Headscratchers / Dark Seed II

• How does magnetizing the pole help Mike win the ring toss when trying to hit the pole was never his problem? He needed to aim higher so that it could go around the pole, right?
  • The animation always looked to me like he was launching it too far to the right.

• What did real life Mike Dawson do to piss off Cyberdreams? There must be some reason they suddenly decided to turn the character into a whiny, wimpy bitch.
  • PURE WMG: The team went to a carnival to celebrate the release of the first Dark Seed, and Mike Dawson proceeded to cream all of them at mundane carnival prizes.

• Mike's father was an insurance salesman. So why did Mike's mother claim when he died he left her no insurance?
  • Maybe they were about to divorce or otherwise in a poor relationship with each-other.
  • Could be that, being a salesman, Mike’s father found a better insurance plan and was in-between switching when he died. That, and, irony.

• How was Dawson's Mother's head exploding supposed to explain anything?
  • She was about to explain everything. The Ancients made her head explode before she could speak.

• If Mike's father died of cancer, why does Mayor Flemming say he found Mike's father slumped over his work desk the night he died as if he died from a heart attack?
  • Depends on the cancer. For example, amyloidosis is a form of bone marrow cancer that causes abnormal proteins to build up in the heart. The heart weakens until it simply quits. There's no precursor to when it hits, you simply black out and never wake back up.