#the cole protocol

[empresskadia]

ODSTs are seriously just cannon fodder in the fandom. They're supposed to be the best of the best, the status everyone wants to be, but they die left and right. The discrepancy between their 'elite status' and their high mortality rate is something. I feel like I have to do another deep dive into the ODSTs.

I have so many thoughts about this passage.

[gerrysroots]

You know what I will defend Colin even if he IS making the tech malfunction. Fuck that spacebar up Scottish man

[mjfass]

[pillar-of-autumn]

right okay so @noctiris and i are working on an absolutely tooth-rotting halo au where miranda stays with catherine and grows up with the spartans as siblings. jacob is there too because we love him

featuring: blue team redesigns (and the return of kelly's blue hair), tons of baby miranda content, and jacob keyes best dad and driver

[long-suffering-little-spoon]

Guys TMagP #4 didn't have anything supernatural going on being a violinist is just like that sometimes

[zlinkiez]

Here's my Commission and Print Info Page! Any further questions feel free to DM me!

[namelessprince]

do you guys ever think about what wouldve happened if vyncent HAD killed mark. i do. a lot.

check out my commissions :D

[holyshonks]

Halo would be nothing without forgers I stg

[liciatalks]

Another Halo book down

This time I finished reading/listening to Halo: Cole Protocol

I enjoyed the book, and was nice to hear what Keyes and Thel 'Vadam was up to before the events of Halo CE.

Side note I had to remember that Thel 'Vadam was The Arbiter actually name. I kept thinking I knew this character.

I was half way through when I had to restart the book. My brain was not latching on to anything the first time through. Problem between the pov switching and my own brain. On second run my brain kept details far better.

I like Gray team, it's always nice to meet new Spartans and teams. They have a familial feel to there team but slightly different from Blue Team. Blue Team gives siblings from stable house two parents, while Gray team give siblings of single parent still good home just a little more feral lol.

Over all it was fun and had a lot of great world building.It's not my top Halo book in the series but wasn't the worst. Would listen to again.

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Side Note:

Why did Paramount not adapt this book!? (I know why, but WHY)

This book has EVERYTHING the show was trying to touch on but fumbled.

It has Spartans. No they're not the ones you get in the games but they are still Spartan IIs. This team open up discussions on how much the general public know about Spartans. They also give you insight on the Spartan program it's self. The kidnapping, the training, the leaders and the Spartans and how much they know about it.

The UNSC, this book brings up just how much the UNSC control things. To civilian travel and communication to just hire much even it's own soldiers don't know how bad things are getting. And Jacob Keyes is a great character to follow through that. He's a soldier but he's one that still wants to do right.

The covenant species world building. You get a lot of it here the species hierarchy. The cult like following of the prophet. Finding out even the Prophets don't communicate everything.

The Outer vs Inner colonies conflict. How each other think about each other and dynamics between them. At one point it's brought up that food was grown on a outer colony world and shipped to and inner colony world.

The Rubble! The show tried to introduce it but mixed with other stories. It was much more than what the show did with it.

Pre covenant technologies. Sometimes hinting at something is enough. Learning that the technology the covenant uses isn't their own gives a nice mystery on where they came from.

The really fumbled the ball with the series, when they had a great jumping point for T.V viewers into the Halo universe right here. No it wouldn't have featured the Master Chief and the majority of the game characters but it would have set up the world for them.

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Done with my rambling. Good book, would have been a great tv series. Would read again.

On to the next book!

[mlgssy]

(Jai and Adriana thoughts incoming)

So first, whenever a complication comes up during briefings, their eyes always meet first, then the two of them look at Mike at the same time. (Who always notices the little eye contact and he’s also shipping them)

Whenever Adriana has a bit of free time (and for this she makes some if she hasn’t) she manages to annoy him with a playful trick. Like hiding his socks in her own laundry (so he has to search it in her stinky one.)

Before Adriana would go undercover alone, Jai always put an arm on her shoulder as he winks at her as a sign of “Take care of yourself”.

Adriana always takes a bite from Jai’s food, because “my boyfriend’s food looks better than mine” (it’s an existing rule) even though they have the same ration.

They have their first time in EVERYTHING because they did everything together since they were little children, and they can’t imagine trying sushi alone or with anyone else (lol)

Jai was endlessly jealous of Delgado (even he didn’t have a reason)

[ovary-harvester]

Why am I not surprised that todays episode was written by the same icon who put tree sex in the first episode of his own podcast

[empresskadia]

I am only on page 7, and I'm already in love-

Spartan women are just chef's kiss, and Adriana has me kicking my feet

ALSO, SHE'S SLAVIC!?

I wish I could be so normal about Spartans, but I'm not, nor will I ever be.

[helpimstuckposting]

This episode really gave grifters bone vibes and that’s one of my favorite episodes, they’ve been killing it so far

[therealgchu]

tmp

finally digging into scrotocol. i wait till entire seasons drop before i listen so i can binge it all at once. i should be able to finish the first season in a week, or so, then i think i might relisten to archives for the halloween season.

i've been avoiding all social media on TMP, except that i'd see posts on the reddit sub talking about how "boring" it is.

fuck that, this is brilliant. i should have known eps 4 was written by cole weavers. that man is past master of body horror and gore.

speaking of cole weavers, anyone know if he's gonna do anymore tiny terrors?

also, is it just me, or is hearing jonny and alex again feel like warm hugs from old friends? even when they're talking about such horrific narratives.

on eps 5 now, and it's better than i ever expected. amazing sound scaping, great characters. though, i really do miss alex saying, "the magnus archives is published under a creative commons 4.0 international, share-alike license".

[bloodgulchblog]

i love that the arbiter used to be an asshole.

none of that father-to-his-men-but-terribly-mistaken stuff.

nah, he was as convinced of his own righteousness and full of violence as anybody.

[pillar-of-autumn]

i guess technically i do remember the plot of the cole protocol in like extreme broad strokes fashion because i remember what the title means, but that being said i have no idea who gets where or how or what happens