Freeman's Mind 2: Episode 16
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2021
- Follow the thoughts of Gordon Freeman, theoretical physicist and survivor. In this episode, Freeman meets some new colleagues.
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After Gordon's experience with Black Mesa, he now immediately looks for where the exits are and if they're unlocked.
Yeah, that's PTSD for you.
//That's actually good life-advice in general.
Your work has clearly marked exit signs that aren't locked?
Weird...
And immediately knows a killbox when he sees one
Hearing Gorden explain the low-res textures as just needing new glasses is probably my favorite joke.
How bad were his glasses during the black mesa incident?
It’s pretty impressive that he’s kept his glasses despite everything he’s gone through.
@@Hal9000ize Hahaha, that's fucking gold!
@@waitithoughtihadtousemyrea5976 I wear mine because they make me look smart, don't need them that much, but they're always on me. Can pry them from my cold dead hands
yeah that was pretty good
Gordon Freeman: “She has the mind of a child.”
Also Gordon Freeman: *Spoke like a pirate while blowing Marines up from a tram, pretended he was a medieval knight while shooting down an Apache, composed a whole new verse to Modern Major General while fighting a whole platoon, plus a tank.*
None of that is Gordon having the mind of a child, those are all just signs of his deteriorating mental stability combining with his already present issues and neurosis.
@@TwistedIdiot02 they are moments of whimsy, probably due in part to his deteriorating mental state, yes (although his internal monologue pre-resonance cascade betrayed a certain amount of immaturity too)
But it’s interesting he leaps to playing armchair psychologist for Alyx playing fetch with d0g rather than seeing a mirror of his own past playfulness in stressful situations.
Wow gorgon, you’re like … the shit!!!!
@@Hazelw0lf wouldnt really say being whimsical counts as being a child
@@vintheguy the point I’m making is that Alyx is no less guilty of acting childish than Gordon
"Eli thinks their portals are string based."
"He's wrong."
Can we appreciate how consistent this series is in the little details, like Freeman being anti-string theory?
To be fair, string theory is basically the modern cold fusion.
@@Marcelelias11 if I remember correctly, isn’t string theory useful for certain mathematical models and theoretical possibilities, but it doesn’t yet have any conclusive evidence or practical applications? I’m not as familiar with this subject so I’m not sure.
@@BLZ231 Yeah, it makes sense *mathematically* . That's not the same as making sense in reality. I mean, 11 dimensions? Really?
@@Marcelelias11 in fairness reality is often counterintuitive. Quantum mechanics makes no fucking sense, and there was a time when it was understandably dismissed since it had no practical applications. But now it does, as evidenced by the fact that we’re communicating right now. Someday something similar could happen with string theory. Or not. We don’t know, and that’s why science is a thing, to find out what we don’t know.
@@BLZ231 Eh, some aspects of quantum mechanics are still questionable. While it's undeniable that it works, the fact that it's so confusing might mean that we're looking at it from the wrong perspective, and there's a simpler explanation for all those quantum phenomena.
I love how understandably paranoid Gordon is. Dude has been chased and attacked non-stop since the resonance cascade no way he could just shift out of survival mode just because he made it to a cutscene area. I could really see this Gordon eventually becoming a hermit in the woods that sets up traps everywhere and kills everything that moves.
ptsd is real mein friend
Like a certain Priest in a certain up coming place?
Sounds a little similar to Father Grigori then, so maybe they'll get along.
@Stix N' Stones "This is the first sane person I've met in almost a week. I don't care if by every known metric he's insane, considering how things are going that's the only sane way to react. TEACH ME YOUR WAYS!"
@Stix N' Stones damn straight
I love how he said that gassing him wasn't a bad idea, even freeman would gas freeman
Gotta make sure he doesn't shoot you immediately
Freeman actually seems pretty willing to give kudos to people who come up with rather intelligent or otherwise effective plans to try and kill him, at least when he gets a moment to breathe and recognize the attempt's failed.
Throughout the series you can see him positively commenting on the actually pretty smart moves that come around, namely because of how comparatively rare they are, when his enemies try to kill him and then negatively commenting on when they just try and bruteforce him into death and obviously fail miserably like everyone else who tried to do the same.
Of course this respect is ultimately trumped by the utmost respect he has for himself, where he will give respect and credit to someone almost managing to take him out only to trample over said respect by effectively saying that he's still too much of badass genius to be killed by anyone lower than his own greatness.
I think he was referring to the whole system of gassing anyone who enters the building. In a situation like this, paranoia on that level has a lot of merit.
@@johnathanfoster4993
Except Kleiner apparently. But only because he's somehow a bigger psycho than Freeman himself in this series. Lol Kleiner is the only one he respects.
Though on second thought, I imagine it's more fearful reverence than anything since Kleiner knows how to kill him.
Like how you fear a shark and avoid messing with it because it can tear you apart.
@@HQ_Default Curious. Where if your pfp from?
Everyone's talking about Gordon's ptsd as if he was a model of perfect mental health and behavior in episode 1. We're talking about the guy whose first impulse when he's late for work is to go down his mental rolodex of co-workers to see who he can rob on the way out, in case he gets fired. Barney's job isn't to repel infiltrators or alien monsters. He's mostly there to make sure people like Freeman don't steal the laser printer from accounting.
Barney is more likely to steal the laser printer from accounting than Dr Freeman is.
Yeah, but he used to be relatively normal, if devious. It's clear that the resonance cascade and fleeing from the Combine broke Gordon.
It'd be PTSD if he had experienced the last 20 years as they did. For him it's been one hell of half a week. His trauma has not become "post" yet. In episode 1 he's at most, a petty criminal. Now he's a war criminal, and the bane of the trans-dimensional government.
@@alfredhadesworth9253 Eh, you're technically right, but it's basically impossible for him to NOT develop PTSD after all of this.
@@Marcelelias11 "The day they tried to enforce the dress code on me, I let them know there could be an *_accident_* around here if that happened. And by ‘accident’, I mean ‘bomb the place’." - Episode 2
I love that despite this being a comedy series, Ross doesn't forget that Freeman _is_ a scientist so he's still interested in the tech on display.
