What is perhaps the saddest part of why Wheatley GLaDOS and Chell all remain alone in the end is that this could've been easily fixed if literally any of them valued friendship and connections more
If Wheatley valued his friendship with Chell more he at least wouldn't have tried to kill her and just let her go, and at most he wouldn't have betrayed her in the first place
If Chell valued Wheatley's openness and genuine want to help she would've catched him and gave him signs that he wanted and he probably wouldn't have betrayed her later
GLaDOS came close, but it was at the very end and way too late for her and Chell to form a healthy bond, or at least it's the very very start of it. As for Wheatley she literally left him in space and while yeah he was a massive jerk but they have a lot in common and could've found a common ground too
It's a story about at least two characters who have a giant need in connection and friendship, but because of their warped priorities and unwillingness to open up they always end up alone
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Miss Marple Literary Universe and the Tommy and Tuppence Literary Universe are one and the same!!
I don't know if anyones talked about this before but in Sleeping Murder, when Gwenda and Giles visit a sanatorium (aka "a mental home"), there's "a very charming old lady[...]holding a glass of milk". Her first line, spoken to Gwenda, is "Is it your poor child, my dear?". She mentions that the clock is "always at half past ten", and that something is "behind the fireplace". Her name is never mentioned and the entire interaction is less than half a page long. And thats the entirety of this character... in this Miss Marple story.
In the Tommy and Tuppence novel By the Pricking of My Thumbs, there's an old lady called Mrs. Lancaster in a nursing home whose first scene involves her love for milk, asking Tuppence "was it your poor child?", mentioning that the time is always "ten past eleven", and that something is "behind the fireplace".
By the Pricking of My Thumbs is set sometime in the late 1940s to the early 1950s according to Wikipedia, and Mrs. Lancaster was put in a nursing home roughly 20 years before that. Sleeping Murder, though published in 1976, is set in ~1944 (source: my dubious math based on a wedding certificate and backed up by wikipedia lol). So the timeline makes sense: if Mrs. Lancaster was originally put in a nursing home in ~1930, she could definitely have been in Sleeping Murder.
It's safe to say that it was the same person in both books. Which is wild to me because I often wonder if all these different Agatha Christie stories are happening in the same literary universe? Now I know at least that Miss Marple and Tommy & Tuppence are running around in the same world sniffing around a bunch of crimes.
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A peek inside Nigel's notes
...in which my obsession knows no bounds.
Here is a screenshot of the page from Nigel's notebook that Alex reads to his friends and which Sally later sees while investigating Nigel's secret room.
And here is my best attempt at a transcription, because I had to know what it said. And also to help the youngsters who may not be able to read cursive well or at all. There are a few words I can't quite make out, as denoted by [?].
…night at his study desk
…every day. I have observed him
…and [?] Alex is
…[?] in our lunch and spends
, megalomaniac with delusions
…at seven and walked quickly across the
…class this morning was English literature
…minutes late. After that he will go to Biology
…to follow Alex in Biology class. Alex made a [?]...
…incision into the small mouse and did not appear to...
…the arteries began to flow blood into the dissecting tray
…been long and i have performed several dissections as well as
…on various animals. The three mice that were pregnant lay
…the dissecting tray with each of their limbs splayed out and pinned
…[?]. Alex slept restlessly last night and then woke at six thirty
am. Last night he had stayed awake reading until eleven but lay awake for another forty six minutes. He had placed his clothes on a chair the night before where on previous evenings he would hang them neatly in his closet. After he arrived back and put away his books he watched me from the other side of the room while I removed a rat's heart and pretended to be disgusted. His shoes are always highly polished and his pants are always perfectly pressed. Alex will line up his shoes at the base of his wardrobe and always make sure his coat is hung on the back of the door. On average, Alex will do two hours and thirty minutes of homework per night but spend countless hours in the library reading. Alex is an egocentric megalomaniac with delusions of grandeur. He will spend twenty six minutes in the shower each morning and always puts his left shoe on before his right. The last thing he does before he leaves our room in the morning is put on his wristwatch that sits to the left of his lamp on the nightstand. After making his bed Alex spends three minutes in front of the mirror, checking his appearance and will
…put on his blazer jacket. After he arrived back our room he…
…brushed his teeth and taken a long shower he changed…
…morning he does his tie up in a windsor knot, …
…who leave their tie knotted and slip it…
…a noose.
After this, the text starts to repeat previous statements, as the propmaker's inventiveness failed. Clearly they cared most about making sure the megalomaniac bit would be noticeable since that's what is called out in the lines.
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