So I was rewatching the above video and I am filled with so much nostalgia right now. It made me think of something, though. They show the clip of Cortana explaining what Halo really does. "Halo doesn't kill Flood, it kills their food! Humans, Covenant, whatever. We're all equally edible." I probably have every single line memorized from that game... hell, maybe the whole trilogy. I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
Anyways, I just processed something that never really crossed my mind. You see, the introduction of the Flood? That was a plot twist. It was probably the most stunning thing I had ever seen in a story before that point, and still near the top today. It was one of the darkest moments in gaming history.
But I never really thought about it in my head that... Cortana revealing what the Halos actually do? That too is a plot twist. Now, maybe this isn't enough to go on for a thread discussion, but it's interesting. I think that I was so caught up with the twist of the Flood introduction that I never really considered the implications of how great a twist the Halo rings were. I sort of just accepted it as a... 'Whoa' moment. Never counted it in my list of top plot twists before, like I do with the Flood introduction.
Just thought it was interesting. Anybody similar?
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Et Tu Brute does that to me.