Following on from Todd Alcott’s analysis of the Venture Brothers, Matt Colville shares some interesting views on a correlation between the Venture Brothers and Portal 2 as well as “discovery” game play.
Jonas Venture and the original Team Venture occupy the exact same time period as Aperture Science’s heyday. That’s not a coincidence. Valve could have given Aperture Science any number of backstories, but they deliberately set it in the 1960s. Cave Johnson and Jonas Venture are exact contemporaries. Cave Johnson is the Portalverse’s version of Jonas Venture. They’re the same character. Why use that era?
Because it seems so much more interesting to us than the present or, indeed, the future. That generation went and fought WWII, literally saved the world, invented the Atomic Age, and then went to the Moon. They dreamed ridiculously big dreams, the biggest in history, and then went and did them, it appears, effortlessly. We percieve no gap between their reach and their grasp. The Baby Boomers, their kids, had big dreams too. They were mostly artistic, the music and movies of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Both Todd and Matt offer some interesting insights that are definitely worth checking out, especially if you’re fans of Portal 2 and/or the Venture Brothers.
