User blog comment:Maslab/Halo Legends: The Duel/@comment-26685181-20100105085426

Almost everything you complained about, I actually accepted as pretty cool. The Japanese style fits the Sangheili warrior mentality, at least to me. And the giant hunter doesn't violate canon in any way - Mgalekgolo can presumably be any size they're needed to be, and since they don't appear to have fuel rod guns yet, the extra size would be to compensate.

Its the greatest irony, with poor Han. She was made more "human" so that people could empathise with her plight, and we're tearing her apart because she looks too human - that is to say, human at all. I completely agree with the cries of outrage at such a soppy depiction of an Elite female - I half expected Fal to tell her to go back to the kitch and make him a sammich, and its journey towards the dark side would be complete. Hopefully the next female we see is better done.

And the end. Stand there for...what, five minutes? At least that. And then lunge, stab, die. No actual DUEL? The episode was named for something that didn't even happen.

I liked it, but I didn't love it. It had so much potential that was ruined by Han, and by other things - some minor, some major. And it ended up...alright. There's worse out there. But there's far better too.