@leAntagonist He seemed to have a connection like he knew her, because as you could see there were hundreds of subjects ahead of her and any of them could have been the one to kill glados so he probably knew her and changed her to 1.
@UltraDrago2000 He selected her because he found her test appliance file, where it said something along the lines of "DO NOT TEST, subject shows extreme forms of tenacity and is extremely unsuitable for testing. She never gives up, ever". Which is why he chose her, since she would never give up.You can see her file in the last panel of the comic (27)
Ps the reason she was adopted was because cave thought it would get in the way of science, also if you read the comic rattan you will see he knew chell very well so he changed her to the next test subject because he knew his daughter could take out glados.
Ok to clear things up the most plausible story is: that cave and Caroline had a child (Chell) and cave forced a worker (ratman) to adopt her because on her potato projects readable version she says mr Johnson not dad because she never knew.
im a man, and this was a very touching song, especially after everything you went through in the game, it was amazing to hear it for the first time, but seeing the lyrics made me teer up a little, such a great ending to a great game.
@pyrix you're the moron, saying that your mother is a whore is too mainstream. It's a cliche. So I indirectly implicated that your mother's a whore by referring to her as your child's grandma, which, in the first place wasn't supposed to be taken literally. moron
I hope, i realy hope there will be an Portal 3 or something like a Story, a book, anything that keeps this story alive. It´s not like hmmm.... some Mw3 or Bf3, THIS is a really Heart - made Game...
cara bel, cara mia bella, mia bambina, oh chell, che ella stima, che ella stima oh cara mia, addio. mia bambina cara, si que la passi lontana, si, di lontana da scienza, a lontana, mia bambina, a mia bel. a mia cara, a mia bambina, mia bambina, oh cara mi
@jasongsxrful1000 nice dear, dear, my beautiful, my baby, oh Chell, she estimated, she estimated Oh my dear, good-bye. My dear girl, these are the steps away, yes, away from science, far away, my baby, my beautiful. my dear, my girl, my girl, oh dear me
what i dont understand is this: if chell was carolines daughter, her father would obviously be cave johnson. but if both cave and caroline were clearly white, why is it that chell is clearly some blend of black or hispanic?
@xXthecrazymeXx That is because(At least in my humble opinion) Chell isn't Carolines daughter, it's not possible because Cave had to be dead at least 20 years before bring your daughter to work day. And I doubt Chell, who's name is on one of the potato projects, was 20 at that age. Not to mention at that time both her parents would be dead if they had been Cave and Caroline, and her mom turned into a goddamn robot, I don't think anyone would have been willing to take her.
@LontanaDaScienza Chell was the daughter of someone who worked at Aperture. This is shown near the beginning of the game, with the room for "Bring your child to work day".
@LontanaDaScienza Plus, multiple times throughout both games, they say that Chell had been adopted. SO, unless another person at Aperture adopted her, then no, CHell can not be their daughter.
@WierdWordsWhat Not to utterly rape my own statement, but GLaDOS is the only one who says it (And Wheatley copying it later) isn't exactly reliable when it comes to telling the truth. Then again, she does like to press the matter, and I'm guessing she uses every possible thing she can find to piss Chell of, so maybe she is telling the truth.
@LontanaDaScienza Yes, because at that part, they were having some sort of truce. And, also, potatOS didn't have enough volts to be sarcastic, so she couldn't lie. And, with your first comment, then Caroline must have been pretty old when they took the picture, (if you found the creepy picture) because it was soon after that GLaDOS was created.
@WierdWordsWhat I'm not really sure what you mean with the last sentence, but I'm guessing you mean that GLaDOS was made a while after that picture, since the opposite isn't possible of course. But it's not specified when that picture is made, and GLaDOS was only made after Cave died. You can find an picture of an older looking Cave somewhere in the later parts of Aperture, so they lived for quite a bit longer, not to mention Caroline looks at least 40 in that photo
@LontanaDaScienza you assume of course that the origonal game is set in the 20XX whereas its actually about the time that that black mesa was over run. being 97? the age of chell would therefore be about ... hell if i know but 8 is my guess and after the neurotoxin release chell was already inside a deep sleep machine, otherwise stais meaning her actual age differs from time age. most calenders i found are 80's so i guess that caroline reall is her mother. born late in her life
@axom20 I heard it's confirmed Portal is set in 20XX, but that could very well be my mistake. You forget that Cave died before that incident, and since you don't age on Cryosleep you can assume Chell had to be an adult when she was put in stasis, and I doubt she was in her thirties when she made that potato project. Also, both Caroline and Cave were rather old when they died,even in their portrait together they look rather old, and no child is seen in the picture.
@LontanaDaScienza I thought Cave Johnson died in the late 1980s, and Bring Your Daughter to Work Day was on 8/5/1985. I don't think Chell is his daughter though.
