You're in Provo with that jerky google fiber aren't you? What a jerk. (this is coming from someone who's about 1/2 mile out of Provo city limits)

my was about 45mins, although i did travel 25 miles in the snow, uphill both ways to download it.

After hearing enough of these, it's definitely Bungie's fault. The reason it's clear is because a lot of the lines aren't just read differently, but come from a completely different character emotion. Lines that were fearful are now confused. Determined are now inquisitive. Etc.

Good writers know what their characters are thinking at any given time. Given their history and personality, here's how they react or act in a given situation. So the fact that these basic motivations don't seem to sync up tells me that internally they just don't have a solid grasp of the character at all.

I think you've got it right here. They know they need this kind of companion character, but they don't know what they want him to be like. Maybe they just want him to be everything to everyone, so he ends up being anybody to no one.

I think it's more the writing than the direction. I'm not saying it's great now, but I'm liking what North does with the material. He has more personality, but he still has to say some pretty mundane things.

After hearing enough of these, it's definitely Bungie's fault. The reason it's clear is because a lot of the lines aren't just read differently, but come from a completely different character emotion. Lines that were fearful are now confused. Determined are now inquisitive. Etc.

Good writers know what their characters are thinking at any given time. Given their history and personality, here's how they react or act in a given situation. So the fact that these basic motivations don't seem to sync up tells me that internally they just don't have a solid grasp of the character at all.

I can definitely see that. I couldn't help but think, while listening to lines from both actors, that even I could have done a better job. I just chalked it up to ego, but maybe it's because I've played the game and I know the emotions that should be appropriate for each scene.

That said, there were definitely some lines that I don't think anyone could have delivered well.

-Disciple

North isn't replacing Dinklage because Dinklage was bad. Bungie never said there was anything wrong with Peter's performance. At the very least they liked it enough that it made it into the final release.

They replaced him because they couldn't or wouldn't get him back for TTK. It seems much more likely that Dinklage was unabailable for other reasons (cost seems like a good bet), and rightly felt that it would be strange to have different voice actors playing the same character.

Everyone's been talking about how much "better" Nolan should be, but it seems evident that Bungie liked the Ghost as he was and didn't want to change things too drastically.

We've created this narrative than an outraged Bungie shooed an eager but disappointing Dinklage away, intending to rebuild and improve the entire character, when really they've just changed the voice a bit - just like they said they would.

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