| RolStoppable said: After reading this whole thing I had one very special thought regarding Samus' shortcomings she felt she had to make up for to Adam. It really doesn't make much (if any) sense to the player why her quitting the federation would be something she had to make up for in the first place, but consider that Sakamoto views himself as a father figure of Samus Aran. Adam Malkovich might be nothing more than a projection of Yoshio Sakamoto's own feelings regarding Samus Aran and the roles of men and women in Japan are pretty clear cut: Men are dominant while women have to obey. That explains why Samus would go through all of this even though Adam treats her like a lesser human being. But why did Sakamoto have to put so much shame on the character Samus Aran with this game? It might sound farfetched at first, but Samus Aran "betrayed" Sakamoto in real life. She was given into the hands of Retro Studios and the Metroid Prime Trilogy is held in higher regards than the at the same time developed Metroid games by Sakamoto (Fusion and Zero Mission on the GBA). Since then Sakamoto talked down the Prime games on several occasions, calling them non-canon and portraying Samus' character in a wrong way. With Other M he put her in her place and let her pay as Sakamoto is Adam in this game. Samus is not an independent woman, she needs a strong man at her side. As a woman, Samus has to obey a man, no matter how irrational it is to do so, because the man is dominant and his decisions are always right. Samus having to make up for for something she did to Adam is really her having to make up for for something she did to Sakamoto. She's just a virtual character, but judging from Sakamoto's interviews, he has a crazy obsession over her and nobody other than him should be allowed to lay hands on his baby. Or rather, his babe. |
To take this theory a bit further, would the scene where he shoots Samus in the back represent him giving her her comeuppance, and the scene where he dashes off to save her be him riding to the rescue with Other M? If so, what does it say about Other M that that scene is apparently portrayed as a heroic sacrifice? 
