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THE DEAD SPACE COMICS AND BOOKS ARE GETTING REPRINTED AND I FOUND THE ONE WITH CARVER AT A VINTAGE STORE LETS GOOOOOO

This is the best day of my life.

#dead space #dead space 3 #dead space liberation #john carver #ellie langford #Robert Norton #Jacob danik

Ok so Norton. He was a bit of an asshole what with essential kidnapping Isaac and all. Yes he did save his life from the unitologists but I still like Isaacs odds in a straight fight with them. They are not smart people.

Also there's a good chance they wouldn't have found Isaac if Norton hadn't brought the cavelry to come get him. Isaac would have been evicted from his appartment and then been even harder to find. Anyways what I wanted to talk about was Norton's potential. It's pretty obvious to us Norton was suffering from marker sickness, why the other characters didn't notice is probably just bad writing or a cut on ea's part. Still, It felt like weird that this captain of earth Gov would crack so soon under pressure and the thing he would fixate on was Ellie and Isaac being the 'problem' he needed to fix. I think there was wasted potential in having a romance between him and Ellie and then making him a secondary antagonist. What they should have done was make Norton Ellie's friend, confidant or something and make him a genuinely good guy. Then have him infected and slowly turn into a necromorph finally culminating in him asking Isaac to kill him before he turns. You can still put bits of marker madness in there but I'd like to see Norton fight back against it, struggling to still be good even though he's a dead man walking. It's a much better character arch for him.

Second thought is he could be captured, presumed dead like Ellie was, and tortured for information by secret unitologists on his team who then pass the info onto danik allowing him to reach tau volantis, rather than Norton outright calling and telling danik how to find them. Isaac and carver eventually find him but it's too late, he's too far gone. Norton's last words could ba apologies to Isaac for bringing him into this mess (because no one has ever apologized to Isaac for what he's been through and I think even one sorry would go a long way for him) and a plead for Isaac to look after Ellie, not because she's nortons girlfriend, but because she's his best friend and he loves her like family. Isaac is surrounded by assholes and even 'good' characters are morally grey at best. it would be nice to see one unambiguously good character in the story only for us to lose them to horrific circumstances and as much as I dislike Norton I still think he got the short end of the character development and story stick.

#dead space #dead space remake #dead space 3 #ellie langford #isaac clarke #robert norton #jacob danik #shut up shepherd