I was *****ing about how we were in the 4th episode and have not heard the damn Halo theme music yet as we were watching last night and a few minutes later it dropped in. I involuntarily giggled with delight.

I was also pleased to see at least a homage to the books when they showed all the kids training together on Reach. Gives me a bit of hope that they will begin to tie this into the actual story somehow.

I wouldn't hate the Kwan character soo much if it weren't for that ridiculous haircut.

I could also do without the First Person View of John in the helmet.

Other than that, I thought this was a solid episode.

boogieman said:

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I wouldn't hate the Kwan character soo much if it weren't for that ridiculous haircut.

I could also do without the First Person View of John in the helmet.

Other than that, I thought this was a solid episode.

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been chasing the high of the last 15 minutes of this show since the first 20.

i get you can't go FPS battle every single scene or even every episode, but the last 3 have been really abysmal.

i'm going to be pissed if they go right back in to the same thing next episode.

So the show has made me super nostalgic to play Combat Evolved and I happened to notice that the Master Chief Collection, which has the first four titles all in one download was on sale for $14.99 and I bought it. So much fun.

It did help me kind of maybe see how this season is going to fit into the overall story...maybe. I remembered that the opening scenes of the game have the Pillar of Autumn coming out of a blind jump at an unknown planet and the first halo. I remembered that the Covenant we're there first and attacked and boarded the Pillar.

What I didn't remember was that the first dialog from Captain Keyes is him asking how the Covenant followed them through a blind jump and then beat them to the planet after they fled planet Reach. Reach was the USNC training planet where the Spartan program was conducted. It was also one of the first planets to be "glassed" in the first major battle between USNC and Covenant forces. The Covenant was looking for Forerunner artifacts on the planet.

So, after remembering that MC and the Pillar we're fleeing Reach and the Covenant I get the feeling whoever said that we're not going to see the ring until the last episode may well be right. I am guessing this first season is going to be how MC uses the artifacts to locate the ring leading to the Pillar of Autumn's blind jump that leads to the discovery of the ring leading to somewhat more recognizable story line starting in season 2.

Hopefully.

I am still waiting on official Texags word on if this sucks or is decent before paying for paramount

Madmarttigan said:

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I am still waiting on official Texags word on if this sucks or is decent before paying for paramount

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when master chief is being master chief, it's dope. when it focuses on kwan and master chief exploring his feelings, it's awful.

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I am still waiting on official Texags word on if this sucks or is decent before paying for paramount

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covenant girl plot line isn't as bad as i thought it would be

kwan, on the other hand, is pretty awful. hopefully she's just a s1 inclusion.

the cgi on the covenant races is pretty dope. the action scenes are cool, although there aren't enough of them.

it's a decent enough watch but it's on the lower end of acceptable.

first sight of the monitor in this episode!

I'm sure it was mentioned here, but 343 stating that the show was on its own alternate 'Silver Timeline' has helped me enjoy the show a little bit. I still have plenty of complaints, but its' been solid as a show to have on while I'm browsing on my computer.

lol

just lol

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well... I, for one, did not have MC banging a member on the covenant on my bingo card for this series.

upon further thought.... rule 34 applies here and it's my fault for not having it as an option.

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The covenant chosen one who is a human for some reason.

This is literally 50 shades of grey twilight fan fiction level bad.

I expected it to be bad, but this is way way below my basement level expectations.

So bad...

Is Cortana watching?

BenTheGoodAg said:

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So bad...

Is Cortana watching?

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Yes and she then informs Halsey who gets mad at Chief because he was groomed by her to be her personal boy toy after she adopted when he was little. Yes this is not made up and this is the actual storyline.

I mean my expectations were in the basement for this series but somehow they managed to make a sinkhole down a further mile. This may be the biggest butchering of an existing source material that I've ever seen.

I take back everything bad I ever said about Karin Traviss, she's a genius in comparison to these obvious fanfic authors more interested in writing for teenage girls than remaining faithful to the source material. This isn't just trash, it's horrendously bad. When Twitter, 4chan, and Reddit are all ****ting on the story, you know it's that bad.

