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Posted by: hotshot revan II
Posted by: DonVinzone1
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: DonVinzone1
Sounds like this book is full of unlikable characters.
And Mendez suddenly hating Halsey? What? Why? Sure, both Halsey and he always had doubts about the program they were working on...but hate?
I dont know, this information doesn't make me jump around screaming and yelling how awesome this is going to be.
I'm looking out for Primordium...this one, well....maybe I'll give it benefit of doubt but its definatly not a day 1 buy for me.[/quote]
Mendez always respected Halsey, yeah, the same way people respect Hitler for the political and military accomplishments he achieved. Doesn't mean we have to like him.
Time spent in the Dyson Sphere--basically seclusion--will inevitably lead to characters mulling things over with nothing else to do. This can stir up some deeply burried resentments and feelings that on a normal day never appear to exist.
But in short order, hotshot has it right: "Its called character devolopment."
This
@Don vin
If you actually look at ourselves in real life,then you see the same things happening in our own personal lifes .
I understand how it is the same in real life for minor conflicts and making big things out of nothing.
But what I don't understand, and think is highly unlikely, is how Mendez has no reason to hate Halsey. Irritations because they are all locked up in the DS: sure. I get that, and that is logical.
But why whould he hate the woman who he willingly helped for years? Because he was later on involved in S3 and saw things could be different (I wouldn't say better!)?
What could possibly trigger a sudden hate towards her? He (Mendez) already knows exactly what the Spartans went through. He knows what wrongs had been done. And he was totally fine with that before.
It seems to forced to me. Too much: "oh we need some internal struggle and we need to do something with the party inside the DS too"
If the rest of the book seemed to be really great I wouldn't really make a point out of this. But Traviss seems to make a sport out of making this book filled with characters that are immensely unlikable just for the sake of getting drama throughout. Every character thats new, for some reason has something against the established crew. And even within that crew everybody is all of the sudden not on speaking terms with each other.
Struggles: fine, but a book full of a-holes: no please!
And I'm afraid this is one of those inevitable things you get when a series is pushed beyond the conclusion it worked towards. The same stuff happened to Star Wars. Basically all the post-Empire stuff is boring and unneccecary. Which is also why I fear for Halo 4 a bit.
No idea,which is why we should wait for the book itself so we can go into Mendez head to see his problems with Halsey.It's probably about that Spartan issue.
Maybe in the sphere he will have time to think about his life and think different about what he has done.Maybe he will start to regret those things,look at Keyes he wasn't happy with the program neither as he said in the Flood or Halsey admits herself that she is a monster but throws.It has already been hinted in ghosts of onyx and i'm sure this will escalate more,which is possible .
I understand that Parangosky hates Halsey,she seemed to hhave something about her in ghosts of onyx.No doubt that some washouts will be angry too as Halsey didn't even gave them the choice and sends them into a horrible life.If i were a washout,i would be furious too,my life is ruined...Soren felt about this too,it's not unlikely that those characters start to hate Halsey.
I'm actually excited for Chief's storyline because it's more similar to the Forerunner trilogy .
I don't understand why people got so mad about this.
Some of you cry like those who judge a game before they played it.
Chill out and wait before making conlusions and stop thinking as one dimensional persons.
I'd also like to know which book they read that details Mendez's thoughts to where he explicitly says even in his own mind "Halsey is awesome and I have no problem with what we're doing!"