Booker

* See also Comstock
* See also Elizabeth
* See also Infinite BS and Burial At Sea
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Character BS Booker : ( Think of 'Han Solo' as a Burnt-out Meth Addict ) :
Booker is supposed to now be a Circus Acrobat ( as well as a Injun Murderer and Thug ) ??? Fancy warp maneuvers like that are kinda unlikely after his long career as a drunkard - Don'tcha think ????
If they had made Booker the wornout drunkard he actually was, stumbling about, muttering crazily to himself - Oops he's now not exactly 'the Hero' wanted to save 'the Princess'. ( How many universes did the Luteces have to search through to find ones that weren't Completely Useless ??? )
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So Booker is a Burned out Rummy ??? :
Realistically not too appetizing ( missing teeth, scars/discolorations, raggedy clothing, physical tremors/shakes, bloodshot eyes, premature aging, mind lapses ... IF he was what they say he is. ). Cartoon Cutout Booker is just as much 'reality' as there is in the REST of the game ( as in 'damned little of it' ).
But then, being such a 'shut in', Elizabeth shouldn't know the difference, Hello ? Yes ? "My, what an amazing smell ..." ( "Black Adder"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder humor )
Very interesting, the characters that Ken Levine has saddled the Players with in his games - Homicidal Maniacs ( 'with a heart' ), Thugs, Detestable human or weird mutant thing ( Jack and Delta, Sigma ). Then add to that becoming ADAM-addled/crazed by a rather fast/heavy overuse of fairly strong ADAM products.
Elizabeth decides after Comstock is dead that Killing Booker is 'the answer', even though there are infinite more universes existing that all the terrible things ALSO continue to play out in.
But then later, BaSx Elizabeth becomes an uncaring vengeance-seeker, ignoring the future deaths of thousands ( she causes/enables ) while seeking her revenge ( or whatever ) she deludedly thinks she wants.
But its OK, the target opponents are only just things like Policemen, Citizens of a Floating Racism Cliche, Unfortunate Children who get in the way, Mentally-Ill inmates, Splicers, etc ...
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Expeditions into the Interwebz :
Term (mention seen somewhere) "1870s Doomguy Booker Dewitt" ( apparently recognizing the 2-dimension role for this character and game - If it Moves, Shoot it ... Even if they got the era wrong ). 
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AWOL ( Absent Without Leave )
It is NOT so easy to get OUT of the US Army. With that WAY TOO compressed gamestory timeline ( "Wounded Knee" end of 1890, and Columbia is Flying by middle 1893 ... ), Booker would still have MANY years more he would have to stay in the Army ( typical Enlistment was for 8 years ). 
So was Comstock AWOL ? A deserter ? Did he HAVE to change his name because the US Government (Army) were after him (at least until he 'aged') ?
And Booker stayed in ? Til 1898 ??? AWOL in service record would likely be something the Pinkertons would check for their employees. If earlier, what reasons would be likely ?? I don't think the writers even thought about such things. Booker has sergeant stripe on his office wall ( but that's another one of those unlikely things ). Did booker get a "Section 8"Section 8 was a WW2 term and previously there was "administrative discharge without honor" and the "unclassified" discharge. ( insanity/mentally-unfit ) discharge ??
I don't recall the writers naming any REAL (historic) "strike breaking" events that Booker took part in while employed by the Pinkertons.
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It Is All So Problematic :
* So Booker was a soldier at 16 ? A Soldier ? That's unlikely.America's Peace Time Army - hard to get into - limited openings, and they had the pick of experience men Teenage Booker was more likely a Muleskinner's assistant ( SORRY, NOT an Actual Soldier, though he might have taken part in the atrocities ).
* Lil Booker got his jollies cutting up dead 'Injuns' did he ? Creepy. ( This is the detestable character you made US play, Levine ... ) Apparently, even the other soldiers saw something weird in it.
* Lookin thru 'Tears' ( doin' prophesy ) you can see (infinite) alternate universes - Like WITHOUT it correlating AT ALL to your own universe, No ? ( Such 'views' irrelevant for any effective 'prophesy' activity ). So how can you even be sure you are seeing anything usable ? Are you even ABLE to profit from anything you do see ?
* How do you build up this Preachin 'PROPHET' reputation UNTIL you have a chance for your 'Prophesies' to come true to PROVE you are a 'prophet' ? Remember Comstock does this transformation ALL in 3 yearsa fantastically narrow ( as in COMPLETELY ABSURD ) timeframe/timeline for ALL the events they lay out to fit their cherry-picked history - Not much time there, Levine, for your game's story. THERE'S Lots of competition in the 'Preacher' business, and rural folks don't have ALOT of CA$H to just hand them. 
