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* Considering how the Carringtons do eventually play a part in repelling the Rhombulan invasion during the final mission, perhaps the Agents simply recognized that doing a good deed for them would bring out the good in them.
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* I'm a bit curious about the true nature of the relationship between Rhombulans and Music. It's established early on that they seem to be weak to music, and loud noise in general, during the final mission as they seem to recoil in pain when the group bangs on oil drums and trash cans. However, in the later parts, it's shown that Rhombulan soldiers actually ''can'' survive being around music and join the Carrington sisters in dancing. I think the only confirmed casualty of Rhombulans to music is the leader/mothership, who seems to be some sort of artificial intelligence that gets blown up by the musical energy at the end of the mission. This makes me ask just what the nature of the music ban is. Are the Rhombulans simply susceptible to loud noise, but have a limit as to how much they can tolerate? Or was the ban the work of the tyrannical AI, who brainwashed the Rhombulans to think music was dangerous in order to protect itself from its own weakness?
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** June must have been the first time Lucy's mother outright told her to "forget about Daddy", which shakes her up enough to call for help. After that, the EBA help her over the next six months; coming to terms with a loved one's passing takes time.
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** It's said that the EBA operate in secret, and it's implied part of the job description is they can never directly intervene, even during extreme scenarios. So this might just be a tragic case of an ObstructiveCodeOfConduct.
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* Am I the only one who has a problem with the "abort" option on "Sk8er Boi"? I know it's supposed to sound official or whatever, but, uh...
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* Am I the only one who has a problem with the "abort" option on "Sk8er "[=Sk8er=] Boi"? I know it's supposed to sound official or whatever, but, uh...
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* What the hell is the timeline of "You're the Inspiration"? Father goes to work and dies in December prior to Christmas, Lucy and her mom only start missing him in June, which summons the EBA, and then the father's ghost appears the following Christmas? What were the EBA ''doing'' for half a year? (Let's ignore the fact that they apparently have time-travel powers, because that leads down a deeper rabbit hole) Wouldn't it make more sense if the family missed him the first Christmas, summoned the EBA, and had his ghost appear ''then'' to keep his promise instead of having what's essentially a musical montage?
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** Idea: [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation What if Commander Kahn can’t actually control who the Agents help?]] What if they’re just a bunch of [[BenevolentGenie Benevolent Genies]] who must answer to whoever yells “HEEEAAALP” the loudest? (Also, all they’re doing in most missions is cheering the clients on, I think the Carrington sisters [[InSpiteOfANail would’ve attempted the same lazy solution without the EBA’s help.]])
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*** "Why on earth do the EBA help" were your exact words. People didn't misread your post, you just posted something dumb which apparently wasn't what you intended. (Dismissing hunger as a "selfish problem" didn't help your case either.)
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* I understand that in a lot of the bad endings if you fail, the EBA can't really do anything about it - they can't keep the weather mom from losing her job, prevent the movie director from being fired, stop Lucy and her mother from having an emotional breakdown and moving away, etc. They mostly operate by non-interference, and the power of music wasn't enough to motivate them because they screwed up, and I get that. I also can at least figure that in events where it looks like a character's death is probable due to the EBA's failure (e.g. the bad endings of "Canned Heat," "Material Girl," "YMCA," and "ABC") and it's not something so large-scale that they couldn't prevent it ("Survivor," the aliens), they very likely could have helped the people involved off-screen so they didn't perish. But why on Earth does the EBA just watch Colonel die of thirst without doing a damn thing to help him?? Yes, his extreme spending on his gold-digger wife and probable poor money management (considering he didn't even notice the oil had run dry or that the money was in his wife's name) were certainly causative factors, but it certainly doesn't seem like death is a fitting punishment!
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*Okay, I realize this game operates 90% on RuleOfCool, but even I feel like I have to draw a line at Leo and Lisa appearing in one of the final group shots at the end of the game. I can believe that the EBA can travel through time, but how would Leo and Lisa be in the future? I can't imagine the EBA brought them to the future just in time for [[spoiler: the apocalypse...]]
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*** "Why on earth do the EBA help" were your exact words. People didn't misread your post, you just posted something dumb which apparently wasn't what you intended. (Dismissing hunger as a "selfish problem" didn't help your case either.)
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** OP: I think people misread my post. I didn't say "The Carrington Sisters should have been left to die", I said they should have learned how to fend for themselves rather than just getting others to do everything for them. That way they could have become better people. Instead they ended the song just as spoilt and airheaded as they started it.
