Forum:Tell Me About The Children

They did it again.

Frankie, are you stalking me? If you are, could you at least have to courtesy to offer me a job?! ^_^

I like the trailer. Like the Origins anime shorts, it conveys a rough sense of the history of the universe, ignoring aesthetic accuracy in favour of a stylised version. Fans don't need to argue about when things take place, or that the armour could not possibly have been in that timeframe without major retcons, because it is representative. And I thought the discussion about the Spartans was pretty interesting - obviously, taking children and training them for a life of war is going to have some huge effects on them, psychologically.

The biggest part, however, was the interrogation of Halsey. And here I have to throw up my hands, point wildly at some of my own work, and yell at 343i, "HIRE ME! HIRE ME!"

My article is an examination of the post-war rules ONI is forced to play by, tidying up after themselves, both to make sure that leaks don't compromise human morale, and to prevent their own projects presenting a threat. Honestly, the video felt as if it was pulled straight out of it. Frankly, I'm considering making this the canon depiction of SHOGUN, the head of the investigation.

As some who know me will attest to, I seem to have this strange history of predicting/preceding future elements of Halo canon. A long time ago (or so it seems) I set a story in the Procyon system, with a Forerunner facility called the Labyrinth. Not long after, Halo Wars came out, and featured, guess what? A planet in the Procyon system, and a Forerunner-themed multiplayer map called Labyrinth. I create a team of Spartans that operated outside of the proper channels, and what does Halo: Reach focus around? And later, I wrote an article on a faction of quasi-Forerunners who wished to reclaim their ancient empire, and Halo 4 reportedly features the return of the Didact with a similar agenda. And now the prologue trailer for it appears to play along the same lines as yet another concept I wrote about.

Really, there's only so many times I can shrug and tell myself "Great minds think alike."