It's a nice change of pace. Normally he's so jaded and superior, hearing him get a little awed at the technology is really refreshing. Ross's Gordon runs the risk of being a little one-dimensional sometimes.
I think it's really funny and also kinda sad that people acting normal is so upsetting to Gordon now. Riding an elevator and having a conversation have him more stressed out than running through warzones
Well the only conversations he enjoys having are with himself most of the time so it's not all that surprising.
Well, he was hounded all the way there. He knows he was followed, and everyone acting calm about it would freak anyone out.
Man is 5% flesh, 15% HEV suit, 80% PTSD
@@SpaceLemon. Plus all of the stuff from Black Mesa. That place was a 24 hour hellhole, and if he didn't remember anything during Stasis then he was basically airdropped from one hellhole straight into ANOTHER ONE.
Thats actually really brilliant move from Ross's part more than anything. From gordon's POV everything has happened during couple of days but rest of the charachters had lived through the time gordon missed. When one plays HL2 they are going to see those "this is their normal life in this world" -narrative tropes and accept them as part of the story because they are aware that it is a videogame after all, but if they had to LIVE through it, it would be as hard to adapt to the bizarre "videogamey" behaviour as it is for gordon.
A lot of comments say gordon has PTSD, but gordon isn't reliving the events, he is STILL living the event. BME was one few quiet, non-hostile locations he had encountered since resonance cascade, is it wonder he's bit preoccupied??
"This is also gonna be a long night too isn't it..."
You have no idea Gordon.
Lol can't wait to see him meet uncle greg
Gorgon Freefmam
@@ArgonNoble //Gorgeous Freeman
gordon definitely owned a few small soldiers toys
@@greenfolder2437 Gorgalo Freezlord
Freeman realizing that Alyx might be "special" for growing up in a dystopian world and actually trying to be patient and not hurt her feelings is surprisingly sweet
I know this won't happen but I kinda want Freeman to slowly become less of a douche as the series goes on. Like by the end of Episode 2, he's an actually kind human being.
Didn't think about it like that lmao
@@2PRO_4U_2NO Who's to say it won't? Wouldn't that be a legitimate yet surprising direction?
I mean she had Russel give an example of life before the Combine with the club sandwich and all.
@@2PRO_4U_2NO i dont, i want him to stay the same because i like him like this
"I don't blame the old man for trying to pawn her off. That's the same principle behind hand grenades as well..."
Ross is a comedic genius. Holy shit.
That was probably the most savage remark I've ever heard in this series.
I don't get it
I love how stunlocked Gorden is, he can barely pick up on anything, like his theory about combine teleportation being wrong, because he’s an exhausted bundle of adrenaline and spite.
Except when someone might, theoretically, have slighted him in some way, at which point his laser-like ego kicks back in for a few seconds.
And paranoia.
Gorden Froomån.
The man just straight up has amnesia at this point, is my theory. One too many knocks to the head, because he seems to recognize *no one* except Kleiner
@@matthewegan5281 Kleiner is the only one who actually is in Half Life 1, all the others first show up in half life 2.
If Gordon ever learns that the Vortigaunts actually worship him, he’ll probably either think they’re actually just making fun of him, or they’re trying to trick him. Either way, this episode had me laughing really hard.
I doubt Freeman is going to have a positive view of the Vorts until they rescue him from the spook.
@@william9504 that or he'll think they're trying to kill him by leaving him in the exploding City 17.
I've been laughing about that all day. Right savior, wrong mythology. The only salvation he has to offer them is the hollow point variety.
Know ing his paranoias from the past? Yeah, seems legit.
No, he would believe it but be wary of them still. Remember he killed their elder God thing.
"We'll talk about that later."
the long-awaited Freeman's Mind / Game Dungeon crossover.
We'll come back to this.
It seems you have come across an alien kitchen. Now things are starting to make sense. More later.
Ross “More on that later” Scott
Actually when you think about it Game Dungeon is really the Obscure Old Game Review / Freeman’s Mind crossover.
"Let's talk about the music."
I like how Gordon is watching the vortigant so closely to catch him selling them out via computer, WHILE Mossman is selling them out via computer lol
I really do love how so many years ago, while Ross was still working on the series with HL1, so many people figured Gordon's attitude towards Alyx would be that of a skeezy womanizer, but instead, he just bombards her (and everyone else) with his usual misanthropic attitude and views her as more of a mentally stunted kid than anything.
Makes sense. The suppression field would nullify any impulse to be a womaniser.
well, she behaves like one >_
maybe because shes really young and does act like a child sometimes
@@zeynaviegas5043 Funny enough, in half life 2 she's 25 lmao. Gordon's only i think two years older
@@KopperNeoman he was a major pervert to the woman by the airboat though. So that doesn’t add up.
The stuff about Alyx basically being stunted because she never had a childhood was exactly what I thought of her, whenever I encountered her breezily skipping through a scene of apocalyptic death and horror.
HL Alyx only reinforces this idea. Look at the things Russell tells her about and she is genuinely amazed by, like the Internet or a Club Sandwich.
i think its because she's used to this, so it no longer shocks her
@@DinnerForkTongue To be fair, if you lived in a time where there is no internet whatsoever, you'd be pretty amazed at what it could do. Even if we're talking about 90s-00s internet.
And then there's the club sandwich. Imagine living your whole life where finding any kind of fresh food is difficult because of draconian control, and rulers actively working to destroy the planet's biosphere. Having the ability to make a club sandwich can seem unreal.
//This could be like We Happy Few; where everyone's too drugged up to fully grasp the horrors of their reality.
@@Bluecho4
I know, that's not a knock on her. It's just that it really puts her reality in perspective for us.
I find it funny how Gordon's reaction to vortigaunts is like an old army veteran to tourists from an old enemy country.
Let's all take a moment to appreciate that the last time Freeman went through one whole Half Life chapter in a single episode was back in 2007 with the very first episode.
