Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
214,144
edits
Freeman's Mind: Difference between revisions
m
removed Category:Freemans Mind; added [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] using HotCat
m (revise quote template spacing) |
m (removed Category:Freemans Mind; added [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] using HotCat) |
||
| (11 intermediate revisions by 5 users not shown) | |||
Line 2:
[[File:_s_Mind.jpg|frame|This is your brain on Gordon.]]
{{quote|''Ah, tick-tick-tock...is that the sound of a Geiger counter or my lifespan counting down? It's both! That's right, here at Black Mesa when we talk about [[Title Drop|Half Life]], we mean it in [[Justified Title|more ways than one.]] So make your peace and come to Black Mesa! Here you'll win a chance to fight [[Aliens and Monsters|freaks of nature]]; [[No OSHA Compliance|escape countless safety hazards]]; [[Door to Before|wander aimlessly for hours]]; and [[Nightmare Fuel|die scared, tired and alone]]!''
|'''Gordon Freeman'''}}
''[[Freeman's Mind]]'' is a [[Machinima]] by Ross Scott that's somewhere between a [[Let's Play]] and an [[Abridged Series]] of the original ''[[Half Life]]''. The series follows the rambling, eccentric and narcissistic thoughts of [[Silent Protagonist]] Gordon Freeman as he tries to survive the events of the game, showing us that perhaps it was for the better he kept his mouth shut. Imagine a one man ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' speaking as he goes through ''Half Life''.▼
▲{{quote|''Ah, tick-tick-tock...is that the sound of a Geiger counter or my lifespan counting down? It's both! That's right, here at Black Mesa when we talk about [[Title Drop|Half Life]], we mean it in [[Justified Title|more ways than one.]] So make your peace and come to Black Mesa! Here you'll win a chance to fight [[Aliens and Monsters|freaks of nature]]; [[No OSHA Compliance|escape countless safety hazards]]; [[Door to Before|wander aimlessly for hours]]; and [[Nightmare Fuel|die scared, tired and alone]]!''|'''Gordon Freeman'''}}
Check it out [https://web.archive.org/web/20131202224057/http://www.accursedfarms.com/movies/fm/ here].
▲''Freeman's Mind'' is a [[Machinima]] by Ross Scott that's somewhere between a [[Let's Play]] and an [[Abridged Series]] of the original ''[[Half Life]]''. The series follows the rambling, eccentric and narcissistic thoughts of [[Silent Protagonist]] Gordon Freeman as he tries to survive the events of the game, showing us that perhaps it was for the better he kept his mouth shut. Imagine a one man ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' speaking as he goes through ''Half Life''.
▲Check it out [http://www.accursedfarms.com/movies/fm/ here].
The series, currently at 43 episodes (41, plus two numbered "0" and "10.5"), totals about 5 hours and 13 minutes as of episode 39, but each episode runs about 7 and a half minutes on average and each episode ends at a point that you can stop watching and come back later. For people who have already played through ''[[Half Life]]'', {{spoiler|this series is past when Gordon is captured and left in the compactor - the last episode, 41, had Gordon managing to escape the bio labs.}} [[Examples Are Not Recent]], but the most recent ''as of this writing'' was released on May 4, 2012.
Now has a [[
For both the official (with Ross's approval) Mind sidestories of Adrian Shephard, Barney Calhoun, Chell, Parker, Felix, and Freeman(-ish) respectively, see also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNaJX6gOYMA Shephard's Mind], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGgO8O6JuM8 Barney's Mind], [[Chell's Mind]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFR1hzjV4HA Parker's Mind.], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs1Z4UqW_Ak Felix's Mind.] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AH0Y7Pla_s Freeman's(-ish) Mind 2.]
{{tropelist}}
== The Main Series ==
* [[The Abridged Series]] / [[Dungeon Bypass]]: Thanks to the use of cheat codes, Gordon can "climb" over obstacles and skip some sections of the game. His guns also deal more damage.
** Gordon's ability to "climb" obstacles is possibly [[Lampshaded]] in one of the episodes as he comments on how he can do a pull-up.
Line 24 ⟶ 25:
* [[Accidental Hero]]: See [[The Fool]]
* [[Accidental Pun]]: Gordon asks "What's up with this ceiling?" not knowing he made an awful pun, then chastises himself over it.
* [[
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Upon finding an elevator finally leading to the surface and presumably to his escape, Freeman muses: "I am gonna get ''so'' drunk tonight. I mean, ''way'' more than usual." And he comes into work having had two shots of vodka for breakfast.
