I never really understood what he meant by this, care to elaborate?
It means the Chief is very hard to kill.
Well you have to look at there history, Cheif has avoided death SO many times, and so the arbiter thinks it is near imposible to kill him, also at the start of Halo 3 the arbiter says that line. So it would also be kind of a dramatic thing.
“Were it so easy” is the Arbiter’s way of respecting the Master Chief as an equally unkillable force on the battlefield.
Basically the only two times he said it were immediately following quotes that suggest either him, the master chief, or both of them dying.
Johnson: “We got enough problems without you two trying to kill each other!”
Arbiter: “Were it so easy…” [i.e. so easy to believe they could kill one another]
Hood: “It’s hard to believe he’s dead…”
Arbiter: “Were it so easy…” [i.e. so easy to believe anything could kill MC]
Basically, the Arbiter believes that he, and the Chief, are two invincible forces. They are both too good to die.
haha hes right in a way, im sure the arbitir will be drawn t MC in the future, in order to save or kill him, has yet to be determined.
> “Were it so easy” is the Arbiter’s way of respecting the Master Chief as an equally unkillable force on the battlefield.
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> Basically the only two times he said it were immediately following quotes that suggest either him, the master chief, or both of them dying.
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> Johnson: “We got enough problems without you two trying to kill each other!”
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> Arbiter: “Were it so easy…” [i.e. so easy to believe they could kill one another]
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> Hood: “It’s hard to believe he’s dead…”
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> Arbiter: “Were it so easy…” [i.e. so easy to believe anything could kill MC]
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> Basically, the Arbiter believes that he, and the Chief, are two invincible forces. They are both too good to die.
What… That changes my whole view of The Arbiter now… And sort of reminds of the Arby n Chief show.
I always took saw it as “Were it so easy… to accept that he’s dead.” The first stage of the five stages of grief is denial for a reason. Most people, when someone they’re close/grown attached to dies, refuse to believe that it has actually happened. I just assumed that the Arbiter was grieving in his way, and that the writers did this as a way of humanizing him.
I personally believe that the Arbiter knows the chief isn’t dead, but merely somewhere else, I think this as after he says the line, he looks up into the sky(Although the elite ship is there, I do believe that he is staring to show how he wonders where the chief could have been teleported to).
> I personally believe that the Arbiter knows the chief isn’t dead, but merely somewhere else, I think this as after he says the line, he looks up into the sky(Although the elite ship is there, I do believe that he is staring to show how he wonders where the chief could have been teleported to).
This
I think it was some kind of taunt to the Chief. He meant that he can’t be killed so easily.
On the ending maybe he meant it has a question.