[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ROBERTO jh [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] CoRaMo So 343i and Karen Traviss just basically took a giant dump on the hopeful and idealistic ending of Halo 3. Not cool, not cool.[/quote] I didn't realize this community wanted a Disney ending. I'd have expected a longing for a more mature, realistic conclusion than 30 years of bitter hatred being overcome through [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThePowerOfFriendship]The Power of Friendship,[/url] especially since it was overwhelmingly obvious Halo 3 wasn't the end. Dissappointing, to say the least.[/quote] Who ever said anything a "Disney" ending where everything is all sunshine, happiness, puppies, butterflies, and rainbows? I don't think anyone ever did. The Elites and humanity forming an alliance with the other, which is what Bungie was doing and was the whole -blam!- behind Halo 3's ending with the memorial and one of the main points of the game and all of the lore between it and Halo 2 and coming out after them. It was not going to be an easy or instant road on human's part, but that was what Bungie meant to happen, alliance and a close friendship between the two like what Great Britain and the other common-wealth countries (Canada, Australia, New Zealand) and America have with each other. How is the author's intent at all disappointing, claiming it is is just stupid. No one has ever said anything about it being instant, so don't act like they have or that humans should instantly be friends with every single Elite. And you know what, you can have a working alliance and treaty with another group, race, species, or nation without really liking them too much, the only important thing is if the leaders can put aside their differences and try to work together...which the UNSC obviously could, or at least the important people who actually matter, like Lord Hood.