Marty asked an interesting question

by davidfuchs , USA, Monday, July 15, 2013, 15:25 (4192 days ago) @ JDQuackers

On twitter Marty asked, "Speaking of sci fi, anyone here ever read Dhalgren?"

Is Marty dropping a book title as a reference for Destiny? Or is he just trying to understand what he read. haha.

-Hedge.

After perusing the Wikipedia article, I don't understand what I just read.

I could see some parallels with the "unknown catastrophe", as noted in the opening of the Wikipedia entry:

Bellona, a fictional city in the American Midwest cut off from the rest of the world by some unknown catastrophe. William Gibson has referred to Dhalgren as "A riddle that was never meant to be solved."

... I wonder if Bungie's intention will be to purposefully leave riddles unanswered for the fans of Destiny lore to ponder for the rest of time? I think I would be okay with that.

Depends on the questions. I don't think you can leave questions that are absolutely central to the core story or theme unanswered, even if it's disappointing (see for example, Lost.) But there's plenty of holes in say the Halo story that I'm glad Bungie and 343i have left unfilled so that fans can have their own bit of interaction and play around with what fits that gap. I'm sure Bungie will do the same with Destiny, and that's certainly good in my book.

(To use the Dhalgren example, I don't think Bungie needs to elaborate on the catastrophe much, because what's important is setting up the world we're going to be exploring.)