In episode 68 he went through 2 chapters
HL1: "Freeman is a highly train proffesional"
HL2: "IT SMELLS LIKE SEX IN HERE!"
Let's just appreciate that Ross didn't shoot this video from Fakefactory mod.
aAAAHHH WHO BROUGHT FORTH THE GREEN APOCOLYPES
@@clintonbyers930 And dildos in black mesa east. And also fully modeled... other stuff.
@@clintonbyers930
This is a BAD EXPERIMENT
WE ARE BAD PEOPLE
WHY DID WE USHER FORTH THE GREEN APOCALYPSE?
@@Juhziz Well, he is in the credits of HL2.
Ross is literally buckshotting these videos, this is more activity than the rest of the year combined, holy cow
Isn't that every time around Halloween? It's because of those soul pacts he swindled that he allegedly misplaced.
He's firing on all cylinders, hope we don't run short on fuel.
Well I think that Ross kinda tries to make the videos perfect, and when Halloween rolls around is when he HAS to drop something, so it instead becomes a "it's good enough" and it gets released. Which is fine, cuz his "it's good enough" is frankly spectacular, but I think those standards need to just be lowered a bit across the board
I believe ross said he was gonna try and have a lot of Freemans mind videos out during these next 2 months on one of his chat with fans streams. So we could pribably see more videos within the next 2 or so months
Nah Bitch. ACCURSED FARM?
I like the take on Alyx that she's warped by having grown up during an alien invasion: She did kill a room full of cops that very day and here she is showing Freeman her 'dog' and wanting to play catch.
She didn't kill those Metrocops, just knocked them out. Alyx specifically mentions, "The combine are slow to wake" after you come to during your escape. That's not discounting the scores of Metrocops, soldiers, and elites she kills in the latter half and in Ep. 1 & 2, let alone how many notches she has from HL Alyx's events.
@@vahlok1426 You could be right but I don't think she quite literally meant the metrocops take a while to wake up after being knocked out. "The combine are slow to wake" is an analogy of how it'll take a while for the combine as a whole to mobilize and capture freeman.
@@Sfug56 I may be wrong, but after the death of a member of the Combine army (Soldier, Civil Protection, is not important), a message about their death is sent to Overwatch with a corresponding long-drawn squeak. In the case of Alyx and those CP, there was no death signal. Yes, Freeman in this series did not notice this, but still (After all, if he caught the relationship between death and squeak, then his surprise about how the Combine was catching up with him at lightning speed subsided)
@@Sfug56 I think her line combined with the fact that none of them flatline (just grunts and screams) makes it fair to assume she just beat them up. She does kill a few Metrocops during the Uprising though, in addition to all the Combine soldiers
The point of catch was to teach Freeman to use the gravity gun but I guess I see your point.
I have a feeling that the second Gordon gets his hands on the buggy, he's going to try and bail on the whole conflict.
I'm wondering how that will go.
Great time to implement the Lost Coast teaser level like he did with HL1's tutorial.
He's gonna drive to massachusetts
@@minecraftweedemojiknowing what the combine are doing to the oceans, especially in the beta timeline, that’s actually possible for him to do.
This series from a young age taught me patience
which is ironic cuz Ross initially started it to hold people over in between Civil Protection episodes which took too long to make
@@sebastiangorka200 We're being held over. How long has it been since the last civil protection episode?
Yeah ive been watching since I was about 10, im 19 now and still always excited for new episodes
@@keatonlividix9107 Thanks, now I feel old.
@@keatonlividix9107 Same. I've been watching since I was in like 7th grade
I've played this game 2000 times and I only now just realized that Mossman must have tipped off the combine that Gordon just arrived to Black Mesa East in that surveillance room. That's why she's so persistent to make you go talk to Eli instead.
I never noticed that either, but honestly, anyone with at least one working braincell would trace Freeman to Black Mesa East.
I always assumed it was that airboat parked conveniently in front of the dam.
@@Marcelelias11 "Wow, really weird that this trail of death and destruction leads to this one seemingly unimportant canal. Must be nothing!"
??? you are literally told that's what happened. when you first find out mossman betrayed you there a whole exchange that goes something like
mossman: you said you weren't going to touch eli.
breen: unfortunately without freeman we had to make do.
@@517342or the fact his suit probobky still has tracers on it like in half life 1
His upcoming interaction with Father Grigori is definitely building up hype
Yeah it took us a while to get to Ravenholm!
I hope he milks Ravenholm as much as he can. Even add in a section or two. There's so much potential I don't want it to end in 1 or two short episodes
I doubt he's gonna be that scared of Ravenholm simply because he's been through much worse. No bombs, no alien world, no copter-he's gonna be pretty chill. But he will be freaked by the new headcrabs simply due to the implications.
Either way, it will be great.
Now the only question is whether he thinks Grigori is simply crazy, or thinks he's crazy enough to try and convert him to The Church Of The Freeman, with him serving as its God.
Definitely looking forward to that - gonna be epic.
HL1 Freeman: "Don't step in the blood...!"
HL2 Freeman: "HOW MANY EXITS ARE THERE?!?!"
PTSD does that to a person. Not sure if intentional and he's looked up how PTSD sufferers react but that's very accurate for people who have been stuck or trapped especially underground.
@@NateTheScot Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Ross was explicitly thinking that through. This feels like info Ross would know, and we all know how much attention to detail Ross pays.
@@orthochronicity6428 yeah and he often researches around stuff too, so it'd make sense. Especially looking for exits and making a note of how many and where, even right at the very start where they're in the lift and he goes "is this the only entrance??". Seems he was very deliberate with it and the paranoia about them following him and they're gonna be here soon (not really paranoia if it's true though haha). Also his constant alert state in a "safe" zone. He actually makes Gordon seem far more on edge in the "safe" area than in combat and running for his life. I laughed out loud at the "this is a killbox" because he was totally right. The gunships would be shooting fish in a barrel in the yard.
