Personally, I think that the fact that they started out with something from Transformers is fairly worrying. Garbage in, garbage out.

: Watchers have shields? seriously, do they?

That's the impression I picked up from their behavior, yes.

: and he introduced "hard light"

I don't have a problem with Hard Light itself. I don't think it's light made into a physical substance any more than I think that Halos once graced the heads of angels. It's figurative speech.

What I do have a problem with is the moronic way 343i used it in Halo 4. Prometheans are made out of it, guns fire it, Forerunner weapons convert enemies into raw hardlight, the energy sword is now made out of it...

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