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ackblom12:
(click to show/hide)Yeah, Booker is basically just 'less racist'.

When I complain about the jingoism just being a backdrop, I also mean the politics involved though. The Founding Father worship, American Exceptionalism as well as the religious fundamentalism that all helped feed into it. These are all very real problems even into the modern day and it seems like an incredibly wasted opportunity to delve more into it. It was all just kind of tossed aside and not commented on once you hit that story mark and that's incredibly disappointing to me.

Also yes, I got a little cock eyed when TB said you could feel for the racist.

Edit: Was anyone else greatly amused by how Comstock was so blatantly 'not John Smith'?

snalin:
(click to show/hide)I figured that a big reason for Comstock being more racist than contemporary US society (basically being in favour of slavery instead of "just" segregation) is a consequence of his baptism and newfound faith. It seems that, to him, being absolved of his sins also makes him able to put them behind him. I had the impression that Booker really thought of his actions at Wounded Knee as horrendous, and something so horrible that there could be no forgiveness.

When Elizabeth asks Booker why there's separate bathrooms for blacks, he shrugs it off - "that's just how it is". It is obvious that before meeting Elizabeth, he is not a person that is in any way interested in caring about, or fixing, the problems of the world (see also his work for an organization that fought unions and strikes, often violently). Booker is not a good guy before he comes to colombia.

I don't think they could have done the racism part of Booker differently, and still kept the game believable. He is born in the late 1800s (how old is he? 40?), and being strongly opposed to racist policy would have made him, for his time, a radical. A soldier fighting indians and a strikebreaker that's also radically in favour of desegregation would simply not be believable.

ackblom12:
(click to show/hide)Honestly, if anyone is interested in looking into it I highly encourage looking into the history of the Pinkertons anyway. It puts a lot of perspective as to what kind of organization Booker was a part of and what kind of political climate Us society was in at the time. That's not even going into the fact that at one point the Pinkertons were the largest private police force in the world, out numbering the standing US army.

Parkour Lewis:
Here's a question I never quite figured out the answer to, maybe there was a Vox that I missed or maybe I just imagined the idea in my head, but (click to show/hide)the twins.... are they brother and sister or two versions of the same person, one born male and the other female?  Or maybe they were actually twins but the brother died or something and the sister pulled a live version from another dimension?  I remember a Vox where the sister was talking about speaking with her brother in another dimension through quantum entangled pairs or such, and at the time I assumed that meant were the same person born to two different genders, but then I remembered the chinese guy and soldiers being revived after going through a tear, so now I'm not sure which is the case.

ackblom12:
(click to show/hide)They are from different dimensions. In one, her embry absorbed his and in his the opposite happened. They accidentally communicated with each other across dimensions during an experiment and that's how they became aware of each other.

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