Originally posted by imamelia I like the script a lot, although just two things kind of bug me a little: first, the World 3 boss never really says much about herself or how she's involved in the whole thing. Why is she working for Norveg?
She doesn't go into explicit detail, but if we read between the lines, we can deduce that she's most likely an inhabitant of this land, yet deeply unsatisfied with the current state of affairs there--she explicitly refers to it as "sleepy" and "stagnant" (and by extension, inward-looking, out of touch with the rest of the world), and also refers to Norveg as "a force for progress", presumably believing that industrialization will help stir this country from its slumber and catapult it into the modern world. In short, her reasons are primarily political, and like many politcally minded but short-sighted individuals, is sure that all of her problems can be solved by adherence to a single program, the alleged panacea in this case taking the form of an industrial revolution.
Originally posted by imameliaSecond, I'm not sure what to do about this, but...if the Dreamer was exiled and cursed to sleep forever before Mario woke her up, what's to prevent that from just happening again as soon as she leaves the dream world, maybe trapping her in a place where she doesn't have the same level of control and is forced to experience nightmares forever?
The Dreamer has the exact same concern. Indeed, it's the primary reason why she views Mario's attempt to wake her up as a hostile attack:
Originally posted by The DreamerYou want to wake me up, flush me out of this place, back to my rigid, solid world, to have this whole deranged cycle of persecution and exile repeated over and over again. Why? What good does it even do you?
Fortunately, the shape people step in at the end and explain to her that if she simply attempts to move along with the flux and be changed along with it (as they do) rather than trying to forceably bend it into shape (which, in a conscious state, she can no longer do anyway), she would be able to continue to remain in the abstract world, and exist there in a far more harmonious (and presumably pleasant) way, at that. So in short, as things turn out, she never
has to go back to the normal world, but is instead allowed to live in a place which is probably better suited to her unique innate qualities than the considerably less-fitting universe she had the bad fortunate to be born into.