Okay so I know it's not hip to care
or talk about Halo anymore, but check it:
-As a small child, I played the
Macintosh game Pathways into Darkness in which you navigate an
ancient ziggurat attempting to defeat a slumbering Lovecraftian god. (I thought the dead Nazi lying out front was a turtle.)
-Shortly thereafter, Bungie released
the Marathon trilogy in which you play a reanimated cyborg who may or
may not have memories which resemble the events of Pathways into
Darkness (which also happen to be summarized in garbled form in a computer
terminal). Also more Lovecraft.
-Half a decade later, Halo descends
from the heavens containing countless
connections to the Marathon series. For example, both games feature a company on Mars named "Misriah." (Also the Marathon logo
is plastered all over everything in sight.)
-Which leads me to the inexorable
conclusion that the Halo franchise is in fact part of the Cthulhu
Mythos. (In fact I'm certain there's a bit about the Flood in the
Necronomicon somewhere.)
This connection also melds the
Halo-verse to quit a few other things including Conan the Barbarian and uncomfortable racism. (Though of course it could all just be
in Tommy Westphall's imagination.)
I guess what I'm saying is, if they
ever do make that Halo movie, and they cast Arnold Schwarzenegger as
Master Chief, it wouldn't be out of place is all.
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