Season 2’s ‘pre’ episode if you want to call it that was released yesterday (as of this writing). In it, we find out the identity of Fero…All is not as it seemed it was in Season 1 of HtT!

SPOILERS below this point…. You’ve been warned!

Black bagging is a tidy term. Very ODST. The reality is, of course, something else. Somewhere between asphyxiation and vertigo. There’s very little tidiness about it.

Okay…again, SPOILERS below…

So Fero is an ONI agent? Wow, that was a complete surprise. Then again, this is ONI. Perhaps we shouldn’t be too surprised.

What I’m trying to get my head wrapped around is why install an ONI agent as the leader of a potential new rebellion? Ok, yes, her comments in this episode elude to what they’ve been building up to for years now…a peaceful outcome with talks instead of more bloodshed. Well, that’s what I take from it. It’s not that ONI minds the bloodshed mind you. Rather, it’s that by having Innie’s believe that negotiation is the alternative to fight, they take the fight out of the Innies.This is yet another way ONI is capable of manipulating the masses.

The clumsiness of this ‘rescue’ will be put into immediate question though by Innies. How could the UNSC so easily and swiftly steal Fero away from them? How will Fero escape to lead them once again?

I’m pretty sure ‘May’ (The true first name of Fero) isn’t completely loyal to the UNSC anymore. Her comments in this episode definitely indicate that.

It will be very interesting to see where this goes from in the rest of season 2.

So what are your thoughts having listened to it? Oh…and how about that redesigned ODST armor?

-Sal