Do you mean the Covenant-adopted human? If so, the captain doesn't need to know "what" she is to know that she is clearly a threat at that moment, and that she's obviously giving orders to the lekgolo as they attack the UNSC soldiers. So like... stop shooting at the wormy thingy that's impossible to shoot and shoot instead at the humanoid form in front of you?
It's a nitpicky silly thing, but it bothers me when writers corner themselves into these idiotic scenarios where the only way to make things work is to have the characters behave illogically (which to be fair to the Halo writers happens a lot both in TV and film).
Instead, they could have:
1. Shown the Covenant-adopted human being picked up just like in the show. Get on the ground, they search her, etc.
2. Show the lekgolo slithering through vents or whatever, out of sight.
3. Bring the human to an interrogation room. The lekgolo have made their way to the bridge where the captain is. They attack there while the prisoner is in the interrogation room.
It's just so silly to force characters to act irrationally just for the story to proceed. These are trained UNSC soldiers, that have probably killed other humans before (insurgents). Why would they not kill this one human that is clearly a threat and clearly in command of the enemy forces during that sequence?
It would have also spared us the plasma nail-knife or whatever that idiotic thing was haha.
Oh, my bad, thanks for clearing that up.No, Cortana. They cant act like friends yet like in the games because they have zero history together at this point.
I am okay with Chief. But I do not like this version of Cortana at all. I hope they will somehow correct this in the coming episodes.Oh, my bad, thanks for clearing that up.
I'm not expecting them to act as friends. I'm about to go on again about the source material vs this adaptation, so I guess feel free to ignore me haha.
In Fall of Reach Cortana chooses Chief as her teammate. By the time they "meet" she's already studied him and his service record, probably done a full psych profile on him, and understands that Chief raises the odds of successfully completing the mission ahead (infiltrating the Covenant home planet and capturing a Prophet). When Chief finally meets Cortana, she's introduced by Halsey in terms of a "system improvement", a weapon, tactical advantage for their upcoming mission. Even if Chief is initially wary about having an A.I. possibly controlling him or the armor (a concern Halsey dismisses by explaining it's not possible due to the technology used), he accepts to work with Cortana right away because it's the mission and the mission is the only thing Chief cares about. It's his character. So after going through an obstacle course and confirming that in fact Cortana is improving his chances of success, he's interested in working with her.
In the show, Chief goes AWOL in E1 and is working against his training and conditioning, essentially malfunctioning. So Halsey needs to bring Chief back in line, and she uses Cortana for that, who apparently was designed precisely to have full mental and physical control over Chief. So from the beginning they obviously distrust each other because Chief is unreliable, and Cortana feels her directive is to fully override Chief, which she's not being allowed to do. In more than one ocasion in that episode she's trying to take over control of Chief until Halsey gives her permission to do so. Out of all the scenarios the writers could have gone with, they decided to go with the antagonistic one where Chief's broken, does not want to work with Cortana, and she just wants to use Chief like a suit of armor. Why? Is this just trying to force character development where Chief will eventually understand that the mission is the #1 priority and stop being emotional, and Cortana will come to know that Chief does not need to be overriden by an A.I.? Or will the characters continue on this same path and just constantly put each other at odds because they can't work together? Either way I think it's kind of a poor choice, in my opinion of course.
Time will tell I guess? As I said in an earlier post it seems people are ok with the characterization for Chief, Halsey, and now Cortana, so maybe people like a bit of soap opera in their military sci-fi content.
It has been almost one week and the image of "Master Chief" standing bare ass naked in the gray concrete bathroom while Cortana creepily stands behind and stares at him, has been seared into my mind.
One of the most disturbing images from a TV show or Film in recent memory.
I'm curious. Do you think that somehow MC will reconcile with the government and come back around to being a loyal soldier? Without that how does anything in the show ever reconnect to anything in the games?This show just keeps getting better and better and better. I'm seeing why it was renewed for a second season. They fucking did it. They managed to make an amazing TV Series based on the Halo franchise. It's genuinely up there.
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Everything builds to that stuff. They're wise to start out by first giving us greater insight into all the characters and the larger universe. It's the only way the major events and big climax will mean anything.
I'm curious. Do you think that somehow MC will reconcile with the government and come back around to being a loyal soldier? Without that how does anything in the show ever reconnect to anything in the games?
From what I can see so far, we are going to get a three way race to some forerunner macguffin at best. I don't see how he can remain a spartan used in major ops when he is directly subverting the program. I'm sure there will be battles and planetary take overs that use names from Halo but, like everything in this show so far, it's just a name slapped on an almost totally different thing.
