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| Re: Enkidu flames and kudos HERE, please. | |
| Posted By: Rams <Ramsxxxiv@3dactionplanet.com> | Date: 5/17/04 2:22 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: Enkidu flames and kudos HERE, please. (daedalus) : Then why are you complaining? If you haven't even bothered to read them yourself, I'm at a loss as to why this would cause you to get so worked up. I am not complaining about the content or saying they were poorly written, things that I would need to read before passing judgement. What I don't like it that this fan fiction was implied as something from Bungie when there was no need to do so. :Because it's fun to speculate. :Because it's brought this community together in a way that hasn't been seen :since Randy Glass first blasted a Warthog into the skies above the :Silent Cartographer. :Because it was intruiging- the sheer glorious uncertainty was enough to get people like me to emerge from our shells and post our thoughts. All very good things that I have zero problem with. Hey this fan fiction did many good things no doubt. But there was no need to even hint that it was from Bungie, that and only that is what I have an issue with. :If Steve had revealed Enkidu to be a fanfic from day 1, do you honestly believe that all of this would have come to pass? The ignorance of the readers was a NECESSARY part of this work. So was the incremental, out-of-sequence reveal of events. I guarantee that if you read it for the first time now, from the first terminal to the last, you will miss out on a good part of what made the Enkidu Terminal story so good, simply because you will be reading them in chronological order. So in order for this to work the fans had to believe it was from Bungie? WOW that's pretty bad. I feel real sorry for the author if the only way he can capture peoples attention is by deception. Personally I think he may be more talented then that and could have done fine had the truth been known from day one. :Of course he intended it. It's part of what made the whole thing so fun. Do you think the Cortana letters would have been nearly as interesting if Nate had put "HEY GUYS I WROTE THIS AND I WORK AT BUNGIE!!!!!" on top of each one? Neither do I. I agree with the Bungie part, I really do. But what this has done is hurt everyone credibility. Now the next time Bungie does this I and many others won't buy it. We will be upset that it's someone else trying to trick us again. Its not ok for a fan site to mislead it's loyal fans, it's not ok for it to mislead an entire community, and it's not ok for it to possibly ruin Bungie's future plans. I don't appreciate being lied to or mislead but I guess that doesn't bother you. :Those of us who don't see it in terms of "duper vs dupee" certainly will. If Cortana started sending new letters tomorrow, you can bet your ass that I will be first in line to read and speculate about them. If nothing else, I'm even more excited about such a possible occurrence. Enkidu has re-awakened the fun I had poring over the Marathon Story Page back when I first got into Halo, in winter 2001. Well that's you but certainly not everyone feels that way which is why I like yourself am expressing my views on the matter. As for re-awakening the fun of the story line I'll agree, it's just to bad it got ruined by the manner in which they choose to do it. :The thing you aren't understanding is that the ambiguity of Enkidu is a necessary component of it. Standing alone, the story is still an excellently plotted, well-written, and exhaustively researched work. However, seen in this light, it is merely an excellent fanfic, on a world wide web full of excellent fanfic. When you add the ambiguity (aided, certainly, by the knowledge that Bungie has pulled this sort of trick before), an entire new dimension is revealed. We, the readers, became active participants in the Enkidu story. It was no longer reading text on a screen, but sitting around a campfire while the storyteller shaped his spell, the audience shouting encouragement, laughing together, whispering urgently at the tense moments, and feeling that cathartic commingling of happiness and sadness at the end. Again that is something that could have been done from a honest upfront approach. Many people wasted their time on something they believed would reveal more of the REAL Halo story line, not a fans view of it. If that didn't bother you fine but I for one don't like that it happened to fans in a community I love. This is simply not an acceptable way to treat your fan base. :There's nothing in the world less malicious than the Enkidu Terminals and their author. That people actually accuse Anton of duplicitous purpose rather than holding up his work alongside Warthog Jump, BungieLOVE, and Red vs. Blue as a paragon of the brilliance this community is capable of when creative people are set loose... well, frankly, it boggles my mind. The difference here is the others were upfront about what they were. You didn't see RvB giving the impression their videos were made by Bungie. So please don't ask me to be ok with being deceived or people I'm friends with being deceived by what we perceive as a trust worthy source of Halo information (HBO).
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