Remember when Reach fell and I took your armor? What a prank! Haha what a goof! Thank you halo the tv series to show us there’s no armor that can compare to plot armor.
tbh before i saw them kill enemies without their armor i thought they didnt have emotion, thank god the show removed their armor so i could read the detail and the emotions running over their face during the scene. i hope theres another POW sex scene so we know that jimmy rings has game and is infact not gay!
Yes. You wear the armour in the game. The the Master Chief has armour in the game when handing cortana off at the end in his pod. The following didn't happen in the game. Keys getting killed off . No Piller Of Autumn. Only blue team on Reach, no Noble team🤦🏻♂️ have you played the game? 😂
It's just unbelievable that they can't actually take the fan feedback and change the show just enough to the point where people don't hate it. It's not like people are asking them to completely scrap it and start over lol they already have most of the VFX most of the characters necessary they just need a serious fucking reboot
I need to get this off my chest: I’m not even a hardcore Halo fan, but I can’t stop thinking that tv show producers and writers freaking hate everything about the game, including soundtrack and sfx. Think of all the decisions to deviate as far as possible from the original material. After all the butt pellet freedom arch it wouldn’t make no sense for Master Chief to allow an IA to be shoved into his brain. That’s how you get rid of Cortana, but just in case, add a gazillion original characters with storylines that somewhat connect just to support Master Chief character development. I was willing to accept Johnny Ringworld sporting his guns with a tight t-shirt for half of S02E04 while surviving without armor or weapons before the “Suit up” moment. But the “he took our armor” made me lose it. It’s such a despicable and lame excuse, it looks like something thrown at the last minute with a couple of lines written over the script. Also, the proper name for this tv show should be Coitus Interruptus: “MASTER CHIEF IS SURROUNDED BY ELITES! But they decided to just chill and walk away…” THE SPARTANS ARE READY FOR ACTION LOOKING FOR COBALT TEAM! Just found an automatic door banging. MASTER CHIEF IS HAVING A BAR FIGHT WITH ONI AGENTS! No he’s not. MASTER CHIEF AND… Arbiter, maybe? ARE HAVING A PLASMA SWORD FIGHT! No, it is not him and they won’t. I’m telling you, they hate Halo and their sole purpose is to disappoint the fans.
1:37 what's funny about the helmet camera thing to prove there were elites is that they use helmet cameras in the first season for the covenant translator
Exactly; what is the attack itself going to cause, peace and calmness? There is going to be panick when Reach is attacked but at least they could evacuate as many as possible while not under attack, have the defenses on high alert and as prepared as possible, and call in more evacuation aid in the meantime.. Like you say; not warning rhem makes no sense what so ever. I would rather have had no-one know about the attack or everyone told, rather than what they went with, which makes no sense.
so what you think the whole population has played HALO get over urselves some people just want to watch a decent series who gives a shit about the computer game lol
@@Nocontent826even if you take the halo skin suit this show unashamedly wears, it still sucks. Once it is over, it will be easily forgotten like every other lame show made nowadays, when it has the ability to be really something.
it won't be forgotten especially not by the computer game nerds who insist on making it just like the game lol you guys will never ever get over it lol @@ericscheerer4138
@@MrPrince383 based on his barely literate comment, don’t expect a response. But that is the thing that baffles me. Halo is popular BECAUSE of gamers. Many of whom have been waiting longer than 2 decades for a GOOD live action adaptation and when a studio with the budget to make that happen comes along, this garbage show is the best we get.
I wouldn't complain if this episode was earned. The first time you see John fight without his armor in the books is eye opening and character building and is earned after a long period of him being built up.
This show isnt about loyalty to Halo or its story or its fans. They produce this garbage knowing exactly what they're doing. Then they (try to) gaslight Halo fans into submission. Race swapping characters. Changing the personality and motivations of characters. All because they don't want you to have a since of heroism or stoicism in your mind. Thats why they take chiefs helmet off. So you cant imprint yourself into the suit, so to speak. So when they spend the big money on making these types of shows know that their goal is demoralisation. Apply the same to 343s games.
DUDE, thank you for this. All I have seen is "this is finally what we have been waiting for" thought I was going crazy. This was such a disappointment no one wants to see chief fight without armor
@@Youcancallmeishmaell to a degree I can understand that, but given that they fundamentally don’t understand the IP that they were given, I have no faith that they would do any better with Mass effect and would rather this production team stay away from that IP as well.
The show is worse than season one which is really hard to do. They should’ve just done the mandolarian move and keep his Goddamn helmet on. Too much feelings which isn’t what master chief was about
Can someone please explain why only Chief and Makee can interact with forerunner technology? Has this always been the case in the games? I thought Johnson and Miranda could, which is why Johnson wanted Miranda to kill them both at the end of Halo 3 so they couldn't be forced to activate it? Can someone please clarify?
Long term Halo Fan here: short explanation: In Bungies Games Forerunners are implicitly Humans. Its never actually said but its 100% clear from context. All Humans can interact with human (forerunner) technology. Then 343 came along and thought it would be a good idea to change this retrospectively. Too bad, as now nothing in the story makes sense anymore. This show just extends this nonsense even further.