* Comstock's strange Cultish idol-worshiping Jesus-lacking religion WOULD NOT appeal to the vast majority of mainstream Christians (( Levine said he didn't know much about religion, and this kind of story crap proves it. )) Raising money in tent revivals is hard enough for legit experienced traveling preachers.
* Washington was full of very clever Politicians - 'Old Hands' who are not gonna let the little Tax Money available to them ( far less than now ) and already earmarked for THEIR vote-procuring projects go to some crackpot newbie's cockamamie project ( Which, BTW, WOULD cost millions of THOSE TIMES dollars ).
* Prototyping Making Shit Float = Money -> Develop -> Demonstrate ( NOT the other way around ). That's a laboratory demo. Making the Real Thing from it brings INFINITE problems/difficulties/complications ( bureaucrats, cost overruns, graft, delays, disastrous accidents, multitudes of little failures, missing materials/tools/knowhow, graft/wastage, more delays, recriminations and political maneuverings, 'politiking', people bailing on the project ). It is hard enough doing a big project with technologies which have been well-understood for decades.
* A Faux-Christian Fundamentalist (?) Reactionary ( Injun Murdering ) 'preacher', rubbing shoulders ( getting pal'ly ) with a Woman 'Scientist ... Yeah Riiiiiight ... ( My, the tongues would wag ... )
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Army Cavalry at age 16 was bad enough, but sorry, NO --- no promotion to Sergeant for slaughtering/massacring some half-dead Indians ( nor his staying in the US Army long enough to get it some other way - Wounded Knee Massacre was Dec 1890 ... )
TOO MUCH CRAP PACKED INTO TOO SMALL A TIMEFRAME LEVINE ( YOUR FAUX-SCIENCE UNIVERSE IS BULLSHIT FANTASY WHICH CAN'T EVEN STICK TO A PLAUSIBLE SCHEDULE ). 
Nuf said.
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Sandercohenart3232323.jpg|At least Booker didn't say : "Hmm, Reminds me of an Indian Child I once scalped ..."
HisDesk.jpg|Booker strangely keeps coming back to life when killed. He revisits his office from decades before with the sergeant stripes he never earned up on the wall.
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We Should Have (in BaSx) Heard Booker Say :
 "Whatever Floats your Zeppelin ..." 
( But not point out, or ram the Player's face into it, how clever it is to have him say it - IT being all anachronistic/strange if said in Rapture, etc etc etc ... ).
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"THIS Reminds me of an Indian I once Scalped ..."
"Hooo-Wheee, Did you see how that one's head exploded ?!?!?!"
"Pull my Finger ..."
"Why do you keep throwing shit at me ? "
"Damn, It is like a crazy drunk person designed this place."
"Why the hell didn't we just go to Paris ?!?!"
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Only some Child Delinquents would 'look up to' what Booker Dewitt was : a Down-and-Out Gambling-addicted Drunken Thug - a pariah to normal society. Contrary to what their Story says : He is a hired kidnapper which the gamemakers make him out as somekind of disney-esque hero.
But then, promotional pictures of an aged broken-down bum next to disney princess Elizabeth would NOT sell the game - now would it ?
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A Load of Bullshit is Booker/Comstocks Army Rank - "I CALL SHENNANIGANS !!" :
Booker allegedly held the rank of 'Corporal', and if you can believe the display seen in his office : a 7th Cavalry displaying rank of "Staff Sergeant", and including two Medals of Honor. That rank is an anachronism. The U.S. Army did NOT create the rank of 'Staff Sergeant' until after the First World War. Also in 1890, NCO chevrons were worn point down, not point up, as seen in the display - The Army only settled-on point up chevrons in 1902 ( long after he was supposedly in the army ).
Isn't Booker a bit young to rise so fast ??? HE was supposedly 16 when he started, and left when around 18 (( With the dates given between 'Wounded Knee' and the 1893 Exposition. Allegedly with the remaining year (1893) to hobnob/deal with Congressmen and Senators ... BUT that is another VERY bad HACK Fantasy story detail - unrealistic timespans )). Getting to 'Corporal' that fast is unlikely enough -- and THEN to 'Sergeant' ??? -- THAT IS Really, Really unlikely. This was not the American Civil War, when men could advance quickly because of mass casualties and recognized battle merit. Such positions opened up infrequently in the Peacetime Army, with much more experienced men waiting very long times for promotion. (( SO, it is just a Load of shamefully ignorant game writer Bullcrap, unworthy of a BioShock game )). 
