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Re: Why retcons don't bother me anymore
Posted By: uberfoop <atkinso2@seattleu.edu>	Date: 5/17/11 3:24 a.m.
On further thought, I am forced to acknowledge that my insistance on active symbolism and a significant turning point conveyed by the manual was perhaps a little silly; I'm all for minimalism, but I must admit that it really doesn't do all that I insisted as strongly as I insisted. Nonetheless, I'm inclined to hold my position that Reach sheds light on Halo 1 in a rather icky way; perhaps I should back up to the stance that the manual was a fairly blank statement which, if expanded upon, could convey meaning by juxtaposition with Halo 1, and should thus be executed carefully. On that note, I must acknowledge a gut feeling that I've been ignoring for a bit but which, considering that the gut is also the source of the uncomfortableness between HCE and Reach for me, I probably should have just rolled with earlier: my beef with Reach probably revolves around the fact that the story of the fall of the UNSC's last big colony tries to tie itself into, give drive for, and apply causation to, a story that stands on its own extremely well in a sort of mysterious epicness, and which from its start sets its own stage apart from those events. Even if the UNSC came across the Halo ring because of random bits and pieces of information scattered about the universe, the idea that the epic of reclaimation really got going prior to the opening of the epic proper and that there was an actual torch to be passed even before the ball got rolling just plain sits awkwardly with me. ...Which goes back to what you said about 343GS being the key turning point of Halo 1; in Halo 1, that level is really the moment where the game changed, where, in tearing the act 2 plot down, it also rendered silly the war between humans and Covenant, and it shed light on something much, much larger. So... what the froodlenutzsky is Halsey doing pretty much explicitly talking about reclaimation of a birthright left behind by an ancient civilization? That in particular is the kind of stuff that the opening cutscene of Two Betrayals introduces and thrives on, in a vastly more compelling way. //===== So I guess my position is, in a nutshell, now as follows: Reach's Forerunner stuff slightly dampens the brillaintly executed introduction of the Forerunner-Flood stuff in Halo 1 by trying to involve itself in it, when it should have just been being itself, the fall of Reach. //===== And this is around the time I start feeling silly for both being stubborn and veering all over the place.

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