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::Despite my generally favorable attitude toward the series, make no mistake: I'm definitely glad Karen Traviss is gone. Her meddling is ''nothing'' in comparison to her Mary Sue-ization of the Mandalorians, but it goes to show why you shouldn't hire a writer who brags about her unfamiliarity with the source material when she takes on licensed properties. No, Karen - ''Red vs Blue'' is not ''Halo''. I wouldn't object to a Nylundian rewrite of the series, though that obviously isn't going to happen. --[[User:Braidenvl|'''''Our vengeance is at hand.''''']] [[File:Gravemind.svg|14px]] ([[User talk:Braidenvl|Talk to me.]]) 16:56, 26 January 2014 (EST)

:::''"Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb!"'' I tend to come across as supremely negative but as I said, there were times when I actually found myself liking it. Traviss shines when she's writing about her own characters (the times she's not using them as her personal soapbox anyway). I could see the series being much more enjoyable if 343i had just told her to write her own story. No Halsey, no Blue Team or Mendez, no throwaway Arbiter cameos and definitely none of that hamfisted and awfully convenient Didact foreshadowing. And a bit more editorial hand-holding to keep the Huragok from being that absurdly overpowered. That wouldn't leave much in terms of connecting threads to the games, mind you, but it would've been more suited given the author.

:::I agree that a rewrite is something that is completely out of the question; they'll never do it, not after all the investment 343i put into the series. The best we can hope for is ancillary fiction, even entire novels, to "patch" some of the more glaring issues and maybe just downright ignore the silly stuff. The Eleventh Hour reports gave us a glimpse of the kind of bigger postwar universe I would've loved to see imagined in an entire novel series as opposed to just a few little bits of fluff.

:::But I am definitely curious to see who they'll get to pen their next inevitable novels (and where they'll go, story-wise). I'm sure they're aware of the overwhelming demand for more Nylund, but that's entirely up to the man himself: I almost get the sense that he's sort of had it with Halo and wants to focus on his own creations. I could be wrong and maybe there's some backroom politics were weren't made aware of - it does strike me as odd that Frankie and co. were talking a ''Ghosts of Onyx'' sequel with him, only to hire a different author over the obvious choice. Creative differences? Or simply a schedule thing? And then there's Nylund's departure from Microsoft, not that one's job dictates who they can write novels for.--[[User:Jugus|Jugus]] ([[User talk:Jugus|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|Contribs]]) 00:14, 27 January 2014 (EST)

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 ::Despite my generally favorable attitude toward the series, make no mistake: I'm definitely glad Karen Traviss is gone. Her meddling is ''nothing'' in comparison to her Mary Sue-ization of the Mandalorians, but it goes to show why you shouldn't hire a writer who brags about her unfamiliarity with the source material when she takes on licensed properties. No, Karen - ''Red vs Blue'' is not ''Halo''. I wouldn't object to a Nylundian rewrite of the series, though that obviously isn't going to happen. --[[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>]]) 16:56, 26 January 2014 (EST)
+:::''"Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb!"'' I tend to come across as supremely negative but as I said, there were times when I actually found myself liking it. Traviss shines when she's writing about her own characters (the times she's not using them as her personal soapbox anyway). I could see the series being much more enjoyable if 343i had just told her to write her own story. No Halsey, no Blue Team or Mendez, no throwaway Arbiter cameos and definitely none of that hamfisted and awfully convenient Didact foreshadowing. And a bit more editorial hand-holding to keep the Huragok from being that absurdly overpowered. That wouldn't leave much in terms of connecting threads to the games, mind you, but it would've been more suited given the author.
+:::I agree that a rewrite is something that is completely out of the question; they'll never do it, not after all the investment 343i put into the series. The best we can hope for is ancillary fiction, even entire novels, to "patch" some of the more glaring issues and maybe just downright ignore the silly stuff. The Eleventh Hour reports gave us a glimpse of the kind of bigger postwar universe I would've loved to see imagined in an entire novel series as opposed to just a few little bits of fluff.
+:::But I am definitely curious to see who they'll get to pen their next inevitable novels (and where they'll go, story-wise). I'm sure they're aware of the overwhelming demand for more Nylund, but that's entirely up to the man himself: I almost get the sense that he's sort of had it with Halo and wants to focus on his own creations. I could be wrong and maybe there's some backroom politics were weren't made aware of - it does strike me as odd that Frankie and co. were talking a ''Ghosts of Onyx'' sequel with him, only to hire a different author over the obvious choice. Creative differences? Or simply a schedule thing? And then there's Nylund's departure from Microsoft, not that one's job dictates who they can write novels for.--[[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> 00:14, 27 January 2014 (EST)