1:48:47 I am dying from that Thrall model expression. Also rewatching this now I really have to admit that although stuff was poorly written and story was very shallow, I still like the Sylvanas and Anduin dynamic in that expansion. I have a feeling we might get more of that during Midnight expansion because that seems to be focused on elves, sunwell and Quel'thalas.
The most annoying part of this is how dirty they did the soul of Arthas, and that Jaina didn't get a single word in towards his last piece of his soul when she and Uther were the closest to him of anyone.
But then again Sylvanas had her soul corrupted by him, so at the same time I think she deserved words to his soul, considering all the shit he did to her
im not saying she didn't, im saying out of everyone there she was the least relevant to him. She was literally no more relevant to him than any other nameless person turned undead or slaughtered by him. She is relevant to WoW, not him. @@evanplays1945
for some reason they found a way to villainize Arthas even after his death - even though he was clearly corrupted to be the lich king. This was clearly a last ditch effort to make the fans care about the narrative at that point. "hey you, yes you intern writer! don't forger to incorporate Arthas btw! everybody loves Arthas so just toss him in there" type shi
@@ReyRey277 Yeah, that part bothered me. Just as Sylvanas was *dominated* by lich king's influence. Arthas too was dominated by it. Arthas was controlled into killing his father and all of his people when it was the reason why he was so hellbent on taking down the demons. To protect his homeland. She was also controlled/dominated into killing her own people. If anyone should understand, it's her. Heck, he was under much more control/domination than her, and for much much much longer. He only regains his own will few moments before he dies, where he is unjustly taken and thrown into the maw to suffer, only to be used further for domination and eventually lost completely. His saga is tragic and it's weird that everyone villainized him so hard to the absolute end, even in the end when he was finally free, even though what was left wasn't even a soul. If anything, his soul would probably go to Revendreth, he would need to face punishment for what he did in strathholme and how he set up the mercinaries in warcraft 3, to take the fall so he could continue the mission. Revendreth was designed to punish souls but also help them overcome their sins and become better overtime.
@@allifreyr Was it stated before SL that Arthas was being controlled when he did all those atrocities as the Lich King? I remember it being left ambiguous, and then people would argue whether he was just a shitty guy (citing Stratholme) or whether it was the Helm/Ner'Zul/the Dreadlords/etc. I feel like making the Lich King business unambiguously not his fault is a HUGE character assassination.
Quit retail before SL. First time seeing the story playout. Some really epic nods to the past, Uther, Arthas etc, feel I missed out. Still, classic SL out in .. 5-ish years..
@@JACpotatos I am sorry but anybody who expected that Sylvanas would be killed during Shadowlands was a moron who doesn't understand how incredibly popular that character is. You do not kill off character that is literally used to sell merch.
Parts of the Shadowlands story are underrated. The opening cinematic is completely on point and audacious. People think that the writers shat on Sylvanas, but in this cinematic they are faithful to her character. If she was truly a one-dimensional villain they would have had her don the Helm. Instead she broke the fucking thing in half, which is exactly what Sylvanas would do. Sylvanas is driven by two conflicting urges: the desire to properly yeet herself from existence and the desire for vengeance. There is also a desire she keeps locked away which is to taste real life and love once more. All of those feelings absolutely compelled her to break the Helm. So yeah there were compelling story moments, but its true that a lot of Shadowlands was dreadfully mid. So many zones were contenders for shittest zones I've ever played. Bastion left a horrible taste in my mouth, and people loved it at first which was baffling. Ardenweald, Oribos and Zereth Mortis were also gross. The only places that felt remotely death-ish were Maldraxxus, Revendreth and the Maw/Torghast, and even they were very one-note. It's prolly just subjective cos a lot of people like generic fairyland, and draxx and rev were just generic deathy places for the most part. So yeah I'll concede that the other zones weren't for me. But there wasn't a single zone in the entire expansion that felt truly compelling. Zereth Mortis felt like a sublime commodification of wow. Which made sense given its purpose, but I couldn't shake the feeling that the entire zone was a metaphor for modern WoW. Just lifeless artifice and pale imitations of a real story with real characters. You have little notes of humanity sprinkled in here and there, but not much that I can really connect with, so the game does end up becoming a world quest grind because, ironically, that is more compelling than the story.
@@0ne0fmany Pandaria wasn't filler. Legion wasn't filler. BFA was mostly filler and Shadowlands was cool, but turned out to be my least favorite expansion next to BFA.
Man, I really hate that the player model is so tiny in these cutscenes. It looks so silly and makes it feel like the player has no role in any of this.
