Thread:Bluerock/@comment-1672596-20190818095729/@comment-1672596-20190818160532

I'm pretty sure saying "the CIA thought she committed treason, and thus had her eliminated" wouldn't have distracted the focus from Big Boss/Zero, certainly would have avoided any confusion regarding the CIA having her assassinated due to paranoia over her overwhelming charisma, which by itself lacked any real context to treason (which, you know, was the official reason for having her killed). Would have summed up The Boss's part neatly especially if we were to ignore MPO (that's only a sentence or two long, three at most. Not like they have to speak several paragraphs on The Boss). Because last I checked, the primary bit about MGS3 was that the CIA had her eliminated due to her committing treason. Even Zero's conversation with Snake that indicated fear of charisma indicated that was more to prevent any following of her example due to morale issues as well as preventing top secret stuff from leaking out, meaning the charisma thing was more of an extension of her treason rather than the primary point.

And ask yourself this: Suppose you had just started with MGS4, or better yet, MPO. Suppose you've not only never played MGS3, but never even so much as even read a summary of that event, and then you came across that line of "She had an almost overwhelming charisma about her. The CIA feared this, so they had her eliminated." Would you have even assumed, just from that line alone, that treason was even a factor in The Boss's assassination? I know if I were in those shoes of someone who had absolutely no familiarity of what's going on, "treason" wouldn't have flashed through my mind for why they killed her due to what they said, and if anything it would have been more like the CIA being as paranoid as Stalin with his shooting lists. Even if it wasn't a direct reference to MPO, it sure as heck was a poor reference to MGS3 due to it not even alluding to treason as the official reason. Just one sentence stating she was believed to be a traitor would have sufficed well.