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| Re: Something else I don't like about "Halo 2.0" | |
| Posted By: Bry <bmulheran@gmail.com> | Date: 1/8/13 1:45 p.m. |
In Response To: Something else I don't like about "Halo 2.0" (SonGoharotto) : For almost 30 years, humanity was fighting a losing war. Countless defeats, : countless setbacks, our colonies glassed, our population nearly : exterminated. Seems to me that both resources and public support ought to : be in short supply. : Where is the UNSC getting the means for this push back? The idea of mankind
If you want an answer from a story telling perspective that might make some sense, well, it could be possible that having been in a war of survival for 30 years, the economy has become completely dominated and even dependant by the military and it's requirements.
I've essentially just recapped some of the key plot points of Wing Commander 4 there. : The Prophets are gone. The Elites need to put their own house in order. The
: We could even have kept the Covie weapon set in the new trilogy as a sign of
What it needed was some context. Something to actually make it seem like you're fighting 'insurrectionist' Covenant, rather than just the Covenant.
But this just doesn't seem to be a goal of the greater fiction. I'm not going to refer to a "Halo 1.0" and a "Halo 2.0" though. We don't know what any original intentions might have been. We shouldn't really forget that Frankie with Bungie prior to Halo 2's release and was Bungie's content manager for quite some time.
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