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| Re: Finally Reached *SP* | |
| Posted By: Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) <sumpca@yahoo.com> | Date: 9/23/10 9:32 a.m. |
In Response To: Finally Reached *SP* (Narcogen) : Yes, we take out one ship-- and a bigger one shows up. Yes, we take out THAT : ship-- and a lot more show up. I'd say your reaction is an indication of : success. These characters are faced with futility, and Bungie has made you : feel it. Just slugging in my agreement with the point here, and a bit of wondering whether it was that very message that has contributed to some folks' annoyance; as the Chief we never ran into futility, and as the Rookie the futility we encountered (the obstensible mission of capturing Regret's supercarrier) served only as a setup for the actual success (Dare's mission, and Vergil's recovery). : The Package mission is to provide one mission that can have a
I'm not so sure it was oversold, but that's going to come down to personal taste I think. : So, you can't please everyone all the time. Some people can't be pleased at
As the kids are saying these days, "this". : Fair enough, although it seemed to me a waste of an S II. If anything, what
Well, he wasn't... I think that's clear, at least once UPPERCUT is accomplished. I think if Carter (or particularly Kat) had been making the call at that point, based on personalities and mission requirements it would have been Six acting as the human fuse.... but it wasn't. It was Jorge making the call, the SPARTAN-II whose empathy ("Big man forgets what he is sometimes.") had been well established by then. It wasn't in Jorge's character to make a teammate die for his mission, and Jorge forced the issue (physically!) to suit his own preferences. What was that about flat characters with no personality again? -- Steve agrees that the "mission first, legend later" approach does lead to a disjointed story and made necessary some deviations from canon, but thinks a lot of the criticisms of the storyline and characterisation have gone too far. Reach isn't Dostievsky, but it's not Roger Corman either.
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