Spartan Program

If you know anything about science fiction, or videogames, or most likely both, than you know Halo. If you don't than get out. Close this window and/or look up what it is because A. I don't have the time to explain EVERYTHING, and B. Its awesome and you should know about it. Ill give you a little info... In Halo humanity has created super soldiers named Spartans. They are incredibly strong, quick, and deadly. And these guys are needed to fight aliens, so they gotta be good.

Spartans are genetically modified, and that is how they are incredible at all attributes. In Halo, this Spartan program is seriously ethnically and morally wrong because the Spartans were basically kidnapped as children and turned into soldiers. In the world we live in it would be morally wrong as well obviously but it begs the question, can Spartans be made? And if they could be, would humanity react the same way?

To answer the first question, yes, they can most definitely be created. Getting a really buff guy on steroids makes him stronger than the normal human. Combine that with Exo-suits modern scientists have been working on and we have a close similarity. It isn't quite battling the Covenant in space ready but still, it's an improvement on the modern soldier. But if they did exist in our world it would most likely be the way I previously described it. Our government's PR would have no excuse to back up why they kidnapped innocent children and trained them to be super soldiers, no matter what it was for. People would get enraged that the government has that kind of power, and they wouldn't be wrong in doing so. Many people are upset already with things like the NSA "spying" on them, even if it is for their own good. But to contrast with the popular opinion, creating these immoral super soldiers could end up being a necessary evil in order to keep humanity alive. My thoughts on this are, if a small sacrifice has to be made to save more, or that the pros do outweigh the cons, than take that chance. Nobody can be that selfish in saying their life or their child's life is more important than the human race as a whole. For this reason I'm going to have to side with the Spartan program, that I would hope humanity could muster up a fighting force like that.

A New Hope

The iconic movie. The one that started it all. The first Star Wars movie is fantastic. An unsuspecting farm boy ends up being a key player in saving the galaxy. Along the way he meets memorable characters. Not a very groundbreaking plot really but who cares, its Star Wars. So, what are my thoughts on the movie (you can probably already tell).

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the prequels just as much as the originals and the originals just as much as the prequels, but a huge plus to the originals is the props. In this movie, all of the props, scenes, etc. it all is a miniature, a costume, or a painted cardboard set. Compare this to the prequel movies where everything and everyone is CGI, this movie holds up better than some of those do. It makes it much more believable. For this reason I am incredibly happy that episode VII will use very little CGI characters and props.

The story of this movie is fine, Luke can seem a bit, whiney, at times but it never takes away from the movie. Honestly I only have one problem with this movie, The Death Star. I mean, if you have a giant space station, why would the hole that could be the end of said space station not be heavily guarded? My problem isn't with the hole itself rather the particularly easy way of getting to the hole. The trench to get there seems needless and there is only a few turrets in that trench. I would have like 4 turrets sitting and waiting at the end of that trench that blew away anyone who came through it. Its stupid simple and seems lazy, even if it is a cool scene. All I'm asking for is a shield there, just something so a small squad of fighters can take thousands of lives with a single missile.