So:
my theory is that the big alien thingy that breen was talking to wants to take over earth but needs a host body to do it. Now, in hl1 the resonance cascade was arranged by breen so that the big alien guy (b.a.g) could start his invasion and also maybe they could find a body strong enough to handle hosting the b.a.g. If you think about it headcrabs need a host body so this might be a big headcraby thing. So gordon shows up as this viable candidate for teh host body ( wether it be he's naturally gifted or the resonance cascade he was in somehow made him superman ).
Here is where it splits into seperate paths and where it could go either way:
Path 1
This could be why he ends up in xen and the end of hl1. Plus the big bad guy was a baby, could be a hint towards re-birth of the b.a.g in gordon. But they get defeated. Then for some reason or other the gman (who's an emmissary of teh b.a.g) gains gordons services and wishes to test gordon out to see if he really is tough enough for the b.a.g so they put him through the events in hl2 and once again he wins proving he is good enough and thats where it ends for now.
Path 2
Gordon goes renegade and defeats the ninilanth and then the gman (who works for a party against the b.a.g) gets gordon so they can use him to fight against them and they only risk bringing him out when he's needed (hl2).
Either of these could be possible and show that hl2 was a test to see if he was worthy of being a hero or being a possible host body for the b.a.g. It would explain why we find out very little as he's just being tested and watched from afar by some higher power. Other things to show the incidents are tests are how the gman shows up in various to check whether gordons on the right path and is performing well and when you die the gameover screen is like a scientific test (yeah it could be because gordons a scientist but it could have a different meaning, if the scientist himself was involved in one huge test it would be a good ironic ending for the series).
Also why did gman take gordon but not barney? they both survived black mesa and did a fair bit of arse kicking on the way.Maybe because he's deemed barney unsuitable as he doesn't have gordons strength and possibly because gordon got pumped up in the resonance cascade.
Anyway this is just me getting out my first thoughts after hl2 ended. It's unstructured and needs some work. If anyone likes this and has anything they've noticed to add then please do.
OR
Path 3
Gordon Freeman is the new doctor who and he just goes from time to time solving humanities problems without a real general story arc.
Here is where it splits into seperate paths and where it could go either way:
Path 1
This could be why he ends up in xen and the end of hl1. Plus the big bad guy was a baby, could be a hint towards re-birth of the b.a.g in gordon. But they get defeated. Then for some reason or other the gman (who's an emmissary of teh b.a.g) gains gordons services and wishes to test gordon out to see if he really is tough enough for the b.a.g so they put him through the events in hl2 and once again he wins proving he is good enough and thats where it ends for now.
Path 2
Gordon goes renegade and defeats the ninilanth and then the gman (who works for a party against the b.a.g) gets gordon so they can use him to fight against them and they only risk bringing him out when he's needed (hl2).
Either of these could be possible and show that hl2 was a test to see if he was worthy of being a hero or being a possible host body for the b.a.g. It would explain why we find out very little as he's just being tested and watched from afar by some higher power. Other things to show the incidents are tests are how the gman shows up in various to check whether gordons on the right path and is performing well and when you die the gameover screen is like a scientific test (yeah it could be because gordons a scientist but it could have a different meaning, if the scientist himself was involved in one huge test it would be a good ironic ending for the series).
Also why did gman take gordon but not barney? they both survived black mesa and did a fair bit of arse kicking on the way.Maybe because he's deemed barney unsuitable as he doesn't have gordons strength and possibly because gordon got pumped up in the resonance cascade.
Anyway this is just me getting out my first thoughts after hl2 ended. It's unstructured and needs some work. If anyone likes this and has anything they've noticed to add then please do.
OR
Path 3
Gordon Freeman is the new doctor who and he just goes from time to time solving humanities problems without a real general story arc.
