: I'm gonna throw out a guess that people may be using Palmer as a figurehead
: to represent the changes in the tone and 'nobility' of the UNSC and ONI,
: especially since we don't know much about her, and since she's stuck
: around as opposed to Del Rio who just sort of disappeared after his
: scenes.

: Yeah, it seems like a very planned-ahead-of-time, bulletin-from-a-meeting-
: decision, not an actual response to the audience's reception. I would
: think doing more Lasky stories would make much more sense. I know I'd read
: a Lasky story. He seems like the one guy in the UNSC who remembers the
: good 'ol days. :)

To me, it seems like they wanted to make a Spartan character who would be on level with Master Chief for players to enjoy. And they didn't want to use one of the existing Spartan-IIs or IIIs, because they could do whatever they want to with a new character. Maybe they felt like there were already too many males in the Halo 4 storyline, so they decided to make the character a she. But maybe the mostly male audience wouldn't connect with her, so they decided to make her gung-ho and wreckless.

She definitely seems like a thought-out character, that's for sure. And I really do see how she represents the new, rather than the old. If the visual and story changes between Bungie-era and 343-era weren't as drastic, I don't think as many people who necessarily have a problem with her.

Then again, Miranda was never really given a warm welcome either :\