I’m asking in terms of only the novel not the Comic or animated movie. I personally felt extremely shocked and a little devastated as he was a very likeable character when we were introduced to him. He was in some ways what held Blue team together other than John being the squad leader. However I do think they should have expanded just a little bit on how hard it was for John to let him go instead of just ordering him to stay there pretty much out of the blue. Also whatever happened to the Spartans that missed their trajectory point and didn’t land on the Covenant ship?
It didnt felt really special for me.
I didn’t feel anything. We barely knew Sam at all. He only had a few lines of dialogue before dying.
I read First Strike first so it was actually spoiled for me unfortunately.
I can’t say I was very attached to Sam. I’d say out of the original team, Sam got the least amount of development/dialogue before his demise. If we had time to get to know him better, I likely would have been a bit more saddened.
I do, however, appreciate the “For Samuel!” line in Halo Wars.
Wasn’t that torn up. We didn’t get much time with him. Out of the three, San was the least developed. I wasn’t emotional about his death. I more interested to see how his death would impact John and Kelly.
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> Wasn’t that torn up. We didn’t get much time with him. Out of the three, San was the least developed. I wasn’t emotional about his death. I more interested to see how his death would impact John and Kelly.
Pretty sure that was kind of his point of existence was to be a character development bump.
My reaction, as I played Halo Wars before I started getting into the novels, was “so that’s why Spartans yell ‘for Samuel!’ In Halo Wars, cool.”
Meh
If anything, I kind of felt as though his death represented the end of innocence for the Spartans, a final realization that play time was over, the stakes were now real.
It was a bit uncalled off, but it feels like that position in Blue Team is cursed. First it was Sam, then it was Kurt, then it was William, we have yet to see another Spartan II join and die, but I hope Will was the last.
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> If anything, I kind of felt as though his death represented the end of innocence for the Spartans, a final realization that play time was over, the stakes were now real.
That’s actually true too, Sam was first Spartan to die at the hands of the Covenant, and it represented the moment that humanity was going to face a powerful foe, and the losses to come.
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> It was a bit uncalled off, but it feels like that position in Blue Team is cursed. First it was Sam, then it was Kurt, then it was William, we have yet to see another Spartan II join and die, but I hope Will was the last.
Aint many S-IIs left to fill that gap…
It wasn’t cannon.
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> > It was a bit uncalled off, but it feels like that position in Blue Team is cursed. First it was Sam, then it was Kurt, then it was William, we have yet to see another Spartan II join and die, but I hope Will was the last.
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> Aint many S-IIs left to fill that gap…
That was kinda what I was getting to lol
Meh, nothing special. I was just like: “Oh, so he’s the first S-II to die. Oh well.”
Nothing since I already knew most S-II were going to die by the end of the book
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Personally, Sam was the only one out of them who I really considered more human than soldier.