"Wine, Doctor Freeman? Or was it tequila this time?"
RATING: ****
Creator: Ross Scott (http://www.accursedfarms.com/)
Distributed by: Machinima.com (http://www.machinima.com/)
Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9FGnOp1PCs
Freeman's Mind is the brainchild of Ross Scott, its premise is very simple. Take footage from the popular first-person adventure game Half-Life and lay a sardonic and unprofessional voice over it, supposedly representing silent protagonist Gordon Freeman's inner thoughts and monologue. A fairly simple task, the series continues on a largely weekly pace while Scott's second project, Civil Protection, showing the comedy mishaps of two Combine law enforcement officers on occupied Earth, has a more languid development cycle.
In this episode Freeman finds himself awakening in a slowly closing trash compartment รก la the Death Star. Rather than recall the Black Ops soldiers who jumped him at the end of the previous episode, he brilliantly deduces that he has simply been on an alcoholic bender. What follows is a loose and lazy meandering through Freeman's previous misdemeanours, he suffers from amnesia leading him to forget the alien invasion he is caught up in (he blissfully comments on a lunging headcrab: "I should start watching National Geographic again..."). Another fine episode in the long running series, anyone who enjoys the cynical Charlie Brown-esque nature of Freeman's reactions will be in for a treat.
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