chaos386
.sa = bad driver!
This box is just to mess with the people who haven't played it yet and are going crazy seeing all these spoiler boxes and wondering what juicy bits of the story we're talking about.
Yeah, as I say, on a second playthrough it all seemed to fit together much more solidly. But that first time, I just felt like Valve were being dicks and throwing in a load of disjointed plot points just so that they could pick up on it in a later game, and say that they'd laid the groundwork first. (And they probably will, of course.)
You should have been paying more attention the first time around, then! I've only played through it once so far. I spent half the time listening to the dialogue instead of solving the puzzles, though.
I don't recall there being much of a reason for Wheatley waking you up at that particular point - by which I mean, why does he come and get you when he does, as opposed to any other time? GLaDOS is dormant, after all, and I don't remember waking up during anything going wrong.
The reactor core was having a slight meltdown when Wheatley comes to get you.