Halo TV Show Cancelled On Paramount

Remember those walls I built?
Well, baby, they're tumbling down
And they didn't even put up a fight
They didn't even make a sound
 
By the prophets who could have seen it coming...oh every Halo fan after ep1.

Production values and actors were good, basically everything else was fucked with terrible decisions and leadership.
 
Nah forget season 3... give it some time and push for a full on series reboot with a huge budget with more action and better writing.
 
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Hardcore halo fan's grip on the franchise is greater than ever before, the show took on a darker tone and I think canceling after 2 seasons is fair.
 
Too bad. It was starting to get good. I was looking for a comedy and it scratched that itch.
 
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I watched the first season and all I can say is that I'm surprised it even got renewed for a second season. Pretty poor and unfaithful adaption imo.
 
fart town usa said:
It's pretty wild that Halo is more or less a dead IP. I'm not saying the games are terrible, I only played the first 3. But Halo releases were a cultural event. We still see it with other IPs but somehow MS managed to make their most valuable IP irrelevant. It's a damn shame.
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And they couldn't even stick to their own God damn story when making a live series beat 20 years since the first game came out, LIKE HOW DO YOU FUCK UP THAT BADLY??
 
It really says something that the old commercials for the original games and fan made movies from 15 years ago are still the best live action Halo we've ever seen. It's not that hard people.



 
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Genuinely disappointed by this as me and my partner loved this show.

That being said being in paramount off all services really didn't help I imagine.

I know no one that has this service and I only got the service on two different occasions for halo season 1 & 2 + knuckles.

Hopefully the show moves over to netflix or amazon, where I imagine people will actually watch the show.
 
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Does S2 end on some cliffhanger or does it have decent ending in case it does not get renewed?
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Yes it does, the plot wasn't half bad, it has the potential for 3rd season, the covenants were just too strong, and Master Chief has shown his human side way too early.

I don't think it's a dead IP, PS players are just used to move to something else quickly and more often, they don't say their games are like that, but it's written all over their faces, they found what they were looking for and I'm not complaining.
 
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I didn't watch past the first couple of episodes, so I won't miss it, but as this was quite prominent in Paramount's marketing, I'm surprised.
 
I always wonder what such a studio wants to achieve by abandoning 90% of the game script in a franchise that has already lost a large part of its original fan base after the same type of warfare could be fought with real soldiers? When Halo was first shown with the robot-like character, I didn't like it at all. It wasn't until the reviews started pouring in that it got my attention. And yes, I am someone who grew up with hundreds of hours of Mega Man and Metroid in 8 bit graphics. Imagine what the masses who have never played the games do when they see a guy wearing a robot suit with a cap on top while scrolling through Paramount/Sky's offerings. They scroll on. Now you don't have a fan base with good word of mouth advertising and therefore no newcomers because of the meaningless corniness they see at first glance.

Besides the fact that The Last of Us is at a peak level among gamers and sticked to the script, it also rides on the success of The Walking Dead among the masses. That crowd that wanted more zombie horror after this series ended 2 months before TLoU started.
If they just gave the animated film "Halo: The Fall of Reach" the TLoU treatment, it would be a much bigger success. No one asked for a helmetless Chief for 90% of the series. If they used a kid for the Fall of Reach part where Master Chief is created to build some attachment to the character, with only a helmetless moment at the end like the Mandalorian did with a more dude-bro actor like David Bautista as an adult John 117, it would would have been much more interesting.

Personally, I had a hard time getting into season 1, but I eventually finished it with the idea that it was a different universe within the franchise. However, it always felt like the production costs were only slightly higher than the 2 mini-movies Forward Until Dawn and Nightfall. By season 2 I no longer had the strength to continue watching after the first episode. You could already see where they were going with the story with a new general (or backer?) coming to harass John.
I just looked at IMDB and saw that there is a 9.6 episode, so I will eventually sit down for it again, but there are simply enough other series that are more interesting.

I am a big fan of the franchise and have read a large portion of the books and have a number of statues in my collection. Halo Infinite also has a total playing time of around 600 hours, while no other game in my 60-hour working week and 2 kids comes close in total playtime. But this just didn't cut it.
 
Two Seasons too late, just cancel outright…It was hot garbage from the get go. Why was it so hard to just turn Halo 1 into a show? Its already structured episodically, each level could easily make a episode.
 
To be honest, even if the story stuck to that of the game, I'm not sure it would have been any better received.

Because the story itself was pretty shit.

Great games though!
 
Imagine fumbling a Halo show. How utterly talentless do you have to be?

What a bunch of hacks. Good riddance and I hope none of them get a job in entertainment ever again.
 
This should have been an easy success. Sci-fi shooting aliens, especially with the flood etc.
 
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