That "Shootout" Scene [EP 4]

[Brian (The Schmaltzy Cynic)]

I was really hoping Jack was screwing with Rhys and he was imagining it all as fun and games while in actuallity he was murdering everyone.

I'm a horrible person. I shot buttstalion.

[Skreem4Me]

That whole scene just really lost me. The robots didn't seem to care so I figured nothing bad was really happening - but I just didn't get it.

[Brian (The Schmaltzy Cynic)]

Originally posted by Skreem4Me:

That whole scene just really lost me. The robots didn't seem to care so I figured nothing bad was really happening - but I just didn't get it.

I think it was just so absurd you aren't supposed to question it.

[db]

buttstalion was dead allready

[Brian (The Schmaltzy Cynic)]

Hopefully, but it was bleeding quite well for a dead horse.

[Ichneumon]

Originally posted by Skreem4Me:

That whole scene just really lost me. The robots didn't seem to care so I figured nothing bad was really happening - but I just didn't get it.

Pay attention to the earlier episodes -- whenever there are Hyperion employees in the background, they're often amusing themselves by play-acting a shootout with each other using their fingers as guns, like kids sometimes do ("bang!" "ah, you got me! *falls down*").

It seems to be an in-joke, part of their corporate culture, maybe a team-building thing. Rhys would of course be familiar with it. I thought it was just a nice touch, then suddenly out of nowhere, in the middle of a tense infiltration, there's that giant finger-gun fight in Ep4 like something out of Kill Bill, and I was grinning like an idiot. Well done, TTG.

[Procrastinating Gamer]

It's expressly called a Hyperion tradition if you fail the quicktime events - one of the accountants accuses you of "making a mockery of the Hyperion finger-gun tradition", realise you're not actually Vasquez, then all the accountants will draw real guns and give Rhys a serious case of high-velocity lead poisoning.

[Raze]

About the Buttstallion thing. The one good thing is that the greatest line ever so far in TFTB is Gorty's "I'm ready for prison life!!". It was amazing.