{"id":3723,"date":"2012-10-16T23:44:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T04:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2012-10-16T23:44:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T04:44:21","slug":"forward-unto-dawn-episode-2-review-part-1-cortana-in-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=3723","title":{"rendered":"Forward Unto Dawn, Episode 2: Review Part 1 Cortana in Thought."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Halo-4-Forward-Unto-Dawn-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3373\" title=\"Halo 4 Forward Unto Dawn logo\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Halo-4-Forward-Unto-Dawn-logo-1024x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Halo-4-Forward-Unto-Dawn-logo-1024x207.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Halo-4-Forward-Unto-Dawn-logo-300x60.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Halo-4-Forward-Unto-Dawn-logo.jpg 1299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This the first part of an 11-part review of the second episode of Forward Unto Dawn. Here we listen to Cortana talking about how for 4 years+ she&#8217;s not had anything to do but think.<\/p>\n<p>The episode opens with the\u00a0Forward Unto Dawn floating aimlessly about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.05-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3726\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-16 at 6.59.05 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.05-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.05-PM.png 865w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.05-PM-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cortana seems to have some bouts of Rampancy during this brief speech.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.15-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3727\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-16 at 6.59.15 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.15-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.15-PM.png 865w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.15-PM-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.21-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3728\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-16 at 6.59.21 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.21-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.21-PM.png 865w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.21-PM-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.31-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3729\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-16 at 6.59.31 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.31-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.31-PM.png 865w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.31-PM-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.50-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3730\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-16 at 6.59.50 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.50-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.50-PM.png 865w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.50-PM-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now what I like up to think point is the direct correlation of blue and cold as well as darkness. Cortana is blue of course but has essentially gone &#8220;cold&#8221; by not being able to do anything but think. And she has gone &#8220;dark&#8221; as well by not being able to be in communication with others. Though she does try:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.59-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3731\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-16 at 6.59.59 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.59-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.59-PM.png 865w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-6.59.59-PM-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-7.00.07-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3732\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-16 at 7.00.07 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-7.00.07-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-7.00.07-PM.png 865w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-7.00.07-PM-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love these graphics of the display screens. VERY believable. The ice looks great as it accumulates on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we see Cortana, not as her normal female frame, but as a blue glowing orb.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-7.00.29-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3733\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-16 at 7.00.29 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-7.00.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-7.00.29-PM.png 865w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-7.00.29-PM-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But wait, she turns red&#8230;.hmm<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-7.00.35-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3734\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-16 at 7.00.35 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-7.00.35-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-7.00.35-PM.png 865w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-16-at-7.00.35-PM-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Again, a nice set-up in the Halo present of Halo 4 that transitions to the past of Tom Lasky at the academy.<\/p>\n<p>Short review section? Yeah, but I&#8217;m keeping them that way so there isn&#8217;t much text to read, yet enough to cover the key scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Next up review part 2: Wake Up Call<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This the first part of an 11-part review of the second episode of Forward Unto Dawn. Here we listen to Cortana talking about how for 4 years+ she&#8217;s not had anything to do but think. 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