I recognize I’m not saying anything new here, but man, they cranked up the “homoerotic” on the homoerotic bullying for Portal 2. Never mind that GlaDOS is so desperate for attention that she sets up elaborate multi-stage jokes complete with dramatic lighting and confetti, just to earn an eye-roll from the protagonist; never mind that the whole time she’s bitchily gussying herself/her half-rotten and decaying post-apocalyptic facility up so she and the protagonist can “test.”
Even the things that are ostensibly mean and hateful, they’re so gay. She makes all these cracks about the protagonist’s weight, saying the jumpsuit looks stupid on her, busting on her about her bone structure—but when the gibes come so fast one after another, it just seems like damn, girl, you think about the protagonist’s body A LOT, huh?
And then, at the end, she writes the protagonist an aria. Be so serious.
Cannot emphasize enough that the leitmotif for Cara Mia Addio is all over the place, very early in the game. She’s humming it before she even knows that she’ll ever perform it. Be so fucking serious!!!
