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>>11896007
there is a lot to say about kerrigan and the redemption arc, as well as the nature of transformation and mutation and so on. there may also be parallels to pic rel, and FF6 is another one of those texts i am fond of drawing on when i want to score points about nietzsche and heidegger.

but starcraft has a pretty complete mythos of its own. and again, it doesn't matter if it's *cheesy* - it is - it matters because however cheesy it was, a lot of people tuned in to follow it, and it may have been impossible for the game to be as successful as it was without having one.

but unlike star wars, the central character of starcraft was kerrigan rather than vader, and the turn to the dark side - the zerg experience - actually ends with the 'dark side' becoming itself converted, in the end, to Kerriganism: and, as such, it can't really be that bad. which is kind of amazing. in Star Wars there is no humanizing the Sith: one way or another, the Sith are bad. and the fact that they make you *physically ugly* no doubt plays some role in this: the emperor in the end has a giant scrotum-head. but Kerrigan doesn't become *less sexy* for becoming the brood queen; if anything, her sexiness gets cranked up to eleven. with Terra Branford it's a similar process.

partly, of course, it might be said that the developers at Blizzard just couldn't keep anything un-sexy for long. Blizzard (but not, for example, Games Workshop) has given us Sexy Orcs and Sexy Undead as well, which are things that would have puzzled Tolkien, for instance, or the early developers of the 40K universe (Gygax, maybe not so much). but the whole aesthetic process of Sexification For The Greater Good is kind of a fascinating and hilarious one. would the greeks have worshiped Athena if she was morbidly obese? probably not.

but this kind of stuff also fucks with our sensibilities, because in the end, we are kind of hilariously inclined to just root for whatever is most physically beautiful to us, even if it's the zerg (or the Espers). but more on that later perhaps.