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Posted by: Dj Liamo
I think it was Bungie's intention to dumb down the brutes (can you dumb down Brutes? haha)
Just for the record, it is entirely possible the Brutes achieved space faring status before (or at the very least, the same time) humanity did. Humanity only reached this level by the late 1950's and Humanity was fighting a sub-civil war with the insurrection for the ENTIRE Human-Covenant war. At least Brutes knew how to ummm...put their differences aside for a common goal.
So...if they are as dumb as you claim them to be...well...by proxy...the same could be said for humanity, as there are more parallels between the Brutes and Humans than there is Elites and Humans. In fact...come to think of it...I think...given the nature of the Elites, their size of their ego, their beliefs, and their position in the Covenant...I think it would have made more sense had they remained the enemies of the Halo franchise indefinitely.
This raises an interesting train of through...give me a moment here...
If you really think about it...the Elites were believable as enemies, they were established as characters and had an established history, culture, and for the entire history of the Covenant, they would summarily execute, without exception, above the rule of law, anything that lived, if it denied the Great Journey. How would the Brutes, as everyone describes them as being dumb, know more about the concepts of dedication, devotion, responsibility, duty, and loyalty, than the Elites. It would have made more sense if after so much oppression, the schism was a result of oppression rather than a temper tantrum.
Because if you think about it EVEN MORE...the schism is a comfortable euphemism for the fact the Elites threw an empire-wide temper tantrum when they simply should have accepted their punishment. They were just removed as being honor guards. No big loss. They still sat on the council, and they still led the military. This reminds me of a child who can only have two toys, and not three, while someone else gets nothing. Seems like a Brute response to me...throwing a fit of rage? Yep...sounds Brute to me.
Remember when I said Bungie gets their material mixed up?
The Brutes were always rushed and never thought out. I don't blame the concept of the Brutes for this, much like you don't blame Hayden Christensen for George Lucus sucking at writing a script. Here is a scenario for you to eat and digest: had the Elites gone unpunished after Regrets death, this could have shown a disgusting double standard in the way the Covenant was run, and it should have resulted in the Brutes leaving, joining the humans. Two races, with many parallels, both being oppressed, both considered as lesser beings than the Elites...queue the schism.
I guess Elites and Brutes are whatever the plot needs them to be.