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Subject: My thoughts on Reach and Halo 3's ending cinematic
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Ok, i've read a couple posts all about how the two 'planets' seen in the trailer for reach and the Halo 3 Legenday ending cinematic are the same, and aren't the same, how they're both reach and how they both aren't and one is or isn't... it's all a bit mixed up, and it only depends completely on the viewers opinion. That's why 'Definitive Proof' theads kinda bug me, it's not definate proof untill Bungie confirms it, but I suppose it's just in our nature to analyze things unknown and then as soon as the slightest sign that one's theory COULD be correct, to go and try and convince everyone that they are infact without a doubt correct. SO anyway, my thoughts are, I have no f***ing clue? but, another thing that's come up alot is the possibility of 'time travel' which I think is completely incorrect, but still we don't know. People are obviously so hung up about how those two planets are both reach, yet it's a prequal, so that kinda destroys there theory, so they have to resort to something like ... well 'time travel'... yeah that's the perfect explination. Don't get me wong we're totally entitled to our opinion and expressing/discussing it, afterall, that's what this forum is for, BUT I finally come to my point, IF say that those two planets which i previously mentioned are confirmed to bth be Reach, then, surely, don't you think it'd be a much more resonable explination to believe that MasterCheif has some sort of flashback? in which you re-play his past? Funniest thing about this is, i've never read the fall of reach, and have litterally no idea about MasterChief and his links and past experience with this planet, so correct me if im wrong, i've just read in alot of posts about Chief going back, or playing as young Cheif. I do have a brief understanding of the Spartan I project and the link between the Forerunners and Reach, but... ok im rambling;

LONG STORY SHORT;
My opinion (and i cannot stress that word enough) of the whole situation about these planests is, thats it COULD BE A POSSIBILITY that as Cortana and Chief float by all happy n sleepy, and they stumble upon this planet, which hypothetically is reach right now, Cheif could have some sort of flashback (it worked incredibly well with ODST so why not again?) and then you go on to play out this story. It just seems a much more sensible theory to ME than time travel, you dig?

[Edited on 09.30.2009 4:43 AM PDT]

  • 09.30.2009 4:43 AM PDT
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I don't dig for a simple reason, and I'm not even going to tell you how ridiculous time travel is since you're not really suggesting it.

reach has had it's surface glassed (which meant heated until it shines like glass). so the ground is totally evened and plane, no structures, nothing left.
H3 takes place less than a year after reach's fall. and the planet in H3's ending has lights on it, structures (that look strangely forerunner) and overall looks metallic. nothing like a dead planet.
surely nobody survived on reach, and even if there ARE survivors, they couldn't rebuild a WHOLE PLANET in less than a year, right? even nowadays it takes around a year to build a single house... let alone a whole planet with no atmosphere and a temperature superior to 1000°f.

  • 09.30.2009 5:58 AM PDT
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Wow.. so true. I expect something like this to happen. That way they can have MC and other characters together

  • 09.30.2009 6:00 AM PDT

the flashback idea is pretty good. its the last spartan reminiscing about about his fellow spartans that he lost.

however i have seen the comparison pictures of reach and the planet at the end of halo 3 legendary. i wonder how the people were able to put down the links for them much get on bungie.net if there blind. i happen to not be blind so when i actually looked at the pictures i saw no similarities other then that they were planets with suns

  • 09.30.2009 6:32 AM PDT

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THE LEGENDARY ENDING PLANET LOOKS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE REACH OR ANY OTHER GLASSED WORLD WOULD LOOK, AND IT HAS A DIFFERENT SUN. STARS DO NOT TURN FROM A NORMAL YELLOW ONE TO ABLUE SUPERGIANT WITHIN A FEW MONTHS/YEARS TIME.

So the answer is no.

  • 09.30.2009 6:33 AM PDT

Wow, people actually think this is true? Insane. The planet they're floating to looks nothing like a glassed planet.

Plus, if you watched the PAX panel, Brian said something like (in regards to what 343 will do with the Halo series), "I'm looking forward to learning more about that planet that Chief and Cortana were floating toward at the end of Halo 3." So, that refers to the games after Reach obviously.

Worst theory ever.

  • 09.30.2009 6:38 AM PDT

Meh

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i saw no similarities other then that they were planets with suns


It's too related to be a coincidence.

