Assassin's Creed 3 Cutscenes Part 8
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It's always been argued in fantasies and stories about the idea of free will. Should we the people have free will? Free will is great, yes, but it also leads to chaos. Take that free will away from us and there's order, yes, but are we truly living? Haytham is very complex given his background and experience. He does truly want to elevate the people, and he gives a lot of good points. It's true that Washington had a very rough military career, nearly always retreated, and had to surrender twice I believe. And it would make sense that Haytham did tell Charles and the others to stand down with the village, he already went there and couldn't do anything, so it would be reasonable to stop going there. Haytham is an asshole, but damn it do I love and hate him. He's essentially Shaun, a right prick but can't help but to make me laugh. You can see the contrast with Connor and Haytham here. Connor always gives men a choice, he let's them live after they give information. Whereas Haytham does not, he gets the information and kills them. And the way he kills them, backstabs.
Jason Rogue
2025-03-03 20:38:21 +0000 UTCAC3 does a really good job of showcasing the Templars as actual rivals to the Assassins. In the Ezio games, the Templars were essentially mustache-twirling supervillains (not a criticism btw) who wanted power, and then Cesare's rule amounted to a coup of the Order where he just wanted power for himself. The Byzantine Templars were lackluster, so for 3 games we had Templars who are either straight up villains or just bodies to kill. In AC1 we had good bad and everything in between with the Templars. They all had good points and ideals, which worked really well with the theme of skepticism and free thinking in AC1. It almost disdained both the Templars and Assassins as false dichotomies. AC3 highlights the similarities of the Templars and the Assassins not to say that they're hypocrites but almost to say that it's tragic. Connor and Haytham being father and son portray this really well. They both want to save people and fight for peace. The problem is peace = freedom for Connor and peace = order for Haytham. Ironically, neither of them could catch Church without the other, so maybe peace can't exist without balance. The tragedy of the Assassins and Templars in this game is that they're both right, which means only one of them can exist - but at the cost of the people in between.
Jesus Santos
2025-03-03 20:27:24 +0000 UTCLove the insights here on Haythem and the additional analysis you all are providing!
Bethany and Ken
2025-03-03 19:54:27 +0000 UTCfor the conversation at the end haytham is mostly in the right objectively speaking because the privileged men and "cowards" he's talking about is the founding fathers making the declaration of independence and representing the colonists. He mentions it was them who chose washington not the common man when connor mentions charles leer and that while the templars being in and establishing order and control with them leading the nation is parallel to the founding fathers unlike them he's not dressing it up as the people believe. He understands a few elite would have all the power if the templars win but they'd be honest about it vs the colonies acting like everyone has a say. remember at the end of the day connor is a native american and has no idea of the international and local politics at play and at the moment in my opinion is too trusting of the founding fathers and washington(we all know what happens in the end)
gray star
2025-03-03 19:50:41 +0000 UTC13:40 haytham wanted to kill that guard for that tested fruit comment. Thats all ill say for now
grimmjow
2025-03-03 19:36:11 +0000 UTCThe whole thing with haythem and the unessasary killing he was doing mirrors Altair in AC1 when he got info about his Templar targets he would kill the person he go info from because he says in his words. Enemy: will you let me go? Altair: why so you can go warm your Templar brothers that I'm coming for them? I don't think so. Assassinated. So it's kinda yeah he was doing a bit much that that's just his Assassin training in full effect.
Jaroku Chronicles
2025-03-03 18:53:45 +0000 UTCLove the conversation at the end as always
Knight Spearhead
2025-03-03 18:40:59 +0000 UTC
