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:P.S.: ''Initiation'' is an utter letdown, though I really like the Kilo-Five series overall. My beef isn't even with everyone hating Halsey, except for Mendez suddenly turning on her; after all, ONI can spin whatever lies they want about her and few will question them. Nope, it's the flash-cloning thing. Seriously, Miss Traviss, you make it clear (even in the same chapter) that you've read Halsey's journal, so why on Earth would you hinge the good doctor's arrest on a plot that comes completely out of the blue? Does Parangosky really have the gall to think that her approval of the S-IIIs is less morally reprehensible? If there's one thing I won't hesitate to admit 343i have dropped the ball on, it's approving that particular scene, at least the way it's characterized. --[[User:Braidenvl|<span style="color:gray">'''''Our vengeance is at hand.'''''</span>]] [[File:Gravemind.svg|14px]] ([[User talk:Braidenvl|<span style="color:gray">Talk to me.</span>]]) 12:18, 11 January 2014 (EST) | :P.S.: ''Initiation'' is an utter letdown, though I really like the Kilo-Five series overall. My beef isn't even with everyone hating Halsey, except for Mendez suddenly turning on her; after all, ONI can spin whatever lies they want about her and few will question them. Nope, it's the flash-cloning thing. Seriously, Miss Traviss, you make it clear (even in the same chapter) that you've read Halsey's journal, so why on Earth would you hinge the good doctor's arrest on a plot that comes completely out of the blue? Does Parangosky really have the gall to think that her approval of the S-IIIs is less morally reprehensible? If there's one thing I won't hesitate to admit 343i have dropped the ball on, it's approving that particular scene, at least the way it's characterized. --[[User:Braidenvl|<span style="color:gray">'''''Our vengeance is at hand.'''''</span>]] [[File:Gravemind.svg|14px]] ([[User talk:Braidenvl|<span style="color:gray">Talk to me.</span>]]) 12:18, 11 January 2014 (EST) | ||
::I almost have to wonder whether Parangosky's hypocrisy was deliberate, that we were supposed to be outraged at it. Maybe I'm giving the writer too much credit. Mostly, I got bored with the Kilo-Five books. | |||
::On a more on-topic note, I think the sheer saturation of Star Wars, and the (mostly) carefully planned nature of Halo's EU are radically different. The SW novels have a...well, a ''varied'' degree of quality control. On the one hand, you get the magnificent Thrawn Trilogy and the Hand of Thrawn Duology, but then you get others, like the Jedi Search trilogy, where the characters are either badly characterised or outright detestable. I follow a similar policy to my Classic Who collection - read the reviews first, try to get a grasp on which ones are great and which ones to avoid. And then there are just the weird stories, that just don't fit, largely from the comics. As I understand it, the rights for the comic stories have changed hands many times, although LucasArts largely supervised the Star Wars games. When it comes down to it, all Lucas has ever really cared about was the films. Which is a fine policy in a way, since it allows you to discard ''everything'' without actually discarding it, because it was never "G Canon" in the first place, and focus on what's best for the movie. And even if that means Thrawn may not have existed in the next trilogy, I will be supremely gratified if it also erases something like the Yuuzhan Vong, which sound incredibly awful for Star Wars, or the Darth Caedus silliness. Marvel and DC have rebooted their continuities how many times by now just to keep things straight? I think it's about time Star Wars got the same treatment. | |||
::But with something like Halo, you just don't get that saturation or the contradictions they bring with it. 343's been surprisingly deliberate in its expanded universe entries, even if I haven't been able to care much about it since Nylund 's last book, while maintaining a solid output. The quality control has been much better - you don't have the Halo equivalent of Palpatine's mutant three-eyed son, the magical Glove of Darth Vader, or that time Han and Chewie found a planet of zombies and let them pass on. For better or worse :P | |||
::And regarding 70.70.8.253's assessment of Halo 2 - I actually think Halo 2's story is still the most interesting of the "main" Halo games, precisely because it tried to do different things. Many fans will disagree that it was for the best, but giving a Covenant's eye view of things made the universe feel more vast, and I still regret they reduced the Arbiter to a sidekick in Halo 3. -- [[User:Morhek|<b><font color=indigo>Qura 'Morhek</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>The Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>of Morheka</sup></font></i></u>]] 19:40, 11 January 2014 (EST) | |||