Meet the Medic

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Meet the Medic
Meet the Medic Titlecard
Video Info
Released: June 23, 2011
Run time: 4:09

Meet the Medic is the penultimate short in the Meet the Team series, featuring the Medic. It was released on Thursday, June 23rd, 2011, the final day of the Über Update.

The final few seconds of the film announce that Team Fortress 2 would be free-to-play forever.

Speculation

In March 2011, user "Political Gamer" visited Valve headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, and confirmed the production of Meet the Medic. [1]. They took a photograph of a poster at the Valve HQ, depicting the Medic posing alongside several flying doves.[2]

The comic Meet the Director, released alongside the Replay Update on May 5, 2011, featured a page which depicted the Administrator at her control panel, with a number of screenshots from Meet the Medic on the displays.

On June 8, 2011, a patch to Team Fortress 2 was released and included an update that placed several doves in various positions in Valve maps. The doves explode upon contact but do not cause players damage. On June 17, 2011, an additional patch was released which added a secondary dove model with animations. Later the same day, the page layout of the TF2 Official Blog was updated to feature three doves perched upon the title banner, which was covered by bird droppings. Each dove linked to three separate hidden images depicting a rundown hospital, an empty hospital waiting room, and a doctor's office.

Part of the rundown hospital seen in the first hidden image can be seen in the background of the Medic's page on the official site, fully modeled.

On June 20, 2011, Meet the Medic was confirmed by TF2 Official Blog, and its release was announced to coincide with the Über Update, to be released on June 23.[3] The doves that were perched on the site banner of the TF2 Official Blog were removed as part of the website redesign.

"Meet the Medic" Video Transcript

Gallery

Trivia

  • The hospital seen in one of the hidden images resembles the Pacific Medical Center in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, close to Valve headquarters.
  • A mysterious woman resembling Miss Pauling can be seen through the window at 0:56.
  • The fridge used in the video seems to be the very same used in Meet the Sandvich, as there is one Sandvich missing from the plate and a Red Shed beer bottle knocked over. As such, it is very possible that the point of view in Meet the Sandvich is taken from the BLU Spy's decapitated head.
  • At the start of the video, the Demoman has the Stickybomb Launcher in his lap. Later on, he has the Grenade Launcher in his lap. Shortly thereafter, it is the Stickybomb Launcher again.
  • At 1:03, the entire contents of the fridge can be viewed: 3 Hearts, A Sandvich, 2 Bottles of Red Beer, the BLU Spy's Head (alive), the Battery for his head, and the ashtray for his cigarette.
  • It is possible that several scenes and elements from the video are based or inspired by scenes from the 1985 film Re-Animator, from the similar music to the Spy's head kept inside of the freezer to the Medic's slight resemblance to the film's "protagonist" Herbert West
  • Throughout the Heavy's procedure, an X-Ray of his insides can be seen in the background. It appears he swallowed a missile. The missile is also seen in a large bucket near the Medic that was apparently removed earlier in the operation.
  • Despite the Medic using the Quick-Fix, he is able to make the Heavy invulnerable. This is explained on the fourth day of the Uber Update.
  • At 3:48, the Pyro can be seen reading a magazine, while playing with a lighter. The back of the magazine appears to be The Insult That Made a "Jarate Master" Out of Sniper.
  • At the end of the video, it is shown that Archimedes the pidgeon somehow ended up inside the Scout during the scouts heart transplant operation. For a short period before the Uber Update, doves would sometimes fly out of scouts after they were killed. The pidgeon being inside the scout at the end of the video is likely a reference to this.

Related merchandise

See also

References

  1. "Back from Valve" on Steam Users' Forums, Political Gamer, posted March 22, 2011. Accessed June 18, 2011.
  2. "Videogame.it Valve HQ Article posted April 1, 2011. Accessed June 20, 2011.
  3. "The Über Update, Day One", TF2 Team, TF2 Official Blog, posted June 20, 2011. Accessed June 21, 2011.