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| Re: what? | |
| Posted By: Ze Moose | Date: 8/9/09 3:18 a.m. |
In Response To: what? (Blaidd Drwg) : "that the HALO story is, "an amazing story about this child that no : one cares about and who cares for no one else, who kind of ends up saving : all of humanity." : Does anyone else think that that quote is not quite right? Yes. Saying that the halo story is about the Master Chief is like saying that Moby Dick is a story about Ishmael. The story isn't about him, the author just uses him to give the player/reader a pair of eyes to look through. If the halo story is about anything, it's about winning at any cost. The Forerunner won against the flood, at the cost of killing every living thing in the galaxy. Halsey won against the Innies, but had to kidnap children and turn them into stoic killing machines to do it. The Master Chief won on Halo, but axed the Captain and what remained of the human forces in the process. If you're looking to examine this theme in a movie, you need a central character who asks questions about it in a way that gets the audience asking those questions of themselves. I don't think the Master Chief is that character. He works great as a player-character, who's motivation to win matches the player's. But it's Cortana who draws the player's attention to the collateral damage: the Captain, the ship, and every other surviving member of the Pillar of Autumn's crew. In Fall of Reach it's Halsey asking the hard questions. (Aside: anyone else think it's not a coincidence that one character is supposed to be based off of the other in the fiction?)
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