Half life 3: use aperture science to destroy teh combine with crazy new weps and techs courtesy of C. Johnson's mistress' handywork from a base you know is still secret, Aperture, chell walked out and ther wuz no combine. So they go on a rampage, idk chell or not hl3 would still be awesome same combo different games might b weird. Chell is fighting in hl3 but like, not main char.
thoery city: Portal 3: glados admitted she liked the feeling of being caroline, and had testing withdrawl, and is a liar. Caroline is not deleted. Caroline is still alive, she writes you an opera to say goodbye thru turrets to not tip off glados? gordon freeman comes flying in on a crowbar and rescues chell, co-op mode he tells her he can reprogram glados to stop testing, and help in this new apocolyptic war on aliens. Epicness ensues. Victory cake.
i cried the first time i heard it.i was thinking about the way you first started out in portal not having a clue who GLaDOS even was to basicly being mother and daughter.so basicly thinking of all the things you went through since portal one through to portal two. if you watch the complete ending and think that thru the whole thing its pretty dang sad. ;,(
I didn't cry when I first saw it, no. However, when I read easter eggs and found out this was GLaDOS's message to Chell before deleteing Caroline (who is rumored to be her mother) and read the translation "my child" and heard it again yes. I cried. So so beautiful :')
@LontanaDaScienza it is glados singing from below ad the turrets are playing the background music, i made a copy of ur lyrics and printed them please e mail me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remeber I first saw the elevator open and saw those turrets sing... I cried my eyes out, laughing, though when the lead began to sing it did feel I had something stuck in my throath.
after everything... they dont hate you.... i cried when i sang along.... i knew the lyrics already... (im italian) but i never sang along until now... every time i hear this i just feel nice...
@MisterMelchiorre Well from what I've heard it could very well be 'Oh Ciel' apparantely meaning 'Oh heaven'
And I guess you're right but to be honest there is no official translation and I really tried to get the most accurate one possible but I don't speak spanish/italioan/venetian dialect sadly. I've actually seen peopel argue about what language it is so yeah... i'm left in the dark. Besides, I like "Oh Chell" alot. the idea that the turrets know her name is kind of beautiful.
@LontanaDaScienza@MisterMelchiorre I always felt the 'o cielo' and the 'oh chell' thing is supposed to be a fantastic play on words, so I think you're both right. <3
@MisterMelchiorre yes but you must understand that the woman who sang the words, she spoke fluent Italian. Valve just wrote the music, or found the music, or whatever, but it never had actual vocal parts to it. they asked this woman to do that job, so she came up with stuff on the spot. and came up with these lyrics. only when the song and the game were released, did valve even think about looking into the translation. when they learned what it meant, they liked how it wrapped things up.
@MisterMelchiorre well if thats true why would the lyrics be. dear beautiful my dear beautiful child oh god/oh heaven? if you watch the recording in the studio you can read her lips clearly say chell...and she really annuciated it well. it just makes more sense that she is saying my my beautiful child, oh chell. plus it goes with the theory that glados is either her mother or adoptive mother
i admit... i cryed... only once the large turret sang... i suppose this is a joke from valve.... *its not over till the fat lady sings* which if its true then ima be angry since i really want portal 3...
A lot of people are saying that Chell is the child of Cave and Caroline, but it makes much more sense if she were the adopted daughter. For one, Cave founded Aperture in 1944 (I'm going to assume he was at least 20-30 by that time), which means he would have been 62-72 by the time he died in 1986. Chell attended bring your daughter to work day in 1996. (This makes conception between Caroline and Cave very unlikely).
@117superdude but if she were born a year before her (probable) father's death, her father would have been 71 by the time of her conception... (unless I'm misinterpreting your suggestion). Plus, genetics-wise, it wouldn't make sense for her to be their daughter, since Chell has blue eyes and both Caroline and Cave have brown eyes. (as stated in the combine wiki)
@TheSebbyKitty That is perfectly true however my father has green eyes and I have brown eyes
Also we dont know if any of them ever used the relaxation chambers or indeed if they had been invented.
It would be possible for Chell to have been born in 1955 and kept in a relaxation chamber for some reason (Perhaps a disease of sorts?) and being awakened to her (Once again probable) Fathers slow death from old age and disease so that he could see her grow.The portal story is confusing.
@Luigifan876 It's alright. Just because you don't cry doesn't mean you are a bad person. I don't cry when I sing or hear music. It's when I can't sing or listen to it that I cry, lol. It's true.
@Luigifan876 I'm nervous as allhek right now though. I have to perfect it, and half the time I can't remember the tones of the last five lines, and I have to sing this as a going away song at my cousin's graduation party!
