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Posted by: Wolverfrog
Posted by: JJAB91
-The Forerunners are no longer that mysterious, wise and kind race that everything prior had pointed them to be. Now they're just complete -blam!-s to everyone. What the hell? This may seem minor but to be frank it kinda ruins everything, before this damn book came out the Forerunner were portrayed as wise, kind and ancient.
No, I thought there was more to the Forerunners than met the eye when I first started playing Halo. A kind, loving race doesn't have the ability to destroy all life in the galaxy. Their monuments also seemed very pretentious, as if they were making a proclamation regarding them being superior. The terminals in Halo 3 show that only towards the end of the war they realised that all life was precious, not just their own.
-But thats not even the start of it, Humans got hit by the retconning stick too. Humans in the Halo series have always been a pride species finally making their way across the stars abit with war and difficulty and discovering that they have not only missed so much but also that they are not alone. But NOPE. -blam!- THAT! Because now apparently humans were once pants-blam!-ly advanced to the point where they not only controlled parts of the galaxy but even allied themselves with the Prophets and waged war with the goddamned Forerunner and then not only lost but then were devolved. Messing with the entire story.What the hell is this? AND then the kind and wise Forerunners executed countless humans after the war. Yeah, kind and wise my ass. THAAAAANKS Cryptum.
Mess with the story? Nope, all I'm seeing is excellent backstory there, and a good plot twist. It ties us far better to the Forerunners than I could have ever hoped for.
-ANNNND then we have The Flood. Nope, they were not spared ether. In ALL other previous Halo works what were the Flood? They were that cosmic horror that came from out of galaxy that even the great Forerunner could not control and had to sacrifice themselves to stop. Now what are they? Dandruff. Or more specially a white powder that APPARENTLY Humans had discovered and used on their PETS. Yeah...way to even break canon and suck the dignity out of a space parasite Greg.
I don't know about this one, I haven't actually read the book yet.
-Yeah the even more wise and mysterious Precursors who were the Forerunner even before the Forerunner are now giant bugs. Fuuuun.
It was pretty obvious. A race pre-dating the Forerunners who mysteriously vanish? There were only a few options. I figured they might have become humanity, but them being the Flood was just as likely, probably more so.
-Finally we have all the inconsistencies this creates. So the Forerunners are now dicks and devolved Humanity? Ok fine but what about the Prophets? They merely had a majority of their area taken they never were devolved so...what the hell? How did they suddenly forget about all that and started worshiping the space equivalent of the jocks from Highschool as gods? I know there is 110,000 years between the war and the Halo games AND that the Halo Array went off but a SUPER advanced civilization even with the Halo's firing don't just forget everything. The prophets along with the majority of other life in the galaxy were sent to the Ark and then sent back after the firing. What about their amazingly advanced civilization? Their towering metropolises? Sure the Array wipes sentient life but not computers or cities or ENTIRE CULTURES. Explain this plot hole please. What about that the Flood were discovered by the FORERUNNER on G617 g1 and not the damn Humans. Or that this goes against dozens of other Halo media such as the Terminals in Halo 3. Also where are the Elites during all this as well? Or the dozens of other Halo species that can be bastardized.
Again, I haven't read the book but I figure that they were devolved, albeit physically rather than mentally. I always thought it strange that a species so weak that it could not even walk properly without the use of technology became the top dog on their planet.
Look I have no problem with adding new to old or creating new canon but this...this is just stupid. It doesn't just add canon it messing with the formula the very feeling of Halo. That is something that should NEVER be changed. But instead it was walked all over. Changing what Halo is.
It sounds to me like you're just annoyed that your baseless preconceptions were proven wrong. Everything fits into place, quit whining. You're just being overly pedantic and petty.
Wolverfrog hath spoken!
*kneels*
But yes, I do take Cryptum as canon because
1) We knew nothing anyway
2) It adds all kinds of mystery to Halo
and 3) It should have all been down in the Halo Story Bible anyway. Maybe not specifics, but the basics were there.
Does it change my view of the Forerunners? Yes. Do I like it? Yes. If not, could I or you simply not accept it as canon? No.