Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-23790511-20150129221847/@comment-24198837-20150130230218

LiveandSound wrote: Eh, not to ruin your moment Andrew, but if you mean those 2 episodes where Cortana is retelling the events that have happened so far....she got a good amount of things wrong. I wouldn't say wrong - more, condesning 100,000 yrs of history into about 20 mins. I also wouldn't consider myself a superfan, but I've read a good deal of the books, including the Forerunnder saga with Bornstellar and Didact - I understand that there's a hefty amount Cortana simply doesen't say.

It is true that it's a dramatic oversimplification of the events as they took place, but wrong? I would argue that.

Why add confusion by mentioning the Precurser/Flood origin story? Why even mention the First Array and Greater Ark? The Human-Forerunner war? All these things would take untold hours to explain - specifically, however long it took me to read book the three Forerunner books :p

Same with the human history summation. It'd be pointless to mention the Insurrection or the Rainforest wars - it would make the video super long and confusing to all but the most invested. No, We didn't make peace with the Covys in an instant when the Flood showed up, but that amounts to the outcome. At least, too Cortana's knowledge at the time. She had no idea who Jul' Mdama was, or that he was leading the New Covenant. As far as she knew, the Elites were humanity's allies by the end and most of the other races lost damn near everything at the Ark, and were in no shape to fight our new "alliance". So while yes, the events weren't as smooth and fine as Cortana makes them out to be, the end result is the same... and Cortana's a flash-clone of Halsey, and Halsey is very concerned with outcomes.

Point is, the basic outline is there. The essentialls of understanding the story are there. It's for new people to the series - but it carries the series's soul. It has the same message as the rest of Halo - stand together, stand with your people - it matters more that we're all human then anything else.