WI: "Halo" in the 60's?

Two ways this can go: Essentially Red Dawn IN SPACE (yes, I know Red Dawn is the 80s, but the "evil commie bastard" was invented before then :p ), or the UNSC is an analysis on what the North Vietnamese are going through. Not pro- or anti-war, more of a "know your enemy" thing. On another note, the Flood could be a VC analogue.
 

Sachyriel

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Two ways this can go: Essentially Red Dawn IN SPACE (yes, I know Red Dawn is the 80s, but the "evil commie bastard" was invented before then :p ), or the UNSC is an analysis on what the North Vietnamese are going through. Not pro- or anti-war, more of a "know your enemy" thing. On another note, the Flood could be a VC analogue.

Nah the flood are militant anti-war protesters :p
 
Who need to be shot in the face, burned, blown up, cut to pieces, burned some more, have a creepy deep-voiced leader who needs to be nuked...

Are you sure this is anti-war?

Well, it sounds like he isn't anitwar at least...:p And that plan with the burning and blowing up sounds like it came from that Bolshevik Muppet with all the dynamite...:D

Nah, the Flood could be seen as the Horror of War that turns soldiers into animals, barely human and capable of doing horrible things for no good reason.
 
Oh god no! The movie is a parody of of jingoism. The original book is very jingoistic. Hell, he throws in a teacher character with the explicit intent of having a conversation with the main character about how awesome the military is.

Yeah, I know about the militaristic society guff, but otherwise I remember Merry Prankster (I think) saying that it's wrong to classify the book as promoting a love for war. Of course that could all be part of the backlash against the movie's Nazi themes.

You didn't read the book but you saw Paul V.'s movie didn't you?

DIDN'T YOU?:mad:

Er, sorry for giving the benefit of the doubt to this novel I haven't read, i.e. "I'm sure it's not the 'Ballad of the Green Berets' set in space.":confused:

Hate to interrupt this beautiful (and it is beautiful) debate, but we're becoming increasingly off-topic.

With all due respect, but unless you actually demonstrate an understanding of the pop-culture-and-its-subgenres of the era under discussion (like Strategos Risk's reference to 'Forever War') then you're just coming across as someone who might as well be wildly speculating about plopping 21st century games into the Middle Ages. Doesn't matter how much you really love the games in question. And I say that as someone who doesn't mind ISOT scenarios involving pop culture, and have in fact started one thread here about it happening.
 
With all due respect, but unless you actually demonstrate an understanding of the pop-culture-and-its-subgenres of the era under discussion (like Strategos Risk's reference to 'Forever War') then you're just coming across as someone who might as well be wildly speculating about plopping 21st century games into the Middle Ages. Doesn't matter how much you really love the games in question. And I say that as someone who doesn't mind ISOT scenarios involving pop culture, and have in fact started one thread here about it happening.

...excuse me? Who exactly are you inferring does not understand the era's pop culture?

And I have yet to see any "wild speculation." Remember, this is a fun, but thoughtful, discussion of the possibility of changes to elements of a fictional work had it been written in the 60's, and is thus entirely opinion-based.

And insulting people doesn't help your arguement. Behave yourself; if you have something to say, say it in a civilized manner.
 
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Sachyriel

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Er, sorry for giving the benefit of the doubt to this novel I haven't read, i.e. "I'm sure it's not the 'Ballad of the Green Berets' set in space.":confused:

I'm joking, the angry smiley was in jest, though he doesn't look like he's laughing.
 
...excuse me? Who exactly are you inferring does not understand the era's pop culture?

And I have yet to see any "wild speculation." Remember, this is a fun, but thoughtful, discussion of the possibility of changes to elements of a fictional work had it been written in the 60's, and is thus entirely opinion-based.

And insulting people doesn't help your arguement. Behave yourself; if you have something to say, say it in a civilized manner.

Implying. Implying.

Halo as a '60s novel would totally flop and not be noteworthy because its plot is awful.
 
Implying. Implying.

Halo as a '60s novel would totally flop and not be noteworthy because its plot is awful.

:mad: Don't you dare word-choice-police me, you. :)D) And yeah, the plot was kind of meh, but it could easily be improved.

And anyway, plot or no, scifi in general was selling unbelieveably well in the 60s, so Halo would probably have found a ready and willing group of readers.
 
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