: SD joined for a moment, just to say they he couldn't stay
: cuz he had to go do something with his girlfriend, and
: then left. We talked about our own lack of GFs. Then
: we changed the subject to that of the Shades on
: "The Watcher". Forrest says that there was
: only supposed to be one Shade; the first one was
: supposed to teleport out before he died, then teleport
: back in later, damaged with no dispersal dreams. He
: thinks that Bungie just messed up the scripting or
: something. Face countered that they intentionally
: changed it for some reason, and that the second Shade
: was just hurt in the first attack on the Watcher.
I think the reason was quite likely that they couldn't get the script working. I don't think what we see is just a failed script though, otherwise, why would the Shades have different names?
: Dan wondered, would the Smiths have taken all this time
: to carve things on structures they never expected to
: see again? Perhaps they DID expect to see them
: again...
I think it was Smea that said that. I theorized that they just took a lot of pride in their work.
