Asmongold on the new WoW cinematic: “Another female character is disempowered”

Even the streamer Asmongold does not leave a good hair on the new cinematic in World of Warcraft. He finds it illogical and just bad.

Yesterday, quite unexpectedly, Blizzard released a new cinematic for World of Warcraft, which can also be viewed on the PTR of Patch 9.2. The cinematic treats an important moment in the plot of Sylvanas Windläufer, the former Banshee Queen, who is now in the power of the heroes after the Raid Sanctum of Rulership.

The streamer Asmongold gives his opinion on the video – and the criticism is sometimes devastating.

Spoilerwarnung: The article deals with the cinematic “Shattered Legacy” and thus story content from Patch 9.2. If you don’t want to be spoiled, don’t read any further.

What can be seen in the cinematic? The cinematic shows the unconscious Sylvanas, who is surrounded by Uther, Baine, Jaina, Thrall and Bolvar in Oribos. The heroes advise whether to wake Sylvanas because she knows the jailer’s plan. While some are against it, in the end Uther decides to get in touch with Sylvanas. In a kind of dream world, he explains to Sylvanas that she was also the ranger general of Silbermond, but also the banshee queen who set the Teldrassil on fire. Sylvanas then comes to – and apparently accepts the two sides of her being.

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This is how Asmongold reacts: In a frenzy of almost an hour, Asmongold hardly leaves a good hair on the cinematic. For him the video is a great “retcon” of one of the most important and best WoW characters.

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From his point of view, the new cinematic implies that Sylvanas has been under the spell of the jailer since Warcraft. Everything that made Sylvanas cool and a strong, self-determined female character over the years was destroyed in one fell swoop.

You picked one of the best characters in all of history and now you say that everything brilliant and cunning she’s done was actually just done because of a bald idiot with overly clear nipples who pulls the strings in the background and whom no one has ever heard of ?

At the same time, Asmongold finds it illogical about the motivation of Jaina, Baine and Thrall. The fact that they actually discuss whether or not to trust Sylvanas would be nothing more than “fan service”. Because if these characters thought about it for a moment, they would know that without Sylvanas’ knowledge they have absolutely no chance. After all, the jailer could subdue them completely with a single gesture of his hand.

However, Asmongold also has a few nice words about cinematic. The pure presentation is good, the quality is well above that of other cinematics in the past. It wouldn’t become problematic until the characters opened their mouths.

What do you think of the cinematic? Do you share Asmongold’s opinion? Or do you like the direction in which everything is developing?

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