: And then Halo becomes indistinguishable from Star Trek which is
: indistinguishable from Star Wars which is indistinguishable from Babylon 5
: which is indistinguishable from StarCraft which is indistinguishable from
: Battlestar Galactica which is indistinguishable from some
: committee-designed hypoallergenic extruded product that had Science
: Fiction! stamped on it as it passed through QA.

: *Throws the entire Lost Fleet series at thebruce*

: Sometimes, writing around the more overused tropes in a genre results in more
: memorable fiction. Halo stands nothing to lose by adopting storytelling
: limitations that emphasize how freakin' huge space actually is.

It would stand to lose this story. Communicating from (what I presume is) Earth to Saturn wouldn't be an interview, it would be correspondence, and communicating out-of-system would take years if not decades-- of course you could just use a faster-than-light mail ship*, carrying either paper or electronic media, but you'd still be looking at days or weeks as far as I can tell, which narrows down what stories you can tell.
Besides, superluminal communication has been canon since Halo 2, it's just a matter of humans figuring it out.
I agree it could give a different flavor to Halo, and not a bad one, but I'm OK with this direction too.

* UNSC Special Delivery? UNSC Dark of Night? UNSC Package Handler?