Also, Thorne as I recall lost his family with the attack on New Phoenix. The AI had memories of the attack along with the suck-u-up-otron. He's still very much human, and probably wanting to know wtf, more than your average joe, is going on and how this all relates to the attack that killed his family.

Also, 343i should stream subtitles if your setting for "subtitles" is set to on. Well, assuming the game didn't fucking revert it to automatic, let it seems to randomly do (recall Reach doing this as well...not sure about H3).