Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24140363-20140727101435/@comment-24027096-20140814102701

Agent Rhode wrote:

Cianf1888 wrote: I'm going with the delirium theory here Rhode. Almost everyone on this site has an extraordinary obsession with old characters returning to the point of completely dismissing the possibility that new (villain) characters could possibly appear in the series. Yeah I have that as an open possibility. But I've extinguished any theory I had about Locus being a familiar character. But it just seemed right, like CONTROL has too many connections to the show's protagonists. It seems more likely that CONTROL is someone we know than it is that Locus is a character we know, or the Meta is coming back (hee hee WesternGen). Maybe CONTROL is one who believes the Ends Justify the Means, that what he/she is searching for is actually something that will save the universe; but in order to get it he/she must sacrifice thousands. Kill thousands to save zeptillions What connections does Control have to the BGC? We are given no indication whatsoever that Control has ever interacted with them and the only thing that indicates they know them at all is that Control knows the BGC are simulation troopers and are terrible soldiers. But near as we can tell, that's actually common knowledge to anyone that's been associated with the UNSC in RvB canon.

Since it's been shown that Carolina ISN'T Control I have to believe that we're facing a new villain. I for one don't believe RT have run out of ideas to the point of having to recycle old characters to become the villain. We had O' Malley and Wyoming in the Blood Gulch Chronicles, we had the Director, Wash and the Meta over the course of the Recollections and then we had the Insurrection in Season 9 and the Director and the Tex drones in Season 10. I just don't understand WHY, after bringing the protagonists to a new setting (Chorus), and introducing a whole host of new characters (Felix, Locus, Kimball, Doyle, the New Republic soldiers led by the Crew), RT would make the new primary antagonist an old character. It just doesn't fit with the whole "moving on from Freelancer" theme it looks like Seasons 11 &12 have. Yes there is Freelancer tech. Yes we have Wash and Carolina, who were Freelancers, and Epsilon who is a Freelancer AI. But we had 9 seasons where the primary antagonists where associated in one way or another with Freelancer and 1 season (Season 9) where the Freelancers could be considered as the protagonists in fighting the Insurrection. Is it so hard to believe that Control could be someone new?