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Jun. 2nd, 2008 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynOk, here's the explanation for that last post:
I'd been thinking about a certain bit of dialogue towards the end of HL 2- 'you who have destroyed so much, can you name one thing you've created'. And while I do in fact have a response ICly, something else occurred to me. Pretty much since the Trinity tests, if not earlier, physicists have been linking themselves with Hindu mythology. 'If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.' 's Bhagavad-Gita.
Anyway, it occurred to me that sometimes you really do need destruction, and to let someone else do the creation. When the world's been fecked up like the Combine did to Earth, you have to destroy- a LOT. The Combine couldn't have fallen if the Nihilanth and his slave races hadn't been defeated first, either ICly (at least, that's the impression I got from a certain Vortigaunt's talk), or OOCly in terms of playing through the events of game 1. Siva's presence, or at least Siva's capabilities, had to be unleashed on the world in order to set things right, both for Earth and for the other worlds and races enslaved by the Combine...
... and then it occurred to me that according to most of the Saivist Hindu doctrines I know, Siva is pale-skinned, red-haired, and accompanied by an attractive but highly destructive dusky skinned female. Gordon's basically a redhead and after game 2 he gets followed around by Alyx "I never have to reload and I can attack zombies by kneeing them in the gut" Vance, who's biracial- Black dad, Japanese mom.
Red hair, pale skin, pure destructive force, and a chick companion who bears a slightly freaky resemblance to Parvati/Durga/etc.
As I said, HINDU SYMBOLISM DOES NOT GO THERE.... but it'd be kind of cool if it did.
I'd been thinking about a certain bit of dialogue towards the end of HL 2- 'you who have destroyed so much, can you name one thing you've created'. And while I do in fact have a response ICly, something else occurred to me. Pretty much since the Trinity tests, if not earlier, physicists have been linking themselves with Hindu mythology. 'If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.' 's Bhagavad-Gita.
Anyway, it occurred to me that sometimes you really do need destruction, and to let someone else do the creation. When the world's been fecked up like the Combine did to Earth, you have to destroy- a LOT. The Combine couldn't have fallen if the Nihilanth and his slave races hadn't been defeated first, either ICly (at least, that's the impression I got from a certain Vortigaunt's talk), or OOCly in terms of playing through the events of game 1. Siva's presence, or at least Siva's capabilities, had to be unleashed on the world in order to set things right, both for Earth and for the other worlds and races enslaved by the Combine...
... and then it occurred to me that according to most of the Saivist Hindu doctrines I know, Siva is pale-skinned, red-haired, and accompanied by an attractive but highly destructive dusky skinned female. Gordon's basically a redhead and after game 2 he gets followed around by Alyx "I never have to reload and I can attack zombies by kneeing them in the gut" Vance, who's biracial- Black dad, Japanese mom.
Red hair, pale skin, pure destructive force, and a chick companion who bears a slightly freaky resemblance to Parvati/Durga/etc.
As I said, HINDU SYMBOLISM DOES NOT GO THERE.... but it'd be kind of cool if it did.
