The Importance of Being Idle

Ginger

Well the hair dying wasn't massively succesful; apparently there was still some of the cosmic blue hair left from months ago (which I thought had long gone) 'cos the tips of my hair turned a lovely shade of orange! They have been removed and I'm blonde again, although if you know where to look you can still see some of that lovely ginger colour!
I have finally (many years too late) finished Halo 2. I had the thought I was near the end yesterday, so I just nipped back to finish it off today. Part of the reason I'd never bothered before was I'd heard so many people bad mouth the ending, but I honestly can't say why. It's the ending of the middle part of a trilogy, of course it's inconclusive! In fact it's almost the perfect "middle of a trilogy" ending in that it has expanded your knowledge of the universe (so there's seven of them... and the Ark?), deepened the peril (Covenant lunatics wanting the Ark, Forerunner ships in orbit of Earth, The Flood has a guiding intelligence!), and it's seperated the crew with everybody off doing their bit to try and salvage the overall story. Now I'm not suggesting that Halo 2 is in fact the Empire Strikes Back of video games, 'cos it clearly isn't, it just isn't good enough for that, but to complain about the story telling, which is perhaps the one part they got absolutely right is just ridiculous!
Now all I've got to do is make lots of money, buy a 360 Elite and Halo 3 and find out how this whole thing ends!

posted by BadMonkey @ 3:11 PM