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| Re: More Halo discussion from The Escapist | |
| Posted By: Archilen | Date: 11/9/10 5:01 p.m. |
In Response To: More Halo discussion from The Escapist (General Vagueness) : The guy that does their movie reviews got a web show thing for his general : rantings and the first episode is this : : http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/2428-Combat-Evolved : I could say something about it but I typed up a novella on it on their forum : in the comments thread for it (page 6) I've generally enjoyed the guy's movie reviews, but he sure does like picking on everything Halo. The thing is, with the fascism vs multiculturalism argument, I'm pretty sure he's overthinking it. Or as I might say, he's not seeing the "big picture". The big picture being, when Bungie created the game, they wanted to have their enemies as diverse as possible. In addition, the diversity only makes the Covenant seem more threatening and powerful; as a technologically superior civilization, they naturally have more worlds and species under their control. Even he acknowledged that most of the Covenant species are practically slaves, but he tries to find meanings where they don't exist. Pseudo-intellectual rambling made mostly to provoke a response. Overall, I think Bob should have more background information on the universe before he could make an effective analysis of any kind. He does seem to know more than an average person, ie. the basics, but that's not enough for this interpretation to have any real credibility. I do agree with him on the matter of the Covenant being interesting on their own right, as a faction.
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