The Blast

[Asknoone]

You don't like Mossman? I guess you never had a crush on your science teacher at school then. I like the learned type.

And I state logic, anyways. Logically, Alyx should be dead. But, anything can happen. But I'm right on the Combine Xen thing.

-Angry Lawyer

You keeping digging the hole. Deeper and deeper.

No, actually I can't say I did...

 

[Angry Lawyer]

The only hole I'm digging is that in which to bury the Combine-Xen connection theory in.

And...Mossman is hawt.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[Lahire149]

Ay personal belief is that the citadel got obliterated along with about 2/3 of city 17. And the g-man saves gordon...
aAyx isn't standing next to you when the G-man takes you to the tunnel at the end of the game; odds are that Alyx died.
This event probablly fueled the rebellion in other cities.

 

[DeusExMachina]

When you teleported out of Nova Prospekt as the teleporter was blowing up you got stuck in a slow time warp for a week, what if the explosion and the Citadel are in a slow time warp, you can slowly see the Citadel explosion getting larger throughout the game as it rips the Citadel to shreds, bits of shrapnel raining on down on the city, etc.

Would look sort of cool, and give that tense atmosphere as the explosions get worse and speed up the further through the game you get.

Wow, thats a great idea actually. The explosion going in slow motion while everything else is regular. I wouldn't mind seeing that.

 

[scarecrow1]

I think that when the Gman appears, right at the end of the game. Him walking over the ledge is not actually him walking over the ledge....i think that when the gman appears, you: gordon have already been teleported to the stasis area and what your looking at is like the holodeck on the enterprise, just a repersentation of the last thing you saw. The gman touching alyx could also signify his choice to keep her, if she was there physically or not is yet to be seen. I personally beleive that when the gamn touched her, she was there frozen alive, and when she disappeared from gordons view, she was teleoprted to another area. after the backround of the environment fades away, we see the blackest of black with the gman speaking to us(i reckon its an alien space craft or an interdimensional universe that exists in a place where there is not time, gman could have discoverd this place somwhere beyond our physical universe where everything remains still, time and age. or it is a weird space ship or another world(the door opening points to this conclusion). Personally i reckon that the scenes with the gman are ultimately surreal and awesome,there is that feeling that you have no idea what is happening, who is he? an alien from another universe? alternate reality? and it just drives me to find out where you really are(what is this stasis place?) I hope Hl3 will clarify all of this...but i want something spectacular...not an explanation that the stasis was just a hologrphic room on a lowly spaceship that gman flies around in...i want somthing bigger, grander and more climatic.

 

[Asknoone]

Ah again wrong. The piece of soot that Gman takes off Alyx is clearly visible and makes a slight noise when it hits the floor in the citadel. Also he steps out the door directly onto the platform containing Alyx and Gordon. By your suggestions and basis in science ( ** ) then the whole scenario is an illusion. From beggining to end.

Wong, i just checked - he walks on thin air

 

[Jintor]

Illusion!

There's floor there but GORDON can't see it :thumbs:

 

[Laivasse]

I can pretty easily accept the theory that GMan stops time *for Gordon only*. GMan doesn't need to have stopped time throughout the universe in order for the HL2 ending to make sense - all he needs to have done is knock Gordon back into whatever weird pocketplane he was in for the last 10 years. To Alyx, Gordon would have seemed to just disappear.

What I can't easily accept is that either Alyx or Gordon simply survive the explosion, because it's not that big. If the explosion wasn't going to be fatal, then why does GMan nab Gordon in the middle of it? If Alyx just survives, without any assistance, then Valve have just built up this big ending scene only to have it mean nothing.

They *could* have GMan rescue Alyx, but that completely changes my image of GMan.

What I could just about stomach is some weird sequence like the resonance cascade in HL1, where you both get teleported away while most of the destruction is going on, fannied around a bit, and then put back. But again, if that was going to happen, there was no point in GMan stopping the explosion for Gordon.

 

[T.H.C.138]

perhaps it was just something that caught the gman by surprise?

explosion+teleporter+dark matter+gman powers/tech=something screwy going on!

yes!just like the resonance cascade...but bigger and stranger!!

 

[GiaOmerta]

It's all a dream. At the end, Gordon wakes up and begins his first day at Black Mesa.
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About the GMan's entrance:

*BOOM*

*Time seems to be at a standstill. You can move, very slowly.*

Gordon (to self): Aww crap.

GMan: "Time Doctor Freeman. Is it really that time again?" *GMan approaches you and Alyx. (Black outline around him. Looks like a hologram. He probally is'nt even there.) He says something else. Voice seems echoed.

