By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
Posted by: risay_117
I understand everyone elses problem but yours is mainly fanbase you attacked but never use a single reason as to why it was wrong and what he should look at. The others that are criticizing her have given their explanation and that is amazing.
Er... what? You apparently missed this, but just to add to that.
The whole "HALSEY IS GUILTY" thing was overdone to the point where you couldn't go a single chapter without someone mentioning that they hate Halsey...
Karen went out of her way to make as much of a fuss about Halsey's "war crimes" as possible. She was trying to make literally everyone hate her, she mentioned what a terrible person she was whenever the opportunity came (sound familiar? Yeah, when I said she'd be completely demonised, guess who was right!). She overdid that aspect completely.
She even introduced these random ODSTs that we have never met before seemingly with the sole purpose of providing more hate for Halsey, like that was their real mission? After supplying the Sangheili dissidents, they'd just get in their HATE ship and fly over to the Micro HATE Sphere and start HATEing on Halsey...
Lets all ignore that Halsey's crimes saved humanity from extinction. "SHE WAS BAD AND YOU ALL SHOULD FEEL BAD FOR LIKING HER," was the message I got from the oh so wonderful authour who spent more time putting RvB jokes in the book than focusing on making a good story. IMO Karen focused too much on what SHE wanted to write about, and not so much the Halo universe needed.
So, prepare to suspend disbelief everyone, we'll ignore that 2 months ago humanity was on the brink of extinction, and lets ignore the mystery and grandeur of the Forerunner Shield World they just found, HALSEY IS BAD. The UNSC can recover the losses of 23 billion deaths, hundreds of colonies (etc etc) in a matter of months, the important thing to remember is that HALSEY IS BAD.
There's even a bit where Halsey is being interrogated that the text at the top specifying the location says "by Installation 03", so they found another Halo but it's never mentioned... Know why? Because HALSEY IS BAD!
Oh, and don't get me started on how utterly retarded the characters are... Every likeable person Nylund introduced has been convoluted and turned into either the antichrist him(or rather, her)self...
Also this story was not as big as a fail as Reach was but everyone is acting this way, i do not get it. Why is it such a fail, there is no canon break the only problem is that some of the characters are overdramatized and some people are losing control of themselves remember war takes a toll on people by making them become insane a little bit or lose any way of thinking.
I don't care if it's not as big of a fail as Reach was, it was still an abysmal story. It's not about canon, it's about how every character Halsey writes either has to be some mentally depressed psychopath or full of hate for someone... I want to read a Halo book, not something where all the characters may as well be slitting their wrists.
This is the most terrible war you nearly lost evreything but were saved at the nick of time, you could have died whats the use of surviving, all these things start affecting those who were there from the beginning and the Spartan project was one that tore people apart over if it was right. Yes they saved the human race but their purpose was to quell the rebellion and when mendez stood back and saw their purpose of being built he may be horrified how he let something like this to happen, a little stupid reason to start a project.
What are you going on about? This is completely irrelevant, are you trying to justify why everyone in the post-Halo 3 universe is depressed? This is Halo, not Twilight...
[Edited on 10.27.2011 3:25 PM PDT]