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I think Nylund's work should be redone...
By:Rice
Date: 11/15/14 12:02 am

I've been watching the cutscenes of all the Halo's and including H2A's since I don't have an Xbox One just yet to play it myself, and I'm noticing something that never really matched up to how Nylund wrote Spartans and other characters.

Nylund tried to depict the Spartans as emotionally broken, not smiling or laughing. They'd hold their index and middle fingers to their faceplate as a way to simulate it, because if I remember correctly the act of smiling would 'open the floodgates to all sorts of emotions', if I remember correctly.

I remember the section with Linda in First Strike and her actually smiling and laughing taking John by surprise and looking back at it I think that is something that has never really matched up with how Bungie wrote the character in subsequent appearances.

Clearly, I don't think it's disputed that the canonicity of The Fall of Reach is tenuous at best considering it was written before the universe became fleshed out and even before Halo CE, but even in Halo CE the Master Chief cracked jokes and made one-liners in a way that never really matched up with how Nylund tried to write him.

Personally, I think that at least the events of The Fall of Reach should be retold with 'modern' events in mind. Hell, the book at first said Elites were rarely seen on the ground and that most of the forces seen were Grunts and Jackals, and thats just crazy.


Messages In This Thread

I think Nylund's work should be redone...Rice11/15/14 12:02 am
     Re: I think Nylund's work should be redone...Apollo11/15/14 8:27 am
     Re: I think Nylund's work should be redone...Stephen L. (SoundEffect)11/15/14 1:47 pm
           Re: I think Nylund's work should be redone...zofinda11/15/14 2:54 pm
           Re: I think Nylund's work should be redone...Grizzlei11/15/14 4:10 pm
     Re: I think Nylund's work should be redone...Postmortem11/16/14 2:00 pm
     343i already did it, remember?Quirel11/16/14 3:06 pm
           Re: 343i already did it, remember?Rice11/16/14 9:04 pm
                 Re: 343i already did it, remember?padraig0811/17/14 10:46 am
     The parts that had to, weredavidfuchs11/16/14 3:37 pm
           Re: The parts that had to, wereJaydee11/17/14 11:20 pm

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