Thrall

When did Blizzard decide that what their fantasy online game where you fight dragons, gods, demons and monsters really needed was more girly stuff?  This is a dreadful trend.  Just dreadful.

Fortunately, I play Horde and was therefore not subjected to the embarrassing display that Jaina made of herself in Halls of Reflection on a daily basis for roughly a year like the Alliance were.  As low as my opinion of anyone who chooses to play Alliance is, I don't think that forcing them to put up with this for that long was very kind at all.

In the same patch was the Deathbringer Saurfang event, where our very own hero, Varok Saurfang faced a heartwrenching moment in which the reanimated body of his dead son tried to kill him (Horde version) and where, once again, Jaina made a spectacle of herself (Alliance version).

And now... now we get this utterly dreadful quest chain which starts off epically with Thrall getting ripped to pieces and sent in bits to the Elemental Planes but quickly dissolves into a silly love story with Aggra chasing him around said planes and finding that each elemental plane represents a part of his soul (Doubt, Desire, Patience, Anger) and pulling him out of the various emotions with Love...  It sounds like the plot of a Barbie movie.  Except going into it you're expecting to fight monsters, not a surfeit of pink and soppy sentiments.

Suddenly, all of our heroes and leaders are being destroyed by Blizzard.  It started off insidiously, with Thrall looking more and more like an ineffectual twat as he drags Garrosh around with him in Northrend, helplessly standing by as he shatters the fragile peace between the Horde and the Alliance.  According to the books, Thrall doesn't even like the guy.  So why take him everywhere?  Especially when the mouthbreathing moron does his best to wreck everything you've spent the last 15 years building...

Next up was giving Jaina Proudmoore a complete and utter mental breakdown during Icecrown Citadel.  The same Jaina who ordered the death of her own father to protect the peace she was building with the Horde.  Suddenly she's in hysterics over having to kill a guy she went on a few dates with?  And over someone allowing a man to take his child's body home for burial?

Then Cata rolls around and suddenly Thrall puts this same mouthbreather in charge of the Horde while he's gone?!  And Sylvanas has booked a one-way ride on the Crazy Express, gone past Crazy Town, straight through Lunacyville, over Maniacal Mountains, through Barmy Bog and I think found a whole new area of sanity (Rational Reaches?  Lucid Lake?) and passed through that into Psycho Point.  Seems like that's only an overnight stop though.  There are definite signs that she's intending to continue her journey.  Future raid boss maybe?  Hell, we killed Illidan when he was barely in the foothills of Maniacal Mountains...