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Posted by: GnadeMasta
Traviss said she turned characters into "real people."
If so, then she is saying that Fred, Linda, Kelly, Tom, Olivia and Ash are not characters, The ODSTs are shallow idiots, Lucy is some sort of hero, Halsey is suddenly a guilt-ridden freak that can't come to terms with herself (She obviously has, since she stole the spartans away), Mendez is suddenly a philosophical bastard(lolno, he doesn't HAVE skeletons in his closet), et cetera.
The book is terrible, destroys most of what we know about Sangheili culture, and sets aside one of the single most important aspects Bungie wanted in their universe: Spartans are people too.
According to Traviss, spartans are just little machines that follow orders and don't question -blam!-. A lot of your arguments don't even make sense. Fred, Linda, Kelly, Tom, Olivia and Ash just werent focused on, that doesn't mean they aren't characters. The ODSTs are a little shallow, but they are just ODSTs. And either way, they don't really seem shallow to me. Lucy is a good character and very human, which completely contradicts what you said. What does Halsey stealing the spartans have anything to do with proving she has no guilt? And Mendez view was ok for me. The spartan training is the skeleton in his closet.