Criticism of RTS Storytelling

To follow my older post about how the protoss had no reason to listen to Kerry, here’s some reasons why Kerry had no reason to help them either. Ignoring the nonsense logistics of how Kerry found Shakuras, got there in record time, compromised Raz before she arrived, and already knew about the relevance of the Khalis… Kerry had no reason to help the protoss refugees in the first place. What does she do? Tell them the location of Khalis. That’s all she does. What does she gain from this? Nothing. The protoss never actually trust her at any point. (I made the mistake of saying they “trusted” her before, but they really keep her at arm’s length. All Raz does is let her speak.) She burns any chance of building a bridge by publicly murdering Aldaris. The protoss benefit by activating the plot device temple. But Kerry doesn’t gain anything. The protoss don’t kill the second overmind for her. She doesn’t gain their trust. They only let her go free because of plot-induced stupidity, but even t...

What makes the zerg zerg is their " purity of essence ." This means they're driven to constantly pursue perfection, which they do by consuming all species in their path and using what they learn to create new engineered organisms and alter themselves to become ever more efficient. They're comparable to the Borg  or tyranids , who also seek perfection by consuming the species in their path. Where the writing screws up is that it adds Queen of Blades, who doesn't demonstrate purity of essence at all. In her original appearance in episode 2 she acts absolutely nothing like her original personality so you wouldn't know they were ever the same character if the script didn't tell you (not even an evil version of Kerry, QoB is a spoiled brat who speaks in faux Shakespeare ), she is whiny and argumentative, she is vain and spoiled and selfish (in direct contrast to the other zerg characters who always act calm and collected even under extreme stress), constantly...

In case you aren't familiar with the plot of the protoss campaign in Brood War, here is a script commentary . While the protoss are evacuating to Shakuras and repelling the zerg that somehow arrived before they did (I can't even pretend this timeline makes sense), QoB appears (having somehow traveled there from Char just in the nick of time like a character in the later crappier seasons of Game of Thrones ) and explains that she is free of zerg control and she can offer the protoss assistance. This is very obviously a ploy that no sane military commander would take remotely seriously. It's the middle of the apocalypse and suddenly a known enemy agent appears claiming to have the solution to their problems? This is just painfully transparent. All of the protoss hold the idiot ball and take her claims at face value, while only Aldaris points out that they have absolutely no reason to trust her and every reason not to. Naturally, nobody listens to him because, as if it wasn...