User blog comment:Gnostic/Geth Characters?/@comment-5410313-20120815033122

I know I am comming late to the party on this, but I just though I would add my opinion on the matter. A similiar problem came up on another wiki: Halofanon. For those familiar with the halofanon wikia, they had an influx of CO ranked spartan super soldiers after the release of Halo: reach. Before Halo: reach's introduction, Spartan's had the highest non-commissioned ranking of Warrant officer, with a With a few Canonical exceptions. pre release of halo reach, and People were already saying It ruined everything.

Now, halofanon could have put a prohibition on officer ranked Spartans, and that would be the end of it. But instead they chose to allow CO ranked Spartans to exist.

Were there alot of CO ranked spartans after reach? Yes.

Where there some badly made articles? Yes, and they were dealt with accordingly.

Did anything good come out of it? I'd Say so.

My point is, I wouldn't push the thought of having geth characters aside. I mean the definition of character in this scenario is:

A person in a novel, play, or movie [/game].

I think the more previlent concern in this matter is how that person or thing interacts with the world around them. And that is something we can investigate further.

Arguably geth can be dynamic characters when given a multitude of perspectives. that is why Geth-VI and Legion have a large devide between them in their interactions with Shepard; Why the "harotics" are different from other Geth. Based on differing perspectives given by other geth programs, we see a geth platform can be indecisive in their decissions: hence Legion's loyalty mission.

Wouldn't writing about such a complex "race" such as the Geth, give way to more writing about their shift to full sentience, or at least the thought of the self (Cogito Ergo Sum )?

And wouldn't writing about a geth platform provide insight into how the collective operates in a more indepth manner? If excuted properly, couldn't we explore the more hefty extremes of idecission when a collective in a single platform comes to differing perspective?

IMO, I think we would be throwing away an opertunity just because of the difficulty in understanding it.