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Alright, I'll try my best :P

— R&C 1's ending

Honorable mentions:

Something about how Ratchet and Clank are separating, and how it's Ratchet that calls for Clank to join him? "We still need to fix that arm" is just so perfect. And, bonus, I love that this ending is paralleled in A Crack in Time, with Ratchet & Clank walking off into the distance. It gives the player a false sense of security that the game is over because of the fact it came full circle to the beginning of the series.

It does feel a bit bittersweet knowing the arm Ratchet repaired is now forever gone by RA, though.

— Ratchet & Clank physically reuniting in A Crack In Time

Don't have a lot to say about this one, it's just SO good. Ratchet jumping off the platform to certain doom, yelling Clank's name to wake him up, and then catching him and the SMILE they share as he has to quickly redirect himself before they crash... GOSHHHH, it's so gooood!!!!!

— That one scene in A Crack in Time

I loved seeing Ratchet support Clank despite obviously not wanting to let him go, and to finally see Ratchet & Clank hug was the best. And as I mentioned before, seeing Ratchet and Clank walk off in the distance like they did in R&C1 was also super cool. In general, the entire A Crack in Time ending is just phenomenal.

We don't talk about what else happens in this scene, though.

— Deadlocked's ending

The best way to end Ratchet's fame arc was definitely Deadlocked. Ratchet coming to terms with what being a hero really means throughout the game via Ace Hardlight's downfall was a treat, but his speech towards Vox at the end was the cherry on top. It really showed that he learned a lesson, and was ready to throw everything away to save the lives of the many.

Might be a bit grim, but I absolutely LOVE when a character accepts their own death. I eat it up every time. Self-sacrifice is the epitome of being a hero to me, and Ratchet checked that box in Deadlocked. It's easily one of my favorite Ratchet character moments and is made even better by the fact Clank had his back to save him from his own self-sacrificing mindset. Beautiful.

— Rift Apart's Savali hoverboot section

Not a cutscene, but damn, this part of the game was so cool to me. Despite having mixed feelings on Rift Apart and especially how they introduced the hoverboots in this game, I absolutely loved using the hoverboots, and being able to truly show off how cool the movement could be in the timed hoverboot section on Savali was awesome! It's one of the most fond memories I have of when I first played Rift Apart, and every time I play the game, I return to that section just for fun.

— The Comics.

all of it. but especially the part where talwyn crashed into a ship to save ratchet. that was gold. honestly. anytime i see talwyn. two big thumbs up.

— Courtney Gears' music video

It's a classic. 🕺

— Into the Nexus's beginning cutscene, and its ending

Such a bittersweet game with a bittersweet ending. I've talked about this ending a lot in the past and how crazy it makes me, but the line "There's more for me here than over there" lives in my brain. And then Clank grabbing the Dimensionator as well?? Such a good ending, and it honestly left me quite satisfied for the *checks watch* eight years i had to wait for a continuation of the main series.

I also smashed in the beginning of the game with this because I wanted to just quickly mention how absolutely adorable the beginning to that game is. Talwyn's so cute trying to make Ratchet laugh!! I just wish we could see more of her and her dynamic with Ratchet.

that'll be it for now! there's definitely moments i love in every game. these are just all the scenes my sleepy, half-awake brain can think of off the top of my head :)

Words can't express how happy I am to have found your blog.

Can't wait to see more. Expect hearts on old stuff.

Actually, maybe expect me to join in.

Oh, right, this is an ask box. What's your favourite scene from the entirity of the R&C franchise?

Thanks so much, you're so sweet!!! :D Feel free to spam, I definitely don't mind lol. It makes me happy to know people like my art!

As for your question, it's a difficult one! I could probably pinpoint a scene that stuck out to me in all the games because every game probably has at least SOMETHING I liked in it, but we'll just stick with the one!

I think the ending to A Crack in Time has got to be my favorite! Orvus's speech and his last words paralleling Azimuth's "the universe has a cruel sense of humor" line, Azimuth's sacrifice and redemption, Clank joining Ratchet right before he leaves... it's a beautiful ending to a beautiful game, and the franchise has never really reached that level of peak for me ever since, story-wise.

