Alan Wake/Fridge: Difference between revisions

** From various POVs, it can be seen as Alan re-writing the initial manuscript, the idea of a narrative universe having alternatives, or what have you. And given how that episode ends, that too can be taken as a interpretation of the Xbox 360 itself. It is the magic box that keeps the protagonist alive... until you pull the plug (turn off the power). When you turn on the power again... that's just another universe.

** Alternatively, but basically the same idea, {{spoiler|dying could be explained as Alan giving into the Dark Presence and killing off himself while writing the manuscript, losing all hope for his wife and the end of the Presence. He then scraps the page, having no way to delete characters with a typewriter, meaning checkpoints are just ends of pages in the manuscript.}}

** Also, the manuscript implies that {{spoiler|they know about the Dark Presence and and have fought it before. That would explain why they built that massive stage on their farm as well as why their farm was stocked with enough weapons and supplies to equip a small army.}}

** While we're on the topic of the battle on the stage, fighting off a hoard of monsters on stage while music blares like that doesn't make sense in a horror story, [[The Power of Rock|but would make perfect sense in a metal song]]. A metal song such as the kind that Tor and Odin would've written near a certain lake. Another song we know they wrote is Lady of the Light, which also turned out to be true to a point.

*** Okay, knowing this, let's now look at the lyrics of the two songs we hear of theirs in game:

Scourge of light upon the dark|Children of the Elder God }}

 

For it is said, on moonless nights they may still haunt this place|The Poet And The Muse}}

 

* If you ask {{spoiler|why the Taken don't just take out the transformers so they can assault the power plant, try leading one into the hanging or horizontal wires you've seen.}}

* Ok, Alan Wake is a writer, so how do they explain how good of a shot he is? He mentions that he's 'never fired a gun outside a range before', so, he's clearly handled guns. But come on, he's practically a perfect shot, what's the explanation? In one flashback, when the power goes out in the Wake's apartment, you can find a trophy on the bookcase next to Alan's set of novels. It's a clear acrylic trophy set with a pair of gold pistols. Clearly, Alan won it at a shooting competition.

** Alternately, Alan is that good of a shot because ''[[Reality Warper|he wrote himself into the story as being that good of a shot]].''

** I'm sure I read somewhere that the trophy is a literary award for one of his 'Alex Casey' books. Nothing to do with marksmanship at all.

** Alan makes a comment about how he'd never fired a gun outside of a shooting range, so he has experience. He wasn't prepared for the noise and light, but adapted quickly.

* The messages 'The Darkness controls the taken' as well as 'The Darkness {{spoiler|wears her face}}', among others that explain things like how to kill the taken are spread evenly throughout the game. This is despite the fact that the player has long learned most or all of these things-- many in the tutorial no less. The reason? {{spoiler|Cynthia had no way of knowing where the battle with the darkness would start, so she instead placed the caches and messages ''everywhere''. Overlaps with [[Crazy Prepared]].}}

* Alan's [[Captain Obvious]] moments make a lot more sense if you realize that {{spoiler|they're the narration of the book he wrote while trapped in Cauldron Lake.}}

* Why don't the Taken use guns? Muzzle flash.

** [[Jossed]] by ''American Nightmare''. Taken are dumbasses and guns are too complex for them to use. Besides, it's not like they needed to use guns anyway. They could throw those damn axes with [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|Cheating Bastard]] accuracy.

* Why does Tom wear a diving suit and glows so brightly you can't even see him inside? Because Alan had to write him into the story in order to talk to him. But since Tom had already erased himself from existance, Alan had no form of reference with which to describe him by and since simply making something up or leaving it out would allow the Presense to take over, Alan simply created an appearance that represented Tom without ever having to have to try and describe him.

** Plus an entity glowing that brightly would be impossible for the Dark Presence to suborn.