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Posted By: Gravemind <kuukan_no_kage@yahoo.com> | Date: 10/14/11 11:20 a.m. |
In Response To: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped (Stephen L. (SoundEffect)) : New data drop with some delicious info: : http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/news/headline/office-of-naval-intelligencesection-3-data-drop-five/284486 : Seems that the secret Covenant invasion of Reach really was secretive and
Guess I was wrong about 343i ignoring the events of Halo: Reach. Now it looks like they're going to try shoehorning the game into the novel. The idea that ONI could somehow hide the invasion and partial glassing of almost an entire hemisphere of a planet, including the destruction of at least one major city, and an entire Covenant fleet in orbit from everyone else planet-side and apparently most of the UNSC, including fleet ships in orbit around Reach (namely the Autumn), verges on absurdity. Is there no kind of media, social or regular, on Reach? Does ONI have near god-like supernatural powers of some kind? They'd have to be pull off an information blackout of that nature, for over a month. I appreciate that 343i is trying to reconcile the game and the novel, to turn the retcons into not-really-retcons, but it's a damn near impossible task. The two just don't mesh. Oil & water, square peg & round hole, etc., etc. Bungie left a massive continuity mess with Reach's story, and now 343i has the unenviable task of playing clean-up. This initial attempt is IMO unsatisfactory. It's not their fault, though. Bungie could've avoided all this by compressing the game's timeline into a day and having the Autumn in space, but alas.
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Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 10/14/11 8:10 a.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | DEEP NNN | 10/14/11 8:38 a.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 10/14/11 8:42 a.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | DEEP NNN | 10/14/11 9:18 a.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 10/14/11 9:34 a.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | DEEP NNN | 10/14/11 9:37 a.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | Bry | 10/14/11 10:49 a.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | Postmortem | 10/14/11 12:14 p.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | DEEP NNN | 10/14/11 12:53 p.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | Postmortem | 10/14/11 12:56 p.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | General Battuta | 10/14/11 1:20 p.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | Lord Friendship | 10/14/11 8:49 a.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | Revenant1988 | 10/14/11 9:11 a.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 10/14/11 9:31 a.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | General Vagueness | 10/14/11 4:43 p.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | CaptainTony | 10/14/11 8:57 a.m. |
These keep getting better | JDQuackers | 10/14/11 9:59 a.m. |
Ditto | Mid7night | 10/14/11 10:07 a.m. |
Re: Ditto | CaptainTony | 10/14/11 10:54 a.m. |
Re: Ditto | General Battuta | 10/14/11 11:00 a.m. |
Re: These keep getting better | davidfuchs | 10/14/11 11:09 a.m. |
Re: These keep getting better | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 10/14/11 11:36 a.m. |
Re: These keep getting better | JDQuackers | 10/14/11 1:08 p.m. |
Looks like I was wrong. | Gravemind | 10/14/11 11:20 a.m. |
Re: Looks like I was wrong. | SonofMacPhisto | 10/14/11 11:28 a.m. |
Re: Looks like I was wrong. | davidfuchs | 10/14/11 11:31 a.m. |
Re: Looks like I was wrong. | SonofMacPhisto | 10/14/11 11:35 a.m. |
Re: Looks like I was wrong. | General Battuta | 10/14/11 11:46 a.m. |
Re: Looks like I was wrong. | Quirel | 10/14/11 11:49 a.m. |
Re: Looks like I was wrong. | General Vagueness | 10/14/11 4:57 p.m. |
Re: Looks like I was wrong. | Bry | 10/14/11 5:16 p.m. |
Re: Looks like I was wrong. | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 10/14/11 11:44 a.m. |
Re: Looks like I was wrong. | Gravemind | 10/14/11 3:19 p.m. |
Because all of those things are easily visible. | Leisandir | 10/14/11 3:31 p.m. |
Re: Because all of those things are easily visible | Gravemind | 10/14/11 8:53 p.m. |
Re: Because all of those things are easily visible | Leisandir | 10/14/11 9:08 p.m. |
Contradictions and astronomy. | uberfoop | 10/14/11 9:52 p.m. |
I stand semi-corrected. | uberfoop | 10/15/11 12:11 a.m. |
Re: I stand semi-corrected. | Leisandir | 10/15/11 7:22 a.m. |
Re: I stand semi-corrected. | uberfoop | 10/15/11 1:23 p.m. |
Re: I stand semi-corrected. | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 10/15/11 4:05 p.m. |
Re: I stand semi-corrected. | General Vagueness | 10/15/11 11:56 p.m. |
Re: I stand semi-corrected. | Quirel | 10/16/11 12:53 a.m. |
Re: I stand semi-corrected. | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 10/15/11 8:57 a.m. |
Re: I stand semi-corrected. | uberfoop | 10/15/11 1:02 p.m. |
Re: I stand semi-corrected. | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 10/15/11 2:57 p.m. |
I don't see anything. | SPARTAN-034 | 10/14/11 10:08 p.m. |
Re: Because all of those things are easily visible | Metalingus627 | 10/14/11 10:22 p.m. |
Re: Because all of those things are easily visible | General Battuta | 10/14/11 11:42 p.m. |
Re: Because all of those things are easily visible | General Battuta | 10/14/11 11:42 p.m. |
Re: Because all of those things are easily visible | Metalingus627 | 10/15/11 12:34 p.m. |
Its been implied that the UEG IS the media. *NM* | DHalo | 10/14/11 12:20 p.m. |
Re: Its been implied that the UEG IS the media. | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 10/14/11 12:24 p.m. |
Re: Its been implied that the UEG IS the media. | DHalo | 10/14/11 6:02 p.m. |
Re: Looks like I was wrong. | uberfoop | 10/14/11 3:18 p.m. |
Re: Looks like I was wrong. | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 10/14/11 4:15 p.m. |
Two things for DDR6... | Urban Reflex | 10/14/11 11:55 a.m. |
Dance Dance Revolution 6? | JDQuackers | 10/14/11 1:11 p.m. |
Don't worry, I thought the same thing. *NM* | GrimBrother One | 10/14/11 1:31 p.m. |
343i... don't stop. | Postmortem | 10/14/11 12:30 p.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | General Vagueness | 10/14/11 5:24 p.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | Leisandir | 10/14/11 5:41 p.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | General Vagueness | 10/15/11 11:19 p.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 10/14/11 7:39 p.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | DEEP NNN | 10/14/11 8:21 p.m. |
Re: Data Drop #5 has...well..dropped | Imrane-117 | 10/15/11 8:13 a.m. |
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