@@NateTheScot yeah it's just good sense if it's true not really paranoia at that point. The combine is literally hunting him down on purpose at this point. Even breen is aware of freeman being back and being a threat.
@@NateTheScot The combine aren't following you Freeman. You're just being paranoid.
At first I was thinking, “Gordon dude, chill it’s safe in BM East.” Then his incessant paranoia got me remembering the Combine were 5 blocks over.
Honestly the thought that he was followed and Judith only turned coat so Eli wouldn't be killed appeals to me. And it makes sense in more ways than Judith actually being a traitor and then suddenly having a change of heart in the Citadel. She was more just keeping to the script from that point on until an opportunity came for her to act against Breen that was most effective. She knew once Eli was in Breen's hands he wouldn't be harmed, except by Breen's incessant power mongering and Combine bootlicking.
And in episode 2 they have a whole car shop where they chill and relax... and if you look out the window, you can see an automated Combine death laser next door.
Basically hiding the Millenium Falcon by getting super close to the other ship
I mean, consider the fact that he's moving INTO their territory. The Combine aren't actually following him. Also consider that a regular citizen might have made this trip into a week (or more) long survival excursion, avoiding detection, rationing supplies, moving at night. I know that's not how the game is designed but this series has relied heavily on realism to make jokes and points, and Freeman even in canon literally smashed through the Combine controlled canals like a madman. It's no wonder they found Black Mesa East, they just went "Well...where does the trail of destruction end?" It really is Freemans fault, not just because everyone is already after him, but because he literally blew up everything between City 17's center and Black Mesa East without hesitation.
Black Mesa East has sat next to a Combine stronghold for at least a decade or more, right under their noses. It's not inconceivable that people who have lived and breathed Combine oppression might have grown accustomed to it and are able to cope with it by helping others and focusing on their work in a relatively safe place. Gordon literally brought every single ounce of the Combine's attention right to their doorstep. It irks me that this isn't addressed in canon (or in FM so far, but he might reflect on that later,) and that everyone is just agreeing with Gordon's attitude in this episode wholesale. These people aren't mentally ill, they've had twenty years to compose themselves in this crisis. Is everyone just going to forget how chill the British were during The Blitz? They weren't even 15 minutes past that before they went back to their ruined homes and had tea!
@@LtSprinkulz Freeman's Wind freeman has always seemed like a paranoid maniac who perpetually teeters on the edge of psychosis, i think this episode makes sense with that interpretation
*Eli:* "Heh, I didn't think it'd take you that long to get back to me."
*Freeman:* "A lot of people died."
Lol, gotta love Ross taking the piss out of everyone's levity.
It's true though.
It's like Eli is mocking everybody else he had sent out to die just so Gordon could find him.
@Maximal No.
I mean the dead people along the way who were sent to help Gordon.
@@davidwuhrer6704 Eli didn't send those people. The Scientists at the Lambda lab did.
@Maximal Along the" railroad".
@@vincegalila7211 I'm not talking about Half-Life 1.
I don't see anyone mentioning this, but I'm pretty sure Gordon's concern about Alyx's mental development is the first time he's shown anything approaching empathy for another character in this series. Methinks Ross is planting some subtle seeds of character development for when he'll have to work with her later, so that she's not someone Gordon TOTALLY despises or just sees as a tool.
It's an interesting idea but I recall that Gordon had a similar sympathetic reaction when he thought the Scientist that let's you out of the labs in questionable ethics had autism. At the very least we know that Gordon isn't that much of an asshole after all. He's a paranoid ego maniac but he seems to care about disadvantaged people to a degree.
"If she ends up dead her old man will probably send me back to that alien hell." could be something along those lines.
yeah i really hope we can see some character development, cause i love maniac and egotistic gordon, but seeing him grow to like a person would be great
there are other times like that time he tried to tell that scientist to let him help fix his leg (that may have been eli maybe?) and when he said "okay you get to live" to the scientist who told him that he has tracking devices in his suit and hed kill the other scientists for not telling him
@@codaboi138 It's not that he cares about disadvantaged people. It's more that he's decided that their current stupidity is the result of something outside their control, rather than them just being willfully stupid. He certainly didn't give a crap about Alyx's father and his leg.
The consistency of Freeman's paranoia is on point yet again; he's worried about being followed and the Combine show up guns blazing not even 10 minutes after expressing concern
to be fair he was getting shot at by hunter-killer teams literally minutes before walking through the front door.
You weren’t being followed, Freeman, you’re just being paranoid
Well, if there is one good thing about being paranoid, it is that you’re either right or pleasantly surprised.
@@MorbidMindedManiac the hunter killer choppers don't carry entire minefields Freeman, you're just being paranoid.
the vertigoes aren't conspiring with the alien overlords Freeman, you're just being paranoid.
Is it really paranoia when you're right every damn time though?
Everyone: Alyx is so energetic and quriky!
Ross: Alyx is suffereing from arrested development due to growing up in a hostile world.
Well she grows in a sense of capeablity
From a realistic point of view, if the world were taken over and fucked to the extent shown in HL2... then yeah, her relaxed and quirky behavior would be extremely unbelievable.
Her having stunted mental/emotional development is actually a rather clever way of explaining why she acts so video-gamey in a series trying to portray all this as if it were really happening.
Her "Get it Zombine" line is gonna be the nail in the coffin for her. :P
Some dialogue in HL:A actually kind of hints at this. She doesn't know what a club sandwich or a pig is, for sure.
@@planescaped I would believe that being the daughter of one of the major people of the resistence probably allowed her to develop/maintain these quirky attitudes tbh
Everyone else you see along your route to BME and many people in the city would've been her age when shit went down, and they all act like they've been scarred by their world shift
Sounds about right. I remember one level, I was frankly sick of her, and let her deal with the Combine, since she was *so* confidant. Actually enjoyed needing to restart that part a few times.
When you think about it, Gordon has every right to be as paranoid as he is, because although it's been twenty years between Half-Life 1 and 2, it's only felt like a week or two to Gordon.
