Spartan Ops Season 1

[quote]I don't like that 343i decide to make Halsey look like your average mad scientist. This started with the novels from Karin Traviss, where Halsey's character made a 180 degree turn. [/quote] They didn't change anything about Dr. Halsey's character; they introduced [i]other[/i] characters who don't see her as the saintly mary sue she was written as and added conflict where such potential had always been ignored. Halsey had always been a rule breaker to save her own skin--that this community, that so often states Ghosts of Onyx as one of their favorite books, can't tell from her actions in those books that she had a degree of selfishness to her, is frankly embarassing. She kidnapped a Spartan and abandoned everyone else in a crucial battle, including the Chief, so she could get to Onyx and learn what was to be learned there. Like the Didact, she is a conflicted character. Not wholly evil because she does in fact still care for humanity, but not wholly good either because, as she stated, the fact that she will never know all of the knowledge in the universe before she dies is starting to creep up on her, warping her actions. And she's a brilliant scientist who kidnapped and tortured children; her moral event horizon has already passed. Halsey's actions in today's episode are almost definitely a ruse against 'Mdama. She'll play his game until she's safe.