Originally Posted by Cowoline
I would say he is worse than forgettable. He is infamous. I'll haven't seen this much dislike of a character since Anders from DA2 and Solas from DAI - and they at least had a compelling stories with fleshed out motivations.

It's like he was Alistair/Solas in the first two acts and then made a hard left turn in Isabella, but without any of the interesting parts.

Never heard that people hate Solas. Well, maybe people who romanced him dislike him because of ending of romance (I am one of them and it was sad but at least there were reasons for such events)... Not sure. And with Anders - oh yeah, he differs much from the character we saw in Awakening (plus he has problems in one particular dialogue when you just want to be friendly but get two love options and one negative option). And yeah, what he did close to tne end of the game...
I like your comparison, Halsin really looks like a mix of Alistair and Solas (and I comepletely forgot about bald elf): wisdom, kindness, sence of humor, emotions.