@SecretAgentCholo Yeah me too. I watched the ending for the first time with three friends and we were all laughing because we completed it but when I later rewatched it alone and sang along.. oh god the tears
Am I the only one who thinks that a Portal 2 opera with this at the end would actually be pretty good? In itallian, but instead of traditional opera music use portal 2's style of music.
Me and my friend, both from England, pronounce chell like shell, and came to the conclusion that it's just because they're American- in the same way that they pronounce Caroline as carolin.
@jrapcdaikari though that would make sense i think one of chells parents definately worked for aperture considering one of the childs experiments (the freak potato one) that you see in the game has written on it that it was by chell
My guess is, these are what Chell's mother REALLY said before she put her up for adoption... Showing that she still loved her.... I suppose Chell's mother also worked in Aperture Science, thus the Science thing.... then again, I maybe wrong....
@madisynyster go read some tips aboute portal on google and serch ALOT about the "ratt man" hes very important. OR serch "Portal 2 Lab rat comic" and read it for your selfe.
@drocsid I think it's pronounced "Oh Tjell" As in Rachell. I pronounced it Shell for along time because thats how it would be pronounced in my language.
@LontanaDaScienza This is the translation of Mia Cara: Dear beautiful, my darling my lovely baby, in between these tests I estimate my love. Fair well my darling girl. Why not walk far away, go far away from science? Dear my darling, my baby, my beautiful. My dear, my dear, my darling little girl, darling to me!
@drocsid in italian ciel means "heaven", if you want to call someone you love you can use that word. I English, Chell may sound the same as the italian ciel.
Man, so Caroline real was Chell's mom, eh? And that means that GLaDOS was Chell's mom too... and if you look at Chell's potato project from Bring your daughter to work day, from right before wheatley and chell kill GLaDOS... (and turn her into a potato) then Chell must have been in the facility, under the torture and attempted murder of her mother for YEARS, since she was a little girl... holy shit.
im in space.
whatsup8701 1 week ago
@leAntagonist He seemed to have a connection like he knew her, because as you could see there were hundreds of subjects ahead of her and any of them could have been the one to kill glados so he probably knew her and changed her to 1.
UltraDrago2000 1 week ago
@UltraDrago2000 He selected her because he found her test appliance file, where it said something along the lines of "DO NOT TEST, subject shows extreme forms of tenacity and is extremely unsuitable for testing. She never gives up, ever". Which is why he chose her, since she would never give up.You can see her file in the last panel of the comic (27)
LontanaDaScienza 1 week ago
So the Turrets didn't want her to go?
funny0anime0lover 2 weeks ago
@funny0anime0lover
no glados didnt want her to go :)
huggyshot 2 weeks ago
@huggyshot We all know that ~ XD
funny0anime0lover 2 weeks ago
@funny0anime0lover
i'm not that good at sarcasm :)
huggyshot 2 weeks ago
Your name means far from science
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
FireUltra1 3 weeks ago
i care about the beautifulness
MarioVsKoopas 3 weeks ago
I'm so doing this for the talent show :D
EmoSkittlezz 4 weeks ago
Ps the reason she was adopted was because cave thought it would get in the way of science, also if you read the comic rattan you will see he knew chell very well so he changed her to the next test subject because he knew his daughter could take out glados.
UltraDrago2000 4 weeks ago
@UltraDrago2000 are you sure we read the same comic? As far as im concerned, he just had a "hunch", and acted like he didnt even know her.
leAntagonist 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
Ok to clear things up the most plausible story is: that cave and Caroline had a child (Chell) and cave forced a worker (ratman) to adopt her because on her potato projects readable version she says mr Johnson not dad because she never knew.
UltraDrago2000 4 weeks ago
im a man, and this was a very touching song, especially after everything you went through in the game, it was amazing to hear it for the first time, but seeing the lyrics made me teer up a little, such a great ending to a great game.
xironstarx 1 month ago 3
thumbs up if you watching this and never played this game before
egitoso 1 month ago 3
Hi my name's Pyrix. I didn't cry at all. Thumbs up if you're not a bitch who cries. It's a lovely tune but come on :P
pyrix 1 month ago
@pyrix I cry but I;m not a bitch. plus, you're a whore. just like your child's grandma.
StealthBlade7 1 month ago
@StealthBlade7 I don't have kids, moron.
pyrix 1 month ago
@pyrix you can't into figure of speech, what are you, 13 years old?
LontanaDaScienza 1 month ago
@pyrix you're the moron, saying that your mother is a whore is too mainstream. It's a cliche. So I indirectly implicated that your mother's a whore by referring to her as your child's grandma, which, in the first place wasn't supposed to be taken literally. moron
StealthBlade7 1 month ago
i cried my eyes out xd
TigerKnightTerraria 2 months ago in playlist Song
Beautiful.
Thats all I can say, you know, sense I cried like a fucking bitch.
