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Re: Hawaiian Pig's Fantabulous Story Review *SP*
Posted By: Hawaiian Pig	Date: 9/19/10 7:45 p.m.
I'm sorry, but what you've come up with for the characters here isn't at all rooted in what we see. I touched on this in a one off line in the original post. "Only those us fans, those intimately familiar with the Halo universe, will be able to set aside the lack of compelling story and characters to really appreciate these small things." These characters are flat. No two ways about it. Your description of Kat, for example, is reading into something that isn't there. : She feels the pressure when things take a long time to achieve, its annoying that : Carter doesn't immediately see that radio comms wont work so, obviously, she works : on getting a hardline up. He essentially tells her to get things done fast, the subtext : being, 'I'm not interested in problems only in solutions'. And, in keeping with Carter's : blunt tone and his demand for maximum speed and efficiency, she bluntly tells him that : he is in her light when he is blocking her light and slowing her up. I liked it. All this from some technobable, and a commanding officer asking how much time will it take to get an uplink set up to command? I don't buy it. She is the Tech Genius trope by definition. How many times does the tech guy chastise people for not appreciating or underestimating his/her work. "I'd like to see you open up a 28000 bit modulating encryption key." Technobabble has its place, but when your entire character does nothing but spew this stuff, you may as well be... well... : I like Jorge and Kat and 6. Jun reminds me of Sulu, reliable and competent and : comfortable in his own skin. Emile has probably had a difficult childhood (if the : books are anything to go by). He is probably afraid of sentimentality and clings to the : strengths of a Spartan. Jorge's sentimentality is a threat to Emile. Emile is not instantly : likable but you can see his position. Carter? He stood up to Halsey. He's very focused : on the job but he had to be. Maybe he's into ballroom dancing and building model : airplanes in his spare time but we didn't get to see his spare time. Come on now... where do you get the sense that "Jun is comfortable in his skin." Or that Emile's hardly-touched-upon confrontations with Jorge are a result of his fear of sentimentality. None of this is rooted in the events of the game. There certainly is time for character development in the "span of a week." I'm not sure how you can say: "I always complained that we never really saw into his mind or knew his opinion of events. " We do see the Arbiter change as a character, and get a sense of whats going on in his head. It's readily apparent when we see him go from willing to serve the Prophet's every whim, to stabbing Truth in an act of unbridled vengeance. From Arbiter: What would you have your Arbiter do? To Arbiter: I will have my revenge. On a Prophet, not a plague! Prophet of Truth: My feet tread the path. I shall become a god! Gravemind (Speaking through Truth): You will be food - nothing more. Prophet of Truth: I...am...Truth! The voice of the Covenant! Arbiter: And so, you must be silenced. You can't tell me we didn't watch him change. That we didn't get a sense of his disillusionment with The Covenant, the Great Journey, or his sense of pride in his people. It unfolded as the events of the story unfolded. As I said: "Character development is most often a direct result of the trials and tribulations that occur in light of the events of a story." Noble simply didn't have very many events to develop through. This is a post of Cody's in a thread you linked earlier. And it pretty much captures Reach. Great atmosphere, no story. And I don't buy this defense of the characters for a minute. It's really apologetic and reads into non-existent assumptions.

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