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Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?
Posted By: ArchilenDate: 5/3/12 2:58 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4? (bryan newman)


: Oh so you are familiar with her Star Wars work?

I'm more familiar with the controversy than the works themselves, but having read some of the debate and reviews I'm fully aware of what they're all about and why people reacted in such a way. I was actually considering reading some of her SW work before delving deeper into the insanity.

What she's done with Halo so far isn't quite as drastic, not yet at least, but all of the same ingredients are there already. Derailing (and often vilifying) pre-existing characters, twisting their motivations and then humiliating them in-universe, making her own pet characters superior to others, frequent condescending tirades, everyone speaking and thinking with that same sarcastic, self-aware authorial voice, and so on.

They say her first SW books were quite mild compared to her later work, where she just went off the leash, basically elevating her Mandalorians to a godlike status as the absolute best culture to have ever existed, while wrecking havoc over other authors' characters and stories. Hope the same doesn't happen with Halo. The whole thing makes me wonder why 343i would hire her after that fiasco, unless it's all about money and her ability to churn out books fairly quickly.

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Who's the writer for Halo 4?Archilen 5/3/12 1:58 a.m.
     Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?bryan newman 5/3/12 2:33 a.m.
           Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Hawki 5/3/12 2:51 a.m.
           Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Archilen 5/3/12 2:58 a.m.
                 I didn't mind glass lands....Bryan Newman 5/3/12 7:02 a.m.
                 Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Leisandir 5/3/12 7:08 a.m.
                       Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Archilen 5/3/12 1:53 p.m.
           Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Frankie 5/3/12 11:27 a.m.
                 Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Avateur 5/3/12 8:08 p.m.
                       Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?padraig08 5/3/12 9:22 p.m.
                             Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Avateur 5/4/12 10:05 a.m.
                 Nylund's PreoccupationsThe Lionheart 5/3/12 10:00 p.m.
                       Re: Nylund's PreoccupationsKP 5/3/12 10:42 p.m.
                 Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?General Vagueness 5/5/12 3:16 p.m.
                       Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?SalientOne 5/5/12 3:50 p.m.
                             Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Dani 5/5/12 4:14 p.m.
                             Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?General Vagueness 5/5/12 4:25 p.m.
                                   Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 5/5/12 6:14 p.m.
                                   Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Louis Wu 5/5/12 6:43 p.m.
                                   Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?SalientOne 5/6/12 2:47 a.m.
                                         Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?General Vagueness 5/6/12 4:34 p.m.
                                   Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?uberfoop 5/6/12 3:02 a.m.
                             Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Metalingus627 5/5/12 7:53 p.m.
                             Thank you very much, Salient One!The Lionheart 5/5/12 11:57 p.m.
     Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?TDSpiral 5/3/12 3:14 a.m.
           Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Joony Joon 5/3/12 5:47 a.m.
     YES. A THOUSAND TIMES YES.Bones 5/3/12 5:46 a.m.
           Re: YES. A THOUSAND TIMES YES.davidfuchs 5/3/12 8:25 a.m.
     Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?dogcom 5/3/12 10:28 a.m.
     Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Cody Miller 5/3/12 1:14 p.m.
           Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Phoenix_9286 5/3/12 2:58 p.m.
                 Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Leviathan 5/3/12 3:07 p.m.
                       Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Cody Miller 5/3/12 3:09 p.m.
                             Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Leviathan 5/3/12 3:14 p.m.
                                   Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Cody Miller 5/3/12 6:51 p.m.
                                         Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Leviathan 5/3/12 8:13 p.m.
                                               Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Cody Miller 5/3/12 9:07 p.m.
                                                     Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Kermit 5/3/12 9:11 p.m.
                                                     Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Leviathan 5/3/12 9:36 p.m.
                                                           Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Cody Miller 5/3/12 10:03 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Leviathan 5/3/12 10:14 p.m.
                       Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?RC Master 5/4/12 4:11 a.m.
                             Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?Leviathan 5/4/12 5:21 a.m.
           54 PAGES!?!?!Gravemind 5/3/12 10:59 p.m.



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