Spoilers Halo: Season One - Discussion Thread

[FPAlpha]

That was a really good episode and every episode one gets further away from slavish adherence to the games and more into it. I wonder how story planning went - they must have known they'd lose the rabid fanbase almost immediately after the first episode ( the ones who just basically want the games to be filmed 1:1 just in live action). They had the balls to make their own story and it is slowly paying off - that last shot of them standing on Halo was just so fantastic and awesome, it was the moment i was waiting for ( even if they are not yet on the actual Halo).

The story now has enough of its own elements to be able to work properly and we have yet to reach certain milestones, i.e. the glassing of Reach and getting to actual Halo. Kwan not present for 99% of the episode was a good thing, i really hope they're going somewhere with this but i still can't see it and she always drags the show down when she has screentime.

3 episodes to go - i hope there will be a huge blowout finale. Reach, Madrigal and other planets glassed, our group of characters packing up and in crisis mode racing to reach Halo and some huge reveal ( Covenant or even Flood as the last scene),

 

[Tuskin38]

Apparently the brute seen in last week's episode was called

Spoiler

Atriox

by the guy who writes helps created the alien dialogue for the show.

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[Airmandan]

Master Chief and Makee are gonna bone

 

[thribs]

Master Chief and Makee are gonna bone

I think they’re related in some way

 

[Airmandan]

I think they’re related in some way

That could be a possibility, especially given the statement that their brain thing was supposed to be 2 in a billion. But Miranda did a full genetic scan and probably would have brought up them being related.

 

[fireproof78]

Master Chief and Makee are gonna bone

Creepy.

 

[FreezeC77]

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.

Not sure the lore... but won't be shocked if that religion turns out to somehow be related/know why Master Chief/Makie are able to activate the ancient tech

 

[FPAlpha]

I started to watch the current episode - 10 minutes in and it's only Kwan Ha and Soren, fast forwarded through it and it seems it's an exclusive Kwan Ha episode. So i turned it off.

I may revisit if it ever turns out to be important to the whole show but so far the show always comes to a screeching halt whenever she is onscreen.

 

[1987SpaceGuy]

"Watched" the episode or rather fast forwarded it for the most part.
The whole episode is It's MC's old spartan pal/foe, "Expanse Murty" dictator and Kwan focused.

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MC is in it for a few scenes only, some hallucination/dream sequence from the survivor girl as far as I could tell fast forwarding.

When I watch the next episodes and if I should have a knowledge gap that bothers me, I'll read a short summary on this episode and that's gonna be enough.

 

[David cgc]

I actually think this was my favorite episode of the season. Confirming that the Has also have a geas, even if they aren’t necessarily Reclaimers, revealing that Madrigal was a Forerunner world (with a portal connecting it to, presumably, a Halo), and even a quick appearance of a Monitor (I was kind of hoping to hear Tim Dadabo’s cheery voice after having it built up as such a lofty, spiritual experience to encounter it; I guess there’s still time). Soren and Kwan finally making good was catnip to me, and in general, this felt a lot like a classic Halo non-game story.

Just think, if the fanboys had gotten their way and this was a canon show, every episode would be like this, with randos in space running across ancient super-machines and embroiled in local insurrectionist politics. I don’t get it, people love this stuff when it’s about the Ferrets or the Ace of Spades.

Last episode, the Chief briefly hallucinated Kwan when he was in a Condor, and in this episode, Kwan had a dream she was back in the Condor with the Chief. I wonder if those two visions overlapped; maybe even occurring simultaneously.

 

[crookeddy]

IMDB is completely destroying this episode. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8631934/?ref_=ttep_ep7 That's one of the lowest rated episodes of anything ever. Is it because it was THAT bad, or because it was an Asian woman and black guy as leads (Anti-woke review bombing)?

 

[Charles Phipps]

IMDB is completely destroying this episode. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8631934/?ref_=ttep_ep7 That's one of the lowest rated episodes of anything ever. Is it because it was THAT bad, or because it was an Asian woman and black guy as leads (Anti-woke review bombing)?

I mean, it's not an either or situation. I imagine the racists certainly aren't helping the score but it's also possible to hate Kwan for distracting from Master Chief's story as well as ignoring the threat of the Covenant for a wholly unpopular insurrection.

Mind you, Soren is the only reason *I* liked the episode.

But my wife, who loves Halo, spent the entire episode saying how much she hated Kwan and the episode and wishing Soren would shoot her.

 

[thribs]

People aren't going to like the latest episode.
Nice seeing a Forerunner robot though. However brief.

 

[Charles Phipps]

People aren't going to like the latest episode.
Nice seeing a Forerunner robot though. However brief.

I think Kwan's story can basically be likened to if there was a Star Wars series starring Han, Luke, and Leia and a new 4th character who hates the Rebellion and wants to liberate her planet from its control.

 

[crookeddy]

I think Kwan's story can basically be likened to if there was a Star Wars series starring Han, Luke, and Leia and a new 4th character who hates the Rebellion and wants to liberate her planet from its control.

The Darth Vader comics introduced a character that gets too much attention. I don't really like it either lol

 

[Charles Phipps]

The Darth Vader comics introduced a character that gets too much attention. I don't really like it either lol

The difference is Doctor Aphra is actually fun to a large part of the audience. I have yet to meet anyone who isn't basically "maybe she'll get better" at best to Kwan.

 

[David cgc]

Except the Insurrectionists are the Rebel Alliance. It’s like people asking why Leia is being so bitchy to Darth Vader in ANH. He’s Anakin! We love Anakin!

 

[Charles Phipps]

Except the Insurrectionists are the Rebel Alliance. It’s like people asking why Leia is being so bitchy to Darth Vader in ANH. He’s Anakin! We love Anakin!

I mean, except for the fact in lore the Insurrections are all terrorists and mass murderers. It's not exactly a sympathetic group. It's even shown here with the fact Vinsher is a former Insurrectionist leader.

Just because you're the underodg doesn't mean you're the good guy in scifi.

 

[Tuskin38]

Both sides have done terrible things.

In the game lore, the Spartans were created to put down the insurrectionists.

While the show seems to be implying they were created to fight the Covenant first, but will also take out insurrectionists if necessary.

 

[Aragorn]

What's the portal? Is that from the games? Or is it literally Portal and the beginning of the video game universe?