Spoilers Halo: Season One - Discussion Thread
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Pretty much but i guess constant action for 10 hours will get old fast - you can't just transpose a videogame to TV 1:1. Otherwise i might just watch a playthrough on Youtube of the whole game including cut scenes and be done faster than that. I've accepted the fact that the show is something completely different, it took a while but i'm good with it now and am eager to see where this show goes in terms of story and character and don't compare it to the games anymore other than what is similar and what is new.
I'd say this was the right moment to do a big action episode. They spent some time getting us to care about the characters and understand the stakes, and then deliver a big spectacle sequence with major consequences.
I find a lot of action dull because it fails to do any of those things and serves as nothing but filler for those with short attention spans.
I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying this show compared to a certain other Paramount+ sci-fi series that's currently airing.
I find a lot of action dull because it fails to do any of those things and serves as nothing but filler for those with short attention spans.
I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying this show compared to a certain other Paramount+ sci-fi series that's currently airing.
It was cool seeing the actual Halo ring at the end. I didn’t realise how Irish the Blessed One was until this episode. I think that has more to do with the actress being so than the character.
Did we see the first signs of Cortana turning on Halsey? She didn’t seem to agree with her choice at the end.
Did we see the first signs of Cortana turning on Halsey? She didn’t seem to agree with her choice at the end.
I think we started to see Cortana was becoming more attached to John than she's supposed to be when she refused to kill him to take over his body and save Halsey. Given that she apologized, she didn't seem to think Halsey would've told her to call his bluff like that.
I'll be annoyed if neither of the guards noticed Makee's finger-dagger.
For the depiction of the Halo ring, I want to call out that they mostly avoided my personal nitpick about Halo in particular and science fiction in general; things that are outside an atmosphere should never be darker than the sky. I see it often in sci-fi backgrounds where moons in the sky have their shadow-sides visibly darker than the sky, and often in Halo itself, especially the most recent game. In this episode, they deferred to realism, even though it meant those long pans over the loop stretching across the sky were mostly just sky.
I'll be annoyed if neither of the guards noticed Makee's finger-dagger.
For the depiction of the Halo ring, I want to call out that they mostly avoided my personal nitpick about Halo in particular and science fiction in general; things that are outside an atmosphere should never be darker than the sky. I see it often in sci-fi backgrounds where moons in the sky have their shadow-sides visibly darker than the sky, and often in Halo itself, especially the most recent game. In this episode, they deferred to realism, even though it meant those long pans over the loop stretching across the sky were mostly just sky.
I was not sold on Miranda's actress until we got her eyes and reaction shot to Halsey trying to be maternal.
Her reaction shot is like, "You are completely f-ing crazy and I never realized how much until now."
Halsey also deserves an emmy for the sheer Bunny-Ears Lawyer Epic Fail of trying to explain herself to her daughter with lines like, 'I don't believe in family.'
Her reaction shot is like, "You are completely f-ing crazy and I never realized how much until now."
Halsey also deserves an emmy for the sheer Bunny-Ears Lawyer Epic Fail of trying to explain herself to her daughter with lines like, 'I don't believe in family.'
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I like this show mare than I thought I would.
I'm glad it's a "silver screen" version so they can play around with lore/characters a bit regardless of the video game/tie in canon/fandom constraints.
the opening episodes Mando-been-there-done-that-feel went away since it's no longer John 117 MC with the survivor girl.
them not noticing the laser finger dagger or whatever, suits them right for dying soon I guess...
Yay, team Miranda Keying MC teaming up
parenting fail(s) from both ruthless Mam and Dad.
petty politics, shady power grabs and all. This was fun.
So far the only humans I care about are: MC, the dyed my hair red spartan lady and Miranda Keyes.
Could have done without spy/traiter/special abducted human lady in 117's Halo vision, which was kinda cool.
I'm glad it's a "silver screen" version so they can play around with lore/characters a bit regardless of the video game/tie in canon/fandom constraints.
the opening episodes Mando-been-there-done-that-feel went away since it's no longer John 117 MC with the survivor girl.
them not noticing the laser finger dagger or whatever, suits them right for dying soon I guess...
Yay, team Miranda Keying MC teaming up
parenting fail(s) from both ruthless Mam and Dad.
petty politics, shady power grabs and all. This was fun.
So far the only humans I care about are: MC, the dyed my hair red spartan lady and Miranda Keyes.
Could have done without spy/traiter/special abducted human lady in 117's Halo vision, which was kinda cool.
To be fair, they are the only ones who aren't kinda or completely evil.
What about the girl MC saved?To be fair, they are the only ones who aren't kinda or completely evil.
I mean, she is ignoring the Covenant to try to start a revolution on her home planet that nobody wants and also threatened to frame the UNSC for killing her father after they rescued her.
She's a masterful case of Wrong Genre Savvy. She thinks she's in Star Wars not Halo and the UNSC is the Empire.
From what we've seen, the UNSC IS the empire, but an empire facing an existencial threat which is also a threat to the rebels.
If they stick to the lore it's not so much that it's the Empire as ONI is guilty of everything the CIA is in the real world and some mad science too.
I do like Kwan's reaction to discovering her father's firebrand revolutionary-ism is due to the fact he's following a religion she may not even believe in.
Like I said, I think Kwan's story will work if the Covenant glasses Madrigal and she's forced to work with the UNSC.
If Magdrigal is gone and everybody is dead, I don’t think she cares much who wins the war. At that point she hates both sides, even if one side is all of humanity.
I'm hoping that's not where that character will go because the whole point should be that humanity has a shared identity and needs to come together. That her perspective is the wrong one and it's time to move past this tribalism.
Mind you, some fans might disagree since the UNSC vs. Insurrectionists is coded as exploitative superpowers over Third World nations.
But yes, Kwan and Master Chief would be the same in, "I hate what the UNSC has done but I have a higher duty to humanity. I can't let my very justified anger get in the way of saving everyone."
Depends if they have the CGI budget.
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