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Posted by: Baratos
Wait..... do all zombies speak in prose? Gravemind is the most cultured zombie EVER!
That was my respose to someone saying this story has never been done before. Of course bungie will add their own characters and plot twists, but you bring up another similar point in the Enders series. In the Enders series there is an alien enemy that are like the flood. They are called "buggers" and all of the drones have a collective mind in one body, the queen. The queen=gravemind.
Don't believe me about all the similarities? Then read it for yourself.
Im sorry my friend, but that was rather stupid. If anything, the buggers are more analagous to the Covenant (yes, even though they are a hive mind). They do not take over another species body and infect everything. They spread throughout the galaxy and wipe out everything in their path just as the Covenant do.
The Halo story is both original and not. The whole alien invader thing has been done too many times to count, but how many times has it been done in conjunction with a special genetically enhanced super-soldier that discovers an ancient ringworld built by the same mysterious race whose technology was indirectly used to make his own armours shields, and that these rings are designed to destroy the whole universe (how?) to (supposedly) save us from the flood, an ancient race CREATED by the very ancient race that the humans mortal enemy worshipps, whose technology we use, as well as our mortal enemys, and who--in spite of their efforts to save the universe--are destroying it as a result of their own destrucitve technology in the hands of other sentient races, AND that very same race--recognizing their sins during their quest for knowledge (which, ironically enough, we commit as well, just not the same ones) about sentience, which involved playing god--rather than repair the effects of the sins themselves, flee unkown distances away and leave AI's behind to perform penance under their direction, AND whose story contains the concept of AI's developing sentience (otherwise known as rampancy, I have a whole other theory about that, but that is for another time), which is--as a testament to the depth of Halo's story--a subject of an entire book by Issac Asimov (I, Robot, which was nothing like the movie).
So, all of those things considered--which are just the tip of the iceberg--I think that this story is quite original, though it is a composite of quite a few other stories.