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Final Trailer for Halo: Season 2 Released (Paramount+)
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Cert.in.Death
Member
Full frontal this season?
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
no one even knows this actor. its like they think they have tom cruise in the role.
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
I mean shit, that's a great trailer.
Hopefully the actual season is way fucking better than the 1st.
Also is it just me or was Kwan Ha literally not shown at all in the trailer? Everyone hated that story arc so I wonder if they're just going to ditch it.
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Dr_Ifto
Member
You dont know Pornstache? /s
StueyDuck
Member
Masturbator chief
YOU PC BRO?!
Gold Member
We deserved so much better than this. Should have gotten Neil Blomkamp to direct and stuck closely to the Halo novels.
Imtjnotu
Member
Ya going down the red carpet there won't be any camera flashes for this guy.
clarky
Gold Member
Nah Pablo was great in The Wire. Granted hes not 'A' list but hes been in lots of things. It's Liev Schreiber's brother, aka Ray Donovan.
Not defending the show btw the first season was a pile of turd.
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Agreed. Trailer looks great, but let's see if all that was just 1 space fight and 1 good ground fight. I think I'm seeing Bokeem Woodbine in there but IMDB hasn't updated the cast for the new season so it's hard to say. I think they are just hiding her in the trailer though rather than excising her character completely.
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
Doubt Paramount will ever greenlight 2 seasons at the get go again.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Spoilers
diffusionx
Gold Member
I feel like this piece of shit show was as much of a nail in the coffin for Bonnie Ross' career than Shitfinite. It was obvious that this studio just could not manage this property, at all, like if it is a skill from 0-100 the bare minimum is like an 80 and they were giving us about a 10.
Me on the leftSpoilers
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Neill Blomkamp has made a total of 1 good movie in his career.
MarkMe2525
Banned
Looking forward to it. Season 1 was interesting for sure, but not what I was looking for in a Halo show. Well, I didn't know I wanted humping, but I was shown the light
clarky
Gold Member
Yeah fuck this guy. He's like a 'C' list Zack Snyder. D9 was great, but unfortunately a fluke. Everything else over 10 minutes long was trash.
YOU PC BRO?!
Gold Member
Very subjective.
District 9
Chappie
Elysium
Gran Turismo
All good movies.
He also did the Halo: Landfall short which was good. At least he understood Halo which is more than I can say for those currently involved.
Draugoth
Gold Member
Spoilers
Damn Old O'good Master Cheeks
clarky
Gold Member
I said anything over ten minutes.
Glad you enjoyed the rest of his output, but everything after D9 was downhill for me. Ranging from average at best to downright fucking awful.
Insane Metal
Member
Don't even remember if I finished s01 lol
CatLady
Selfishly plays on Xbox Purr-ies X
Me too!
clarky
Gold Member
I didn't. I remember it starting ok'ish then very quickly lost interest.
Complistic
Member
Master Cheeks is back. 
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
"We have something the enemy doesn't. We have heroes."
The Last One
Member
Lucky Cortana.Spoilers
systemr123
Banned
Ron Jeremy?
systemr123
Banned
AI writers strike again! But be honest, this is better than the alternative woke writing, no matter how hard it is to believe"We have something the enemy doesn't. We have heroes."
kiphalfton
Member
That's the problem with every super hero movie/etc.
They have to show off the character's true identity... when really it should be unknown to 99% of the other characters.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Oh I loved him in the Wire, but hes basically as no name as they come. Just odd that they would remove the helmet for an actor of his profile.
Just watched the trailer, i dont know why they wont use Marty McDonnel's soundtrack. This generic stuff is so forgettable.
systemr123
Banned
Also, imagine suffering from sweaty helmet… it’d be unbearable
clarky
Gold Member
Edit: what
kiphalfton
said above.If they must take MC's helmet off at least have it be a crusty Steve Downes in there..
This show does everything wrong, im not sure who its for. I can't even hate watch it.
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March Climber
Member
Question for those who are good at doing this:
Remove the fact that this is Halo and remove any biases…is this the case of a show being a decent show but mainly bad because it’s attached to a well known property? Or is it bad even if it wouldn’t be known as Halo?
Like would I enjoy this if it were some random Sy-fy TV network series?
Remove the fact that this is Halo and remove any biases…is this the case of a show being a decent show but mainly bad because it’s attached to a well known property? Or is it bad even if it wouldn’t be known as Halo?
Like would I enjoy this if it were some random Sy-fy TV network series?
splattered
Member
Looks surprisingly good... i didnt watch S01 though.
It isn't bad by any stretch (IMHO). But there are some REALLY dragging plotlines (the Kwan/Soren stuff mostly, but the persistent daddy/mommy issues with most characters as well) when it could have been a more tactical focused. I think they tried for a Battlestar Galactica (reboot) vibe with excessive interpersonal drama and tragic backstories all around too soon, we should have gotten more MC being a badass competent MC for a season. Obviously they had to limit the covenant stuff due to cost but I think they could have done more with it if they went with misty dark ship sets versus all the bright rooms and daytime desert quarry stuff. The show seems to expect a certain level of lore understanding from the audience but they also change a lot, making it hard to be engrossed at times.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
That is a damn good trailer.
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cormack12
Gold Member
Aside from the costumes and main archetypal enemies, it's more of a show with Halo as the background. I got really into the books and all the background at one point and I'm not really a fan of the deviation to be honest. I would have preferred following the canon. I have been rewatching season 1 though and it's not as bad as made out second time round - but it's easier without the immediate reaction to pick out what worked and what didn't. The guy doesn't look or exude Master Chief just as Bella Ramsey doesn't look or exude Ellie. However, Bella's acting is more character driven and accurate, I don't think this guy gives off Master Chief vibes. At all. There was more 'John' in the kid scene with the hanging kid.
If it wasn't Halo I doubt I'd be back for season 2, not because it's terrible but because there are other shows I'd watch ahead of it. In terms of quality it's up and down, a bit like Alice in Borderlands for example, with some very good parts, some meh parts and some wtf parts.
Halsey is a hot waifu too, Miranda is cute and Cortana made a brief but impactful entrance.
Mister Wolf
Member
I like the Halo TV series and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Del_X
Member
The biggest issue is that they do too many things and too many arcs in the first Season. Too many inner conflicts while trying to establish lore and external conflicts. If they had picked 1-2 internal conflicts to explore and not, like, eight it would have been better balanced and left room for some of the silly bullshit for later seasons.
Timberwolf25
Member
I'm all for them nixxing the Kwan Ha character/storyline. I enjoyed S1 other than that.