Edit - didn't realize the name was bad

I'm not a Halo fanboy so it didn't bother me much. The show is still interesting.

BUT I really wish Hollywood would stop taking a dump on everything they touch. Every single IP they make a show off of they seem to corrupt and piss everyone off.

So… um…

no halo

How very un-Halo of them.

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BenTheGoodAg said:

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So bad...

Is Cortana watching?

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I mean my expectations were in the basement for this series but somehow they managed to make a sinkhole down a further mile. This may be the biggest butchering of an existing source material that I've ever seen.

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The Stand adaptation would like a word. I had such high hopes for a more modern and mature take on what is an amazingly deep piece of source material, but that went up in flames about 10 minutes into the first episode.

I mean, what is it with Paramount Plus? Does anything related to CBS have to be awful? I only had the service to watch USMNT WC Qualifiers in English live, but I have never found anything else on there that looks decent.

And what was supposed to be the climactic setpiece battle at the end came out looking like a weak multiplayer match on a half-finished map. They can't even make the fighting very interesting or visually appealing. Bummer.

1883 is pretty great if you like good tv. Not sure you even have to like westerns to enjoy it.

Tried watching an episode. Know nothing about books or games or universe. Looked like a cheap videogame graphics quality and plot wasnt remotely interesting. I made it about 20 minutes and gave up. Its bad.

https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/05/19/paramount-massacres-master-chief-and-halo-pulls-bait-and-switch-bigger-than-kevin-smiths-he-man/

Lmao they killed the master chief and then had Cortana rewrite his brain into a different person and then move him around like a puppet. Guess this is how they were going to insert transexual garbage all along.

This is the worst butchering of a source material that I have ever seen.

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Projecting an image of herself outside of the Chief's armor to mourn the loss of her partner, Cortana then proceeds to fulfill his dying wish, taking control of his Spartan-II armor and rebooting its systems.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, who approved this trash? What moron thought it was a good idea to write this? This isn't Halo, it's clearly a generic woke sci-fi story the writers slapped a Halo name to. Nothing about any of this is Halo. Not at all surprising coming from Hollywood now though.

so i finally finished this. i'm not upset with the storyline (that much.) again, you can't make a series of MC just killing covenant non-stop and pick up any new viewers.

i think their screw up was that they did a weekly release. looking it up on wikipedia... we saw John in Spartan Gear March 24th. And then we didn't see him again as a spartan till April 21. Then we didn't see it again till May 19.

So 3 times of Master Chief being Master Chief in 9 episodes over 2 months. binging, you would have just been upset at a filler episode and powered through and 2 hours later, you get a little something for your trouble. instead, you had a month between actual action sequences and it just got dull.

if anybody at Paramount is reading this, dump all the episodes at once next time. 100% will be better received.

So glad I didn't get paramount+ for this bull****

Reading these synopses is worse than reading horrible fanfic. The stoicism and mystery around MC is what made him such a great character and gave any hint of attachment or emotion huge weight. He has such a strong baseline that any deviation was meaningful. Now he's just this normalish guy in armor sometimes, when the whole point of his character was that he wasn't normal, even for a Spartan.

c-jags said:

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i think their screw up was that they did a weekly release. looking it up on wikipedia... we saw John in Spartan Gear March 24th. And then we didn't see him again as a spartan till April 21. Then we didn't see it again till May 19.

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Having this show greenlit at Paramount+?

I finally watched this. Not a good show but somewhat enjoyable for the Halo nostalgia (I played the first 3 games, maybe more, and read at least one book).

I can't believe that no one commented on MC being played by Nicky Sobotka.

Season 2 was a lot more even to me with the first two episodes. Cold open was good and had some horror vibes.

Still Space Politics, but it was less annoying and was actually driving you towards the fall of Reach

last season was 4/10 and i'd say this was 6.5/10