What if the government/military is willing to kill innocent people for a political purposes? Would the loyal soldier carry out that act?I'm curious. Do you think that somehow MC will reconcile with the government and come back around to being a loyal soldier? Without that how does anything in the show ever reconnect to anything in the games?
This ain't going to be as good as The Expanse but that also took its time to get to that stuff. The first 3/4 were ridiculously slow.Where is the big picture stuff? Space Opera? Action? Strategy in battle? Humanity on a knife edge?
Are these "innocent people" rebels that are undermining the governments ability to provide for the rest of humanity, build ships to resist the Covenant, or are otherwise hampering the war effort?What if the government/military is willing to kill innocent people for a political purposes? Would the loyal soldier carry out that act?
This show doesn't establish ANYTHING that's going on in the universe and just gets bogged down into a painfully slow and boring A-Plot about Master Chief and spartans feeling things. Who cares? Who cares about these characters at all? Why should I care if Master Chief is discovering his humanity if he was only known as a silent killer for 5 minutes in the first episode?
Humanity is facing EXTINCTION by ALIENS and we are supposed to care about soldiers who found out they have feelings and a rebel girl freeing her village against Nazi's. Like what? What the hell is this show?
That's a wall o text but I appreciate your insight. I disagree with setting MC against the gov so quickly though. The in media res cold opening tactic is a mistake here I think.This tells me you probably don't read the books, and if you do, I'm more blown away by your analysis...... to him. It's the most clever possible way for them to have chosen to approach this. You can tell 343 and the likes of Frank O'Conner had a major hand in this.
Funny how that guy’s stuff isn’t allowed on the gaming side, but when he shits on the Halo show that’s memory-holed.Paramount’s ‘Halo’ Show Is Not Going Great
Look, I’m trying, but after a premiere that surpassed my expectations at least by a little bit, I cannot say that Paramount’s Halo show is going terrible well after four episodes here, and things are getting worse every week.www.forbes.com
It is getting worse. Pity .
I have to agree, it's missing everything about the Covenant entirely. If they want a broader audience away from the game fans what is the wider threat to humanity exactly in this show?
So far Covies have taken a village and failed, have a spacestation that floats like a jellyfish and took one little ship over.
Not exactly the existential threat to all of humanity the books or games establish.
I also don't care about the Kwan arc at all. It's just filler and boring.
Kwan's arc is crucial to establishing a bedrock of Halo extended novel lore - the impact on the outer colonies and the events that take place there. Just because the Covenant threat is out there and exists is no reason to ignore life in the outer colonies in a Halo TV series. This isn't one of the games, they have to cast a wider net, and not always just focus on the Chief and Spartans and the Covenant. Halo in the novels is at its best when it follows all these various arcs and finds a way to connect them or bring them to conclusion, or set them up for something bigger.
You can't depict what the Covenant as a threat represents without showing the people who suffer at the hands of their existence and threat. The covenant sent just a squad of elites, and just like that they did all that damage, even killing what appeared to be Madrigal's top general. They did so with relative ease. But just because that happens is no reason to ignore the local power struggle and local issues taking place inside Madrigal. I can't believe people aren't seeing just how crucial the Kwan Ha side of this whole thing is. They are even teasing potentially some larger role possibly tied to Halo and the Forerunners involving Kwan and her family, the supposed real reason they're on Madrigal in the first place. And if you know about the novels, you know how things end on Madrigal. Why wouldn't we wish to see that play out in a TV series, even though Madrigal technically survived much longer than it did in the original lore timeline. Madrigal was the second colony planet utterly wiped out and destroyed, or glassed, by the Covenant after Harvest.
Anyone see what's been going on with Angry Joe and his Halo TV reviews?
5 times now
He tells the person doing this for cbs manually if they do it again he’s taking them to court and tells them to back the fuck off.I've not watched any. Does he slate it lol?
He's pretty fair for the most part TBH. The show is mediocre and change for the sake of change thus far. Even taking Silver universe on its own merits as totally separate it still doesn't sell itself very well at all. I pretty much align with Joe'n'co's take on this show. The copyright claims are total nonsense, they have more content created from their own Angry Joe chatter and the parts they've used are less than 1-3minutes in 1 hour shows. It's a pathetic attempt to halt mediocre reviews that are every bit deserved.I've not watched any. Does he slate it lol?
He tells the person doing this for cbs manually if they do it again he’s taking them to court and tells them to back the fuck off.
That guy is a retarded tool but he has every right to put his mental diarrhea up on YouTubeAnyone see what's been going on with Angry Joe and his Halo TV reviews?