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:::::Glad to have this resolved. For the record, I actually agree with your points (and interpretation of Russel's tweets ''and'' the terminals) as do several others in the team. It was mostly just a matter of phrasing things right. | :::::Glad to have this resolved. For the record, I actually agree with your points (and interpretation of Russel's tweets ''and'' the terminals) as do several others in the team. It was mostly just a matter of phrasing things right. | ||
:::::To clarify: ''Contact Harvest'' is not an ''explicit'' contradiction because the information is presented to us by an in-universe character (Mendicant Bias) who may be mistaken. Now, this was almost certainly not Joe Staten's intent at the time, but it's a reasonable interpretation in a scenario where humans and Forerunners are biologically near-identical, same with Truth, Guilty Spark, or the Gravemind alluding to humans as being Forerunners. It only becomes a contradiction after the Forerunner Saga clearly establishes them as distinct species, to the point that them being mistaken for the same one isn't as likely anymore. Nevertheless, I see your point about that sentence and it's been changed. --[[User:Tacitus|Tacitus]] ([[User talk:Tacitus|talk]]) 13:19, December 20, 2022 (EST) | :::::To clarify: ''Contact Harvest'' is not an ''explicit'' contradiction because the information is presented to us by an in-universe character (Mendicant Bias) who may be mistaken. Now, this was almost certainly not Joe Staten's intent at the time, but it's a reasonable interpretation in a scenario where humans and Forerunners are biologically near-identical (which may still be the case if they were uplifted early humans; the biological connection in the original context could've been very close, we just don't know), same with Truth, Guilty Spark, or the Gravemind alluding to humans as being Forerunners. It only becomes a contradiction after the Forerunner Saga clearly establishes them as distinct species, to the point that them being mistaken for the same one isn't as likely anymore. Nevertheless, I see your point about that sentence and it's been changed. --[[User:Tacitus|Tacitus]] ([[User talk:Tacitus|talk]]) 13:19, December 20, 2022 (EST) | ||
::::::I'm glad that we agree, and also to have this resolved. While I still personally think Contact Harvest contradicts the terminals because of Staten's intention, I suppose it's a matter of [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WatsonianVersusDoylist Watsonian versus Doylist] ideology. And also yeah, I think it's good for neutrality. | |||
::::::Finally, I also want to ask if [[Forerunner#Production_notes]] should be updated. I think actions removing "Potentially" from Contact Harvest's mention and changing/clarifying the part about "During the development of Halo 3, this changed so that humans and Forerunners were suggested to be distinct from one another" should be done. [[User:TNS22|TNS22]] ([[User talk:TNS22|talk]]) 13:57, December 20, 2022 (EST) | |||
:::::::Feel free to update the relevant section of the Forerunner article if you like, using this one as a base yeah. No need to ask permission for stuff like that - usually if they're not being done it's simply because someone's just not got around to it yet lol.[[User:BaconShelf|<span style="color:green;">BaconShelf</span>]] <span style="font-size:90%">([[User:BaconShelf|talk]])</span> 14:00, December 20, 2022 (EST) | |||