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| Re: Greg Bear writing halo novels about Forerunner | |
| Posted By: Mercury | Date: 4/3/09 4:41 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Greg Bear writing halo novels about Forerunner (elpolloguapo) : Agreed. I don't want to be put in a position where I know more about the : Haloverse than any of the characters we have seen while playing as MC/Arby : or reading the books ever possibly could. If this is from the 26th century : perspective OF the forerunners, in the vein of discovering artifacts and : reading terminals, etc. I'm all for it. But if this is set 100,000 years : ago and has named forerunner characters and perspectives, I'll be very : disappointed. Honestly, just a frame story of an excavation team : discovering terminals and then having the book cut to the perspective of : the forerunners described in those terminals would be passable to me. But : I think telling us more than anyone in the Haloverse knows is almost : breaking the fourth wall. In reading the Lord of the Rings, I was amazed by the quality and depth of the world Tolkien had created. I thought it was incredible that there was a massive history that you only saw glimpses of. I thought that knowing more about it would water down the story I fell in love with. However, I still went on to read the Silmarillion and much of Christopher Tolkien's history of Middle Earth, and rather than demystifying the world Tolkien created, it made me eager for more, and eager for answers to questions LOTR had never even brought up. It gave clarity to motives and statements that made little sense in the trilogy, yet it retained all of it's magic for me. (even though a lot of people found it boring). Anyway, if the world is deep enough, then it has more stories than just the Master Chief and Cortana. What's so hard about shifting perspective to be able to enjoy another story?
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