Mike321 said:
Last reply because you clearly don't get my point on Dane and Adam. Both Samus and the federation cooperate together to Invade and take down the pirates homeworld (joint mission by your definition) that alone is MORE cooperation on a BIGGER scale and FAR MORE IMPORTANT that the cooperation Samus had with Adam and crew (which was none because as I said Adam and company are COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT). So even if you don't want to recognize the whole prime 3 game as a joint mission, you can't deny that the invasion to the pirate homeworld (not just samus protecting the troops) is a joint mission, as both the federation and samus fight together to take them down, and that mission alone is more important than whatever interaction you think Samus had with Adam and the others because they don't help her at all. Take Adam and the others and you know what happens? Samus finishes the mission faster. Take Dane and the federation and you know what happens? Samus has a harder time taking down the space pirates (not saying is impossible because is Samus and she can do anything). |
I get your point on Dane and Adam, the problem is that, for some reason or another, the definition of a joint mission simply isn't connecting with you on some level.
Let me put it as clearly as I can. For something to be a joint mission, the two sides have to be doing essentially the same thing. The assault on the Pirate Homeworld does not count because Samus isn't ever shooting Space Pirates with any Marines (with the exception of when she's babysitting the bomb troopers). After the babysitting stuff is done, Samus (once again) goes off on her own to do something entirely seperate (in this case, blow up the Leviathan) while the Federation handles the actual fighting the Space Pirates.
To put it simply; the Federation is fighting the Pirates on the ground, Samus is fighting Ridley and blowing up the Leviathan. Two entirely seperate tasks. If Samus had, for instane, joined up with some Federation platoon and the entire team had taken on Ridley, then that would be an entirely different story. But Samus goes off on her own to do something else entirely different while the actual main battle takes place elsewhere.
And, yes, take away Dane and Samus would have a harder time, sure. One side making things easier for the other doesn't equate to a joint mission, however. I'd have a really hard time getting to school were it not for people paving roads, but that doesn't mean I'm in a joint mission with the Department of Infrastructure.
Perhaps the biggest point in all of this, though, even IF that qualifies as a joint mission, I still see no reason to suddenly dismiss the whole Prime series as non-canon when there are far simpler explanations for a single line of dialogue. Samus may not have considered such a small portion of her task to be a joint mission. Or she may simply have not been thinking. Or she may have been thinking of a joint mission in the context of following a more rigid structure like she had back in the Federation. There are far more simpler and much easier explanations than jumping to the conclusion that that one line of dialogue was intended to undermine the entire Prime series.