After all these characters have been through and seen...there would have been at least SOME level of understanding of seeing Sylvanas as a victim once the two parts of her soul were put back together again. The writing on this...ffs
About 30 min in, I find I've been skipping the scenes that don't involve Sylvanas or the other Azerothian characters; the animation also has a clear dip in quality
I liked it, the only thing i truly disliked it is that it doesn't answer what happened to the Blightcaller. And they should have used Arthas soul to help defeat the jailer and bring some sort of consolation to Uther for sending him to the maw unaware that the was being controlled.
loved the expansion up until the ending, could've ended it by setting the stage for next expansion having the shadowlands enter the azeroth realm, but nope, had to end it having the jailer be a dying robot, could've had a expansion where we had to go to the dragon isile to find a new control of the scourge
27:18 Anduin literally saying what every WoW player was thinking when they heard that (except the Sylvanas fans) 28:15 Islam: you have a choice to consider, join us willingly(submit) or be made to serve(tax to keep your head, spoils of war woman for soldiers, lose your head and be used as fertilizer)
How dare they... How dare blizzard ruin a character that gave them rise ... Who is sylvanass to say anything about arthas How could every one get a happy ending but arthas
I felt bad for Sylvanas she was dealt a raw deal she was killed made to serve at the end found a way to help defeat the evil. Why condemn her she was a victim as well she should've been forgiven. Hope the writers turns this story line into a happy ending I really don't want to see it end on a bad note for Sylvanas.
Well Blizz could just look into their own records and discover that Sylvanas was once a character that cared for those who've been dealt the same hand as her... but thats pre Pandaria lore and we dont do that here...
I get what certain fans mean by "The writers being faithful to Sylvanas's character", but this enormous tangent with all of these rando's in Bastion is what mutilated any desire I had to play this x-pack. It was just bad, simple as that. sorry. :(
It's hard to argue with that. I'd change vanilla to something that's more relevant to the story. I'd change TBC where the Blood Elves and Illidan weren't antagonists and rather focused on Burning legion stuff. I wouldn't touch WotlK because that was perfect. I'd remove Cata, Pandaria and WoD because they are just fillers. Legion was an OK ending to the burning legion arc. BFA I would keep, but I'd remove Sylvanas altogether and focused on Old God stuff. Instead of Shadowlands I'd have an ending that ties up what happens to Azeroth after all the Old Gods died (since that's a bad thing as far as we know).
This is so bad... And that's a good thing, this way I have no regrets boycotting Blizz. Fthem X'D - That helm will be your prison. -This world is a prison. - You know nothing of loyalty BANSHEE. - It is you who knows nothin. X'D Seriously who writes these riveting dialogues?
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I was so lost after my way too long pause. Thanks for getting all the scenes together!
1:48:47 I am dying from that Thrall model expression.
Also rewatching this now I really have to admit that although stuff was poorly written and story was very shallow, I still like the Sylvanas and Anduin dynamic in that expansion. I have a feeling we might get more of that during Midnight expansion because that seems to be focused on elves, sunwell and Quel'thalas.
God, Shadowlands looked fucking FANTASTIC. It's a shame that even though the visual design was peak the story was completely undercooked.
Ysera's rebirth was my absolute fave, Night Queen lost one of her leaves to revive her - imagine the anima!
25:59 Even as an Undead player i felt that.
The most annoying part of this is how dirty they did the soul of Arthas, and that Jaina didn't get a single word in towards his last piece of his soul when she and Uther were the closest to him of anyone.
But then again Sylvanas had her soul corrupted by him, so at the same time I think she deserved words to his soul, considering all the shit he did to her
im not saying she didn't, im saying out of everyone there she was the least relevant to him. She was literally no more relevant to him than any other nameless person turned undead or slaughtered by him. She is relevant to WoW, not him. @@evanplays1945
for some reason they found a way to villainize Arthas even after his death - even though he was clearly corrupted to be the lich king. This was clearly a last ditch effort to make the fans care about the narrative at that point.
"hey you, yes you intern writer! don't forger to incorporate Arthas btw! everybody loves Arthas so just toss him in there"
type shi
@@ReyRey277 Yeah, that part bothered me. Just as Sylvanas was *dominated* by lich king's influence. Arthas too was dominated by it. Arthas was controlled into killing his father and all of his people when it was the reason why he was so hellbent on taking down the demons. To protect his homeland. She was also controlled/dominated into killing her own people. If anyone should understand, it's her. Heck, he was under much more control/domination than her, and for much much much longer. He only regains his own will few moments before he dies, where he is unjustly taken and thrown into the maw to suffer, only to be used further for domination and eventually lost completely. His saga is tragic and it's weird that everyone villainized him so hard to the absolute end, even in the end when he was finally free, even though what was left wasn't even a soul.
