: While I've enjoyed your post, and to interject for a moment, the novel does
: nothing for Halo 4. Halo 4 is still a complete mess of writing and, when
: standing alone in this video game universe or when standing as a sequel to
: the prior video games, completely misses the mark and does not provide any
: of the detail you uncover from the novel. 343 wants their universe
: intertwined yet did nothing to actually intertwine the games. Yes, things
: make a hell of a lot more sense in H4 after Silentium is read, but that
: doesn't change the fact that H4's story and writing is a complete and
: utter mess even with the novel's enlightenments. And that's with or
: without being the average player.

To each their own. I don't see it your way.

: You're not even getting it right on how the Chief survived the Composer, and
: that was explained to you in-game by the Librarian. It's that much of a
: mess.

I wouldn't say that, I elaborated more on my personal opinion on what it meant when she altered him. The Composer is a device that has to be "tuned" to work. When the Librarian tells the Chief she has to activate something within him, accelerate his evolution I was thinking about it in terms of my other theory about the Chief having an imprint of the Iso Didact. My theory: The reason the Chief was able to survive being composed is that the Didact had the Composer tuned to accept Humans, and the Librarian changed the Chief to a point where he wasn't Human enough to get composed. I think she activated something in him to make him more like the Didact.

Just my own personal speculation.

When you're not fixated so much on what 343 is or isn't doing, you have time for that kind of stuff- its enjoyable ;)