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Re: Terminal Reconciliation
Posted By: davidfuchs <davelikesdinos@gmail.com>	Date: 9/6/12 7:02 a.m.
In Response To: Re: Terminal Reconciliation (Archilen) : I certainly did. Love stuff like this. : I honestly don't like the Forerunner novels rewriting the Terminals, which : are still one of my favorite pieces of written Halo fiction. They're so : simple, yet so grand in scope and scale, and masterfully done - I'm not : lying when I say I get chills from reading mere lines from them. : The Forerunner books do have their strengths and weaknesses - I like the : flowery, purposefully archaic style and word usage, and fact that : Forerunner society is expanded and they aren't presented as a singular, : uniform mass but rather people with different opinions, worldviews, : agendas and goals, but properly meshing the story with the Terminals : would've certainly improved them. : It remains to be seen how Bear will maneuver in Silentium, though I agree : that he won't be able, and will not even try, to reconcile every single : detail with the terminals. However, I am expecting to see at least some : events and concepts name-dropped, like the Maginot sphere which hasn't : even been mentioned so far in the Bear novels. Or MB's battle with OB, one : of the greatest scenes from the terminals. It might, however, be presented : as a background event given the detailed description we already have. : I'm also curious to see what happens with Mendicant Bias; will he go rampant : again after the supposed "correction", or will there be another, : rampant fragment of him somewhere which will eventually take over? I do : wonder if MB's supposed "atonement" will be presented in a new : light, as atonement to Forerunners rather than humanity, now that the : Forerunner books have established the two as different species. Well, ignoring the Forerunner = Human innuendo, I think Bias' atonement was more to all life that he nearly wiped out. I really don't know what they're going to do with him, because corrupting him again seems pretty clunky from a fiction or narrative standpoint. I'm definitely excited for Silentium, though.

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Message Index

Terminal Reconciliation	Dani	9/5/12 9:38 a.m.
Re: Terminal Reconciliation	Lawnmower172	9/5/12 12:54 p.m.
Re: Terminal Reconciliation	NotTheVacuum	9/5/12 1:07 p.m.
Re: Terminal Reconciliation	Archilen	9/5/12 11:39 p.m.
Re: Terminal Reconciliation	davidfuchs	9/6/12 7:02 a.m.
Re: Terminal Reconciliation	Archilen	9/6/12 2:33 p.m.
Re: Terminal Reconciliation	NotTheVacuum	9/6/12 2:38 p.m.
Re: Terminal Reconciliation	Leviathan	9/6/12 2:40 p.m.
Re: Terminal Reconciliation	Dani	9/6/12 2:45 p.m.