EmoSkittlezz 2 months ago 2
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PolishedMonocle 2 months ago
It´s an ending, it could´nt be better ;P
I hope, i realy hope there will be an Portal 3 or something like a Story, a book, anything that keeps this story alive. It´s not like hmmm.... some Mw3 or Bf3, THIS is a really Heart - made Game...
Greetz !
Gondol789 2 months ago
I get it your username means far from science.
ToastMaster623 2 months ago
Amazing Video and Song... still makes me sad
orkfan101 3 months ago in playlist Turret
I'm committing this song to memory. I don't care how long it takes.
Hawkfire360 3 months ago
My name is Pyrix, and I in fact did not cry my eyes out. I did enjoy the song though.
pyrix 3 months ago
che è stato epico, grazie per l'upload!
27mamajama 3 months ago
Shouldn't it really be "que la estima", as in "I hold you in esteem", and not "que lastima/that's too bad?
And also, it's bambina, not bamina, but surely that's just a typo?
shienarier 3 months ago
Shouldn't it really be "que la estima", as in "I hold you in esteem", and not "que lastima/that's too bad?
shienarier 3 months ago
I did cry the first time I heard this ^^'
27mamajama 3 months ago
cara bel, cara mia bella, mia bambina, oh chell, che ella stima, che ella stima oh cara mia, addio. mia bambina cara, si que la passi lontana, si, di lontana da scienza, a lontana, mia bambina, a mia bel. a mia cara, a mia bambina, mia bambina, oh cara mi
jasongsxrful1000 3 months ago
@jasongsxrful1000 nice dear, dear, my beautiful, my baby, oh Chell, she estimated, she estimated Oh my dear, good-bye. My dear girl, these are the steps away, yes, away from science, far away, my baby, my beautiful. my dear, my girl, my girl, oh dear me
jasongsxrful1000 3 months ago
@jasongsxrful1000 these lyrics make the most sense to me
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jasongsxrful1000 3 months ago
i admit i did cry the first time i heard and saw this song
kflan59 3 months ago
Your name is Italian for away from science, a quote from Cara mia - the turret opera BD
DrZirta 4 months ago
I'm not gonna lie, I got really teary the first time I heard this. Such a beautifully sad song.
xIKi11SwiTcHIx 4 months ago
i did not cry the first time when i found out he lyrics this made me ball my eyes out what i think is that glAdos really cared for chell
merlinsyoshi 4 months ago
I didn't cry when I first finished the game and listened to this.I Balled my eyes out then ate some choclate to feel better...
MooShoeFilms2 4 months ago
I didn't cry until I knew the English translations... TT^TT
ExtremeYaoiFanatic 4 months ago
this makes me think, maybe GLaDOS didn't delete caroline and programmed the turrets to do this, she still loves her little girl
thenewsilverskull190 5 months ago
I didnt cry, but i thought they were just making noises, but this is just beautiful, it was very sad.
ItzzEzra 5 months ago
the latin isnt right. que lastima = que la stima. Bella Bambina = Bella mia Bambina.
so much wrong with the latin lyrics.
xxshottycurbxx 5 months ago
"Why don´t you stay away from science?" xDDDDDDDDD
I can´t believe it.That "joke" sounds so emotive in the song... I love Portal.
Lleldrar 5 months ago
What language is the original in?
ultraisaac2 5 months ago
what i dont understand is this: if chell was carolines daughter, her father would obviously be cave johnson. but if both cave and caroline were clearly white, why is it that chell is clearly some blend of black or hispanic?
xXthecrazymeXx 6 months ago
@xXthecrazymeXx That is because(At least in my humble opinion) Chell isn't Carolines daughter, it's not possible because Cave had to be dead at least 20 years before bring your daughter to work day. And I doubt Chell, who's name is on one of the potato projects, was 20 at that age. Not to mention at that time both her parents would be dead if they had been Cave and Caroline, and her mom turned into a goddamn robot, I don't think anyone would have been willing to take her.
LontanaDaScienza 6 months ago 8
@LontanaDaScienza Chell was the daughter of someone who worked at Aperture. This is shown near the beginning of the game, with the room for "Bring your child to work day".
PkKumatora8 4 months ago
@LontanaDaScienza unless cave J is not the farther, in which case it all make perfect sense
Nobster777 3 months ago
@Nobster777 Caroline would still have to be around 50 when she was pregnant with Chell though.
LontanaDaScienza 3 months ago
@LontanaDaScienza why?
Nobster777 3 months ago
@LontanaDaScienza Plus, multiple times throughout both games, they say that Chell had been adopted. SO, unless another person at Aperture adopted her, then no, CHell can not be their daughter.
