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Pelicans can't fly out to a city in the horizon, there needs to be dense buildings under them at all times, and they also need to make lots of roll motions. Miranda can't pose a thought without an aggressive scowl. A warthog can't be driving along a road, it has to ramp up onto it. A scarab can't enter by crushing a car, it has to crush a building and then crush a car. A pelican can't simply tumble out of control under pink AA fire, it has to suffer a big explosion in the process.
The Chief can't be hefted into the scene by a tentacle in a snap, he needs to get zig-zagged along the ground first. The Gravemind can't have simply pulled the Chief to his face, he needs to do a spin when the camera addresses him for the first time. The chief can't plop down on High Charity, he has to do a roll, and have a dramatic clanky-sound Needler-"cocking" moment.
Mercy can't struggle weakly against the infection form latched onto him, it has to cinematically flop its tentacles around his neck and he needs to flop about in struggle.
Also, I have to complain about the general framing and editing during the discussion with Gravemind. It's very impersonal in the new version, and what it focuses on makes no sense. It's especially baffling that the don't center around Arby at all during the "your prophets have promised you... or all will perish as they did before", which in the original showed Arby's train of thought throughout the monologue brilliantly; now the camera is focusing on the Chief for some reason, and rather than pausing in awe at the appropriate moment, Arby is just sort of twitching the whole time. Or when the Gravemind is saying "you will search one likely spot, and you will search another", in the original the Gravemind gives the semblance and general air of actually addressing the group as a team, whereas now he's just yanking them in one by one; he's so blunt, not even pretending that his next line will include a "this ring will make us brothers."
The way these scenes are staged and edited just doesn't seem that great. The rhythm and ideas present in the originals were sacrificed, and I'm not sure what for.