Not to say I don't enjoy the games that come after, but A Crack in Time is just on a completely different level.

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There have been a few posts about how the populace is getting less tech literate, linked to how corporations do everything they can to prevent right to repair, moving towards everything rented, nothing owned. People have an increasing complacency with black boxes. Rewatching Firefly, I notice that this has rippled into how fiction is written. Genre fiction now assumes very little experimentation, development, or subversion of existing world-building items. Characters use pre-packaged and established systems. They research old spells and texts, but don't make up new ones. They buy or quest for existing weapons and armor. They work for consolidated institutions with long history. In contrast, Firefly is centered on characters who are outside the system in every way, and this is etched into their home ship. They've modified that ship, breaking every warranty, rebuilding its equipment to customize and optimize it, so it could never be serviced by any factory mechanics. The scene that inspired this post involves Wash hovering the ship right below an elevated building so that Kaylee can stand on the ship's surface and interact with something on the building, and there are lots of cutaways to a cockpit alert screen warning about the ship's proximity being 3 meters or less. This indicates that Wash and Kaylee disabled any sort of software preventing them from violating a minimum proximity distance, in addition to tuning the ship so that they could handle it with such precision in the first place. This is "build your own PC, write your own OS" stuff, taken as the lifestyle the audience is meant to relate and aspire to, and contrasted with the clean pre-packaged Alliance technology that they're hacking to rob. The Internet of Things is just as exploitable in the space future, and needing to have physical access to the thing they need to hack is the best form of security that provides necessary tension and plot complication. I can't remember any recent show that has displayed this similar kind of Linux spirit. Even when you have crime and heisting, characters are plugging in pat little unit hacking programs that are functionally no different from magic spells. There's no sense of building and DIY and counterculture that would separate them from the kind of assets their enemies have, or how said assets would be deployed. But hey, what do you expect when professional video creators are all locked into Apple or Adobe ecosystems? The requirement for serialized storytelling also kneecaps characters from simply earning their daily bread (and so a focus on process over ambition), instead of being required to chase career paths with Vision, achieve financial growth or be strangled. Which means that characters have to exit the show when they achieve stability, and so the writing for ensembles has evaporative cooling to only the ones who refuse to get off the Carousel of Bullshit. We can no longer have shows where people solve their problems as the meat of the story. Going back to the comparison to technology, corporations just keep ratcheting up the exploitation, but network effects means that getting off the escalator puts you out of sight, out of mind, not a competing alternative. See for example the mobile+appification of the internet.

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Team Fire: Session 3, Egg?!; Part 2:“I still have no idea who half of you are.” Introductions... over Brunch?

The adventures of Session 3 continue! TEAM FIRE

Rodimus by Frosty (tiefling sorcerer) Drift by Space (earth genasi rogue) Ratchet by Hawke (firbolg cleric) Magnus | Minimus by Tuna (half-orc paladin | human/tethyrian wizard) Megatron by Briar (goliath paladin) Rewind by Robin (high elf wizard) (out for this week, but back soon) First Session | Second Session | Third Session: Part 1

After finishing breakfast, Ratchet and Roller head back to Swerve’s. Magnus heads upstairs to join the others for brunch. 

Rung and Nightbeat have already returned to Swerve’s, and they’re also sitting around. Warthog is around the bar, they look like they are not so much hungover as still drunk from celebrating the night before. Prowl has briefly emerged from the downstairs headquarters area, and he has a mug of coffee that the party can smell all the way across the room, and it’s terrifying; if it spills, no one knows what’s going to happen, but it’s not going to be good. Ratchet side eyes the mug.

The rest of the party is beginning to congregate around a large table. 

Rodimus is still sound asleep. Ratchet asks Drift about his absence at the brunch table, “Your little friend, he isn’t here?”

“I tried to wake him, I think he needs a little longer.”

Not satisfied with that, Ratchet goes upstairs to kick Rodimus’s door three times, as hard as he can, and yells “Wake up! Wake up, there’s food downstairs!”

