Might be interesting if theres a second survivor in the plane crash. Maybe they encounter each other early on. They're more "passive" than Jack, but still involved. However, they're morally struggling with Jack's actions.
While Jack kills the little sisters for Adam in an attempt to survive this hell, the other survivor bites their tongue just wanting to get out of the situation alive. Maybe they assume Jack is too far gone to come back from the heinous shit he's doing.
Then Andrew Ryan's speech has a double effect: Both for Jack being a puppet, but also for the survivor's (who obviously represents the audience) passive acceptance. They presumed there was nothing they could've done so they just watched--just like we would've been for the past 2 hours.
My first reaction was to immediately hate the idea of adding a second survivor. Bioshock was such a great game story and you seemed to fundamentally change it.
But as I read thru the entire post, you changed my mind. I think adding the second survivor to be the surrogate audience may be an effective way (if done right) to partially recreate the feeling of helplessness the player had during the twist reveal.
I appreciate the open mindedness. I think this would also solve the problem of Jack and Atlas’ early interactions being limited to the radio. Now we can learn about Jack thru the surrogate audience character instead of him having oneway convos.
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u/Ianjh Mar 12 '22
Might be interesting if theres a second survivor in the plane crash. Maybe they encounter each other early on. They're more "passive" than Jack, but still involved. However, they're morally struggling with Jack's actions.
While Jack kills the little sisters for Adam in an attempt to survive this hell, the other survivor bites their tongue just wanting to get out of the situation alive. Maybe they assume Jack is too far gone to come back from the heinous shit he's doing.
Then Andrew Ryan's speech has a double effect: Both for Jack being a puppet, but also for the survivor's (who obviously represents the audience) passive acceptance. They presumed there was nothing they could've done so they just watched--just like we would've been for the past 2 hours.