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I didn't mind glass lands....
Posted By: Bryan Newman <Newman4208@hotamil.com>	Date: 5/3/12 7:02 a.m.
In Response To: Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4? (Archilen) : 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. But that mandalorian stuff is BULLSHIT, plus she ruined clone commandos. But back to your point, I actually enjoyed glass lands. I thinks that it is a shame that nylund couldn't finish his story arc and that it took 5 years after the release of the Ghosts of Oynx to get a sequel. That whole "vilifying" Halsey thing doesn't bother me too bad because that is how I have always viewed Halsey.... From day 1 I always thought she was an evil bitch, and that her barbaric practices rivaled the brutish experiments of the scientists of Nazi Germany. That is why I liked Halsey because even though I detested what she did in the end her actions saved the entire human race. It's a complex moral puzzle. My only problem with Glasslands was that with the exception of Lucy there was little to no character development of the Spartans. Also I think they escaped Trevelyan a little too quickly. It kinda devaluated just how dire their situation was at the end of Ghosts of Onyx.

Message Index

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 Preoccupations	The Lionheart	5/3/12 10:00 p.m.
Re: Nylund's Preoccupations	KP	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.