Comments on: Shorts https://didacticmind.com/2015/01/shorts-4.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sat, 29 Aug 2020 20:46:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Didact https://didacticmind.com/2015/01/shorts-4.html#comment-3833 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:25:10 +0000 #comment-3833 In reply to A. Nonymous.

One word: "midichlorians".

]]> By: A. Nonymous https://didacticmind.com/2015/01/shorts-4.html#comment-3832 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 07:55:42 +0000 #comment-3832 I'll have to disagree, because the integral backstory of SW canon, prior to The Mouse getting his grubby paws on it all, was not defined by Anderson, McIntyre and Hambly, whose works, in my opinion at least, ultimately amounted to little more than silly one-offs with little in the way of lasting influence on the overall tenor of the universe. There's something very different at work in Halo, where the literature, in trying to explain the existence of such creatures as SPARTAN-IIs in the first place, becomes either deeply disturbing (anything relating to Catherine Halsey's justifications for her various mad science projects) or flat-out ridiculous (the routine pillorying, in-universe and out, of James Ackerson for doing almost exactly the same thing as what Halsey is worshipped for, or the fact that the writers' attempts to make MJOLNIR armour super-duper-special-awesomeness that only the SPARTAN demi-gods can wear essentially renders it completely redundant).

]]> By: Didact https://didacticmind.com/2015/01/shorts-4.html#comment-3831 Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:22:40 +0000 #comment-3831 In reply to A. Nonymous.

The HALO novels can get pretty dicey.

But nothing- and I mean nothing- in the expanded HALO canon is anywhere near as bad as the horrors that Kevin J. Anderson, Vonda N. McIntyre, and Barbara Hambly inflicted upon the STAR WARS EU canon.

]]> By: A. Nonymous https://didacticmind.com/2015/01/shorts-4.html#comment-3830 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 23:10:18 +0000 #comment-3830 A Halo fan mocking Star Wars for the quality of its supplementary literature falls quite deeply inside of "pot calling the kettle black" territory.

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