Why the Flood becoming our ally in Halo 3 exposes their true horror

Hey guys, welcome back, a few days ago an old friend and I were talking about how good Halo 3's campaign was, how memorable and replayable it was, but then he mentioned that he'd never fully understood one of its biggest twists: flirting and lying with the boss and then I suddenly thought that not only had I never covered this groundbreaking event and the reasoning behind it, but I had never covered its importance and how it

exposes

the

true

horrible nature of flirting, so today I thought I'd fin

ally

It was time, so, although it may have been done.

It has been obvious to many why exactly the oldest enemy of the inhaler universe, which for the past 10 million years has been hell-bent on consuming anything sentient, chose to join forces with the boss and the referee. Well, the answer is quite simple, honestly, the whole

halo

matrix. They were just moments away from firing what would have annihilated everything in the galaxy, including humans and flirting. Despite his crushing defeat outside the Citadel, the prophet of truth had managed to reach the control room. This was exception

ally

bad news for the allies because with him. had the only thing he needed to fire the Halos a recovery sergeant Johnson as the young truth Johnson to begin the activation process chief a referee had just arrived at the bridge leading to the control platform they still have to fight for an entire The malicious courage of the Covenant to get to the truth and time was running out.

The Gravemind, whose food was even further back, those two knew how close the

halo

s were to being triggered and that there simply wasn't enough time to fight through the main arbiter, the Covenant, and then. He still deactivated the halos, he also knew that only a recuperator could deactivate the halos, so desperate measures had to be taken. Clearly, the truth posed as much of a threat to the allies as he did to flirting, and knowing that both sides were out of options, the Gravemind offered to aid the enemy and I offered them safe passage to avoid

their

destructions, and in doing so , we forged a very temporary alliance with the boss to ensure the safety of both parties, of course, the temporary nature of this alliance meant that almost immediately after the grave.

Mine got what he wanted, turning on the boss as arbiter again, but despite the quick betrayal, this section is easily one of my favorite bits of Halos. The whole story, this scene could continue to this day. It sends shivers down my spine. The combination of the defeatist climax. music, the strong sense of urgency and spin that is delivered through the serious mind, talking directly to the boss through tank forms that when they first appear seem like very bad news, it's just perfect, people can talk Halo 3 story shit all you want, this scene is absolutely perfect. offers one of the best twists in the entire history of the franchise.

Unfortunately, I honestly can't remember how I originally reacted to many of the other twists in the original trilogy, but this is the one that really stuck with me and affects me in the same way. today, as it happened in 2007, there are some very interesting things about how the scene takes the turn and the fact that you are then fighting side by side with the

flood

to defeat a common enemy, okay, now that I've explained why exactly . the

flood

were very briefly our allies, you're probably wondering how they laid down

their

weapons and helped us, literally the only objectively good thing they've done

exposes

their

true

horror

, well the reality is that helping humanity is the scary thing because it's A true sign of their intelligence, one of the things I always say about the flood is that its most disturbing trait is not its appearance, it is not the devious ways in which it infects its hosts, and it is not how quickly it can spread. , but how stupid and intelligent they are.

They are and how much knowledge they have is without a doubt their most dangerous job and without it their physical capabilities would not be even close to what they are using this intelligence, they have done some of the worst things on a small and large scale. atrocities in galactic history atrocities that helped topple entire civilizations without infecting a single host one of the first of these horrific events was carried out by the primordial a creature believed to be the last precursor and first grave mind when it was found by ancient humans years after the precursors believed to have been eradicated, were captured and held in human territory;

Over time, humans, scientists learned how to briefly communicate with this creature they called captive, considering it was clearly a being superior to them, they began to treat it. like some kind of Oracle trying to gain deep wisdom from him, but their attempts were not very successful at the time when their entire empire was being devastated by the flood, so they also tried to seek knowledge about the parasite, how it works, how to counteract its effects. spreading and of course how to defeat it, however, it was when the captive was asked these same questions that he exposed something truly terrifying when he responded to the humours' requests to know more about the flood, he did not hold back, he told them the reality of this. shaping the disease, as they called it, a reality so disturbing that any human who learned about it would commit suicide, all it took was the knowledge of this brave mind to convince humans that death was a better alternative.

Which was

becoming

pretty lethal, if you ask me. but the primordial acts were horrible they didn't stop there a few years later he was captured by the foreigners who ordered his ai mendicant bias masterpiece to interrogate him about the installation oh seven reasons 3 billion why halo infinity is set in inflation number 7 is so exciting mendicant bias was a Class A I contender, the most advanced class of AI that has ever existed and was in charge of organizing the entire foreign army against flirtation during this interrogation that ultimately lasted 43 years, the primordial explained the flood reality the cloak of responsibility and this dog's ancestral plans for revenge against foreigners and beggars, the reality of shit, color the artificial intelligence systems, somehow convincing them that he was on the wrong side.

It was at this time that the primordial had managed to infect the most important constructions of the foreigners with the logical plague that made him betray his masters and take the side of the flirt by simply explaining the reach of the parasite to beg for nothing more, the primordial caused not only the near extermination of the entire population of ancient prophets but also the fall of the entire foreign Empire. I'm pretty sure that's the feet's way of saying that the frying pan is indeed mightier than the sword. The newest Grave Mind in Delta Halo was no stranger to this and used her intelligence to psychologically torture Cortana when she felt her butt with great charity.

She was alone with Gravemind in her hive for 38 long days in which Gravemind tormented her to learn more about Earth's defenses, but the ways he tortured her went far beyond simply inflicting pain: it made her doubt. of his intelligence. and her abilities to secretly access her files and systems, she managed to instill the illusion that she could read her mind and was always one step ahead of her. She made him think that he meant nothing to the human creators of her, that he was simply a tool. from dr. Halsey and the boss and that she didn't know what it was to be truly human despite actually being the equivalent of AI, if we play the final memories of the humans infected by the flirting, forcing her to experience the unbearable physical and mental pain caused for the infection.

I think it was made pretty clear during Halo 3 that Grave Mind was torturing and degrading her, but knowing what really happened makes it even more horrible when she finds Cortana's message on the ground, you can see her physically suffering and when he rescues her, you can to realize. That she has been forced to suffer emotionally because of her personality is completely different, it is much more depressive and lower than usual and to be honest, all things considered, I am not surprised that some of what the serious mind did to her could even be permanent. One of the first things she says to the boss when he rescues her is very wrong, it's possible it's too late, so I honestly wouldn't be surprised, although this whole scene perfectly sums up the relationship between the boss and the katanas and the emotion. in just these few lines.

The dialogue is absolutely spectacular and she also does an incredible job of illustrating what Gravemind did to her when she charitably turns her butt around at the end of Halo 2, she's tough and almost ready to fight Gravemind and then when he rescues her, she almost seems defeated, she's so depressed and depressed that it seems like she just gave in to the serious mind and I think that perfectly illustrates why flip intelligence is easily her most dangerous treatment, her ability to so easily subvert a situation. as powerful and intelligent as Cortana proves that absolutely nothing is forbidden from being consumed by the flood and that is why the foot became friendly at the end of Halo 3 even if only for a few minutes and what this tells us about the true

horror

. nature of the parasite.

Hopefully this will give you a little more context to Halo 3's story and make you see the flood in an even more disturbing light than usual. I want to say a huge thank you to the BFG for the most recent iconic pledge on patreon, as well as everyone else who continues to support me, thank you all so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you in the next one.