  • 09.30.2009 6:39 AM PDT

honestly, i dont work at CVS.

i dont think so bub. Halo:Reach wont have anything to do with MC. He wasnt there.

HR will be a squad like game. not entirely squad based but def. different, hence the MP beta. It would be sweet to play as MC again but its just not gunna happen until Halo 3: The Sequel haha.

i like where you went with that but it sucks that you're wrong.

  • 09.30.2009 6:47 AM PDT

honestly, i dont work at CVS.

oh plus, if MC and Cortana are floating by Reach, dont you think that because of all the ships fleeing Reach during its destruction that there would be some sort of signal ping? dont you think Cortana would do that just like after Halo:CE? but she doesnt in that last scene.

  • 09.30.2009 6:52 AM PDT

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oh plus, if MC and Cortana are floating by Reach, dont you think that because of all the ships fleeing Reach during its destruction that there would be some sort of signal ping? dont you think Cortana would do that just like after Halo:CE? but she doesnt in that last scene.
He doesn't mean time travel. He means that after Halo 3 the Chief crashes on the glassed Reach and has flashbacks to the Battle of Reach which occured before Halo 1. But this is not the case because the planet looks nothing like a glassed world and the stars are different colors. And it wouldn't make sense since the Chief didn't really have much to do in the Battle of Reach.

  • 09.30.2009 6:54 AM PDT

I don't even know.

This makes what? The thirtieth thread with THE EXCEPT SAME "IDEA"?

-Read the books
-The Ark and where the MC & Cortana ended up is outside the galaxy. At sub-light speeds (which is what they're doing considering they have half of a ship, it would litereally take millions upon millions of years to "drift" all the way to Reach
-Use some reason
-MC was at Reach. I don't recall if he was on the surface, but he did engaged the Covenant on a space station.
-Oh snap, two planets look similar, HOLY CRAP THEYZ THE SAME PLANETS
-Please for the love of god stop making these threads.

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  • 09.30.2009 6:56 AM PDT

honestly, i dont work at CVS.

-The books are not a tell all Bungie Bible
-agreed
-I did. and i only speak for myself
-He was, but he wasnt one of the "Spartans on the ground". He was on a ship ur right.
- haha like Neptune and Uranus right? THEYZ BLU.
-im not on here constantly, so when i open a thread and comment on it, idk about the possibilities of another thread with the same subject. My bad playa.

  • 09.30.2009 7:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: wolfbuzz
This makes what? The thirtieth thread with THE EXCEPT SAME "IDEA"?

-Read the books
-The Ark and where the MC & Cortana ended up is outside the galaxy. At sub-light speeds (which is what they're doing considering they have half of a ship, it would litereally take millions upon millions of years to "drift" all the way to Reach
-Use some reason
-MC was at Reach. I don't recall if he was on the surface, but he did engaged the Covenant on a space station.
-Oh snap, two planets look similar, HOLY CRAP THEYZ THE SAME PLANETS
-Please for the love of god stop making these threads.

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Ahah look what i've started :P, you all made interesting and good points, i don't know too much about the role Chief played in Reach as i DID mention. Apart from wolfbuzz, first off; I will read the books i think, thankyou :) Second if you'd actually read it properly, i never said that the two planets WERE the same because they looked similar, i was simply stating that that's what everyone is saying, and i also said HYPOTHETICALLY, get a dictionary? :)
plus, this is a forum where we can post about anything we want within the rules, so i'm afraid your probably going to see alot more of these posts, i suggest you don't visit the forum as often, or perhaps dont open the posts so clearly titled and related to what obviously gets on your nerves, there all opinions, apart from the ones that say 'definate' in which case (and again i did mention this in the post) i totally agree with you. I completely respect that you cleared up some of my thoughts which i ALSO f***ing stated again that i didnt know much about Reach, but there's no need to try and take the **** just because you're all high n mighty up in your ivory tower because you know how to read. :) <333

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  • 09.30.2009 1:39 PM PDT

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It physiclly(in the halo universe) can't be reach in the end of halo 3. Reach was completely and utterly destroyed when the covenate where done with it. And if for some reason some one can't believe it was completely destroyed, well, their best bet is a planet of absolutely nothing but glass.

[Edited on 09.30.2009 1:42 PM PDT]

  • 09.30.2009 1:42 PM PDT