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The Happy Locust wrote:Here's my alpha theory. The alpha was copied off a real person, who for the sake of argument was named Church. After the AI was fractured into multiple AIs, the Alpha mind was left as a completely blank entity save for it's latent memories of it's human originator. The alpha, having lost all parts of it's AI form, rebuilt the latent memories into a working real memory and became an idealized copy of the original Church (which would explain why the less than ideal world ticks him off so much).
the final twist will be when the "real" church shows up.

HAH! YES! I F*****G CALLED IT!

Things seem set up for the Valhalla Chronicles, with the Reds being given the Red Base in Valhalla, and Caboose, with Epsilon and Tex's body, taking refuge in Blue Base.

It's kind of sad to admit, but I don't think Church, or at least Church as we know him, survived the Emp.

Though the real kicker was the last spoken words, where the Director gives his name: Dr. Leonard Church. Tex was based either on the memories of a loved one who had died, or the loved one's mind itself, explaining why she received such special treatment, and Church/Alpha's attraction to her.

Caboose comes off very differently in this. He shows Genuine concern for Church, and a distinct skill for driving the Warthog, even out-driving the Reds, who have had more experience with the jeep than he ever had. He also appears to know what he's doing with Epsilon and Tex.

Really that thing with the Director was awesome.

The series now seems to fit in with the normal Halo Universe. The Reds were granted use of Valhalla by the UNSC, which they didn't recognize. This follows with all the references to the Great War, which was likely the Human-Covenant War.

This gives me the suspicious idea that the thing Command was looking for "Under the sand" may have been the Slipspace generator to the Ark, located in the desert neat Mount Kilimanjaro. If that were true, Tucker's request for Back-up would likely be to combat the Covenant and Flood in the area.

Shadowman wrote:What an ending, though. Can't wait for the next series!

Spoilers! wrote:PW, yeah, Sarge has Simmons check out the Blue base, to figure out why Blue base's communication works and Red Base's doesn't. Sarge apparently wants Lopez to come to Valhalla to work on rebuilding the Warthog to incorporate the Emp technology. Despite Simmons uncharacteristically telling Sarge it's a horrible idea, and Grif uncharacteristically telling Sarge it's a great one. Incidentally, they were arguing about Simmons' inability to question authority at the beginning.

Shadowman wrote:Hey, Valentine's day special.

The first use of Halo 1 since, if I recall, the Blood Gulch Chronicles. First use of Halo 2 since Reconstruction, as well as the first appearance of Church, Wash, and Sheila since Reconstruction. All of them are in flashbacks, and Sheila and Wash don't have any spoken lines.

Also, Simmons doesn't know what Valentine's Day is.

Caboose is doing something, but he doesn't want anyone to know what it is. He threatens to take away Simmons spy privileges. he also doesn't know how the base had power, and that it was on when they got there. I think he's getting a bit smarter, though he's still an idiot.

Sarge says he's afraid of heights, but Simmons said he used to jump out of ships in high orbit during the war, which Sarge says is where he got that fear. I think Sarge may have been an ODST (Orbital Shock Drop Troopers for the uninformed) Helljumper. In fact, his superiority and desire to cause much pain to people he doesn't like are also stereotypical traits of Helljumpers. (Such as the ones who picked a fight with John-117, and then died)

Also, the Reds had a ladder Grif could have taken to the top of the base, despite Sarge saying they didn't.

Caboose heads over to the Pelican, which you may recall also contained Sheila, and, briefly, Gamma/Gary.

Grif says that the bolt launcher at the top of Red base is blocked by pieces of a ship (Sarge, at first, hears a word similar to ship), which I assume belong to the Pelican.

Crossfire wrote:RvB: Animated... I hope they turn that into a mini series!

According to Lopez, Sister is dead, and Blood Gulch has been won for the Reds. The Reds sound more like they found five dollars in the laundry, and less like they just won a war.

Lopez gets there very quickly. Like, a few seconds. His armor is a much darker shade of brown, but then this IS the first time he's bee shown in Halo 3 style.

Grif doesn't believe Sister died, and won't believe it until he sees a body, saying that when they were kids, they went skating and she fell into the ice. She was under water for three hours, but when they rescued her, she was alive and somehow pregnant.

Lopez, in minutes, finishes what Sarge had wanted: A massive underground chamber designed for Holographic simulation. (Lopez was at work for only a minute, the room is massive. Figure that out) Even when Grif thinks it's cool, Simmons (Both of them are having a bizarre role reversal around Sarge...) thinks that it would have been easier just to build the car. Sarge decided just to go for style points.

Meanwhile, Caboose continues work on the ship. I find it odd that all of his lines when it shows him working have made him sound highly competent.

Blastback wrote:What I want to know is when the hell did Sarge learn Spanish?

The series is fun, but there are some oddities in it.

DONUT IS BACK! And I was right, he was working with Tucker. He tells Grif to "help him" (Tucker) and that "it's under the sand" Grif doesn't tell anyone else because he thought it would be a lot of work.

Meanwhile, Caboose is probably possessed by one or more AI, uttering to himself in THE creepiest voice I've ever heard in anything "There...now we can all be together...forever..."

Senor Hugo wrote:Agreed, need more episodes!

and dear God, Caboose is creepy as hell. He wasn't even that creepy with O'mally inside of him.

So I assume THAT is the product of Caboose using Epsilon. Tex's personality has softened WAY down, but Church has remained entirely the same, which is strange considering his personality would be different if he was a replicated personality, especially one from Caboose.

Shadowman wrote:I like how they had Caboose on fire. However, that begs the question, why hasn't anyone run around while on fire in RvB before?! I mean, I can understand why they didn't do it in Blood Gulch Chronicles (No incendiary weapons), but they had access to Flamethrowers and Incendiary grenades all throughout Reconstruction and Relocated.

Mkall wrote:

Shadowman wrote:I like how they had Caboose on fire. However, that begs the question, why hasn't anyone run around while on fire in RvB before?! I mean, I can understand why they didn't do it in Blood Gulch Chronicles (No incendiary weapons), but they had access to Flamethrowers and Incendiary grenades all throughout Reconstruction and Relocated.

Because only Caboose can do it well?

Shadowman wrote:I like how they had Caboose on fire. However, that begs the question, why hasn't anyone run around while on fire in RvB before?! I mean, I can understand why they didn't do it in Blood Gulch Chronicles (No incendiary weapons), but they had access to Flamethrowers and Incendiary grenades all throughout Reconstruction and Relocated.