*Teleport sound, screen flashes.*

GMan says some other stuff. He is up in your face this time. I guess he teleported you somewhere. The GMan is clearly there. (Examine the difference in voice/echo to previous.)

*Seems like your getting sucked into something, FOV goes crazy. You teleport somewhere else. GMan says more bs and leaves you.*

So look at my timeline here.

1. BOOM
2. GMan's hologram appears. * (Notice difference in voice/echo)
3. GMan teleports you and Alyx else where. Takes dust off her shoulder. ** (Notice difference in voice/echo)
4. GMan teleports you somewhere else.
5. Another flash, more GMan bs and he leaves you.


PS. I'm a little tired, so be wary.

EDIT: Also! I conducted a test with my flashlight at the end of the game. At (2) on the timeline, the line only affected the enviroment (floor, wall, Alyx, ect)
At (3) It only affected the GMan. Which leads me to believe that at (3) the enviroment (Citadel) is being projected, similar to how the Gman was previous being projected in (2)

(All (2), (3)'s from above refer to time.)

 

[JimLad86]

I reckon you and Alyx will just wake up with the top of the Citadel burning, and the giant spire stopped just above you. At which point Alyx will exclaim "how the hell did we not get crushed or burned?", and Gordon will know it was the GMan's involvement.

 

[Edcrab]

And then the G-man will pop up and say, slightly apologetically, "I'm s-sorry, Mr. Freeman, I shouldn't have... taken you away, like that. It w-was force of habit, I th-thought that... detonation might have k-killed you, but I was wrong. I h-have put you b-back, now. Sorry. R-really sorry."

I still have faith in Valve. I'm sure they'll pull some fantastical story twist out of the Laidlaw bucket to explain why the G-man bothered doing what he did just to drop you back in the City later...

And is it Gman or G-man anyway? I keep alternating between them both, but in the actual HL credits he's referred to as "Gman"...

 

[Marx! II]

It seems worth considering that while Senor G is stopping the explosion and saying his piece, you can still walk around a bit. Faster than Alyx ought to fall, for whatever that's worth.

 

[Fliko]

The teleporter caused the explosion to be in a slow time warp, thus stopping the time of the explosion greatly, also, Gordon and Alyx may be in the slow time warp also, thus, making it easy for the combine to stop the explosion, and capture Gordon and Alyx. Just a theory. G-Man teleport in, you both are slowed, he is fine.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

It's all in the theory of relativity, if you ask me.

G-man didn't slow the universe down. He sped himself and Gordon up to the point that the real world appeared slow by comparison.
So he didn't stop the explosion. He outran it.

 

[Defpotec22]

When you teleported out of Nova Prospekt as the teleporter was blowing up you got stuck in a slow time warp for a week, what if the explosion and the Citadel are in a slow time warp, you can slowly see the Citadel explosion getting larger throughout the game as it rips the Citadel to shreds, bits of shrapnel raining on down on the city, etc.

Would look sort of cool, and give that tense atmosphere as the explosions get worse and speed up the further through the game you get.

i really really love this idea

 

[Naudian]

Mabeh the explosion gets sucked into itself, so gordon and alyx are only knocked off their feet...then the chain reaction stuff starts happening and slowly takes out the citadel as gordon and alyx escape

I like jandors idea more though...

 

[Lambada]

Cool idea, but unfortunately I think Alyx may have smoked her last cigar when the reactor went boom. (Correct me on this one, Valve may have released info that she is alive in aftermath.)
Too bad...

 

[Jintor]

I recon that the slow time warp because of the teleporter explosion probably works best. Except the slow time warp is only for breen, you see... but hot damn, the slow explosion would be super major cool...

And for anyone else that feels like testing: is the slow down time reaction from the second the teleporter blows, or before it goes bang, or after? Because whether it was Gman or the Teleporter affecting the time slow isn't quite right yet in my head.... maybe the teleporter -started- the slow time but gman just -nudged- it so it would stop...

(although seriously he probably just pulled you out after he brushed the lint of alyx's shoulder.)

 

[AzzMan]

It's all in the theory of relativity, if you ask me.

G-man didn't slow the universe down. He sped himself and Gordon up to the point that the real world appeared slow by comparison.
So he didn't stop the explosion. He outran it.

Exactly what I was thinking. Honestly I have no idea how everyone suddely gets the notion that the only thing that could have happened is that the Gman stopped the universe... :|

 

[Asknoone]

Cool idea, but unfortunately I think Alyx may have smoked her last cigar when the reactor went boom. (Correct me on this one, Valve may have released info that she is alive in aftermath.)
Too bad...

She is still alive. There are screens of her in PC GAMER article. The game basically revolves around her.