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> > > > I was really disappointed with the way that 343 treated Cortana in 5. She had a point and they ignored her and made her an empty, and moderately incompetent villain.
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> > > > My hope is that she is given a redemption arc and treated more as an ascended being than a psychotic, inept AI.
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> > > > If they kill her I will be sorely disappointed as it will just be them covering up their mistake in 5.
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> > > > Rereading the Cortana letters makes me miss the sarcastic early Cortana more. But I do see a lot of possibly correlation between them and what we know of 5 and Infinite.
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> > > I believe she has been grasping the idiot ball tighly for that deleted comment to make sense. Why would she ever take her entire core out of the Domain?
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> > > Redeemed in what way, I prefer if she never came back from 4.
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> > Apologies, what deleted comment?
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> > If my choice is between staying dead and how they handled her in 5, I would pick the former.
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> > I would imagine that doing something moderately useful would be a start. I don’t ever imagine, or frankly want, her to go back to what she was before and the UNSC would never have it. Her sacrifice in 4 would be rendered meaningless if she just pops back into chiefs head like nothing happened.
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> > My issues with her in 5 are largely with her general incompetence, being a cruel -Yoink-, and with how they handled her argument. Not much we can do about the third point, but the first two can be massaged into redemption with enough positive action in Infinite. I’d like her to be able to leave the franchise on a somewhat positive note again.
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> In the recent Infinite campaign trailer, with The weapon report on Cortana after the Zeta mission. I agree with you that she’s grossly incompetent and lazy. I don’t see that being done without ignoring her actions for the past two years. She is a tyrant that killed many civilians and when the Chief asked if she knows, she didn’t answer.
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> How do you come back from that in a positive way?
Except she very easily couldn’t have been written to do the same actions in a light that didn’t make her a pathetic evil doer.
The concept of the created taking control and using the guardians to force the galaxy to settle down is one that needs to be genuinely considered.
In the context of the universe, we just saw one galactic super power almost drive an entire sentient species to extinction in a genocidal war. In the process, they decimated dozens if not hundreds of habitable worlds each with their own unique biosphere. That’s most likely hundreds of billions humans killed and likely trillions or quadrillions of other “lesser” lifeforms eradicated with all or most now completely extinct.
They then nearly eradicated all life in the galaxy three times before ultimately failing. In the process, the leaders of Covenant casually abandoned billions of their citizens aboard High Charity to the flood.
Following this war they species that make up the Covenant went right back to killing each other with humans jumping in every once in awhile.
The humans on the other hand built super soldiers to oppress colonies that didn’t want to be ruled by a centralized government. Not exactly a great start there. Moving forward, ONI has been working to collect Forerunner technology as fast as possible with the intent to use them as weapons.
If the current pattern continues, which all evidence points to happening, the entire galaxy will soon be inhospitable. In that light, Cortana telling them all to sit the -Yoink- down is not such a bad idea. She states that she will best a planet into submission if she has to. To us, that sounds horrible, and it is. But everyone’s favorite reptilian biped, Arby, spent most of his life eradicating planet after planet for fun. He has probably ordered billions of deaths and no one is asking for him to be strung up.
Is the portrayal of Cortana in 5 evil? Yeah. Did it have to be nearly so pathetic, inept, and pointless? No. She had a point that should have been considered and wasn’t.