Putting in a true attempt at reading Bioshock: Rapture, finally (I kept getting distracted halfway through and subsequently forgetting the whole thing when I came back to it lol). I'm still on the first few Second Age chapters, but highlights include the continued embellishment of the Farther To Fall audio diary, where Sinclair continues to be a dickhead when it comes to seeing "fancy"/high society people fail (him continuously antagonizing Mill about the Atlantic Express). It's ironic considering that the Atlantic Express manages to continuously save his ass and would have done so completely if Sinclair didn't try to save Delta (that's character development, for you.)
This is probably like, base level analysis but I like the detail of the characters being "normal" morally bankrupt kind of people only to get more and more depraved as time goes on. Mostly talking about Stanley Poole just being an annoying slightly charismatic in a pathetic way vice-addicted reporter. Even though there was a lot of it in game, I'm interested to see more of the shift to "man who drowns an entire city sector to keep his secrets" (which is funny because that's probably what intrigued Sinclair about these people falling, too)
Honestly with the way he is (so far) characterized in the novel, I feel as if the cut content of him being Grace's husband could have been an interesting concept. The issue would be then you'd have to find a reason as to why he would bring Eleanor to the orphanage if he and Grace mutually adopted her and, from the cut audio diaries, seemed to be optimistic about having children/had a child (unless it was Eleanor and they were just calling her their daughter at that point). I doubt that, even if she found out what he was doing, Eleanor would sell out her (at the time) only father figure, but maybe the idea was he would send her to the orphanage anyway because he was so paranoid/in too deep at that point. Also from Grace's cut diaries, it seems like the writers were kind of torn with how they both met (there's diaries implying they were together on the surface, and another where they met in the limbo room)/why their relationship failed, but at the very least it had to do with Stanley cheating/running off a lot. Honestly, I don't think the reasoning for Stanley being in charge of Dionysus park was that strong in the OG game, and it would make more sense if he defaulted to that role because he was close to Grace rather than Lamb's followers specifically wanting it in any way.
Maybe the writers just wanted Delta to be the first and only Father figure in Eleanor's life to further cement their bond, which I do get because without further rewrites it reads as "and Stanley was there too" rather than him being tied to Eleanor's character/relationship. Though, if it was more stressed that the game's "core" bosses were all of Eleanor's parental figures (Grace first and foremost) with a focus on fathers (Stanley, Gilbert, then Delta), that would be interesting, but again, that would feel overstuffed without rewriting the narrative again)
The biggest question: Why the hell did I write three paragraphs of analysis on Stanley fucking Poole?
P.S. I love the pressure-defying magic orcas in Rapture. I'm assuming they're sea slug orcas or a new type of deep sea orca in the Bioshock universe that's undiscovered because normal orcas can't dive that deep. Either that, or Bill doesn't know what an orca is because he's the only one who ever mentions them lol.
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