The diadact was wasted?

I think yes he has so much yo see

I feel like it was a wasted opportunity to flesh out the Didact in Halo 5, as IMO he was pretty flat and stereotypical as a villain in Halo 4. Even with the expanded lore to take into account, core halo 4 Didact was typical Disney villain fair: evil for the sake of evil.

But they could have done something in Halo 5 to express him as a character, don't just TELL us about his deeds and misdeeds, SHOW them! You know? The Covenant in Halo CE were just your typical FPS aliens, but Halo 2 expanded the Covenant, showing us their religion, social hierarchy, gave us a PoV character to see the Covenant through the eyes of one of them.

It took me a few seconds to realize I was interpreting “wasted” in an incorrect way 😅

Anyway, I think he could have used a bit more screen time in Halo 4. I enjoyed having him as the bad guy, but the problem was he appeared or was mentioned only a few times. That would have been okay had the final boss fight been worthwhile, but I think having a QTE took a lot of engagement and, by association, interest away.

The Didact is easily the most wasted character in the series.

I must say at first I was considering on reporting this thread. If it wasn't for the Gamers posting below I would have just assumed that you were talking about the Didact drinking too much and being that wasted. After reading everyone else's response I must however concur with you that the character itself was wasted. There was so much more potential to be had for the character and 343 just ended him,(for now). Overall it was a good discussion starter but I must ask that you elaborate a little better than just a simple sentence. People could very easily take it the wrong way. Good post and I look forward to see what else you contribute to the community in the near future.

WaryWhisper1001 wrote:

I feel like it was a wasted opportunity to flesh out the Didact in Halo 5, as IMO he was pretty flat and stereotypical as a villain in Halo 4. Even with the expanded lore to take into account, core halo 4 Didact was typical Disney villain fair: evil for the sake of evil.

But they could have done something in Halo 5 to express him as a character, don't just TELL us about his deeds and misdeeds, SHOW them! You know? The Covenant in Halo CE were just your typical FPS aliens, but Halo 2 expanded the Covenant, showing us their religion, social hierarchy, gave us a PoV character to see the Covenant through the eyes of one of them.

Actually, from what I understand; he wasn't 'evil for the sake of being evil'. He was driven mad by exposure to the Flood and eventually imprinted himself upon a young Forerunner when he started experimenting on himself to try and cure himself from potential Flood contamination. This ended up creating two different Didacts; Ur-Didact, the one we end up fighting, and Iso-Didact, the one who went on to activate the Halo Array when all else was lost.

Ultimately, the Master Chief is theorized to be the reincarnation of Iso-Didact because of what we have to go on (343 Guilty Sparks conversation with him in the beginning of Two Betrayals in Halo: Combat Evolved pushed us to this conclusion). That being said, if it is true that he IS Iso-Didact, then the initial fight between Chief and Didact would have seemed much more interesting. Because that would mean Iso-Didact would be trying to stop Ur-Didact from making the same mistake that lead him down this path he has taken.

Yeah just to point out. As of right now, the Didact is NOT dead. It's been stated that he's not composed either, but something definitely happened to him. Chief considers him "contained" at most, and the Spartan Field Guide shows that the UNSC still considers him a threat.

I think it's safe to say he will be returning at one point, possibly more dangerous than ever (or perhaps an unlikely ally against Cortana and the Created, though it would be "common mutual enemy" kind of alliance).

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Collater333 wrote:

Yeah just to point out. As of right now, the Didact is NOT dead. It's been stated that he's not composed either, but something definitely happened to him. Chief considers him "contained" at most, and the Spartan Field Guide shows that the UNSC still considers him a threat.

I think it's safe to say he will be returning at one point, possibly more dangerous than ever (or perhaps an unlikely ally against Cortana and the Created, though it would be "common mutual enemy" kind of alliance).

what if and this is just what if..... Didact is actually controlling the Cortana we see in the Halo 5 campaign? Long shot but i'm sure i'm not the only person who thought it.

Yeah I remember this being a theory, and it's definitely plausible IMO.

Yes! We finally got to see a biological Forerunner and then they threw him out in the waste bin. You learn so much about him in the terminals and the Forerunner trilogy only for him to be composed in the end. Sure that means he's not dead but it's still a waste for that to have happened to him.

Nevertheless I still like him, hence my name (judge me if you want but you won't penetrate my combat skin) he could have got so much more development that came from the books translated into the games. What I loved that while he had gone mad from his encounter with the Flood, he acted as if his deeds were done out of nobility and to save the galaxy. How unfortunate that 343i decided to throw out what made him unique: the only living Forerunner we ever saw. A digitized version of him to me would just be like dealing with another Warden.

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Marinealver wrote:

He died in a comic, but that can be retconned very easily.

Not true. The Didact has never been declared dead in any official Halo media. His status has been deemed as "contained" in some sort of composed state that has yet to be elaborated on or explained. It's not much, and we may never hear from/see him again. But that is still a big difference from being actually deceased and is the status quo until otherwise changed by some other piece of canon media.

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So tiers of canon from highest order to lowest.

This is also incorrect. No one type of media "supersedes" anything else - that is how it has been since 343i took over and the Halo Universe is far better for it. The games, books, comics, and everything else are all equally canon until anything in them retconned by something newer.

No other type of media sure but media that is closer to the source tends to have higher weight. Take Star Wars for example, in that the media of the movies surpasses the books because Star Wars existed first as a movie, even if the creator G. Lucas is no longer in charge of the movies they are closer to the form of the source than either of the books be it new canon or old legends. Now take G.R.R. Martin series, you have the TV show which for a while was considered canon now the show has sort of taken its own story and the books are considered a separate cannon (much like Legends and Disneyverse). However between the two I would have to side with the books as the story was originally in book form and directly from the creator.

But in the end you are correct as it is all fiction, and can easily be rewritten/retold/redone just like any other works of fiction. Although I doubt 343 would try and remake all of the Halo story from Harvest to H5. But again with so many writers and so many different stories when conflicts between the different media comes, this is just something I use to determine which is the original story and which is creative liberties taken by the person making their own version of the story. Source is still important in many stories be it fiction or otherwise.