? More importantly, wouldn't the reinfestation of Kerrigan make the story of WoL definitively moot? We're discussing whether or not WoL was ultimately about bringing down Mengsk or saving/un-infesting Kerrigan. Since there was hardly a resolution with the former we have to assume the latter. If the latter is undone in HotS, what will WoL's contribution be to the trilogy?