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Posted by: Old Salty27
The series has gone from multi-layered, but relatively easy to understand to an overly complicated mess; first the forerunners are human, then they're not, but sort of related. Forerunners discover Humanity right before the arrays fire, to knowing about them all along and even going to war with them. There were seven rings and an ark, now there are 12 rings, including super rings and a mega second Ark. We thought most of the spartan-2s had died in augmentation, now most of them are all alive due to a cover up. Halsey went from being a brilliant, cool, calm and collect scientist that had to make horrible horrible choices to counter a brutal civil war to the wicked witch of the west. Paragnosky, who was in GoO for two seconds was portrayed as a cold, but logical tactician is now vindictive lunatic no one questions. Then there is the UNSC infinity; and advanced Human ship that was in service through the end of the Human-Covenant War, equipped with all sorts of Forerunner tech when it was explained earlier in the series that the UNSC could barely reverse engineer Covy tech over the course of 25 years.One of the best compilations of differences between Bungie Halo and 343i Halo, I've seen in a while. Glad to see that there are more who don't desperately try to find redeeming similarities between the two, even though there are twice as many obvious differences, opposed to the deep thematic sentences, which vaguely justifies any new directions whatsoever.
I.E, if you dig around long enough you will find similarities between anything and everything.
I too am doing my best to like H4, but they're not making it easy for me.
If the Didact is the enemy, it will go against everything I thought at the end of Halo 3, something that would make me wonder if H4 is a sequel to H3, or rather a sequel to Silencium...
A sequel is supposed to continue on the same themes and directions of it's predecessor right?
Even though there were sighs of the Forerunner being less than holy, through the Terminals, there were even more that pointed towards them simply having a severe case of collective hybris; self-righteousness, unjustified responsibility, and in the end unwarranted overconfidence.
Behaviour that pointed towards one thing - a recless and hypocritical nature, not a malevolent such. It would be ridiculous to state that the Forerunners enjoyed wiping the galaxy clean of life, whilst saving themselves from the Flood. They did so with immense shame.
So if the Forerunner are indeed the enemy, I believe--just like many other, that they only are the frontrunners for the Precursor/s.
That they have become bitter and evil would work too; something tells me that the regime that didn't approve of their species final decision, would want to reclaim what they once had - control. Faber would fit into that category. But don't tell me that they were portrayed as evil in the Terminals.
[Edited on 07.29.2012 6:51 AM PDT]