WierdWordsWhat 3 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@WierdWordsWhat Not to utterly rape my own statement, but GLaDOS is the only one who says it (And Wheatley copying it later) isn't exactly reliable when it comes to telling the truth. Then again, she does like to press the matter, and I'm guessing she uses every possible thing she can find to piss Chell of, so maybe she is telling the truth.
LontanaDaScienza 3 months ago
@LontanaDaScienza Yes, because at that part, they were having some sort of truce. And, also, potatOS didn't have enough volts to be sarcastic, so she couldn't lie. And, with your first comment, then Caroline must have been pretty old when they took the picture, (if you found the creepy picture) because it was soon after that GLaDOS was created.
WierdWordsWhat 3 months ago
@WierdWordsWhat I'm not really sure what you mean with the last sentence, but I'm guessing you mean that GLaDOS was made a while after that picture, since the opposite isn't possible of course. But it's not specified when that picture is made, and GLaDOS was only made after Cave died. You can find an picture of an older looking Cave somewhere in the later parts of Aperture, so they lived for quite a bit longer, not to mention Caroline looks at least 40 in that photo
LontanaDaScienza 3 months ago
@LontanaDaScienza Wasn't she left at aperture's orphan program?
ZeroXadvenTz 2 months ago
@LontanaDaScienza you assume of course that the origonal game is set in the 20XX whereas its actually about the time that that black mesa was over run. being 97? the age of chell would therefore be about ... hell if i know but 8 is my guess and after the neurotoxin release chell was already inside a deep sleep machine, otherwise stais meaning her actual age differs from time age. most calenders i found are 80's so i guess that caroline reall is her mother. born late in her life
axom20 2 months ago
@axom20 I heard it's confirmed Portal is set in 20XX, but that could very well be my mistake. You forget that Cave died before that incident, and since you don't age on Cryosleep you can assume Chell had to be an adult when she was put in stasis, and I doubt she was in her thirties when she made that potato project. Also, both Caroline and Cave were rather old when they died,even in their portrait together they look rather old, and no child is seen in the picture.
LontanaDaScienza 2 months ago
@LontanaDaScienza I thought Cave Johnson died in the late 1980s, and Bring Your Daughter to Work Day was on 8/5/1985. I don't think Chell is his daughter though.
PolishedMonocle 2 months ago
@LontanaDaScienza what if she was a frozen embryo?
ecarr100 2 weeks ago
Half life 3: use aperture science to destroy teh combine with crazy new weps and techs courtesy of C. Johnson's mistress' handywork from a base you know is still secret, Aperture, chell walked out and ther wuz no combine. So they go on a rampage, idk chell or not hl3 would still be awesome same combo different games might b weird. Chell is fighting in hl3 but like, not main char.
MoneybagsProductionz 6 months ago
thoery city: Portal 3: glados admitted she liked the feeling of being caroline, and had testing withdrawl, and is a liar. Caroline is not deleted. Caroline is still alive, she writes you an opera to say goodbye thru turrets to not tip off glados? gordon freeman comes flying in on a crowbar and rescues chell, co-op mode he tells her he can reprogram glados to stop testing, and help in this new apocolyptic war on aliens. Epicness ensues. Victory cake.
MoneybagsProductionz 6 months ago
i cried the first time i heard it.i was thinking about the way you first started out in portal not having a clue who GLaDOS even was to basicly being mother and daughter.so basicly thinking of all the things you went through since portal one through to portal two. if you watch the complete ending and think that thru the whole thing its pretty dang sad. ;,(
dtdude21 6 months ago
@dtdude21 Portal is really dark if you think about it enough, no normal human would be able to live normal after what Chell has been through.
LontanaDaScienza 6 months ago 5
@LontanaDaScienza ya i guess your right but im just sayin its kinda sad
dtdude21 6 months ago
I didn't cry when I first saw it, no. However, when I read easter eggs and found out this was GLaDOS's message to Chell before deleteing Caroline (who is rumored to be her mother) and read the translation "my child" and heard it again yes. I cried. So so beautiful :')
Silme037 6 months ago
I didn't cry when I heard it first.
I didn't cry when I read the lyrics.
I cried when I tried to translate them myself..... :(
Werewolf9098 6 months ago
I love how when the word Science is said the song seems to subtly shift ....I love this song, this game, VALVe. <<33
Policesisification 6 months ago
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I did not cry.
u mad?
NSCLord 7 months ago
O_o 5 ppl hate this song
johnchandara 7 months ago 3
@johnchandara Weirdos, right? WHATS TO HATE? :/
Policesisification 6 months ago
@Policesisification I hate that it ends ;)
AtemsShinobi 6 months ago
@LontanaDaScienza it is glados singing from below ad the turrets are playing the background music, i made a copy of ur lyrics and printed them please e mail me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
awesomedude255 7 months ago
Thumbs up if you wept like a bitch.
unit694 7 months ago 44
I remeber I first saw the elevator open and saw those turrets sing... I cried my eyes out, laughing, though when the lead began to sing it did feel I had something stuck in my throath.
ringgeest11 7 months ago
after everything... they dont hate you.... i cried when i sang along.... i knew the lyrics already... (im italian) but i never sang along until now... every time i hear this i just feel nice...
kenjabble 7 months ago
I can't stop crying whenever I hear this song! makes me think that portal 3 won't exist.
