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Posted by: Mr Secksy Man
I can't let it go, I'm trying to talk to you but for some reason you can't hear me due to all those dicks in my mouth.
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Yeah...about your issue with the human part of Cryptum, you seem to miss a few things. We don't know why the Forerunners choose humanity as their Inheritors. We still have TWO books left in the trilogy. Refrain from saying it makes no sense we nobody has any idea what is coming next.
You misunderstand what I'm trying to say. Nobody does a complete 180 from complete enemy to friend in such a short period of time. However Bear chooses to proceed from this point in time, it is going to feel rushed and cheesy. It's going to take some serious genius to pull that one off.
And you say humanities achievements mean nothing know because we already did them in the past. I don't know about you, but having our intergalactic empire reduced to nothing, watching our knowledge fade away and yet overcoming ii all and reclaiming our journey to the stars, without Forerunner help mind you, pretty amazing.
Sure. But did we regain all of that because humanity is great, or because it was as the forerunners intended? I don't think the Forerunners left humanity with nothing, as will probably be revealed in the next few books.
And as for the Flood, you say their origins are unoriginal. How so? Their origins prior to Cryptum were unoriginal, oh man a dangerous evil alien/parasite/robot/thing comes out of nowhere! That has been used in nearly every piece of sci-fi one way or another.
Sure, originating from a powder doesn't seem scary, but think about it. A lot of diseases nowadays come from odd places, look at bird flu or swine flu. They come from one place and spread. Yes, it shows amazing human ignorance to sprinkle that stuff on their pets. That said, once the Flood proper formed, the -blam!- hit the fan and spread. And yet we prevailed.
OK, but doesn't it seem like the Flood that we all saw as some great powerful force moving through the universe now looks a little silly? A disease that starts with animal experiment and then turns out to be malicious, killing everyone and everything in its path, and eventually mutating people into creatures that carry the disease?
Bear managed to double up on his cliches, because not only did this mysterious powder appear out of nowhere,it turns out to be a disease that kills much of humanity. so not only is it a ripoff of Alien, Predator, Lost in space, etc, it's also a ripoff of I am Legend, Planet of the Apes, 28 weeks later, etc. And it totally ruins the flood's mystique. That sucks.