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Madara, Tobi....call me whatever you want. I'M NO ONE. I DON'T WANT TO BE ANYONE. ALL I CARE ABOUT IS COMPLETING THE MOON'S EYE PLAN."
I understand why many people don't want the TO to be the gravemind, as that would be a very lame transformation for someone as bad@$$ as the TO. The gravemind, no matter what 343 does about it, was always lack luster. Bungie could have made it into a much cooler enemy, but they missed the mark, and he was always underwhelming for some reason. And the fact that players already know what it feels like to defeat him (halo 3 ending).
The mouthpiece theory is a much better alternative, it makes sense that the gravemind is just the voice of the TO, rather than the TO itself. People argue that the ability to command the flood is a good enough reason for the TO to be the gravemind. But no matter which way you look at them, the flood are just not THAT great. . .
Greg Bear and 343i are probably banging their heads right now trying to come up with a valid, non BS explanation as to how the forerunner could have possibly been beaten by the flood. Even with mendicant Bias on their side, and that BS excuse that the forerunner "waited too long to treat the flood as an enemy". . . its still a stretch. We all have fought the flood for 3 games, we all have defeated them (although it may have been temporary). The TO becoming one of the flood is very underwhelming.
In my humble opinion, The TO is much more frightening as TO, not the gravemind. The way the didact and the confirmer pissed their pants talking about him escaping, puts his power level well over 1 billion, let alone 9000. The gravemind in this scenario, is about as strong as yamcha.