: It's a smaller story. To take your logic to its stupid extreme, "I don't
: watch films like The King's Speech, because the main character's flaw took
: the whole movie to get through. I want things to explode and it's a bad
: story if things don't."

: Why does 'pushing the series forward' require returning to the same stories
: repeatedly? The Halo universe is vast—if your definition of "pushing
: things forward" is it has to involve Chief or progress story elements
: from the games, I guess the entire Forerunner trilogy, Halo Wars, and ODST
: have been massive wastes for you. Sorry, I guess.

My thoughts exactly.