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5/4/2012 6:46:14 PM
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Halo: The Thursday War ~ COVER REVEALED

[url=http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/12_05/Halo-Thursday-War.jpg]Halo: [i]The Thursday War[/i][/url] So in it we can see some UNSC ships, the largest I'm guessing is the UNSC [i]Infinity[/i] and the Spartan is... Osman? The planet in the background looks an awful lot like the way Sanghelios is depicted in the Halo 3 Bestiarum. Hopefully, this will be better than its predecessor. It's known that I had no love for [i]Glasslands[/i], but this time round it sounds like Traviss is sticking to her strengths with military sci-fi. Musings?

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ninjakenzen [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DecepticonCobra Thought the theme of Glasslands was that "No lessons taught by the Great Schism were learned and that more murder is a-okay!"[/quote] ^yeah but thats crap. I'll give some examples of what I'm thinking of. -How about the idea beheld the Covenant being a collective of races and the extent of which their species served in a heirachy. -The importance and signficance of humanity's mightiest military homeworld falling down due to unbearable odds regardless of humanities best efforts? -The importance of the MAC stations on Reach and how crucial it is protecting the Generators on ground. The relationship between the ground units and above air units working as one on Reach. -The extent of how ultimatly the SPARTANS were ineffective at defending Reach? The symbolism beheld how they couldn't defend their own homes and ran [The idea of how they were force to leave beheld everything they stood for or die] How Reach was a numbers game. Pretty much links back to my 2nd example. -The extent beheld Kurt as a character,[Lead of GoO] How his personality shaped the S-IIIs and how no other SPARTAN-II could have done what Kurt achieved. -How Halsey establishes her character when meeting the S-IIIs, the extent to which she is effective at winning over the S-IIIs respect as a civillian and to measure the significance of why she needed their respect and admiration. There are so many more examples. Halo Post Reach could have been a place worth discussing such ideas in a newer series. But the drivel that 343i pours out makes it pretty dry. So it's just "Reach sucks, Noble team is..., Is jun alive thread etc" on the Bu boards. It's because there's nothing worth discussing in the new books. It just gives us context. These are topics worth reading and discussing besides the blad sci-fi storyline of humans beat covenant, now elites fight humans, oh no what happens now? S-IVs are formed so we can have fighting chance etc etc. I'm mainly refering to ROBERTO jh comment. Meh. If you read literature beyond Halo, you would understand that their is more to a book beyond what happens in a timeline. Yes we get stuff in Glassland. Such as the future of Elite and Human relations. But it's done so poorly that we just accept it as that's that. Forerunner trilogy has a wealth of discussion but to me just doesn't feel Halo. That's my personal preferance. But it's a great series to get into but just ain't my thing. [/quote] >Bear in mind I'm not positive on what you're trying to say Haven't seen this thread in an eternity so I'm a little out. But what exactly were you expecting? [i]2001?[/i] A Sheakespeare tragedy? Complex though this universe is, you can't just expect every story have an incredibly deep or philosophical undertones. I think that Halo's done well enough in that regard already actually; but sometimes you just have to chill out, lay back and enjoy the show. Not everything has to be [i]The Matrix[/i] for it to be good, that's a very elitist thought (and in fact supports my personal belief that having a literary major magically turns a person into an elitist snob). But more importantly, Bungie was never making [i]2002[/i] either, there stories were mostly context with some thematic undertones as well. So what difference is there all of a sudden? To make a jump, Traviss, for example, is critically lauded for the exact things that this forum says she can not do, which is write characters. She doesn't write [i]for ze art[/i] or for the philosophical merit, she writes the psychology and thoughts of people in impossible situations and let's the depth flow naturally. You'd think that she of all people being a defense corrospondant and succesful journalist would know a thing or two about people in war, and more importantly, how to psychoanalyze them. Barring the plothole of Halsey getting Spartan punched, I have yet to hear a solid reason why the entire novel is terrible and ruins the story forever. I've almost come to the conclusion that I must have read a different book, or at the very least, went into the book with completely different expectations. But really, I just have to know: what is the difference between 343i's contextual "drivel and Bungie's likwise contextual "drivel" (an Elitist word, that). Why is Halo suddenly terrible when from a thematic position nothing has really changed? I may be completely misinterpretting your post, but that's what I got out of it. [Edited on 05.19.2012 6:03 AM PDT]

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