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10/6/2012 5:37:42 PM
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Forward Unto Dawn
What did you think of the first installment? I thought it was fine apart from one or two small things like the fact these marines have little if any muscles, female officers are being called sir. And most of them look around 13 years old. But apart from that it's good.
For those yet to see it : [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BfJVgXBfSH8&list=PL549EB9DBB2FF8C24[/url]
[Edited on 10.06.2012 9:38 AM PDT]
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inb4lolurlinkisfail
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Forward Unto YAWN
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] I got no sight Forward Unto YAWN[/quote] icwatudidthar
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there have been like five threads a day on this bro. STOP
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Stahp dude stahp.
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I liked it.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] I got no sight Forward Unto YAWN[/quote]
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I kind of agree about the marines being a bit too skrawny, although they are fairly new cadets, so I guess its understandable. As for the sir thing, I think in the military its a gender neutral title of respect, at least in this military.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Darthbill99 I kind of agree about the marines being a bit too skrawny, although they are fairly new cadets, so I guess its understandable. As for the sir thing, I think in the military its a gender neutral title of respect, at least in this military.[/quote]So basically you inspect male bodies. That's cool.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] lukeanatr female officers are being called sir[/quote] You do realise that this is a term also applied to female officers in real life, right? Drill Instructors especially are referred to as 'sir' regardless of gender.
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Of all the possible stories they could have told in the Halo universe, they went with possibly the most boring and clichéd.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ajw34307 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] lukeanatr female officers are being called sir[/quote] You do realise that this is a term also applied to female officers in real life, right? Drill Instructors especially are referred to as 'sir' regardless of gender.[/quote]Why?
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I thought the beginning was a bit cheesy - some of the acting looked forced, but I enjoyed it more towards the end.
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The Marines were skrawny, the acting was forced, the vehicles/weapons, while realistic to Halo's world, look cheesy as Hell (the Hell's up with the size of that pistol..?), and a setting like that could never even happen to begin with. As is proven time and time again in the armed forces today, a bunch of testosterone driven males CANNOT co-exist with females without -blam!-ly assaulting the lot of them. I doubt magically in the future it would work out, especially with all the men suddenly becoming emotion driven wimps like the main character seemed to be.
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For the budget they had, it seems really well done.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] lukeanatr [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ajw34307 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] lukeanatr female officers are being called sir[/quote] You do realise that this is a term also applied to female officers in real life, right? Drill Instructors especially are referred to as 'sir' regardless of gender.[/quote]Why?[/quote] It's a show of mutual respect, it removes any kind of gender barrier and gives the 'we're all equally in this together' impression, it's shorter, and when you respond to a DI you say "sir, yes sir!" rather than "ma'am, yes ma'am".
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] FinnA9X Of all the possible stories they could have told in the Halo universe, they went with possibly the most boring and clichéd.[/quote]this is an accurate description of nearly every halo product ever.
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The marine cadets being scrawny isn't so out there. Not sure about the US, but in the UK fitness standards for army only require that you be able to run 1.5 miles in a certain time and be able to lift a weight between 15-40KG above your head to a height of 1.45 metres. I could do the upper bound of that at the age of 16, and I'm by no means a huge guy. I'm sure an adult, even if they didn't work out prior to joining, could too. It's at the military they'll develop your strength and such.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ajw34307 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] lukeanatr [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ajw34307 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] lukeanatr female officers are being called sir[/quote] You do realise that this is a term also applied to female officers in real life, right? Drill Instructors especially are referred to as 'sir' regardless of gender.[/quote]Why?[/quote] It's a show of mutual respect, it removes any kind of gender barrier and gives the 'we're all equally in this together' impression, it's shorter, and when you respond to a DI you say "sir, yes sir!" rather than "ma'am, yes ma'am".[/quote] Technically speaking, you are supposed to refer to female superiors as "ma'am". Male superiors are to be referred to as "sir".
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Wolverfrog The marine cadets being scrawny isn't so out there. Not sure about the US, but in the UK fitness standards for army only require that you be able to run 1.5 miles in a certain time and be able to lift a weight between 15-40KG above your head to a height of 1.45 metres. I could do the upper bound of that at the age of 16, and I'm by no means a huge guy. I'm sure an adult, even if they didn't work out prior to joining, could too. It's at the military they'll develop your strength and such.[/quote] Add to the fact that these kids come from the UNSC higher command and have lived comfortable lives so far until reaching the Academy.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ajw34307 It's a show of mutual respect, it removes any kind of gender barrier and gives the 'we're all equally in this together' impression, it's shorter, and when you respond to a DI you say "sir, yes sir!" rather than "ma'am, yes ma'am".[/quote] You only ever see it in video games and TV. In reality, female superiors are to be called "ma'am".
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] theHurtfulTurkey [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ajw34307 It's a show of mutual respect, it removes any kind of gender barrier and gives the 'we're all equally in this together' impression, it's shorter, and when you respond to a DI you say "sir, yes sir!" rather than "ma'am, yes ma'am".[/quote] You only ever see it in video games and TV. In reality, female superiors are to be called "ma'am".[/quote]you only ever see that in video games and tv. in reality, female superiors is an oxymoron.
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Boring, i hate character driven stories in sci-fi, why bother with a sci-fi epic setting if you just focus on boring human drama which we see in our day to day lives? No where near enough action, and plus a bunch of whiney little kids.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Harbing3r UK i hate character driven stories in sci-fi, why bother with a sci-fi epic setting if you just focus on boring human drama which we see in our day to day lives[/quote] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_%28Simmons_novel%29][i]Ahem...[/i][/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_%28TV_series%29]wut?[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who]Some of the best sci-fi is character driven[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner]and juxtaposes both,[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road]they don't have to be[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four]mutually exclusive.[/url] [quote]No where near enough action, and plus a bunch of whiney little kids.[/quote] There was plenty of action for an opening episode, and the only person who even remotely whined in the episode was Lasky - which wasn't even whining, it was moral questioning, rather than the generic presentation of good guys vs bad guys. If you want action, watch a Michael Bay film.
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1. They're all kids of officers, so yeah they're all weakling 16s because they're technically civies. 2. at CAMS all officers are called sir for some reason. Military Accademy people do this stuff irl for some reason. 3. Again, they are all 16 year olds.
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2 things I didn't quite get: 1- Is the bald guy in the opening older Lasky? If so, where's his hair? I thought Halo 4's Lasky was young and actually had hair. 2- I swear enough TTR rounds could knock you unconcious, couldn't they? And I also thought an electric baton was passed over the person's affected area to allow movement again?
