"they're All Nanobots"
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I'm aware this is a late entry, but just bear with me.
The more I think about this ending, the more annoyed I become with Greg, and the more I feel like the series is going to go nowhere but downhill.
You're going to tell me that, basically, the Matoran/Tohunga are all nanobots in a giant Mata-nui that, because they were a part of, they worshipped like a God, that Makuta was a virus, that every Toa was just an antivirus program?
That's just cheap, poor writing. I'm aware I'm criticizing a professional writer who I'll probably never match the success of, but frankly I don't care, because at this point, I just want to express my opinion about this cop-out.
I cried for these characters. Sure when I did, I was 6-7 years old, but nonetheless, I've cried, laughed, hoped for and intently watched these characters. I've sat on the edge of my seat for weeks waiting for the next issue of the comic up until I stopped following the plot just because of the cliffhanger you left, Greg. And a good job you did for a while. But this is beyond low. You're basically going to tell me that all that I felt about these characters was for nothing but a malfunctioning driver and Norton Antivirus: Giant robot edition? That I so loved these characters who were nothing but programs that were worshiping Bill Gates?
That's just low. It's worse than making everything a dream. At least if it were a dream, it could be foreshadowing, and existentially, they'd technically exist as they are in the character's head. If it were a dream, it may mean something about the character dreaming it. If it were dream, the evil would be gone too, and it would all be nice and okay and if I hugged Tahu Stars and told him "Everything's alright" because he's so darn cute, then it'd be true.
But it's not. It's not foreshadowing because it's all happened and nobody spends a decade foreshadowing, they don't really exist because they're all just programs that shouldn't even have emotions, and in the Toa's case, really don't when you think about it, and those who do shouldn't, and that they're disillusioned AI worshiping their system. That's not good writing, that's cruel to do to your readers, especially when a lot of them are children. "Oh, these characters you love so much? Well, that one's a program, that one's a malfunctioning AI, and that one's a computer virus."
I was hopeful coming into 2010 about what you'd do with the plot, but after this Greg, I have to say, ten years with one writer is seven years too long.
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