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::Also note that John has never shown any of these asserted health problems. Within his last year of the war he fought whole swarms of the Covenant and Flood. From Bungie's treatment, it seems the two were meant to be equals in ability. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 22:26, 7 March 2012 (EST) | ::Also note that John has never shown any of these asserted health problems. Within his last year of the war he fought whole swarms of the Covenant and Flood. From Bungie's treatment, it seems the two were meant to be equals in ability. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 22:26, 7 March 2012 (EST) | ||
In the immortal words of Gimli: "That still only counts as one!" | |||
In my mind, the Chief and Noble Six are equals, if not in experience then in ability, drive, and characterisation. They're both strong-silent types, both "hyperlethal", and both wearied by what they've seen. Being a SPARTAN-III can't be easy, even if they were reassigned before their whole company was slaughtered. Ultimately, though, comparing the two is pointless - it's not a simple matter of time or kill count, it's a matter of essence - if Bungie had decided the Chief did fight on Reach, they could have inserted him into the final game seamlessly without changing anything except the very end. Six ''is'' the Chief. I see it as a nice "what if" tale - what if the Chief really had fought on Reach? And this, I tell myself, is what it would have been like for him. Instead of taking the space station assignment, he went down to the surface on the Pelican. Instead of securing the MAC, he got on the Pelican. Instead of being the Lone Spartan as we've always seen him, he's part of a team that he sees fall around him. The whole thing is a metaphor for the Chief's emotional regard for Reach - he didn't undergo these precise events, but this is still the trauma he feels, the fall of Earth's greatest colony, the death of millions, and the destruction of humanity's last symbol of hope, the Spartans. | |||
What? Reading too much into it? I'm an Arts student, what did you expect? -- [[User:Specops306|<b><font color=indigo>Specops306</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>Qur'a 'Morhek</sup></font></i></u>]] 04:29, 8 March 2012 (EST) | |||