I'm pretty sure HL1 takes place over about... 3 or so days? Then so far, HL2 has only been one, so it hasn't even been a week.
From Gordon’s perspective, the whole series from Half-Life through Episode 2 takes place in under a week. The only uncertainty is how long he was on the train inbetween E1 and 2, but it can’t have been more than a few hours since the citadel is still clearly visible on the horizon at the start of E2.
We also never see him eat, drink, use the bathroom, or sleep in that time (except when he was knocked out during HL1).
@@SirBenjiful I'm pretty sure you don't even get any actual rest when knocked out meaning Gordon has gone days without a minute of sleep.
Well the moment Resonance Cascade hit he was swimming in morphine, he's fine.
He was always insane, i don't even know how he didn't commited a crime before the resonance cascade and got arrested and sent to a mental asylum
Gordon's reaction to the Gravity Gun is one of the more interesting aspects of this episode. Most of us as players are ready to treat it as a new toy/weapon, and there are even people who cheat it in to play the whole game with nothing but the Zero Point Energy Field Emitter. Instead we have someone who treats it with rather more respect and acts like it has substantial repercussions/recoil when in use. Questioning the power source and how long a charge lasts is another good point.
I like how he opines that the technology for the gravity gun would be far more useful in other applications. Like, seriously, you have this kind of tech and all you use it as is a handheld forklift?
As an Engineer, i can't imagine the utility such as the Gravity gun, the use of that power source would be unimagineable. you could run an entire warehouse or shipyard with these ''Crystals'' the Gravity gun uses, use enough of them and you can move pretty much anything, perhaps aviation could be changed with it aswell. crazy they just used it to clear mine fields and move boxes given they are scientists.
@@MrRed_2205 Well, to be fair, the whole planet fell under a new regime, and it's not like humanity was allowed to retain the kind of life or scientific development that they had. Or shipyards for that matter.
I got your point tho, and i agreed, maybe it would have more useful in another facility that BME.
@@Vhozhlb Well yeah that makes sense , i assume most of their research went into the portal technology aswell
@@MrRed_2205 they're in the middle of an apocalypse where like only a few thousand humans remain. There's not much you can do with that gun. Shipping and other industry doesn't exist.
I love the fact that Gordon's first instinct to seeing a Vortigant on the elevator ride down is to draw his pistol.
For him, not even a day ago, they were the alien soldiers invading the company he works for, and the world. Now they're working in earth's kitchens.
Jeez, I thought Gordon "Robots are the only friends I need" Freeman would be more enthusiastic about Dog. I get that he has other things on his mind, but I thought Dog would short-circuit that.
To be fair, he's at least less annoyed by D0g than literally everything else that's happening
this gordon is much more jaded than he used to be hahaha
As @Stix N' Stones said. And since Gordon has said that he has been blinded and almost shredded by flying robotic drones. Plus shot at by standing turrets that at this point he will say only shot at him.
Some time with Dog back in City 17 will get Gordon back in robot friendly business.
It should be noted that as of the ending of this episode Gordon has not seen a tracking ball mine. So that will be new for him when he hits the highway.
I thought he'd be more scared of Dog, considering it's a big mech throwing things at him.
@@Wannabe_Baby Wait until he has to trust Dog to throw him and Alyx into the Citadel. That'll be fun. :)
Freeman's impersonation of Eli had me in fucking tears
6:06 - 6:19
There’s a certain quality to Ross’ characterization where he actually got me rethinking that maybe Alyx, at least in HL2, really doesn’t understand the gravity of how deep into the alien apocalypse they are. Like sure, she’s lived through more of this than Gordon but there is a real possibility of mental trauma developing that, maybe, wants to reclaim a childhood she didn’t get to have, with a pet dog and making games out of chores and everything. Would have to doublecheck her age during the timeline but I like the inference.
Alyx is 19 in her own game, which is 5 years before HL2 and the episodes, so she's 24(or there abouts)
I always thought Alyx was mentally stunted and never understood why everyone else thought she was just completely fine.
She jokes way too much while killing things, laughing at burning zombies and giggling while being shot by a chopper through a hazardous railway.
@@vrabo3026 Remember the interview (19th century) with one of the tribes people who had nice tradition to hunt down and eat their elderly during times of famine? He was laughing telling the story how to coock granny alive by smoking he near the fireplace. He was not insane or a maniac - for him it was a norm.
@@HappyAspid Was that a real interview? Damn, but yeah, people gotta eat.
@@Sky_Explorer it was real. Just don't remember the names.
Ross’ portrayal of Gordon’s ptsd is incredible! And the observations of Alyx having stunted development are fascinating
Gordon's ptsd... yes...
Can we just give some props to these alien mystics, though? From Freeman's POV they broke into his house and he was just defending himself. From theirs, they were just minding their own business when a tornado threw them into someone else's house.
Thought 1: What just happened?
Thought 2: Why am I still alive?
Thought 3: Where am I?
Thought 4: Ah! Some weird monster's attacking me! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Why didn't I learn magic missile!?!
@Zoomer Waffen short paranoia definition: “An unrealistic distrust of others or a feeling of being persecuted. Extreme degrees may be a sign of mental illness.”
In Gordon’s situation I don’t think it’s unrealistic to be constantly worried you’re about to go through something terrible that you’ve been through before.
Considering Alyx grew up in a post-alien invasion apocalypse and not in a normal world, everyone's development is probably on the off side.
@@nunouno001 agreed
@@nunouno001 I think it's just making fun of the fact that she's literally treating it all like it's a game.
We called them "The Vortigaunts!" Is that cool, or is that cool? - Mike, Civil Protection
Mike is just the clone of Freeman that got sent to Massachusetts. He lived through it all and changed his name so he wouldn't be affiliated with what caused it.
"I think it's cool!"
I really hope in one episode there's going to be a cameo of our duo from Civil Protection. ;)
@@Sebastian-kv4qq
I think that already happened in an earlier episode. He overheard them talking about having lunch or something during the big chase in city 17.
