Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-71.79.101.59-20140402002122/@comment-4616231-20141222081807

Nice fanfiction. But, even if we took that to be true, there are still a few flaws.

For one, Maine had a "lack of A.I. controlling his thoughts" throughout all of Season 8. But he did anything but revert back to his former self - he just kept hunting the AI. And that got him killed.

Secondly, I don't usually bring up this point much, but since you're talking about the specifics of what happened after he fell - there was that UNSC guy who said "I gotta hand it to you. Killing one of these agents would be tough. But three?". Now, true, they couldn't tell the difference between a dead body and a suit of armor, but they COULD apply their knowledge of elementary school math and count 3 bodies. Reason I don't bring this up much is someone could just say that he wasn't dead or they revived him later, and since the UNSC proved they're not reliable with determining whether things are dead or not, and because sciencey bullshit is always a thing, it'd be a huge pain to argue about. But at the very least, three bodies were counted. I'll leave it at that.

And I wouldn't bother with the specifics of it too much. Shows rarely go into that much detail about things. And since you could say that literally anything could happen after he fell off the cliff, to go into detail is basically saying that your interpretation is the right one against every other infinitely possible interpretation. It'd make a nice fanfiction, sure, but there's no evidence for anything after he falls off the cliff. Except one thing: they saw a body, and now Charon has his helmet. So just going off of what we know, we can infer they simply took the helmet off his dead body. In case no one figured this out before, I'm a pretty big believer in Occam's razor, and that the simplest solution is usually the better one. Especially in shows like this, because otherwise convoluted bullshit starts to happen. You could say Maine survived, but you'd have to take up the whole season explaining how. Alternatively, they just took a helmet from a corpse.

However, I do like how you didn't set him up to be an entirely mindless, power-hungry brute, and did attempt to develop him some more. I know a brute is what he is, but since we've already had all that from him before, if he were to come back I'd prefer it wouldn't be just to do the same shit. So, good job there.