: I caught that line about "if we ever get back to Halsey and she fixes
: me" as well. In fact, I assumed that's what was going to happen
: before the Halo 4 Campaign wrapped up, and when the anti-climatic ending
: did come I was more than a little stunned and confused. And not in a good
: way.

Same here. I can see why 343 would want to turn the tables on expectation (drama usually pulls the fans in) but I'm not so sure killing her off was the best way to do that. It pulled more of an emotional response than I expected, but I don't think finishing her off is good for future of the Halo story line.

: Now, I had already formed my own best-case scenario for the Halo story, where
: Halsey had indeed figured out a way to weed out the crazy from Cortana and
: allow her to continue on her way, but with how Spartan Ops ended, now
: Halsey has an even better chance to hack into and/or leverage the
: information on how to accomplish this

I was even happy with the whole "recompile her nueral net" solution because Cortana was the first AI created from someone's mind. Though I do admit that that is too easy of a solution, a cop-out if you will. So maybe a Forerunner augmented Cortana is the way to go.

It sounds kind of . . . invasive though. Like, I don't want my Cortana mucked around with like that.