But we all hope to hear some news of it once.
MultiDestroyer18 7 months ago
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This honest to goodness brought tears to my eyes.
MRlegoman9 7 months ago
This honest to goodness brough tears to my eyes.
MRlegoman9 7 months ago
Hi this is clearly italian so I saw an errors in the lyric
3rd line: "Oh Chell" is "Oh cielo" it's venetian dialect and it means "Oh god"
Btw thanks for translation I really liked the ending part, so sweet
MisterMelchiorre 7 months ago 4
@MisterMelchiorre Well from what I've heard it could very well be 'Oh Ciel' apparantely meaning 'Oh heaven'
And I guess you're right but to be honest there is no official translation and I really tried to get the most accurate one possible but I don't speak spanish/italioan/venetian dialect sadly. I've actually seen peopel argue about what language it is so yeah... i'm left in the dark. Besides, I like "Oh Chell" alot. the idea that the turrets know her name is kind of beautiful.
LontanaDaScienza 7 months ago 4
@LontanaDaScienza Your correct
Its a pun on the word ciel and her name Chell
in Italian it means oh heavens, but in English it is oh Chell
iDaarnR 7 months ago
@LontanaDaScienza @MisterMelchiorre I always felt the 'o cielo' and the 'oh chell' thing is supposed to be a fantastic play on words, so I think you're both right. <3
DarkPhoenixIncarnate 6 months ago 4
@LontanaDaScienza
It's a pun! It means both "heaven" and her name.
Although chell's name is already a pun on being "a shell of a person"
UnlockYourHeart55 4 months ago
@MisterMelchiorre yes but you must understand that the woman who sang the words, she spoke fluent Italian. Valve just wrote the music, or found the music, or whatever, but it never had actual vocal parts to it. they asked this woman to do that job, so she came up with stuff on the spot. and came up with these lyrics. only when the song and the game were released, did valve even think about looking into the translation. when they learned what it meant, they liked how it wrapped things up.
QueenAwesomenes 7 months ago
@MisterMelchiorre well if thats true why would the lyrics be. dear beautiful my dear beautiful child oh god/oh heaven? if you watch the recording in the studio you can read her lips clearly say chell...and she really annuciated it well. it just makes more sense that she is saying my my beautiful child, oh chell. plus it goes with the theory that glados is either her mother or adoptive mother
jasongsxrful1000 3 months ago
looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
BlackCatMulti 7 months ago
I cry every time I hear this
sirlinkyalot 7 months ago
God now i think about:
Portal 3: turrets colony
ZipboxGT 7 months ago
I cried when I saw English
TheLoltaz 7 months ago
i admit... i cryed... only once the large turret sang... i suppose this is a joke from valve.... *its not over till the fat lady sings* which if its true then ima be angry since i really want portal 3...
marcgallie 7 months ago
no i didnt cry i just stared at the turrets like WTF now i no the lyrics i almost want too but no not now....................... waaaaaaahhhhhhh!
MrVolcanoheart 7 months ago
I cried 1st time...... now i cried more. :') im not crying..... waaaaaaahhhhhhh!
ArceusKid99 7 months ago
excuse me italian*
masterchief98908 7 months ago
@masterchief98908 If it's in italian then would the fat turret sing it in english in the italian version of the game...?
SuperPaperYoshi 7 months ago
i speak italien :) i understood this right away and cried the 1st time i saw this and many times after
masterchief98908 7 months ago
I miss galDOS. :,(
jbobs99 7 months ago
@jbobs99 Seems as GLaDOS wasn't horrible after-all <3
tacochibigirl 7 months ago
I wanted to cry.
But it appears my tear ducts dry up completely when I want to cry?
:C
I got a tingle down my back, though.
:)
ultimamax 7 months ago
who else thinks valve should make a complete song of this?
mutilator97 7 months ago
i wanted to cry so bad when i first saw this video, and when i first heard the song, but i didn't because i was watching in a library
mutilator97 7 months ago
I sobbed the first time I heard this and I didn't know why. And then I discovered it's context and couldn't stop smiling. And then cried.
Pinefulable 7 months ago
A lot of people are saying that Chell is the child of Cave and Caroline, but it makes much more sense if she were the adopted daughter. For one, Cave founded Aperture in 1944 (I'm going to assume he was at least 20-30 by that time), which means he would have been 62-72 by the time he died in 1986. Chell attended bring your daughter to work day in 1996. (This makes conception between Caroline and Cave very unlikely).
