Forum:Halo: Nightfall (General): Difference between revisions

From Episode 3 it really does seem like Macer is going to survive; the question of who's going to pilot the tug automatically rules out a large portion of the crew, unless some of them have hidden talents as a spacecraft pilot. That, or the filmmakers troll us and it's going to be Arris. Would be an awkward flight out. Or Macer gets the tug off the fragment and it's only once they're safely away that it's revealed she's badly hit and dies soon after, ''a la'' Wash in ''Serenity''. Regarding survival, something that occurred to me was that they could've at least brought up the idea of taking shelter in the tunnels under the Halo's surface as the ring is riddled with the things. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 04:49, 26 November 2014 (EST)

==Where are the answers?==

So, what the hell were they thinking when they created this story? First of all, I haven't watched the second stories, so my bad if they reveal anything I'm talking about. But the show fits really poorly within the ''Halo'' universe, in terms of addition to the lore. Save for the exploitation of a nearly forgotten character —Randall— and the introduction of the Yohnet. I thought the show was really interesting, no question about it, with all these things about who will survive and so on. But when I think about it, it's still just a story about characters running around in the middle of nowhere. It's not clear what the bioweapon was exactly, how its element was found by the humans (I suppose they just stumbled upon it in the depth of this Halo ring, yeah?), what Lekgolo were doing on the ring (My assumption is that they were Hunters who survived the destruction of Alpha Halo, due to their organism adapting more easily to the devastated surface). If it's the case, then why no Flood too? I bet this surface is inhabitable enough for them. Could they be related to the bioweapon? Despite the devastated surface, I also expected some kind of reference to the environments of Halo 1, whether campaign levels or multiplayer maps—even some desolated random Forerunner structures could have been interesting. Do you imagine if the place where they found water was actually modelled after Battle Creek for example, with the same design and so on, though it would be severely damaged? Also a huge disappointment: nothing on the sarcophagus from the ''CEA'' terminals... I wonder if there's still anyway to exploit this thing now that we won't see Installation 04 anymore. Of course, if you have any info on the second stories and their possible answers to my lingering questions, it would make me very glad. But I still have mixed feeling about this ''Nightfall''. It's agreeable to watch. But they could have made it fit better in the universe, even without losing the casual audience they're trying to target. Even at the end, I was still expecting Randall to say that he was finishing John's incomplete job, or something like that. Slightly taunting John about how he can still be a Spartan after all, just like him, but that Locke isn't really bad either (foreshadowing Halo 5). [[User:Imrane-117|Imrane-117]] ([[User talk:Imrane-117|talk]]) 22:14, 10 December 2014 (EST)

:The Second Stories definitely help in some cases, and I found them all quite interesting. My complaints are pretty few, I definitely liked the ending, though I do agree with whoever made that edit that commented it felt like there was a scene missing at the end. Randall is definitely near the top of my favourite characters list, partly because he embodies so well what a true Spartan should be, as opposed to the S-IVs. I wish they had a higher CGI budget for the worms, but that's one of my only complaints with the story itself. What ''really'' bothered me was outside the story, the spoiler-filled teaser pictures (can we change Horrigan's main picture?), and don't even get me started on the "next time <strike>previews</strike> plot summaries", or the completely unnecessary "last time on" bits. Steamed video has again proven to be a terrible idea, with it dropping the quality to 240p or worse at random and sometimes important times, and the Halo Channel's navigation system isn't great either. But Nightfall itself? It I quite liked. [[User:Alex T Snow|Alex T Snow]] ([[User talk:Alex T Snow|talk]]) 23:35, 10 December 2014 (EST)