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Re: Legends: What's up with the ruins?
Posted By: Bry	Date: 11/8/09 1:12 p.m.
: There has already been a lot of discussion regarding the ruins, but i : consider it so large an error i thought it deserves its own thread. : Seriously. The ruins are obviously not Forerunner; if they are, i have to say : i'm unimpressed with the artists' ability to follow established designs. : Now Delta Halo had some unexplained ruins. But those were distinctively : Forerunner in style; angular and geometric surfaces Just in this specific regard, and ignoring artistic license and the specific nature of these ruins, it goes back to what I say about the notion that there is such a thing as a 'Forerunner style' of architecture that must be followed. Why? When we've seen so little? I'm just trying to get my head around that particular aspect of it which seems so odd when I sit back and think at it. There were similar complaints about some of the Halo Wars stuff ignoring these apparent Forerunner 'conventions'. Say you stood in the middle of Manhatten today, skyscrapers etc. Take in the actual architecture. Then you find yourself standing in some Ancient Greek ruins. Would you actually say "Oh no no, this is all wrong. Totally different, it can't possibly be from the same species. Its a mistake"? I mean really. The Forerunners could have been around for so long. Is it remotely believable to think that every single thing was always built exactly the same way, to the same style? Surely that style had to develop over time. The Dreadnaught, the Ark, the portal on Earth, the Halo's themselves. These are all relics from the very end of the Forerunners time in our galaxy. As for the actual similarity to structures on Earth, taking artistic license out of the equation, it is not impossible to take it as a commentary that highly intelligent and highly creative life may end up following a similar evolutionary track. Not genetic memory or anything like that making humans build similar things, but actually coincidence. Perhaps in a few more thousand, maybe tens of thousands of years, human architecture and technology may draw a parallel to what we see as Forerunner architecture. Purely from the effects of knowledge and efficiency merging into that old artistic flair. Perhaps more shall be learnt from those DVD special features and commentaries.

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