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The Persistence of Legacy: How Past Events Forge Present Attitudes (and Should). [Part I: the Cooper Legacy.]

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"I'm glad you made this retrospective. Here are all my criticisms of it:   1. I knew you'd reference the work of B-Mask by the end of it. I did appreciate the Bentley voice; you had me fooled, but only for about three seconds. Yet the hours I had wasted watching Will's analysis might have been better spent had he not burdened his interpretation with his own pretensions, some of which I'm glad that you at least depart from, even if it's to the opposite extreme. (At least the Taurus/Capricorn dynamic proves to be a thing in fact.) 2. The part you both agree on, both between yourselves and with the likes of Zeke from Powercell , is that the central theme of the third game is "letting go" and disidentifying with one's past, both personal and cultural. I cannot overstress the fallacy in such a line of thinking, though I can't deny this theme was probably intended by the writers (which accounts for why the ending disappointed me, as well a...