If anything, his soul would probably go to Revendreth, he would need to face punishment for what he did in strathholme and how he set up the mercinaries in warcraft 3, to take the fall so he could continue the mission. Revendreth was designed to punish souls but also help them overcome their sins and become better overtime.
@@allifreyr Was it stated before SL that Arthas was being controlled when he did all those atrocities as the Lich King? I remember it being left ambiguous, and then people would argue whether he was just a shitty guy (citing Stratholme) or whether it was the Helm/Ner'Zul/the Dreadlords/etc. I feel like making the Lich King business unambiguously not his fault is a HUGE character assassination.
32:55 I cried over Isera’s death, and then she was revived, I actually cried even more because I was glad to see her...
Keep crying
Quit retail before SL. First time seeing the story playout. Some really epic nods to the past, Uther, Arthas etc, feel I missed out. Still, classic SL out in .. 5-ish years..
U mean 8 to 9 years
@@TheTonytone77nah about 3 years
@@takeshiC1 how shadowlands in after mop wod legion and bfa ..that's 2 years an expac each
thank you
Actually after seeing all the cinematics I kind of liked shadow lands storyline, it is really deep though
Not really deep.... Very cheap storytelling with an awful ending
@@JACpotatosSylvanas’s ending was satisfying. It’s the Jailer’s ending that was awful.
@@cameronmcewen7192 Sylvanas' entire story arc in this expansion was awful. The ending was extremely lazy. Should've killed her off
@@JACpotatos Killing her off would be lazy. Unoriginal. Stupid!
@@JACpotatos I am sorry but anybody who expected that Sylvanas would be killed during Shadowlands was a moron who doesn't understand how incredibly popular that character is. You do not kill off character that is literally used to sell merch.
thanks for this work
Only thing I have noticed without thrall the horde continues to get megalomaniac war chiefs
never let disney take over story telling
Great cinematics. But systemslands is what killed my love for the game.
Parts of the Shadowlands story are underrated. The opening cinematic is completely on point and audacious. People think that the writers shat on Sylvanas, but in this cinematic they are faithful to her character. If she was truly a one-dimensional villain they would have had her don the Helm. Instead she broke the fucking thing in half, which is exactly what Sylvanas would do. Sylvanas is driven by two conflicting urges: the desire to properly yeet herself from existence and the desire for vengeance. There is also a desire she keeps locked away which is to taste real life and love once more. All of those feelings absolutely compelled her to break the Helm.
So yeah there were compelling story moments, but its true that a lot of Shadowlands was dreadfully mid. So many zones were contenders for shittest zones I've ever played. Bastion left a horrible taste in my mouth, and people loved it at first which was baffling. Ardenweald, Oribos and Zereth Mortis were also gross.
The only places that felt remotely death-ish were Maldraxxus, Revendreth and the Maw/Torghast, and even they were very one-note. It's prolly just subjective cos a lot of people like generic fairyland, and draxx and rev were just generic deathy places for the most part. So yeah I'll concede that the other zones weren't for me. But there wasn't a single zone in the entire expansion that felt truly compelling.
Zereth Mortis felt like a sublime commodification of wow. Which made sense given its purpose, but I couldn't shake the feeling that the entire zone was a metaphor for modern WoW. Just lifeless artifice and pale imitations of a real story with real characters. You have little notes of humanity sprinkled in here and there, but not much that I can really connect with, so the game does end up becoming a world quest grind because, ironically, that is more compelling than the story.
I cannot stop laughing at "the desire to properly yeet herself from existence." You win the internet for me today.
i would have had her sacrifice herself to save azeroth from the merging of the sgadowlands with the azeroth realm, she liked auduin
It's all underrated because the loud majority of Sylvanas and Jaiana fanboys are mad because their characters developed
It was fine .... great cinematics..on to the next one lol
As someone who stopped playing around the time Pandaria showed up.
What the actual fuck is going on?..
Basicly what happened was 5 expansions that each needed a bigger archenemy than the previous one.
Honestly, you don't even wanna know.
It's all filler except Legion.
@@0ne0fmany Pandaria wasn't filler. Legion wasn't filler. BFA was mostly filler and Shadowlands was cool, but turned out to be my least favorite expansion next to BFA.
It should've just made it as Sylvannas put on the crown, became the new Lich Queen, and did a redesign of Northrend.
This would have been a better expansion than SL.
@@ernestomeyer7652 Yep
Good! ☆☆☆☆☆
1:38:00 - The fucking tears i shed at that music...and then his name! by the gods the writing never fails!
...poor Dori'thur (owl), bit harsh for her huh?
Man, I really hate that the player model is so tiny in these cutscenes. It looks so silly and makes it feel like the player has no role in any of this.
Sylvanus had a harsh ending, but I get it-- can't wait for her return
She’s not rejoining the Horde.
@@cameronmcewen7192 I can see her leading a third faction
@@nickjordan8996 There’s NO third faction. There NEVER will be.
Cinematics were amazing. Gameplay on the other hand....... not so well
nyce
Is that Sinday controlled by Kel ? Or before?
After all these characters have been through and seen...there would have been at least SOME level of understanding of seeing Sylvanas as a victim once the two parts of her soul were put back together again. The writing on this...ffs
thanks for the upload, but my god, this storyline was awful.
No way, I loved it.
Its a bit all over the place but totally not so bad that people say, theres lot of amazing stuff
About 30 min in, I find I've been skipping the scenes that don't involve Sylvanas or the other Azerothian characters; the animation also has a clear dip in quality
I liked it, the only thing i truly disliked it is that it doesn't answer what happened to the Blightcaller. And they should have used Arthas soul to help defeat the jailer and bring some sort of consolation to Uther for sending him to the maw unaware that the was being controlled.
The ending was great. Not the Jailer’s ending. Sylvanas’s punishment was great.
loved the expansion up until the ending, could've ended it by setting the stage for next expansion having the shadowlands enter the azeroth realm, but nope, had to end it having the jailer be a dying robot, could've had a expansion where we had to go to the dragon isile to find a new control of the scourge
Waw it's ready to war john
27:18 Anduin literally saying what every WoW player was thinking when they heard that (except the Sylvanas fans)
28:15 Islam: you have a choice to consider, join us willingly(submit) or be made to serve(tax to keep your head, spoils of war woman for soldiers, lose your head and be used as fertilizer)
hahaha typical WoW incel with Dunning-Kruger
me you are a zionist without telling me you are a zionist 🤣 dont ever get this sht into gaming communities
How dare they...
How dare blizzard ruin a character that gave them rise ...
Who is sylvanass to say anything about arthas
How could every one get a happy ending but arthas
THANK GOD I wont have to play this awful campaign
I felt bad for Sylvanas she was dealt a raw deal she was killed made to serve at the end found a way to help defeat the evil. Why condemn her she was a victim as well she should've been forgiven. Hope the writers turns this story line into a happy ending I really don't want to see it end on a bad note for Sylvanas.
Well Blizz could just look into their own records and discover that Sylvanas was once a character that cared for those who've been dealt the same hand as her... but thats pre Pandaria lore and we dont do that here...
1:35:39
you can almost pinpoint the moment a good idea for an expansion went to shit lol.
i really hope they bring sylvanas back tho
lost me in the trailer for this. blizzard really reaching there
so beloved universum so simply fcked up, shame
Wtf is this? Diablo or warcraft lol they ran out of ideas I see
I’m such a simp for Sylvanas. Just give her an expansion break and a nerf. With a come to Jesus moment while in prison.
I get what certain fans mean by "The writers being faithful to Sylvanas's character", but this enormous tangent with all of these rando's in Bastion is what mutilated any desire I had to play this x-pack. It was just bad, simple as that. sorry. :(
God the story of wow sucks. I wish theyd just retcon everything and start a parallel story with WC4
It's hard to argue with that.
I'd change vanilla to something that's more relevant to the story.
I'd change TBC where the Blood Elves and Illidan weren't antagonists and rather focused on Burning legion stuff.
I wouldn't touch WotlK because that was perfect.
I'd remove Cata, Pandaria and WoD because they are just fillers.
Legion was an OK ending to the burning legion arc.
BFA I would keep, but I'd remove Sylvanas altogether and focused on Old God stuff.
Instead of Shadowlands I'd have an ending that ties up what happens to Azeroth after all the Old Gods died (since that's a bad thing as far as we know).
why do they keep calling the players “mall walker”
This expansion was garbage but the Anduin and Sylvanad stuff is pretty good. Hopefully they retcon this junk, though. And dragon flight, tbh.
This is so bad... And that's a good thing, this way I have no regrets boycotting Blizz. Fthem X'D
- That helm will be your prison.
-This world is a prison.
- You know nothing of loyalty BANSHEE.
- It is you who knows nothin.
X'D Seriously who writes these riveting dialogues?