Thomas Lasky is a good character. His backstory was shown in Forward Unto Dawn. But since then, he’s just been the typical generic good-guy character.
It’s time for Lasky to step up as a character, someone interesting - who we’ll care about if they die.
What do you think?
I agree, it’d be nice to see him actually do something useful to the plot unlike in H5 where he might as well have been a cardboard cutout. I did like him in both FUD and H4 and felt he had potential as a character.
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> I agree, it’d be nice to see him actually do something useful to the plot unlike in H5 where he might as well have been a cardboard cutout. I did like him in both FUD and H4 and felt he had potential as a character.
Agreed, he was done just right in Halo 4.
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> Thomas Lasky is a good character. His backstory was shown in Forward Unto Dawn. But since then, he’s just been a generic American white character, doing the right thing all the time.
> Did 343i miss the opportunity to introduce a more ethnic character, possibly an Asian, or Australian, for example? After all, it is UNITED NATIONS Space Command, not USA Space Command.
> Back to the point, it’s time for Lasky to step up as a character, someone interesting - who we’ll care about if they die.
> What do you think?
Uhhhh…What’s your point in this? The title of the thread was “Time for Lasky to step up”, where does ethnicity fit into that?
Back to the main point, I don’t think Lasky needs to do that much more to be more notable other than to just show up more and give out more emotion. In Halo 4, he did have prominence in his character, what with him disobeying orders from Del Rio to intercept and arrest Master Chief after Cortana’s…episode. He also showed how committed he was to the Chief in his interaction with him at the end of Halo 4, what with telling him about his early days on New Harmony and the whole “Soldiers are people too” thing. In Halo 5, he is toned down a bit, but the focus isn’t really on him anymore and he becomes less prominent as a result. With the whole Created arc in place now, I have a feeling we’re gonna be seeing a lot more of his character in the story and how he reacts with others, not just Chief, Palmer, and Osiris.
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> > Thomas Lasky is a good character. His backstory was shown in Forward Unto Dawn. But since then, he’s just been a generic American white character, doing the right thing all the time.
> > Did 343i miss the opportunity to introduce a more ethnic character, possibly an Asian, or Australian, for example? After all, it is UNITED NATIONS Space Command, not USA Space Command.
> > Back to the point, it’s time for Lasky to step up as a character, someone interesting - who we’ll care about if they die.
> > What do you think?
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> Uhhhh…What’s your point in this? The title of the thread was “Time for Lasky to step up”, where does ethnicity fit into that?
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> Back to the main point, I don’t think Lasky needs to do that much more to be more notable other than to just show up more and give out more emotion. In Halo 4, he did have prominence in his character, what with him disobeying orders from Del Rio to intercept and arrest Master Chief after Cortana’s…episode. He also showed how committed he was to the Chief in his interaction with him at the end of Halo 4, what with telling him about his early days on New Harmony and the whole “Soldiers are people too” thing. In Halo 5, he is toned down a bit, but the focus isn’t really on him anymore and he becomes less prominent as a result. With the whole Created arc in place now, I have a feeling we’re gonna be seeing a lot more of his character in the story and how he reacts with others, not just Chief, Palmer, and Osiris.
Yeah, you’re right , I got a bit sidetracked from the point. Nonetheless, I think it’s true.
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> Thomas Lasky is a good character. His backstory was shown in Forward Unto Dawn. But since then, he’s just been a generic American white character, doing the right thing all the time.
> Did 343i miss the opportunity to introduce a more ethnic character, possibly an Asian, or Australian, for example? After all, it is UNITED NATIONS Space Command, not USA Space Command.
> Back to the point, it’s time for Lasky to step up as a character, someone interesting - who we’ll care about if they die.
> What do you think?
To be fair, we’ve had Avery Johnson, Jilan al-Cygni (novels), Lian Deveraux (novels), Jameson Locke, etc. Halo has always done pretty great by ethnic diversity.
And that’s pretty much what Lasky’s character is, although remember that he’s not always doing the right thing by the letter, just by the Chief and his crew - I’ll take that.
The ethnicity stuff aside, I agree. Like a lot of 343i characters he has a lot of potential, but just… isn’t important and doesn’t do anything significant to set him apart.
So I am not gonna be the only one who is gonna tell you that that ethnicity part is just plain stupid. Seriously, what the heck. Halo is one series where you don’t need to worry about what gender, race, or sexual preferences you are. So stop it.
Laskey was great in H4, non existent in H5, and better have a big role in H6. He is the man.
Well hold on,
I think Halo could do a better job in showing people from all cultures and nationalities in their main game series.
I know Halo is an American shooter, but it’s not very realistic being a global UNITED NATIONS space command and having 90% of characters being American.
So I’m standing my ground. I never meant sexual orientation and gender - and perhaps I should have used nationality instead of ethnicity - but the fact remains: There is an unrealistic over- representation of Americans in the Halo GAMES (not books, movies - the GAMES) that don’t reflect the other 6.3 billion people on earth.
Infinity Warfare did this quite well, I thought, as an example.
I will make a new forum post about this, I am interested to see what others think.
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> Well hold on,
> I think Halo could do a better job in showing people from all cultures and nationalities in their main game series.
> I know Halo is an American shooter, but it’s not very realistic being a global UNITED NATIONS space command and having 90% of characters being American.
> So I’m standing my ground. I never meant sexual orientation and gender - and perhaps I should have used nationality instead of ethnicity - but the fact remains: There is an unrealistic over- representation of Americans in the Halo GAMES (not books, movies - the GAMES) that don’t reflect the other 6.3 billion people on earth.
> Infinity Warfare did this quite well, I thought, as an example.
> I will make a new forum post about this, I am interested to see what others think.
Agreed. Exactly my thoughts!
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> Well hold on,
> I think Halo could do a better job in showing people from all cultures and nationalities in their main game series.
> I know Halo is an American shooter, but it’s not very realistic being a global UNITED NATIONS space command and having 90% of characters being American.
> So I’m standing my ground. I never meant sexual orientation and gender - and perhaps I should have used nationality instead of ethnicity - but the fact remains: There is an unrealistic over- representation of Americans in the Halo GAMES (not books, movies - the GAMES) that don’t reflect the other 6.3 billion people on earth.
> Infinity Warfare did this quite well, I thought, as an example.
> I will make a new forum post about this, I am interested to see what others think.
That 90% of characters being American stat is not realistic. There are very few characters at all from the US in halo, most are not even from Earth. Having a typically American accent and the voice actor being American doesn’t make the character American- a character can only be considered American if they are actually from the states e.g. SgtMaj Johnson.
