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Re: Commentary Transcripts.
Posted By: Stephen L. (SoundEffect) <soundeffect@hotmail.com>	Date: 6/6/11 6:32 a.m.
: And that fact illustrates... what? : I also object to the term "known". Johnson doesn't have a name that : Bungie can "know". They made him up. His name was given to him. : That name appearing first in filenames and credits, but not in the : scripts, not in the recordings, and not in the memory of those responsible : for shepherding the game's cutscenes, tell me that his name was given to : him late and/or perhaps initially given to him by someone playing little : or no role in the story itself-- and therefore of no bearing when : considering the character's intended significance to that larger story re: : the retcons about Boren's Syndrome and the Spartan I program-- all of : which was made up later. A continuing story does make things up later. And that's fine...as long as it doesn't tread on already established info...which is my problem entirely with retcons. And having Johnson's name in the credits is enough to establish who he is as a character. There's lots of Star Wars characters who were only ever known by seeing their end credits name as there was no reason for someone to call them by name in the film. In Star Wars, "X-Wing Fighter" and "TIE Fighter" were internal names used only by the model photography folks to identify them. They'd use "I need to film the X winged one next" or "we're finished filming with the bow tie". Yet those names got out from production, got slapped on toy boxes and the names stuck. Everyone knew what those names were before "Empire" but that was where the name was first made canonical. When Luke's approaching Could City, an Imperial officer says something like "Spaceship approaching; X-Wing-class. Just thought that was a neat tidbit.

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