History YMMV / FreemansMind

* BrokenBase: Episode 47 gets hit hard with this. It is during this particular episode that Ross Scott was playing around with sound effects from other games and such and implementing them into this episode such as different gunshot sounds for Freeman's weapons, headcrab voices taken from Half-Life 2, and even much more realistic explosion sounds for tank fire. While some found these sound tweaks to be decent, others found it distracting, and out-of-place, after having watched the series through stock sounds for 46 episodes. Afterwards, Ross chose to just go back to stock sound completely, but episode 47 left the new sound-effects intact; now making it seem even MORE out-of-place if the viewer feels distracted by the one-off sound tweaks.

* BrokenBase: Episode 47 gets hit hard with this. It is during this particular episode that Ross Scott was playing around with sound effects from other games and such and implementing them into this episode such as different gunshot sounds for Freeman's weapons, headcrab voices taken from Half-Life 2, and even much more realistic explosion sounds for tank fire. While some found these sound tweaks to be decent, others found it distracting, and out-of-place, after playing the game through stock sounds for 46 episodes. Afterwards, he Ross chose to just go back to stock completely, but episode 47 left the new sound-effects intact; making it seem even MORE out-of-place.

** Let's see... GarrysMod is used, alright... wait, you don't talk but you hear a voice in your head? [[TheStanleyParable Will we ever see the playable-game-version of THAT?!]]

* {{Fanon}}: I know it's part of mine. Though it does receive a hairline fracture when you realize that Gordon didn't blow up Magnusson's lunch. [[InSpiteOfANail Still..]]
** Magnusson's enough of a jerk that he could have just blamed Gordon for it when, in fact, he was nowhere near it. The "Pro" might've done it in his place, and Magnusson, knowing Gordon's personality, assumed it was him. Fanon saved.
*** Or he might've just done it the day before.
*** Knowing Gordon, it seems more likely that was the only day he ''[[NotMeThisTime hadn't]]'' done it.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: Many of the awesome moments in the game (like the test rocket blasting the alien tentacle monster to bits) are included in this as well.
** One awesome moment that [[ThrowItIn wasn't in the script]]: [[spoiler:Freeman shooting down a helicopter with an [=MP5=] in episode 42.]]

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: After months of contract dispute the creator both left Machinima.com and joined Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses in order to continue Freeman's Mind.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: "Holy crap, Ross Scott is going to join Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses! I've died and gone to heaven!"

* FridgeLogic: Invoked at several points, with Gordon wondering about the state of the rest of the facilities (and why the place is so [[NoOHSACompliance recklessly dangerous]]), such as one time if he wondered if janitors had a higher survival rate since they both have rudimentary melee weapons, knowing the layout of the buildings, and had keys to everywhere.

* FridgeHorror: In episode 12, Gordon contemplates buying what he believes to be a scientist hypnotized into slavery by the G-man, saying that he "knows how to talk to these people" since he's been to Haiti. At first it just might seem like a standard joke, but then you realize the "people" he was referencing were ''slavers''. ''What would Freeman need to deal with slavers for?''
** He's talking about Haitians, [[OurZombiesAreDifferent because that's where Zombies come from.]]

** He's talking about Haitians, [[OurZombiesAreDifferent because that's where Zombies come from.]]* FridgeLogic: Invoked at several points, with Gordon wondering about the state of the rest of the facilities (and why the place is so [[NoOHSACompliance recklessly dangerous]]), such as one time if he wondered if janitors had a higher survival rate since they both have rudimentary melee weapons, knowing the layout of the buildings, and had keys to everywhere.

* FridgeLogic: Invoked at several points, with Gordon wondering about the state of the rest of the facilities (and why the place is so [[NoOHSACompliance recklessly dangerous]]), such as one time if he wondered if janitors had a higher survival rate since they both have rudimentary melee weapons, knowing the layout of the buildings, and had keys to everywhere.
** He's talking about Haitians, [[OurZombiesAreDifferent because that's where Zombies come from.]]

** One awesome moment that [[ThrowItIn wasn't in the script]]: [[spoiler:Freeman shooting down a helicopter with an MP5 in episode 42.]]

* DesignatedHero: Discussed

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The tentacle monster gives Gordon some, and we get to hear about it:
--> '''Gordon:''' Yeah, that's right, moan! MOAN! That noise is exactly what I'll be thinking about when I try to get to sleep tonight! And I'll be dreaming about you sucking out my eyes with your tentacled face while I'm nestled up against a stack of rotting corpses; then my intestines will burst with insects crawling out of them; then the screaming -- jeez, that's a long drop.
** "Hey, that's a ladder! That means this is legit; this might actually go somewhere! I mean, it probably leads to a room filled with poison gas and a bunch of dead people that look just like me, but I don't ''know'' that, so there's [[HopeSpot room for hope]], [[SarcasmMode I guess]]."
** "If any of these worms get in my hair, I swear to God I'm just gonna freak out. Yeah, worms get in my hair; the power fails and the lights go out; then some old guy with a raspy voice starts laughing and poking me with a stick. That would complete the experience."
** "I was expecting to look down there and see this giant eyeball looking up at me, angry at me because I blew off its eyelashes or something, then the whole building starts shaking and I guess I'd just ball up and cry, because what do you do when something that big wants to kill you?"

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: And how! Among other things, he spends a lot of time looking for drugs and fantasizing about murdering his coworkers.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Shephard notes that the Shocktrooper aliens sound like they're yelling "SWEATERS!".

* TheWoobie: Chell, who periodically breaks down sobbing in sheer terror.

* GoddamnedBats: Freeman really gets annoyed by Vortigaunts shocking him. Also, he gets mad when soldiers keep shooting him. Only the ones who shoot him in the torso, though. The ones who throw grenades or aim for the head [[DemonicSpiders present a credible threat]].
-->'''Gordon''': ''(gets zapped)'' QUIT ZAPPING ME! Let's see how you like it! ''(returns fire with his pistol, reloads, and gets shocked again)'' THAT'S SO FRIGGIN ANNOYING! ''(guns down the Vort)'' It's not like the electricity kills me, it just hurts!

-->"That's why the dinosaurs went extinct -- '''ME!!'''"