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No, actually, I come a year later to say that Undermine, disjointed from the overall story as it may have been, was absolute peak in WoW in the last several expansions, and in my opinion one of the best story lines in the game.
Aside from being visually amazing, with many elements of both pop culture as well as America in the 20s all the way to the 60s, they had an actual jazz ensemble to perform the soundtrack. It was so good that it ended up as part of the official competition at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards (alongside soundtracks like KPDH's). Every single of the several music pieces perfectly captures the part of the city and the cartel that it was related to, with Gallywix's boss theme sounding like something straight out of a rubber hose cartoons.
On top of that, they brought back a character that has been present in the majority of WoW, and Warcraft before that, yet was never fleshed out as anything other than "the main goblin" - Gazlowe had some of the best glow up, both visually and especially in the writing and voice acting direction. The difference is so stark, you get whiplash going from his quests in Azj-Kahet straight into his quests in Undermine.
Along with this, the anti-capitalist message and the march against Gallywix, tearing down his statue and fighting off his armed guards in the streets, was the kind of contemporary story we need. The kind of story goblins needed to take them away from the antisemitic stereotypes they were chained to for the entire existence of WoW, and give them so much more while still keeping the parts of them inspired by Black and immigrant communities that created and shaped what we recognize as modern American culture.
And then you had the whole main story line that was written so tightly that it flows like a feature movie. Both of the pre-rendered cinematics have so many small elements that I could talk about for hours. Gazlowe's resistance to Undermine comes from a place of trauma and fear, and even then, it's realistic that his acceptance of the role he must do is not linear - he goes back and fourth three times before Renzik dies and gives him the final push. And Renzik’s death isn’t just there to motivate Gazlowe, he dies knowing he couldn’t change Undermine through violence, but he could use it to get the one person who builds and fixes to step up and do it instead.
There’s also this great level of detail where Gazlowe doesn’t use a weapon at all until he’s up against Nikki, and even then it doesn’t work. He’s a builder and a fixer, he represents the kind of healing Undermine actually needs, and he doesn’t do it alone - he does it because his genuine kindness bends the cartels around him, pushes them to be better to their people and to the city itself.
Say what you will about modern WoW, but this was a story that really kept what made goblins lovable while fixing the issues with them and sending a message of unity and rebuilding without discrediting the necessity for violence. Without Renzik there would be no Gazlowe, and without Gazlowe there would be no Undermine.
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I think it’s a little fucked up that the Ebon Blade and Illidari are almost never in these big battles where all the heroes of Azeroth are supposed to be fighting- you know those angsty bitches would take any chance to fight the forces of evil and potentially sacrifice themselves
I feel like if the Ebon Blade and Illidari tried to show up for this one, the Vanguard of Light would probably start grabbing them the way they grabbed poor Tehd.
Not to mention, I don't know how well the Ebon Blade would handle being in Light-infused Silvermoon. Alonus Faol can take it, but he's been soaking in the Light for years at this point, and he still has hard limits to how close to the Sunwell he can get. Sure, the Ebon Blade are tough fuckers and would eventually shrug it off, but I have to imagine the shock of walking into what is literally the holiest of holy cities and bathing in all that Light would take them out for a hot second.
And it would hit all at once. It might be fine if they marched up from the Plaguelands, but teleporting directly into the heart of the city? OOF. OUCH. MY BONES ARE ON FIRE
