Who Gives a Shit About the Oddworld Quintology?

[Nate]

I think it's a series of 5. Just like how a trilogy is a series of 3.

Actually, it's just a made-up word. The real word is 'pentalogy'.

[Kyle]

This interview was what really made me care about it.

[Holy Sock]

If I recall correctly there was a really interesting, and spot on, comment by Lorne somewhere on people with disabilities and how some of them refuse to get any of the life altering treatments or operations available to them.

I know some fans are turned off by what they consider to be his far-left, hippie dippie, conspiracy theories and opinions but it was comments on human conditions, like this and the one on inheritance mentioned in the link above, that really got me more interested in what Lorne has been trying to say with Oddworld - beyond the more superficial draw its world and characters had on me when I first got into the series.

[Kyle]

That quote's from the link I posted, actually.

I’ve known people with hearing impediments, vision impediments, physical challenges in one form or another. What has interested me on a human, cosmic level was when solutions come and someone says ‘You’re colour blind? We can fix that now!’ and the person says ‘You know what? I don’t want it fixed.’ I’ve witnessed that people hang on to their oddities or uniqueness even though the don’t always logically understand. In Abe’s case, in time he will come to embrace and get more of an understanding so when those stitches come out it’s going to be one pretty karmic experience.

[Holy Sock]

Ah, thanks. I just Ctrl+F'd "disabilities" and didn't really want to trawl through it all at such a late hour.