Doesn't the ending bring a tear to your eye? Doesn't it move you when Raynor saves the woman he loves? You know what else brings a tear to the eye? The way Kerrigan manipulated Zeratul into killing Raszagal the Matriach of the Dark Templar.
Oh yeah, how could you forget that? Kerrigan inexplicably mind-controlled Raszagal and basically made Zeratul kill her out of mercy. When Zeratul was done, Kerrigan spares him just so he can live out the rest of his existence in guilt. Here's the quote:
Kerrigan: "I said you are free to go. I've already taken your honor. I'll let you live because I know that from now on your every waking moment will be torture. You'll never be able to forgive yourself for what I've forced you to do. And that, Zeratul, is a better revenge than I could have ever dreamed of."
Huh. What a bitch. Does anybody also remember how she double crossed Fenix and killed him along with Edmund Duke? I'm surprised nobody ever mentions Fenix in Starcraft 2. It's no big deal. Fenix was only Raynor's comrade and best friend. In fact, Raynor seems to have totally forgotten him yet hasn't stopped angsting over Kerrigan. Duke was just a well liked minor character who didn't even really need to be killed off but was anyway.
Do you remember how Kerrigan killed Aldaris personally and reveled in the uprising between the High Templar and the Dark Templar? Do you also remember how she caused so much death and chaos that the the large part of Terran political entities actually pitched in to give Mengsk, of all people, an entire goddamn fleet to try and kill her? How about the wholesale slaughter of all the UED survivors who were so badly whooped that they weren't even a threat anymore and were actually fleeing to Earth?
Do you see where I'm going with this?
Kerrigan is a monster, a mass murder who committed atrocities in the Brood War. You might be thinking, "She must have been under the control of the Zerg or something." Well here's the thing. Absolutely nothing could have been controlling her. The Overmind was as dead as Uncle Ben. She killed off the new Overmind and the minor rebellious cerebrates. We have also established now in Starcraft 2 that Kerrigan's purpose is to put "free will" into the Zerg to resist the "Voice in the Darkness" or some shit. She had free will and with that free will, well, look at what she did.
This is why the ending sucks. Kerrigan is too important to die now. She was a killer but now she's gonna save us all... Redemption sucks when the redeemed don't do anything to deserve it. What happens now? Doesn't Raynor now realize that a lot of people are gonna be wanting the head of that naked woman he's carrying. I'm surprised Mengsk didn't just launch a nuke at Raynor as he was stepping out of the cave killing two birds with one stone. What's gonna happen to Raynor's Raiders? Are they gonna give up the rebellion and become some kind of security service? Ah, they're all a bunch of easily swayed morons anyway. God, I hope all of this isn't explained away in some goddamn novel because that must be one hell of a stupid novel.
*Barf!*
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