: I think Palmer's character was still being ironed out via Early Installment
: Weirdness in Halo 4, and maybe still is. Also, Brian Reed acknowledged
: that Palmer has something coming: Palmer’s a lot of fun to write because
: she’s half-way to a force of nature. She has a lot of “shoot first, ask
: questions later” in her bones, and so far in her life that has proven to
: be the best operating procedure. Of course the day will come that her
: style backfires and she realizes she needs to learn about something the
: rest of us call “subtlety.”
I think that lesson will dawn on her quite soon in Escalation.