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heres my thoughts
We have already been through Halsey's conscience and all her problems with what she has done with the Spartan program. She kidnapped some spartans in an attempt to save them to atone for it and in the end nothing happened.
Now Traviss is trying her hardest to make Halsey out to be the bad guy. I really don't get it, I really don't buy it, and in my opinion it just makes out her ODST characters to seem like they were morons.
Halsey has been the good guy, or at least the good scientist throughout the whole series. Why in the entire book was nothing mentioned about Ackerson's program designed to throw hundreds of unprepared, unequipped orphans at Covenant structres in suicide missions? He was infinitely more immoral than Halsey and he didn't even care. All he cared about was promotion.
And Parangosky, who we are supposed to believe I guess at the end is an old woman attoning for her sins, but a good one (although how she is any different from Halsey, aside from having the oncoming escape of death elludes me), was going to give the Spartan 4 program to him? Yeah, her judgement is sound. The old woman is obviously insane and should have been removed from office forcibly long before the events of this book.
And on that note, the Spartan 4 program is doomed to fail and is stupid to the tip. Let's go back to what we did before that didn't work. Genius. No wonder this woman is in charge. I hope she dies, on page or off page doesn't matter.
None of the new characters are that appealing either. Their willingness to start a war that will kill hundreds and possibly thousands of innocent Sanghelli, women, children, maybe even lapse their entire race in war for a long time is completely contradictory given that they cry like babies when they learn less than a hundred humans were kidnapped to stop millions of more casualties. They all, including BB who should be thinking in terms of absolute logic, as an AI, seem borderline vegetable in terms of thought process.
If these characters become mainstay in Halo, I hope they suffer similar fates to Ackerson. Someone has gotta agree wth me, no?
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And I can't get over how annoying the Spartan 4 program is.
Halo is a series about science fiction and action. The main feature of the series, whether they like it or not is the Spartans.
Making it so that the next generation of Spartans are basically slightly augmented ODST, which make no mistake is all they will be, is so dumb and will annoy the fanbase, at least I know it annoys me and I don't know how any hard sci-fi fan or even science-fantasy fan could like it.
Don't call them spartan 4's please, call them orion soldiers or something, they are going to tarnish halo and what the spartan is supposed to be, a warrior trained from childhood for combat.
The spartans in ancient sparta didn't pick 20 year old volunteers to fight in their wars, by that time it was too late.
Also, what the heck happened to the spartans who understood why they had been taken from their parents, and were proud of the role they played in the universe? How the heck did the writers replace them with Serin Osman and her crybaby bs and naomi who seems to be a wannabe ODST?
As some may be able to tell I just read Glasslands and well it is an okay written book, it has... quite a few problems.