This does the job and wakes Rodimus up. “Why… let me sleep.” In spite of his groaning, Rodimus gets up and comes downstairs with his cape around him like a blanket.

The team orders brunch from Swerve. Ratchet gets eggs and bacon for his brunch. Drift gets the first thing that catches his eye, which is also eggs and bacon, and tea, and Rodimus follows suit. Megatron, having no desire to stick out from the group, also gets eggs and bacon and coffee. 

Magnus breaks the trend.  “What is the largest meal you have?”

”Uhh… Uhhh…” Swerve considers. “There’s a breakfast platter, but that’s normally for five people”

“Perfect. I’ll take five.”

“Five… platters?”

“Yes, five platters. I am not exaggerating.”

“Ooookay.” Swerve takes that order. Everybody else’s comes out first after Swerve makes the tea and enchants the food. Swerve then burns basically all his spells for the day on Magnus’s brunch.

One platter has a pile of scrambled eggs, bacon and sausage links, pancakes, french toast, and a side of fruit. Magnus now has five of these. Magnus eats them as politely as possible, but just keeps going and going and going…

As they eat, Rodimus looks around the table. “Okay, so I know we kicked Zeta’s ass, had a bunch of emotional stuff and all that, but I still have no idea who half of you are.”

“Well, I’m Drift.”

“I know who you are, Drift.”

Ratchet, being snarky, asks, “But does he know who you are inside?”

Drift makes a noncommittal hand gesture.

“Since no one else wants to talk,” Rodimus starts, “I’m Rodimus. I’m a sorcerer, obviously.”

Ratchet comments, “Yeah, you set things on fire.”

“Yes. I do. That’s kind of what I do.”

“That was impressive, yesterday. Very impressive. Impressive as shit, even.”

“Thank you. And who are you, by the way?”

“Name’s Ratchet. I’m a cleric.”

“Thanks for making sure I didn’t die. That’s kind of important.”

“Yeah… y’know, you did a bit of a stupid there, and for a minute I thought you were going to croak, but you made it through, and - it’s nice to not see kids dying. War’s dangerous, Rodimus.”

“I’ll take your word for it.”

Drift adds. “I’m Drift, I’ve been traveling with Rodimus for a while. I don’t do anything fancy. Uh - it’s nice to meet you?” 

Ratchet waves his coffee mug at Drift in welcome.

“So that’s great, I know three of you. And you, over there,” and Rodimus points to Megatron, “who exactly are you, tall, dark, and scary?”

Drift starts laughing, knowing that Rodimus knows exactly who he is. “Roddy!”

“Megatron. Of Kaon. You may have heard of me.”

“Sure, I just wanted to make sure.”

Rodimus turns to Magnus, “Okay, you, hungry.”

Magnus stiffens and vaguely points to herself. “Oh, me? I’m Ultra Magnus, uh, former Duly Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord.”

Rodimus does not know what that is. “Okay, nice to meet you Mags.”

“It’s a pleasure to meet you as well. You were absolutely amazing yesterday.”

“Thank you. I get that a lot.”

Ratchet side eyes Rodimus. Just a little. Just a tad. He’s mulling over the fact that Rodimus asked who Megatron was. 

Megatron is also staring at the table quietly hoping that Rodimus was just fucking around. 

Ratchet does something that may be extremely stupid, and asks Megatron, “You look a little lost, are you alright?”

“Yeah, I am - fine? I mean, I did get tortured for a week, so as fine as you can be, considering.”

“Eh, that’s fair.” With a mouth full of egg, he asks, “y’don’t get many people asking about your name, do you?”

“I am… fairly sure he was joking.”

Across the table, Rodimus has finished the food on his plate and is now eating his fork.��

Drift, “Roddy!”

Megatron is looking at Rodimus like he’s lost it. 

Magnus stares at him. “Rodimus I - do not believe that is proper etiquette.”

“You’re going to have to pay for that one, kid,” Ratchet says.