TheSebbyKitty 7 months ago
@TheSebbyKitty She would've been 11 then if she was born a year before her(Probable) fathers death or she could've been kept in relaxation chambers.
117superdude 7 months ago
@117superdude but if she were born a year before her (probable) father's death, her father would have been 71 by the time of her conception... (unless I'm misinterpreting your suggestion). Plus, genetics-wise, it wouldn't make sense for her to be their daughter, since Chell has blue eyes and both Caroline and Cave have brown eyes. (as stated in the combine wiki)
TheSebbyKitty 7 months ago
@TheSebbyKitty That is perfectly true however my father has green eyes and I have brown eyes
Also we dont know if any of them ever used the relaxation chambers or indeed if they had been invented.
It would be possible for Chell to have been born in 1955 and kept in a relaxation chamber for some reason (Perhaps a disease of sorts?) and being awakened to her (Once again probable) Fathers slow death from old age and disease so that he could see her grow.The portal story is confusing.
117superdude 7 months ago
woah I got chills
TheSebbyKitty 7 months ago
so *sniffle* beattiful
legonakonow 8 months ago in playlist Portal Stuff
1:10 "da scienza" sounds like "She hates us" xD
EmmaAnime96 8 months ago
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EmmaAnime96 8 months ago
T.T Dear god I want to play this again now.
NinjaRacoonDelta2 8 months ago
The turrets are sad that you are leaving
YourLittleMartian 8 months ago
it kinda gets me teared up but i can handle the tears but i had no idea what she was saying so i didnt cry till i read the discription
Gmodrocks123 8 months ago
OMG. Peolple please help me! I feel like I should cry BUT I'M NOT!!! :'( What do I have to do?! I feel like a bad person! :(((((
Luigifan876 8 months ago
@Luigifan876 It's alright. Just because you don't cry doesn't mean you are a bad person. I don't cry when I sing or hear music. It's when I can't sing or listen to it that I cry, lol. It's true.
cindycat214 8 months ago
@cindycat214 YAY I feel better now :)
Luigifan876 8 months ago
@Luigifan876 I'm nervous as allhek right now though. I have to perfect it, and half the time I can't remember the tones of the last five lines, and I have to sing this as a going away song at my cousin's graduation party!
cindycat214 8 months ago
its not actually oh chell, its oh ciel. as its similiar enough to chell that it sounds like it, but a literal trasnslation is "oh heavens"
matthewwhewell 8 months ago
Well, I would never cry from music such as this. Too short to get the water works going, and not enough musical... how would you say? Composure?
Silenceisbought 8 months ago
<3 I cried, once I knew what it meant. I also sung this on my way home from my Science exam since I'm never taking science again xD
OtakuDreamer101 8 months ago
far from science
OutragousGaming 8 months ago
@franchoshine i think that's the cube turret lol
909adam 8 months ago
I cry every damn time I hear it. ;__;
SkylarStryker 8 months ago
I'm so glad they wrote an Opera for Ellen McLain. Her voice is incredible.
Kibalover1992 8 months ago
It is Bambina
Itayram2 8 months ago
when I beat the game, i saw the turrets and i was like, GODDAMMIT.
then they made noises and i was all, oh, thats cool then!
then the elevator moved up and i saw the room full of them and i was like, SHIT.
but yeah, i was sad, once i got past the frightened relief-laughing.
ItsXyla 8 months ago 4
i did not cry when i first heard it. i did not cry when i new what it meant. i burst into tears when i sang along.
SecretAgentCholo 8 months ago 31
@SecretAgentCholo Yeah me too. I watched the ending for the first time with three friends and we were all laughing because we completed it but when I later rewatched it alone and sang along.. oh god the tears
LontanaDaScienza 8 months ago 12
Am I the only one who thinks that a Portal 2 opera with this at the end would actually be pretty good? In itallian, but instead of traditional opera music use portal 2's style of music.
NinjaRacoonDelta2 8 months ago
I didn't cry but I did feel genuinely sad. It takes a lot to get me to cry.
NinjaRacoonDelta2 8 months ago
I love science
Blix456 8 months ago
Yes I admi it. I cried my ass of when i first heard this, at the end of Portal 2. AND I'M A GUY.
timewasteland 8 months ago 3
@timewasteland Hand over your mancard.
Duspende 8 months ago
@Duspende lol
timewasteland 8 months ago
the first time I saw it I thought the Turrets would kill me.
2012Biel1 9 months ago 2
No one cares about the language barrier apparently. Might as well make the lyrics like:
Cara, bel, cara mia, bella LA LA LA LA LA BAMBA
BassmasterD 9 months ago
i do not understand how anyone could not be brought to tears after hearing this
25swimgurl29 9 months ago
Your new account name is parts of a line from the song, it says far from science.
