The content of the speech aside, Mitchell delivers the monologue without a single pause, as if he'd rehearsed it a thousand times before and just performed it to a stranger for no reason.

During an otherwise heartfelt conversation with Boris, during which Boris expresses disgust at being forced to work for the Combine, Mitchell tells him not to be disgusted, then suddenly goes into a confusing tirade about natural balance, how the humans could have enslaved the aliens but enslaved other humans instead, how humans couldn't care less about aliens, the dynamic between predator and prey, how the tables have turned against humans, then for some reason, jumps to warning Boris to enjoy his time while he can before humankind rises again and gets killed by the Combine along with him.

Finally, as if this wasn't enough, Nick calls Mitchell the captain shortly afterwards, making the whole conflict pointless and awkward.

For some reason, Roosevelt still manages to spew out his last words, now believing Nick's story, despite being blown in half: Even better, after the defense sequence is done, part of the ship suddenly explodes, and then Roosevelt's upper torso falls in front of the soldiers.Mitchell doesn't even bother to call Nick out on this statement, and Roosevelt proclaims his leadership anyways. Not only is this extremely contrived, and not only does it come out of nowhere, but it is also illogical and hypocritical, since Cue and Harvey were in charge of Nick and Adam too, therefore they might be just as cursed. Just before the final holdout sequence at the end of the first arc, Nick calls Mitchell cursed and warns Captain Roosevelt that everyone with rank higher than Mitchell's had been killed.It's like the kind of thing you'd see in Garry's Mod. The infamously bad train defense sequence already sets the bar low when it starts off because some random soldier's corpse with a minigun warps in out of nowhere to give the player a weapon they need to hold off Combine Gunships for the next ten minutes.You half-expect him to say 'Leeeeet's get riiiiiight into the neeeews!' or 'What is up, DramaAlert Nation?' after every line.

but the President is being played by none other than Keemstar, who doesn't put much, if any, emotional gravitas into his brief performance and just sounds like. Going by everyone's reactions, it's clearly meant to be a horrific, heart-breaking scene. The infamous scene where the President of the United States announces their surrender to the Combine.

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