However, considering what Gordon Freeman becomes in the course of the game, it suddenly becomes not a mockery but an order. Rise and shine.' Given it's the G-Man who says them, it sounds like a mocking greeting to someone who's slept a while, and really, there's no reason why it couldn't be. Even the first words you hear in the course of the game are prophetic.The fact that just before the moment when you stop running from the Combine and start actually attacking them (the attack on Nova Prospekt is the first time Gordon pro-actively attacks the combine in the game,) you go past several bunkers reminiscent of those used by the Germans in D-Day, which was the beginning of a large scale allied offensive campaign.

The name given to the main alien threat (the Combine/Universal Union): they Combine their technology with other species and are creating/trying to create a Universal Union by doing so! They also sweep across worlds, harvesting their resources.

The plot of the game's first few chapters (Gordon shows up while Barney's on duty, preventing him from going to Nova Prospekt and being stalkered Alyx is around to save him from a squad of Civil Protection Kleiner's teleporter has just been completed) seems a little forced and coincidental - which it is, because the G-Man has made sure all his pawns are in order before Gordon's time comes again.

(And the Gnome, provided Gordon returns to White Forest with it.)

It's easy to overlook what the take-off weight discrepancy means: Lamarr, of course.

When DOG gets all jittery after the rocket launch he's detected the incoming Advisors and is trying (unsuccessfully) to stop them.

In the original Half-Life 1, the name of chapter that begins when you wake up after triggering the resonance cascade is titled 'Unforeseen Consequences'.

After she does this, Eli shoos her out of the room by asking her to go make some tea so he can reveal to Gordon in private that the G-Man himself whispered that very warning into his ear right before the resonance cascade. In Episode 2, the G-Man plants a suggestion in Alyx's mind while she is unconscious so she will relay the message 'Prepare for unforeseen consequences.' to Eli when she and Gordon reunite with him.Isaac Kleiner through the resonance cascade and the following two decades might have to do with, depending on his age (which doesn't seem to be attested anywhere), either having been part of the German Jewish diaspora which took place in the mid- to late 1930s, or being a first-generation descendant of someone who was.

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