“Drift can pay, don’t worry,” Rodimus says

“You can’t just rely on your friend like that,” Magnus says. “Oh, sweet Solomus…”

As the topic of paying comes up, Warthog, still at the bar, drunkenly yells out, “You’re not payin’ for nothing, Swerve! Swerve! They’re all on my tab! None of you are payin’ for nothin’ in this town! And Swerve! SWERVE! Don’t water down the spiky kid’s drinks! We all know you do it!” And then Warthog collapses on the bar.

Ratchet’s eyes and wallet light up. Magnus breathes a sigh of relief. 

Rodimus starts to eat the plate.

“Roddy - Roddy - Roddy,” Drift says, “Just order another plate of food!”

“Drift, please, I still have a perfectly good plate.”

Drift puts his face in his hands briefly before going back to his breakfast.

Megatron is definitely not going to ask about the all-eating tiefling. He stares straight ahead. He is not seeing this. This is not his problem.

Magnus is staring in disbelief. ‘How… how… that shouldn’t be possible.”

Ratchet turns to Magnus, “Hey, former Duly Appointed Enforcer, aren’t you going to do… anything?”

“Seeing as I’m former Duly Appointed Enforcer, uh... I don’t think I can do anything.”

“Oh, well, I know Magnus is very famous for being this very uptight, very by the book person, so I was just curious.”

Magnus, of course, takes this as a compliment. She blushes a little.

“I’ll let you in on a secret, kid,” Ratchet says, leaning across Megatron to talk to Rodimus. “You probably shouldn’t eat shit that belongs to people, y’know?”

“I know…” Rodimus says, “but I can.”

“He’s a lost cause.” Drift says, mournfully.

Ratchet grabs the plate out of Rodimus’s hands and shouts to Swerve, “Hey, this kid needs another plate of eggs!”

Swerve notices that Rodimus has eaten part of the plate, but Rodimus is also sitting at the same table as Megatron so he’s not going to say shit.

When Swerve hesitates to get close to the table, Ratchet shouts again, “I’ll bring it over, just make the eggs!”

Ratchet keeps the chewed on plate to contem-plate / analyze later, as he’s very curious about Rodimus’s munchery. Ratchet’s seen a lot of shit, but he’s never seen such an … omnivorous tiefling.

Rodimus, without his plate to munch, tries to take a piece of food from one of Magnus’s platters. She slaps his hand away. Drift eyes the fruit but doesn’t make the same mistake. Magnus is through about three platters now. Rodimus can relate to the eating part, and Drift is used to Rodimus. Ratchet has glanced at the half-table consuming scene of Magnus’s food with wonder and appreciation. 

Rodimus asks, “So… what are everyone else’s plans? This has been lovely, just fantastic, but are we going our separate ways, or? This breakfast has been great, don’t get me wrong, but you're still all basically strangers”

“For the most part,” Drift says, giving Megatron a Look.

“I am staying here,” Megatron says, “and joining the rebellion, I guess.” He considers, then continues in a tense voice, “it will be so much fun to work with Orion again, I cannot wait.”

“Speaking of Orion,” Ratchet says, “I was talking to him, and someone’s child went missing, so I guess I’m going on search and rescue, so if anyone wants to come with, you’re invited.”

“Cool, me and Drift are going too,” Rodimus immediately chimes in.

“Great, I would love to,” Megatron says.

“Absolutely,” Magnus joins in.

“Because apparently our lead for the Knights was a bust, and so we have nothing better to do, so why not save a kid?” Rodimus continues.

“Uh, save a kid from what, exactly? And whose kid?” Drift asks.

“A fellow guardsman of Orion’s. Apparently, while she was under mind control, Zeta took her kid.”

“Oh - oh, okay, I’m in, where do we start?” Drift asks.

“Do you remember what we found in Zeta’s place? Do you remember the plans? Do you remember the secret - thingy? I have a hunch that what we’re looking for might be in there.”

“Well, no time like the present, we’ve all eaten, let’s go.”

Magnus finishes the last of her five platters. “Well, what are we waiting for?”

“Alright, let’s mosey,” Ratchet says.

--- Continue to Part 3!