I wonder what happened to them.
12:55 "let me go find my glasses" holy fuck lmao
funny special forces voice man is here
Ross is a national treasure.(despite living in Poland and not the US)
7 years ago I was watching this version of Freeman screaming around Black Mesa and I kept thinking “I’d love to see this guy in Ravenholm” I can’t believe we are almost there
Wow, he's almost at Ravenholm. I can't wait to see him climb and go places normal humans should be able to reach to easily and possibly more quickly get through that section.
And the pants were dead.
Freeman should make a Walking Dead reference.
@@thevarietychannel1017 He was in stasis since 1998, so he'd probably wonder where the nearest Blockbuster is so he could watch it.
@@colinchildress1251 Good point.
Maybe he'll use the Gravity Gun kickback to get around a barrier or two.
Freeman's observations of Alyx's character are both funny and really interesting. i also do appreciate the critique of how nobody in the game acts like there's any real urgency to what's happening.
That's partly because Gordon was being followed by and in a shootout with a chopper right outside the entrance. Gordon followed the path they set out for him, with the airboat waiting for him and everything. It makes sense that the Combine would follow him straight there, but nobody realizes that but Gordon.
@@Blurns No, canonically the Combine have no idea where Gordon is until Mossman sells him out. It's easy to act like this comedy series is smarter than the writers, if you don't actually pay attention to the plot. Freeman's Mind isn't meant to be taken that seriously.
EDIT: I also want to make it clear that I'm not criticizing Freeman's Mind, either. It makes sense that FM Gordon, as a raving, paranoid lunatic, thinks he's being followed. But please remember that Ross isn't writing this series as some grand review of Half-Life's plot, he's writing it to make people laugh.
Its really interesting because for everyone else its been the better part of 20 years, while for gorden is been just a few days, if that. My favorite part is that he has no context for the Vortigaunts being allys to the resistance. Unless you paid REALLY close attention to what goes on in half life 1, its extremely unclear that they were not acting of their own free will. realisticly, gordon would be space-racist against them lmao
@@bigfatcarp93 this comedy series IS smarter then the writers.
@@davidstrife165 Give me an example and I will refute it.
I love his take on Alyx in this series. It's amazing how he can completely change the characters just by making observations about them that are both unexpected but completely realistic given the circumstances he's in.
Alyx*
I was worried he was going to be hostile and impatient with her this whole time… and then he pulls an *in character* 180.
*sees dog* “why isn’t this on guard duty” lmao that’s a great point
It can even work under combine walls
When a new Freeman's Mind episode releases: "It smells like SEX in here!"
cinematic mod reference? 🤔
I think he was making a joke that all the aliens in there are making the place stink.
Im the like number 666 just wanted to say it
Black Mesa East has several people working there, but offers very little privacy. They also live at their place of work.
Of course it is going to smell like that.
I really needed to hear all this from Gordon, he's a highly trained professional
Now if we could just figure out who ate all the donuts
Still say there's nothing to string theory?
Now if only we can figure out the mystery behind all these ridiculous ties.
@@jessegd6306 Ehh that's probably not a problem... Probably.
@@ballinbalgruuf8198 I think determining whether the electron is a compound particle might be a more pressing concern. But what do I know, I only work here.
10:22 I love the one second joke acknowledging Alyx running into Gordon for no reason. It’s the little bits that make this series.
7:32 is so great. I can just *FEEL* the shock and anger radiating off Gorden there. I half expected him to pull out the crowbar and go back to break her jaw over it.
In This Episode, Gordon gets advanced technology, encounters advanced mechs with questionable AI, and begins to learn why We Don't Go To Ravenholm
Primitive? The best mechs we have now are the boston dynamics robots and D0g outperforms them by a large margin.
@@EGeorgevI’m not super versed in robotics, I edited it
"SHOULD I ASK WHICH ONE'S ELI?!!"
Omg that is amazing. And he's almost up to speed here. He's gone from thinking they're all slaves, to passive-aggressive underlings, to worrying that they might be leading the rebels. (Which...given everything he's seen, might be a fair assessment.)
Don't worry about the vertigos too much, Gordon lol.
(Kleiner is still your greatest threat.)
Lamarr is actually the mastermind.
@@wta1518 //Woah...that WOULD explain why Gordon blasted her into space.
Chances are, Eli is just as insane as Kleiner, and Alyx is just numb to mad scientist bullshit.
Given what we’ve seen so far, the Rebellion might have actually fared better if the Vorts WERE in charge.
"this is gonna be a long night, isn't it?"
Understatement of the century right here.
It's only 20 minutes long-
I love how Gordon was slightly less prejudice to non-hostile Votigaunts on Xen.
On Zen they seemed more native, pre-EP1 and 2 I was under the impression the Vortigaunts might betray humanity later after the Combine are defeated
@@Toxin___InterHalfer well, the breengrub said something about thaaaaaaaaaa.... helloooo... o helll...
Love the low texture resolution being the result of Gordon needing new prescription glasses.
Every new Freeman's Mind is like a holiday.
"It feels like Jesus shoving me out of heaven."
You can't just summarize it all like that, Ross.
OH YES HE CAN!!! And he WILL!!! Because of the legendary Secret Weapon Video lol
I imagine that sensation is like being electrocuted and hit by a car at the same time, but without the actual pain and death.
I love the attention to detail.
When you saw Alyx use the gravity gun multiple times, you knew that just the kick from the weapon made her lose her balance. Gordon in the game would use it normally, but in Freemans Mind, well... you saw by yourself.
"This can't be real, it's too nice! It won't last! Don't play with my emotions like this!"
#TooReal
It just hit me, the "Secret Submarine Base" quote is a reference literally taken from the beta, holy shit I didn't think he'd reference beta lore.
This episode is so good. The dichotomy of Gordon having points and having obvious PTSD is fantastic. He's right about some things and clearly unable to comprehend how things have changed and people have normalized to the situation in the decades since he was last around. As they say, life uhh... finds a way.
And ten minutes later they are raided.
