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This article contains minor spoilers for Mickey 17.
If you’ve seen the trailers, there’s nothing here that you dont know already.
In Mickey 17, Robert Pattinson plays, well, Mickey 17.
He plays Mickeys 1-16, too.
Oh, and also Mickey 18.
No, not a member of Sylvester Stallone’s all-star action hero crew.
Now that I think about it, the concept has strongNier: Automataenergy.
What’s The Point Of Life After Death?
What’s the benefit of this?
Scientists can use him to test the granular effects of radiation poisoning on a living human body.
And on, and on.
If (read: when) he dies, so what?
The more I sit with Mickey 17, the more I realize expendables are basically just video game characters.
As we play through a game and make mistakes, they die, over and over.
But they’re reborn, good as new, at the last checkpoint.
Like Mickey, game characters look and behave the same.
In other ways, theplayeris Mickey, not the character.
We maintain the consciousness that the character would lose.
ButIdo, and I use the lesson I learned to inform how the character behaves going forward.
Well, no, I don’t think so.
Hades, for my money, still has the best storytelling in any roguelike.
Deaths are threads woven into his continuing story, not loose ends that resurrection ties off.
Maybe you spend your time researching the local flora and fauna.
Maybe you get sent on pointless missions that will quickly kill you.
A game could also tie in the danger of a double getting loose.
In the film, two clones existing simultaneously is grounds for the expendable’s final termination.
A game could play into this, making doubles a high risk, high reward bonus.
It helps that it’s already a great, compelling movie that does the same.
Every Half-Life breaks new ground, just like a certain blockbuster film series.
