: You know, with the advertising harping on whether Chief is friend or foe,
: that theme of misplaced trust is a good one; it applies to relationships
: including pretty much every character in some manner, so maybe in a way
: the advertising really wasn't (that far) off the mark, it just focused on
: the Chief's part of the narrative. But if we get that understanding of
: trust/mistrust just from his part, we can start to see that trust/mistrust
: in all those other arcs you mentioned. Halo 5 was really about who to
: trust, who is trustworthy, preception... beyond just Chief and Locke. hm.

Yeah, I started with just the Chief trusting Cortana initially and Locke not trusting the Chief but coming around, and I wondered if that was enough to be the theme, then I saw Cortana trusting Chief, then other instances. It could just be from how they structured the story though, and a theme, like it was their way of making connections and relationships. Also I made it sound like I don't like the story, but like Halo 4, I do like the story, I just don't like a large section of it, which is again the section dealing with the villain.