Can't wait for more!
13:25 I love how Gordon walks with a limp for a while after his leg gets hit.
Oh wow! I didn't even notice that, good catch!
Nothing a little morphine won’t cure
Freeman meeting other people and talking to them is something we have wanted to see FOREVER. Thanks for making this series for over 10 years ROSS!
The people that felt and hoped he’d skip this section still fills me with irrational rage.
oh my god i cant wait until i see gordon in his distressed state just encounter the hells of ravenholm as his only person he has to listen to is a ramblings of a mad priest.
He will probably sympathize with Grigori and make him seem like he's the only one that knows what's going on with everything.
@@Vioven There's nothing irrational about your rage. What's irrational is having such intense ADD that you can't even go through an interactive non-cutscene quasi-cutscene with lots of interesting stuff to see and hear without bitching and moaning about how boring it is because nothing's exploding or shooting. These people remind me of Rigby from Regular Show and they're the same idiots bitching and moaning about the new Xen section of Black Mesa.
@@Isaacfess its probably going to happen like 4-6 months from now but its worth the wait
"how about I teleport your ass back to alien hell" sent my sides into orbit
5:20
"I don't blame the old man for trying to pawn her off -- that's the same principle behind hand grenades, also..."
BROOOOO
This line REALLY got me lmfao!
I can't wait to see Freeman's reaction to ravenholm
“Well, looks like I’m finally in Massachusetts. That or Detroit.”
@@Azelf89 Maybe Cleveland.
I had a weird dream that the way he was going to do ravenholm was like Gordon got hit in the head and imagined all of it. Your comment just reminded me I even had that dream.
Eh, he'll be fine. He's seen worse! He'll probably be creeped out by Grigory more than anything else lol
@@Azelf89 **fast zombie exists** No, this is Gary... Aw crap.
I can't wait to see how Freeman reacts when he finds out the Vortiguants see him as their saviour
Gordon will get an even bigger God-Complex
My personal reaction would be something along the lines of: "well... This is oquard."
We sadly already passed the pipe with the Vortiguant explaining that. Ross decided against interacting with that part of the story
@@schullerandreas556 for better or for worse.
Gordon would probably just try and shoot that poor guy, since he's kinda trigger happy
@@black97_0 Did you mean to say awkward?
You know whats ironic? How Gordon goes out of his way to keep the HEV SUIT turned off...When he’s unknowingly turning off the built in morphine administrator lol He literally has drugs on him and is completely unaware! Its like a man learning the key was in his heart all along. Except an armored blaze orange suit lol
"It feels like Jesus shoving me out of heaven" is probably the most accurate description for how it would feel to use the gravity gun in real life.
It's such a beautiful metaphor lol.
Except Jesus isn't real lol i am an atheist.
@@sickerthanyouraverage701
who tf cares?
Why isn't Ross a voice actor? I'm serious, he's amazing.
I think doing that would take time away from his other projects
he did actually do that for awhile when money was tight. not for a very long time though.
He did voice acting for the Steam, Tracks, Trouble & Riddles mod
what do you mean? he is a voice actor by doing this series
@@funtechu I played that game not knowing he was voice acting in it and lost my shit when I heard his voice 😂
I've been waiting years to see how Gordon would react to a place where he can chill for a couple of minutes. It's a shame he was distracted by the imminent invasion. At least he didn't totally hate the gravity gun and Dog.
In context, it makes sense for him to have zero chill. He's been chased all the way through the city and up and down the canal by foot soldiers, APCs firing rockets, and attack helicopters. Every resistance base he's encountered so far has been raided or was about to be raided. The Combine are MINUTES behind him, at best. And yet everyone in the lab is acting casual, not concerned about any kind of threat. Then, not ten minutes after his arrival the Combine show up with a full military raid. Gordon is right to be paranoid.
14:53 I love how Freeman goes silent for a second, right when hearing the inhuman scream in the distance, before saying "This is gonna be a long night, too, isn't it?" That was really cool timing with the ambient sound effects
On the other hand, it's relatively simple to not like or dislike a comment. Ah yes, and now Freeman goes to the Andromeda Galaxy.
I think Freeman is suffering from some form of apraxia or severe expressive aphasia. This causes him to perceive he is speaking out loud normally, even though physically no words are coming out. He probably had some untreated concussive brain injury from the test lab resonant cascade explosion (or one of the many other head traumas) that cause damage to the speech portions of his brain. This would really explain a lot about him and the world.
He did it. He finally did it. Gordon finally got the Gravity Gun. This outta be fun.
And then he probably chooses to never use it again.
@@Xindictive not sure about that, gordon himself did point out that the gravity gun has a lot of potential uses, and he's going to ravenholm, where you don't get much ammo at all, although ross may modify the ravenholm map, we'll see.
@@solarwrath1313 You can see he already modified the testing of the gravity gun and basically avoided using it after a moment, so there may be some editing going with ravenholm too.
Next is the blue gravity gun. 😍😍😍
Seeing as he'sade it so.physics somewhat works with it, it's going to kick like a horse every single time he fires the thing.
He's going yo avoid using it unless he has to.
*the PTSD when Gordon sees mini-version of resonance cascade.*
I just want to hear him scream like a girl when they're outrunning the explosion on the back of the train.
_"They'll write poems about me!"_
Legend has it of a hero named Freeman,
who lives in a world where nobody has a plan,
he'll do missions which he's not much of a fan,
and he'll trek chemical hazards that shorten his lifespan.
All that radiation is sure giving him a tan,
And he sure won't be happy after his next x-ray scan.
"if you guys had a submarine base I think that would cheer me up"
I understood that reference.
Hl2 beta?
@@WSBM14 yes
"Well, I'm quite surprised that worked. I guess Kleiner is further along than I thought."
"I think she might have the mind of a child."
Lol, I love how serious his voice was for that line.
"This is gonna be a long night too, isn't it?"
Oh, you have no idea.
