Hey everyone! Hope your year is off to an amazing start!
I'm currently working on a new video for Easter Eggs and Theories, and I've come across a fascinating idea: What if the stories in Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Redemption 1 are actually dramatized retellings written by Jack Marston in a book? Imagine if the events we experience in the games are Jack’s recollections or how he envisioned them, especially considering the many unlikely survival moments, strange random encounters, and bizarre side missions with odd requests. Could these elements be his way of weaving in influences from books he’s read?
If you think about it, the missions with Jack seem to play out relatively normally—no hordes of enemies or life-threatening scenarios for John or Arthur—but when Jack isn’t around, it’s like pure chaos. It almost feels like the missions without Jack are closer to how he really imagined things going down, adding more weight to the theory that these games are based on Jack’s interpretation.
Another interesting thing I noticed is that Arthur gets more screen time in RDR2, which might be because Jack was more attached to him. He even draws a picture for you if you give him a timble or a book (can’t remember which). But later, John takes center stage in the epilogue, probably because Jack grew closer to him during that time, more than he did during the earlier chapters.
And then there’s Arthur’s poetic death. Could that be because Jack never saw Arthur’s body, so he had to imagine a more dramatic, poetic end for him? Whereas John’s death, being more brutal, might reflect the fact that Jack witnessed it firsthand, so he didn’t need to imagine it—he knew exactly how it went down.
I’ll dive deeper into all of this in the video, but it’s definitely going to be a long one. Stay tuned, and stay safe out there!
Funny Redemption
Hey everyone! Hope your year is off to an amazing start!
I'm currently working on a new video for Easter Eggs and Theories, and I've come across a fascinating idea: What if the stories in Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Redemption 1 are actually dramatized retellings written by Jack Marston in a book? Imagine if the events we experience in the games are Jack’s recollections or how he envisioned them, especially considering the many unlikely survival moments, strange random encounters, and bizarre side missions with odd requests. Could these elements be his way of weaving in influences from books he’s read?
If you think about it, the missions with Jack seem to play out relatively normally—no hordes of enemies or life-threatening scenarios for John or Arthur—but when Jack isn’t around, it’s like pure chaos. It almost feels like the missions without Jack are closer to how he really imagined things going down, adding more weight to the theory that these games are based on Jack’s interpretation.
Another interesting thing I noticed is that Arthur gets more screen time in RDR2, which might be because Jack was more attached to him. He even draws a picture for you if you give him a timble or a book (can’t remember which). But later, John takes center stage in the epilogue, probably because Jack grew closer to him during that time, more than he did during the earlier chapters.
And then there’s Arthur’s poetic death. Could that be because Jack never saw Arthur’s body, so he had to imagine a more dramatic, poetic end for him? Whereas John’s death, being more brutal, might reflect the fact that Jack witnessed it firsthand, so he didn’t need to imagine it—he knew exactly how it went down.
I’ll dive deeper into all of this in the video, but it’s definitely going to be a long one. Stay tuned, and stay safe out there!
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