Prediction: Methusalah is the ghost of Will's dad!

[I'll be the one]

When they first meet in the Orca gas staion Will says "You look oddly familar."

[Diveyoc]

I initially thought it is Will 30 years from now, or a parallel universe or something. He has the same jacket as Will.

[I'll be the one]

Originally posted by Diveyoc:

I initially thought it is Will 30 years from now, or a parallel universe or something. He has the same jacket as Will.

That idea is a nice one!

[Diveyoc]

It also makes a lot of sense as someone else suggested in another thread, that he is actually just Will's conscience. Kind of like Jiminny Cricket in Pinnochio.

[I'll be the one]

Originally posted by Diveyoc:

It also makes a lot of sense as someone else suggested in another thread, that he is actually just Will's conscience. Kind of like Jiminny Cricket in Pinnochio.

OK

[Bob The Tomato]

One would hope that if Metuselah were Will's Dad, he'd recognize him very quickly.

Also the notion that he's "Future Will" is an interesting one.

However, Methuselah is an actual historic figure. Mentioned in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Methuselah is the oldest recorded figure of those religions, said to have died at the age of 969. He's part of the genealogy linking Adam to Noah. In fact, he's Noah's grandfather. In all likelihood, he died during the Great Flood, since there's no mention of him in religious texts since then except symbolically.

When he says he once witnessed the end times once before, he could be referring to The Flood. On the other hand, he could also just be a crazy old man with precognitive abilities.

[iheartmyocd]

I kinda pictured it as an inside dev joke, since Methusela in the first go-round of story mode was totally random and a lot of people (including me) didn't get to see him by the dam before we went in. I can totally see that bit as a nod to those of us who had only ever seen Methusela in the story mode trailer or screenshots up until the redux. It would very much be in the devs wheelhouse to drop that in as a bit of a consolation prize and apology for how badly Methusela was coded into the original iteration of chapter one.

[Shelt]

His character is the deep original design equivalent of Jar Jar Binks.

"Oh, I'm an old man with a big beard who dispenses foreshadowy wisdom while sitting by my infinite fire and talking like Grumpus."

[I'll be the one]

Originally posted by Shelt:

His character is the deep original design equivalent of Jar Jar Binks.

"Oh, I'm an old man with a big beard who dispenses foreshadowy wisdom while sitting by my infinite fire and talking like Grumpus."

Are you refering that as George Lucas may have had a different intent for Jar Jar than what we saw in the Star Wars prequels? Would have love to be a fly on the wall for both ofthese stories being created.

[Lenny Rat]

Now I just can't get the audio out of my head...Methusalah says to Will, "Meesah think yousah in danger..."

Kill me.

[Lenny Rat]

Oh...but back on topic...

Does anybody else feel like the same voice actor for Will is doing Methusalah? I swear sometimes I get confused as to whom is speaking between the two...

[Vision]

Originally posted by Lenny Rat:

Now I just can't get the audio out of my head...Methusalah says to Will, "Meesah think yousah in danger..."

Kill me.

LOL

[listless]

He's really intriguing.

Seen the end of the world once before, apparently.
Didn't he say something like they were entering an, "apocalypse of an apocalypse"? I'm still trying to work that one out.