Haha, probably not. But I seem to have an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of the show so far, so I can answer pretty much most questions about it myself, though I'm not so good on the explaining the series side of things (mainly because I don't naturally assume everyone is a layman regarding the show, hell, my mum watches it with me and even she gets confused when I drag up references from late episodes to Season 1 and 2 occurences...).Berserker119 said:
Ooooh, in which case could you answer this for me then? I've never been majorly interested in the Expanded Universe much, but one thing has always bugged me. After the defeat of the Empire in ROTJ, how did the Rebellion end up becoming the New Republic? I mean, don't explain it fully, but did they have to clear up the remnants of the Empire or did they just send a fleet over to Coruscant or what? Surely it would take more than just killing the top brass to overthrow a galaxy-spanning empire, after all...?Amethyst Wind said:
Not quite. It's more they incorporate the questions into things so that you stop needing to ask them. Like, the big questions of the first season: What is the Island? What is the smoke monster? What are the numbers?Aby_Z said:
Of course, those few have been answered too by now. Warning, massive Season 6 spoilers ahead...StevieWonderMk2 said:
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Yes, it was.Totenkopf said:
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I haven't seen an episode that explains what happened to House's leg. Have they explained that?thecaptainof said:
The Pearl? Monitoring station in theory. The people in The Pearl were presumably kept in isolation from the rest of the Dharma personnel at all times. They believed that they were conducting experiments into psychology there, when in fact they were the subjects themselves of a different experiment that was really being conducted. Imagine if the people who made the TV series Big Brother were being watched themselves, as part of a psychological experiment. That's what was happening at The Pearl. It was simply yet another Dharma experiment back in it's heyday.StevieWonderMk2 said:
It's reasonable to assume that he does have a family somewhere, though there's no evidence to suggest that the child is Gordon's own. Remember, he's still in his twenties, he joined Black Mesa straight from his MIT postgrad degree, we're led to believe, so unless he got married and had kids while he was still at university then he doesn't have direct family. He probably has parents alive somewhere though, and maybe aunts or uncles. The child in the picture could be him when he was a kid, or a cousin, even. In any case, by the time he returns to Earth and 'normality' in HL2, it's been several years, and there was the Seven Hour War as well, so we can probably assume that he believes his family to be dead or missing. He knew people like Eli and Kleiner from Black Mesa, but there's nothing to suggest they knew his family too. Whatever the situation though, it's open for anyone to speculate. Until Valve chooses to define a family and personal life for Gordon, there's nothing canon about it and so we simply don't know.Snowalker said:
