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Re: Dani: let the apathy flow through you!
By:scarab
Date: 6/1/17 9:43 am
In Response To: Re: Dani: let the apathy flow through you! (davidfuchs)

: Honestly using classic Halo setups and tropes doesn't innately bother me (and
: Envoy was well done enough in that regard), I think it mostly grates on me
: in this specific case because there was a different and IMO more
: interesting novel that was suggested by the opening third of the book.

I suppose the author needed a reason for the Brutes to get involved and betray their allies. Maybe it would have worked with just Sanghelili intrigue.

: The idea of the macguffin gets more problematic than usual, however. How
: (spoilers) the Forerunners came upon a design for the Sharquoi control
: device that automatically adapts to its user seems like a massive security
: issue.

The Forerunners ALWAYs have massive security issues. (Lazy writing) Maybe Sparky wrote the security protocols. He was never very good at the sciency or technical parts. Which is no surprise given that we was a (stone?) age tribal person and didn't grow up in a technological society. Didn't he worship rhinoceroses?

You know:

  • humans are old world monkeys/apes
  • Forerunners have new world monkey noses so could be "new world apes"
  • Brutes are "apes"

Is it too late to spin it that all apes are reclaimers? ;-) Maybe it's more general. Anything with fingernails gets to be a reclaimer. Except Lemurs, their grooming claw disqualifies them.

Messages In This Thread

FUDcast #21: Chekhov's Nukedavidfuchs5/31/17 9:31 am
     Dani: let the apathy flow through you!scarab5/31/17 11:40 am
           Re: Dani: let the apathy flow through you!Quirel6/1/17 3:00 am
                 Re: Dani: let the apathy flow through you!scarab6/1/17 4:07 am
                       Advanced Spartan training...scarab6/1/17 4:22 am
                             It's been done in battlefield 4scarab6/1/17 4:34 am
                                   Re: It's been done in battlefield 4Quirel6/2/17 1:57 am
                                         Re: It's been done in battlefield 4scarab6/2/17 3:09 am
                                               Re: It's been done in battlefield 4Quirel6/2/17 3:21 am
                       Re: Dani: let the apathy flow through you!Quirel6/2/17 2:06 am
                             Re: Dani: let the apathy flow through you!scarab6/2/17 3:29 am
           Re: Dani: let the apathy flow through you!davidfuchs6/1/17 9:20 am
                 Re: Dani: let the apathy flow through you!scarab6/1/17 9:43 am
           Re: Dani: let the apathy flow through you!Dani6/4/17 6:57 pm
     Darn.Quirel6/1/17 3:02 am
     Thread jack\ Halo FracturesRevenant19886/1/17 7:40 pm
           Re: Thread jack\ Halo Fracturesdavidfuchs6/1/17 8:38 pm
           Re: Thread jack\ Halo FracturesQuirel6/2/17 1:49 am

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