Ever since Ross expressed his interest in Half-Life 2's additional character interaction for a Freeman's Mind continuation years and years ago on a podcast I heard once (Podcast 17 I think?) I've been hyped for this exact moment when he goes through Black Mesa east. Specifically, Ross seemed interested/excited for the additional storytelling opportunities and flexibility that occur when you have actual characters to interact with (well, moreso observe but still) in HL2 versus the more stiff HL1 scientists. And man, definitely love how it's all turned out.
I wonder what Ross's neighbors think when they hear him yelling "OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR!"
They're probably thinking "Dobry wieczór. Coś, coś się popsuło i nie było mnie słychać więc powtórzę jeszcze raz."
@@arkle519 I figured that much but I wonder what they're thinking in English.
Gotta say, back in 2008 when I started watching Freeman's Mind, Black Mesa East is one of the parts that I was looking forward to the most!
I remember imagining how it would all play out, and I'm so happy now that it finally did :)
For example when Eli tells Gordon that MIT grads are few and far between, and Gordon replies: "Recognized!" I felt so nostalgic! :D
Ross, I'm so grateful for everything you have done, keep up the good work, love you!
Oh man ... 12 to 13 years . I am hypped for ravenholm since the ending of freeman's mind 1 .
"This is gonna be a long night, isn't it?"
Yes. Yes it will, Gordon.
Hope you like rotary saws and booby traps...!
I still think in this Universes canon, Eli was the black scientist that got shot in the leg as let Freemen out of the lab. Freemen told him to get that leg looked at ,but her never did and lost it.
That’s in the official canon too I think
Yo! That makes so much sense!
I find it funny that even in a peaceful situation, Gordon is constantly on high alert. I don’t blame him but it seems he can’t feel calm when things around him are “too calm”
So even if he gets a break he always feels like something is about to happen and he has good reason to!
His paranoia is literally driving his survival rn, and with every new thing happening it keeps validating his anxiety
Man, it's great to see the sheer amount of culture shock Gordon Freeman has been experiencing. I had a feeling that the base would really break him with him missing the context for just about everything and being too busy dealing with the culture shock to process it.
It makes perfect sense too. People think that the people around Gordan are too nonchalant but this is life for them especially child-soldier Alyx. Gordon is on Day 4 of Sheer Hell. Both Ross's AND the game-writer's writing are on point.
"Your are all about to die."
"It is such an honour to be working with you!"
"This place isn't secure."
"Hey, let's go out and play fetch!"
"There goes MY appetite!" Lmao classic Freeman
And just like that, I've reached the end, over a hundred episodes, I thought I would never run out, but now I find myself, waiting, just like everybody else.
It's kinda peaceful here at the docks, waiting for the next ship to come in I guess
There was once a point where we thought Ross would never finish the first one because of his machinima deal problems and then it was his personal living problems. But then one day the next Freeman's mind episode appeared and then before long it was over.
We all wondered when or even IF Ross would continue Freeman's mind to HL2. He was more interested in other projects at the time. Then one day we had a shocking surprise, Freeman's Mind 2 episode 1 was released... on APRIL FOOLS DAY! We all thought for sure it was just another joke video.
Although much to our shock and delight a short time later episode 2 was released and it was confirmed to all that this was real and Freeman's Mind 2 was here to stay. Now you're here waiting months for a new episode just like we did in the first one. So pull up a chair get comfortable and settle in cause you're gonna be here a while, but trust me it's well worth the wait.
That April Fools day joke was great. Because you never know with Ross.
Freeman certainly seems impressed with the Gravity Gun. Kicks him like a mule right now, but hopefully he'll be able to wrangle the kick, even if he doesn't use it as often in Ravenholm.
LOL Ross loves to troll experienced Half-Life players by having Gordon avoid doing things that players know to do, like pick up certain weapons or solve certain puzzles. So I assume Gordon's issue with the "kick" of the gravity gun's primary mode means he'll never actually use the gun to turn objects into projectile weapons, which is one of the central mechanics of We Don't Go to Ravenholm! It'll give us Half-Life blue balls the whole time, as Gordon doesn't cut a single zombie's head off with a circular saw blade! 😂
Hopefully he'll get used to the kick, or else Our Benefactors is going to be very awkward.
@@YesterdaysMinder I reckon he'd begrudgingly suck it up when all of his toys have been taken from him.
Why does it just use the same momentum canceling technology seen with the teleporters?
I can see Ross using it to skip puzzles by "rocket jumping" over stuff
4 videos in 2 weeks?
Stop it, Ross. My brain can only handle so much dopamine.
Wow, I didn't expect to see you here.
You mean one episode in half a year.
@@SeedmancChitOKun Half-Year
@@joseph_bunnyman318 Hey man autism gives you good taste in media.
We'd know right
this series ended in 2011, how are there any uploads at all
Love that we finally get to see Freeman's reaction to the gravity gun. And it almost immediately turns to despair of the idiocy around him.
Can't wait to see how he handles the revalation that he's the personal messiah of the vertigoes.
Vertigoes xD
Knowing how Gordon has become over the course of this series, he'll probably think the Vortigaunts are bullshitting him.
"this is just a game"
And after 14 years Gordon finally breaks the fourth wall and becomes self aware.
Freeman showing some humanity still resides in him by realising that he can't be mad at a kid
"all roads lead to kleiner" i'm gonna get a tattoo of that
There's some kind of joke about Klein bottles in there.
I like how Gordon manages to shrug off fundamental part of the lore with an unintentional joke about how old HL2 is.
"I never thought it would take you this long to get back to me!"
"A lot of people died."
That particular line delivery cracks me up.
6:05 That Eli impression kills me more than Eli himself in episode 2.
“How ‘bout I teleport yo ass back to *alien heell.”*
The Eli impression was fantastic. I like the quiet moments of Freeman's Mind the best, when Gordon is just talking to people and observing the insanity around him, rather than being stuck in the middle of gunfire.
Gordons entire life is now purely two states of being "how in the fuck is everyone this stupid?" and "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
Gordon accurately predicting the attack and his escape is so perfectly in character