In Response To: Re: Like Bornstellar's personality changed? (BanditORR)
: old comment is kind of old Whatever.
: I hated it because Bornstellar was evolving perfectly fine without having the
: mutation shoved on him. He was growing and learning from his experiences
: just like a real person wou- BUT OH WAIT LET'S DO THIS FOR NO REASON.
: I probably won't read the rest of the series to find out, but, as of right
: now, there's really no reason for Bornstellar to assume Didact's identity.
: If Didact died and then Bornstellar did the mutation, I would be less
: angry. The Forerunners had no warrior type people, and Bornstellar would
: take the responsibility to defend his people. That would be an arc. This
: wasn't. It was just kind of random and forced on him.
: Worse than that though is that none of the characters react to it in a
: meaningful or understandable way. I can kind of dismiss his family for not
: caring that he's a totally different person, because they were kind of
: douche bags, but the fact that Bornstellar thinks it's perfectly normal
: bothers me. And Librarian's reaction is absolutely unforgivable. No one
: would be OK with their loved one being replaced by someone else. The
: terminals in Halo 3 gave the impression that they were a very close couple
: who had been through a lot. And the first half of Cryptum kind of
: furthered this. But their relationship that I knew about through the
: terminals was ruined because, in reality, Librarian and Didact had
: actually known each other for like two months at the time of those
: communications.
: I understand that the Forerunners are like weird space people who do retarded
: things like this, but I still need to be able to relate to them in order
: to care about what they're going through. And I can't relate to having my
: personality completely changed by a machine or whatever.
: If Didact isn't actually dead then I guess I'm whining for no reason. I just
: don't understand why the author decided to do this to Bornstellar. Maybe I
: missed some key element, but the whole thing seemed pointless to me.
Have you ever read Ringworld?
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