I know, there's stacks of things amiss between Myth 3 and Bungie's story, but this one thing annoys me particularly.
Previously the argument about Mazzarin went somewhat along two lines. Some people thought the shade Mazzarin that you killed in The Watcher (TFL) was nothing but a typo, a mistake, an unfinished change-of-mind, and good reasons were trotted out to support this. Others thought that no, Mazzarin _was_ shadified by the Watcher, to make him suffer in torment as his de-powered servant. I happened to believe the second more, not wanting the believe Bungie would make such a careless error and liking the idea of it.
Coming into this argument was the dispute about whether shades could only be created voluntarily or not - this was never satisfactorily resolved to my knowledge.
But here MJ have taken a course that isn't logical. Ok, he's a shade. Who would have made him a shade? Only the Watcher could have, having defeated Mazz in battle. Hard to see how Mazz could have shadified himself, or built his own tomb for that matter. Furthermore, he's no longer good or bad now.
I assume they made him a shade as that's how he ended up in The Watcher level (plus they needed a convenient all-knowing super-seer guy to drop in there for one level in M3), but Mazz's independance just doesn't make sense. I'm sorry, it doesn't.
*sigh*
I wish that were the only problem I had with Myth 3.
-Iron
