Here’s a link to a description of the next issue of Halo Escalation.
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Please don’t read the OP below if you don’t want vital facts to be known…
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In Halo Escalation Issue #10 the Didact is killed once and for all. How could 343i kill one of the most detailed and layered characters that they spent an entire book trilogy and game building up in a comic and so soon! The Didact had one of the best back stories in the Halo universe and made for a great antagonist, more so than the prophets. The Didact had so much potential and it was wasted in this random and rushed way of killing him.
Chief and Blue team had no chance fighting the Didact and should have all been murdered instantly. Remember in Halo 4 when the Didact would just “force grab” the Chief whenever he would attack? Well he did none of that whenever he encountered the Chief because the plot demanded Chief have a fighting chance this time. The Didact should have had a basic shield to stop Chief’s knife from gouging out his eye, but the knife went straight through because the Chief is the Chief! The Didact could have just killed each Spartan one by one with “force grabbing” them or simply with a gun instead of throwing them around, but the plot demanded that none of them be killed.
When the Didact grabbed the Chief’s head, all he had to do was crush it entirely and destroy Chief’s skull, but no instead let’s have expository dialogue. Also, all the Didact had to do was “force grab” Chief in the control room of the Halo and stop him from putting the activation index inside, but the writers demanded the Didact just stand there and let Chief talk and talk and walk over to the control panel, its inconsistent and stupid. Lastly, when the chunk of the Halo is hurling towards destruction, the Chief teleports away with a monitor but the Didact is left to die. Why didn’t the Didact have a Promethean Knight Teleport him away? I’m very disappointed in the writing for this comic, especially since the Forerunner Trilogy and Halo 4 were so superb. The writing is sadly illogical and serves the plot more than actually making sense and kills the Didact just for the sake of tying up loose ends.
So who is going to be the main antagonist now for Halo 5? Mendicant Bias? The Flood?
It’s not that bad. The Didact could have been just stunned at MC’s tactics, for one thing. Having someone come right up to you with a key to a superweapon would stun most people. That, and the Didact might have thought that he was trying to fire the Halo instead of separating a part, in which case he could have probably stopped it himself. Add that to his superiority complex, and it’s plausible as to why he didn’t stop John.
Shields are notoriously ineffective against melee weapons. And it’s not like it made any difference anyway. The lack of crushing defeat (punpunpun) on Blue team’s part could be attributed to, again, the Didact’s self-importance, or his respect for them as warriors, or his belief that they couldn’t truly harm him.
Besides, there is reason to believe the Didact lives on, in a way. Firstly, there’s the possibility that Bornstellar might still be alive, and then there’s that snippet of dialogue from Shutdown, when Chief hears the Didact, and Cortana can’t. The Librarian isn’t adverse to doling out geases, so the “gift” she gave him might contain her husband’s personality. Personally, I think that having the Didact in our head would be a lot more terrifying than having him in front of us.
Well if Bornstellar is still alive then he wont be an antagonist. The reason the Ur-Didact when crazy is because the Gravemind drove him insane for like a hundred years and then he was kept up in that Cryptum to reinforce his insanity for 100,000 years. Bornstellar is perfectly normal and human friendly so not a real threat.
I could grant everything except the Didact stopping the Chief in the control room. Every time in Halo 4 He met Chief He automatically “force grabbed” him. Chief had the index to destroy everything the Didact was planning and He didn’t react at all to stop him? It’s out of character
> I’m sort of astonished at the lack of outrage that this ridiculous comic has brought about.
I know right?!
The Didact was given the most stupid and anti-climactic death and not even in a main Halo title but a random comic!
Three books and an entire game of back story and build up wasted in a stupid writing move. What were they thinking? He was the perfect antagonist for the entire new trilogy?!
Not only am I extremely disappointed, but I’m also starting to lose my faith for Halo 5’s story seeing that the person responsible for my immense disappointment happens to be Halo 5’s lead writer.
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Just to inform future posters, 343i has confirmed that the Didact is still alive.
> > I’ve yet to read Escalation, but surely the Didact isn’t really dead. 343 wouldn’t be that stupid would they?
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> Sorry friend, click on the link above
…I don’t know what to say. I mean, he’s gotta return in some way or form right? I refuse to believe that 343’s writing team would make such a stupid move. That’d be…stupid! Just plain stupid. Surely they wouldn’t just throw away all of the Didact’s potential.
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I am legitely dissapointed in the current lead writer of the Halo 5, Spartan Ops, and Escalation. Spartan Ops was mediocre story telling at best and Escalation was great until they took control of it.
They killed the Didact in the worst way possible and is generally a mediocre story teller.
The plot was Halo 4’s strong point but now they have greatly demolished my hopes for Halo 5’s story seeing how Spartan Ops and now Escalation is so meh, sometimes illogical, and dissatisfying.
> > I’ve yet to read Escalation, but surely the Didact isn’t really dead. 343 wouldn’t be that stupid would they?
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> Sorry friend, click on the link above
Just because Halo Follower says he is dead dosnt make it so…
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If the Didact is killed off in a comic (Seriously?) then one of the writers working on the franchise is the worst writer.
If the Didact survived what they just did too him, then why did they do it too him at all? and one of the writers working on the franchise is the worst writer.
