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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ROBERTO jh The good guys do have a say. Play a game or read a book from the past ten years and you'll see what they have to say. The purpose of Kilo-Five is to reinforce that not everyone is friendly as Halo 3 would have us believe, not everyone agrees, and no one is completely in the right (you know, like in real life). The good guys are still represented in the books, but are kept for minor rolls because there are other important manners they have to cover first. There can only be so much.[/quote] If that's what helps you sleep at night :P That is exactly why the whole Trashlands Trilogy is such a god awful book (besides Traviss deciding her views are the only ones and are completely right while everyone else and the previously established lore/canon is wrong), the fact that is does not acknowledge any other presence than the ones expressed by the characters. None of what you listed is talked about or shown at all, it's completely ignored because in Traviss and 343i's non-canon little perversion on Halo, none of it exists. Both sides of anything in a book need to be given a presence, that doesn't mean giving them a spot as a point of view character or even making them a hugely major character, it just means having them present at some points and/or talked about. If you just present one view and that one alone, the story becomes one-dimensional and poorly developed. That was one of the main reasons for Ackerson existing besides providing minor conflict, to present a view other than what the protagonists think and their opinions. Or in Harry Potter for instance, the characters from the Ministry of Magic, with the exception of Dolores Umbridge, who don't believe Voldemort has returned are all good guys, they clearly want to get rid of the Death Eaters and share the same overall goals as the good guys, but they don't agree with the protagonists on plenty of issues. In order to have depth, more than one side needs to be present, which Trashlands completely lacked. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Spartan1995324 Maggie's tactics are understandable. Practical even. Take them out now, and never worry about them again. I however prefer Hood's plan, I can certainly see where Maggie is coming from.[/quote] Hardly, they're the tactics of someone who's a completely mad and gone senile. There is no sense to it, if Maggot Parangosky was really that worried about humanity she would be working with the government and supporting the Arbiter's forces, instead, all she wants is revenge to satisfy her petty and spiteful nature. She just wants all Elites gone, not because they're a threat (because they aren't), but because she wants revenge and thinks that she knows better than anyone else. There's nothing practical about it, in fact, Parangosky's plan is very juvenile and the equivalent of two little kids fighting on the playground. Parangosky's whole attitude is the same as going, "you hit me, so I'm going to hit you back harder and them I'm going to go kick your whole family". It's good you don't take psycho--blam!-'s side, but there's nothing to see where Parangosky is coming from except insanity and raving lunacy.
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