* [[Aliens Are Bastards]]: Gordon is quick to take this view, which isn't that unjustified, considering the circumstances. He even calls out the trope by name!
Line 116 ⟶ 117:
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: Gordon has amnesia from Episode 34 onwards after a few punches to the face. He writes it off as the result of getting drunk the night before.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: One of Freeman's nicknames for the Bullsquids is "Cthulhu Dog."
** He also theorizes that the tentacle is a huge creature buried beneath black mesa, and that what he destroyed may have only its hair strands. Its pretty safe to say he reasonably thinks all the aliens are [[Eldritch Abomination
* [[Emergency Stash]]: Mentioned in ep. 28.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: "I don't understand! Why is everyone trying to kill me?! I'm awesome! Are you all jealous!?"
Line 123 ⟶ 124:
** It appears again later ([[Continuity Snarl|earlier?]]) during Episode Zero (The Hazard Course) when he figures out the training program wants him to jump off a narrow platform, over a dozen feet off the ground, onto a hard concrete floor. On purpose.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: At this point, it seems every kid with FRAPS and [[Garry's Mod]] is making his own version of "''So-and-so's Mind''". Because they mostly rely on the same exact jokes as the original, with poor pacing and less attention to detail, they are generally not as good as the original. However, there are some rather well done [[Spin-Off|Spinoffs]] which include:
** "[http://parkers-mind.blogspot.com/ Parker's Mind]" by [http://www.youtube.com/user/emperorpsymon Emperorpsymon], "[[Resident Evil|Leon's]] Mind", "[[
*** And the spinoffs have spinoffs: [https://web.archive.org/web/20140530142055/http://felixsmind.blogspot.com/ Felix's Mind] claims to be inspired by Barney's Mind.
* [[The Fool]]: In his blind efforts to get out, Gordon manages to clear his own path simply by wandering around. Most obvious example is in episode 19 when, when he returns to the rocket testing station after activating the electricity and fuel needed to start the rocket and kill the worm monster.
{{quote|'''Gordon:''' Hey, the lights are on! [''Pushes button''] Hey, it's doing something! Did somebody fix this? ''(Rocket begins to start up)'' What did I just do?
Line 136 ⟶ 137:
**** Of course, this might explain why the rebels call him 'The One Free Man' in Half-Life 2...
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: Gordon has frequent encounters with laser beams. Sometimes they're straight-up deadly, other times they activate something else that's deadly, like trip-mines and sentry turrets. More recently he thought about redirecting an exceptionally powerful one and try to shoot down satellites.
* [[Gang Up on the Human]]: "You know, it's a little disturbing how little I've seen aliens fight the soldiers and soldiers fight the aliens."
* [[General Failure]] / [[General Ripper]]: Freeman theorizes whoever is in charge of the Black Mesa cleanup is this.
{{quote|We must hire over a thousand people, you can't hunt down every single-- ''(gets attacked by a zombie and kills it)'' and aliens. We've got aliens popping out of nowhere. What are they going to do? Shoot everyone in New Mexico?}}
Line 207 ⟶ 208:
** And then the marines bring in the tripod guns and rocket launchers...
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: In episode 3 during the resonance cascade:
{{quote|'''Gordon:''' [[Science Is Bad|This is a bad experiment!]] [[Humans Are
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]:
{{quote|Jesus Christ I launched a missile... I'm not helping ''anything''.}}
Line 274 ⟶ 275:
* [[Schmuck Bait]]
{{quote|"What's that say? Do not obstruct laser shield? Big letters, too. That's almost asking for someone to obstruct it, isn't it? I don't care for your rules. Now I wanna see what happens when it gets obstructed!"}}
* [[Schedule Slip]]: After making a new video about once a month Scott didn't upload anything for the last four months of 2010.<ref>
** [[Subverted]] from May 7 to June 24, 2011 Ross Scott made episodes 32-37 and the bonus episode 0 running a nearly weekly schedule, and Ross Scott has stated he hopes to prevent large droughts again, but unfortunately, the switch to Windows 7 and the time spent on setting everything up delayed ep.38 for almost two months.
{{quote|'''''Progress Report''': Windows 7 is kicking my ass.''}}
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: In the Rocket Test Lab, Gordon is flabbergasted upon seeing a reel-to-reel memory storage device from the 70's. He's even more confused when he sees what looks like a punch card slot.