Yes, I did read the description.
LvLupXD 9 months ago
I was more sad over Wheatley leaving. But this was sad, too. :D
XxNinjaDaytonaxX 9 months ago
i will never admit it because i never did. im not joking. :P
derkwizzerds101 9 months ago
awwwweeee the turrets are scolding chell its cute :3
Animegurl998 9 months ago
I LOVE THE BASS TURRET!!!!!!!!!!
berscheida 9 months ago 2
ok so caroline is chells birth mom, but who adopted her? an aperture employee? and why did they give her away? to keep her away from science?
skippyasqueeze 9 months ago
Please like I would cry... OH, WHO AM I KIDDING?I cried the first time.
explosivelego123 9 months ago
bammbiinaaa
armaxxx 9 months ago
Me and my friend, both from England, pronounce chell like shell, and came to the conclusion that it's just because they're American- in the same way that they pronounce Caroline as carolin.
charkyem 9 months ago
portal 2 = GOTY portal 2 made me cry
camyd1043 9 months ago
The chell line is actually oh ciel (oh heavens) but obviously meaning oh chell as wel.
BelowAverage355 9 months ago
if u look u can see the box turret
unfrickingtouchable1 9 months ago
@jrapcdaikari though that would make sense i think one of chells parents definately worked for aperture considering one of the childs experiments (the freak potato one) that you see in the game has written on it that it was by chell
flightofjd 9 months ago
My guess is, these are what Chell's mother REALLY said before she put her up for adoption... Showing that she still loved her.... I suppose Chell's mother also worked in Aperture Science, thus the Science thing.... then again, I maybe wrong....
jrapcdaikari 9 months ago
Aperture Science was built under a wheat field?! No wonder cereal tastes so damn good!!
jrapcdaikari 9 months ago 2
I didn't cry my eyes out first time i was like "Wow a turret can sing" xD
Compaqtomania 9 months ago
whell yeah my eyes started to spawn water xD eaven though i dident cry mutch since:
1) i'm italian and i understud that the first ime but here i understud better.
2) i know perfectly the story of chell and what happend befor portal, between portal and portal 2, so it wasent quite a "oh god" for me.
enyway good work for and english guy! if i was english i wouldent understand that it was italian! epic work!
kazzutokiller 9 months ago
@kazzutokiller CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED PLEASE PLEASE?
madisynyster 9 months ago
@madisynyster go read some tips aboute portal on google and serch ALOT about the "ratt man" hes very important. OR serch "Portal 2 Lab rat comic" and read it for your selfe.
all through... GLaDOS or Caroline is
Chell's Mother.
kazzutokiller 9 months ago
I was kinda staring at the screen, tears streaming down my face while I went "WHAT. WHAT THE HELL. WHAT. WHAT. WHAT."
It was a strange combination of emotions.
But this was probabaly the best way they could possibly have ended that last scene <3
Superwombat6 9 months ago
to be honest, i only cried once i understood the lyrics. THAT's when i really hit me.
one question though, in the first stanza, the Oh Chell part. how is that supposed to be pronounced? sounds different when it's sung by Ellen.
drocsid 9 months ago 11
@drocsid I think it's pronounced "Oh Tjell" As in Rachell. I pronounced it Shell for along time because thats how it would be pronounced in my language.
LontanaDaScienza 9 months ago 3
@LontanaDaScienza @drocsid It's the italian pronounciation, which in turn is (in this case) the same as in spanish.
dvheld 9 months ago
@LontanaDaScienza This is the translation of Mia Cara: Dear beautiful, my darling my lovely baby, in between these tests I estimate my love. Fair well my darling girl. Why not walk far away, go far away from science? Dear my darling, my baby, my beautiful. My dear, my dear, my darling little girl, darling to me!
(;,;)
AvatarofCthulhu 9 months ago
@drocsid I think it's actually a play on the word Chell, not the actual word Chell.
MrJoel397 9 months ago
@drocsid in italian ciel means "heaven", if you want to call someone you love you can use that word. I English, Chell may sound the same as the italian ciel.
sproketcampeon 7 months ago
I cried :D
elchavodelocio 9 months ago
i cried that's true
radiodread012 9 months ago
Wht is this is this the council of Turrets?
miesrah12 9 months ago
Man, so Caroline real was Chell's mom, eh? And that means that GLaDOS was Chell's mom too... and if you look at Chell's potato project from Bring your daughter to work day, from right before wheatley and chell kill GLaDOS... (and turn her into a potato) then Chell must have been in the facility, under the torture and attempted murder of her mother for YEARS, since she was a little girl... holy shit.
Pry0citerJohn 9 months ago 5