There also might be an issue with his suddenly leaving his Enlistment in the Army. With usual multi-year terms, if you suddenly left before your enlistment was up it was called 'Desertion' - a very serious crime. 
The "Congressional Medal of Honor" was not what we consider it today. Example - in the American Civil War every man in an ENTIRE UNIT was awarded one for simply reenlisting. At the time of Wounded Knee, they were still being handed out by the politicians like candy. Such abuses eventually led to major reforms in how 'CMH' were awarded. So, the game mention might give ignorant Players the wrong idea - Something that soldiers then would laugh derisively at if displayed in pride.
Maybe, this ALL was really just a CON-MAN story that Comstock used to pretend he was 'more than he was' ? Except didn't Comstock name himself an officer ??? Some (Real) Reporter WOULD HAVE gone and found these discrepancies in Government records as soon as Comstock became famous enough to be 'news'. ( If not also to discover his actual age ? ) Falsifying war records was something even MORE looked down upon than now. With such a scandal, Comstock might then have been 'Run out of Washington on a Rail' after being 'Tarred and Feathered' for such a misdeed ( or be further ignored by all the politicians who would not want to be associated with such a Fraud ). 
That's the part that Levine&Co falling down on SO MUCH in these stories ( Such Trashy story logic is also true for the previous game's writers ignoring a Free Press which WOULD HAVE exposed Fontaine's crimes and the poisonous effects of ADAM in BS1, which would easily derail so much of the story pretexts ). 
(( It is either sloppy carelessness or pure ignorance ( a different kind of carelessness in proper story writing ). ))
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Its all About "Drowning" ???? - ANOTHER Levine Phobia ? : 
Baptism a bit like 'Drowning ' ???
Drowned again to Enter Columbia ? Drowned at the End, too. AND Drowned in Blood murdering people wholesale. (( I Imagine the Great Storytellers of history vomit in their graves at all this. ))
"The Seed of the Prophet shall sit the throne, and drown in flame the mountains of man!"
More Drowning !!! IS Levine projecting something here ( kinda like his obsession with Lobotomies ?? )
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So Booker Was Supposed to Be a Detective ? :
So he didn't see/notice/suss out something odd about the Luteces and their 'Deal' ?
Again the soooo trusting Player ( with little choice ) is 'led by the nose' through the plot.
Comstock and Booker exist in the same Universe (dimension), so shouldn't there have been some 'memories' that Booker might have acted upon ( like enough to try to shoot the Luteces in the face for being the root cause of ALL of this sad story ??? )
Sam Spade would have took care of this whole mess proper-like.
That Sky-Hook thing has magical Quantumz technology in it, so shouldn't it serve as a 'god' killing weapon Like Booker killing Elizabeth with it as she is about to destroy the world ...? Scene we might want to see : the Luteces being treated to the 'big hook' treatment, as so many unfortunate Columbia inhabitants got from Booker ? ( Sounds like an amusing mini-game for the MMORPG - "Lutece Revenge" ).
Elizabeth never thought of the same thing either - but then wouldn't SHE cease to exist if the Luteces were done away with before they started this whole mess ? Selfish much ? ( Hmm, IF there were infinite Booker Universes, THEN shouldn't we have seen a Male Elizabeth Equivalent at the Drowning Scene ??? )
BTW, what is a 'Private Investigator' doing living/with office right in the High-Rent district of Rapture (in BaSx) ? If he made alot of money to afford that, then shouldn't he dress better, or have a snazzier office ( and at least a secretary as per the cliches ) ? In the game, they coulda had you walk a bit further to 'show off' a 'not so pretty' ( more pedestrian -- the guy running the 'toilet scrubbing' machine ) bits of Rapture. At least show the 'cheap dive' bar where Booker soaks up his alcohol, or how he keeps having to buy his ADAM to keep his 'trick thumb' flame working.
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The Luteces Decided Booker DeWitt was the one ...
Their CatsPawCatspaw : https://www.thefreedictionary.com/catspaw ???
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Are there now more Talley Marks on the Luteces lil chalk tablet now ???
Is it the Same Booker, or just another of the Infinite Alternates.
Booker's nose should be pouring blood constantly with all the dyin HE does.
Shouldn't HE be some Quantum God Now - bein in so many universes ???
Don't Complain at Me - Its the Gamewriters Weird Logic I'm just Regurgitating Here. 
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