Line 315 ⟶ 316:
* [[Suspicious Videogame Generosity]]: "This is... suspiciously convenient. I haven't been used to things going my way for quite a while now."
** "What's with all these grenades everywhere?"
* [[Take a Third Option]]: Gordon brings this up when talking about the Uncertainty Principle (how measuring an electron's position changes its momentum, and vice versa). According to Gordon, there's only one correct
* [[Take My Hand]]: Gordon tells an elderly scientist to do this in an early episode after the Resonance Cascade. The scientist falls soon after, letting Gordon spout a hilarious line.
{{quote|'''Gordon:''' No, your ''other'' hand, you idiot!}}
Line 327 ⟶ 328:
{{quote|'''Gordon''': [laughs] Today's lesson is on muzzle energy and momentum!}}
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: In episode 41, Gordon recruits a scientist to open the door leading outside, but first has to get past a couple of spinning blades. Gordon easily moves through them and tries to coach the scientist to do the same. The next thing you hear is *SPLAT*. Gordon is annoyed. Luckily, there were two more scientists to work with.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Tracking Device]]: In episode 33, Gordon is understandably upset when he learns his suit is full of these, which is how the HECU has been tracking him.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Doritos. Spends several episodes musing about them, and when he gets them in episodes 10-11, he thinks there's something wrong with them, despite having "enough preservatives in them to mummify a small dog."
** In later episodes, he spends considerable time talking about pizza, and unusual ways of delivering it (via trams, amphibious deliveries to beaches, etc.). Unsurprisingly, this begins to happen not long after Freeman mentions that he's pretty hungry, and generally coincides with his surroundings - being near trams, water, etc.
* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|Gordon's "apprehension" at the end of episode 34 consisted of at least one blow to the head. In episode 35, he can't remember the events of the previous day or so, including the resonance cascade scenario. It's not until halfway through episode 37, after he faces a bullsquid, that he really starts to remember all of what had happened.}}
** But for some reason {{spoiler|he has false memories of it being caused by a Lovecraftian cult.}}
* [[Two
* [[Unfriendly Fire]]: In episode 30, an officer blows up a pair of his troops with a grenade launcher. Freeman theorizes this is the reason.
{{quote|'''Gordon''': I don't even think he was aiming for me, I was just the excuse!}}
Line 354 ⟶ 355:
* [[You Make Me Sic]]: Averted. Gordon doesn't even deem "Yore Dead Freemen" to be worth mocking.
▲== Examples In The Spinoffs ==
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The last episode of Baney's mind involves Barney hijacking a plane and escaping Black Mesa which wasn't in Blue Shift. (It's filmed in MS Flight Simulator X.
* [[Amusing Injuries]]: In Shephard's Mind.
Line 372 ⟶ 371:
* [[Axe Crazy]]: Chell is slowly becoming this. She takes great delight in burning up many a [[Companion Cube]], GLaDOS' cameras, and even a Radio when the lyrics to the song freak her out.
* [[Beard of Evil]]: Chell is convinced that her [[Evil Twin]] has one.
** Chell thinks [[
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Felix alternates between demonstrating attraction and clear disdain for "Joni" (Alyx). Particularly when she volunteers him potentially suicidal missions while she stands somewhere safe doing little, yet [[Dude, Where's My Respect?|is routinely given a share in the credit afterwards.]]
** From what he describes, Felix's relationship with Chell definitely appears to have been this.
Line 472 ⟶ 471:
{{quote|{{spoiler|Shephard}}: This makes me ask myself, did teleporting to an alien planet make you completely Asiatic? To which I respond: "Yes, but watch this."}}
* [[What Does This Button Do?]]: Quite common in all Mind spinoffs. Except perhaps Chell's Mind, where it's more obvious as to what the buttons do.
* [[What Would X Do?]]: In episode 3 of Parker's Mind, Parker is hesitant to climb a rickety ladder due to his fear of heights but realizes he can't stay at the bottom of the elevator shaft forever. He wonders what Jesus would
* [[What You Are in the Dark]]: When he's about to face down the final boss, Shephard admits that he'll probably never escape the facility, nobody outside would ever know what happened in Black Mesa, nor will they ever know he even existed. However, he resolves to go down fighting anyways.
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Shephard, of all people, in a pretty brutal way, with a healthy dose of [[Heroic Sociopath|Sociopathy]] to boot.
Line 478 ⟶ 477:
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Machinima]]
[[Category:Science Fiction Web Originals]]
[[Category:
[[Category:
| |||