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Re: Commentary Transcripts.
Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net>	Date: 6/3/11 12:25 a.m.
: Nice! I still think his name is on his face texture and I'll check. : Seems you can't always take Bungie folks quotes too exactly afterall. Good grief. Johnson was not a major character in Halo 1. He was not intended to be. Fan response to him was unexpected, and not anticipated before Scully recorded his lines. He is not named in the script. No character refers to him by name. Bungie principals referred to him as such, and said he was referred to only as "sniper sergeant". Even Keyes refers to him only as "sergeant". At some point, he got a name. It could have been anywhere late in the development of Halo 1, although it was clearly after all the writing and voice recording was done. The name might have been pencilled in by just about anyone at almost any time after that, perhaps only for the purpose of keeping media assets straight in the management system. Later, in Halo 2, he was referred to by name and made a cinematic character, and the subject of several messy retcons to cover over the discrepancies between his role in the first game, and his role in the later games-- the later of which would not have been necessary if the early ones had not been made. His larger significance-- involvement in the Spartan I program, for instance-- was made up later.

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