@eEnterprise , because 343 has hyperfixation on Spartans and tries to take Halo like a Superhero genre and not what it is. They try to make Chief the main character of the story when in reality, it was combined effort of all of humanity that prevented their extinction from the hands of the Covenant or Flood.
@@TheRageEnterpriseagain, its a different timeline you can’t use canon timeline logic on the hot garbage that is the silver timeline (the show). In the show it’s still not really explained who or how can someone interact with the forerunner tech.
thank you for pointing out the covenants inconsistency. This is been a biggest problem when watching the show everyone praises the action but me who has played the video games and read some of the books know that the covenant are 30 times smarter than this entire show
How is it smarter? When i play the game, the Elite just jump side way when i shoot at them, and they keep shooting like a Storm Trooper too. The Sword weilding one would break stealth and charge at me like a Zombie.
@@sovietbear5084 last book I read Ghost of Reach, the covenant behave exactly like in the TV show. Chief and his team just shoots them like they r on the show did.
@@steak5599 i’m going to have to disagree, the covenant have shown to have great commanders and shipmasters that have shown to destroy the UNSC without suffering casualties or using only sword elites or jackals with energy daggers
The more negative everyone is the less support they will give to future projects. If you want more halo content and hope it will continue to get better then you have to at least support them trying otherwise we just get nothing....
I have played the game from when it first came out. I do enjoy the show but must agree some sub plots seem dumb. But to be honest is this version of Halo would be a more realistic one, with the political implications around the fall of reach, the oni leaving the Spartans to die because they know they can’t just control them. Sacrificing the whole planet of reach so not to waste the fleet in a un win-able fight. Those things seem more likely to happen if it were real events with humans susceptible to corruption and self preservation. The show has a long way to go and hopefully gets better.
I just re-watch the "we are odst" aka "the life" Trailer. a 3 minute trailer with no dialog and it's better than season 1 and 2 of the paramount "halo" show. Amazing, entertainment is evolving backwards.
Man... The people behind the costumes put so much work into making them look so good and then they get used by absolute cancer of humans by ruining everything they can. This show is a horrible mischaracterization of anything the name of the show represents. Jimmy Rings will never be the person he's pretending to be and its all because most of the people running this show hate the world they got handed to them on a silver platter.
This show is ruining 20 years of good memories playing a game that I was genuinely emotionally invested in. This is garbage. I could have written better fan fic.. I really don’t understand how the studios can hire writers for these shows who don’t even care about the source material. I would have even been cool if they wrote their own storylines with new characters in the same universe as Halo, maybe from a different teams perspective or whatever but ruining beloved characters is heresy.
Don’t compare the show to invincible please don’t do that invincible is a much better show god damn with what halo puts out invincible is a amazing show best way of showing off character development and telling us who tf they are with halo it’s a complete disaster
Wait, a blind Spartan? How does that work, cause unless there's something in his armor that gives him sight, I don't think he's gonna be as effective of a solider as other Spartans. >They kill Captain Keyes on Reach Fuck off! I'm so tired of the lame ass excuse of "it's a different timeline/universe, so it's ok that we do things differently". If you're supposed to be adapting a story, just adapt the story faithfully. If you want to change something, you better make damn sure the change is to make the story better, otherwise, fuck off. Even if the change isn't better or worse, just different, don't. I came here to watch Halo, not some shitty, generic sci-fi slop that vaguely resembles Halo. At that point, it's just an officially sanctioned bootleg as far as I'm concerned.
Its a crime to some people to only want a retelling of the games you know :) It worked for the last of us though, crazy huh? Don’t let people know that (or that League of Legends for some reason has a extremely better video game adaption and this is what Halo gets)
Remember it’s Kiki wolf kill. She’s a failure and was involved with failure games such as Halo 4, and Halo 5 and is the last person standing that we need to be out from 343 industries 🤷🏽♂️ all the other frauds are gone she’s the last one standing
Damn, y'all are like children who can't understand a basic story. That character is not a "blind Spartan"; he was a Spartan candidate as a child who went blind during the augmentation process. He was not an active soldier but when the Covenant knocked on the door he picked up a weapon and eventually sacrificed himself so that our crew could make it. The problem with hate watch content is you only get a distorted view of the story. It's part of the reason media literacy is so low now.
Bungie making the games: We didn't spend time figuring out who the Chief was or humanizing him, he's just a badass in a big chunk of armor you move around in. 343 and Paramount: We are humanizing the chief and he always has his helmet off Do the world a favor and delete this show from existence
It could be better in life to lower your expectations and try to be happy they made the show and try to find the joy in it that allready is. I know the golden Halo fans like book readers are dissapointed, but come on. Try enjoying it for what it is. I believe they have watered it out "a lot" to make it a lasting tv show... It's obious it's a tv show for everyone and not for Halo blood fans. Captain keys looks like Jhonson also in the way he smokes. Never understood that one.
There is no story in Halo TV. I mean that in their own documents, likely they don't focus on any central plot or narrative. (ranting) There's a huge dearth of shit ghost-writers who are trying to make a living shopping around scripts like this. If you talk to recent-grads of writing programs, some of the ideas about "good story telling", creative writing, general English has drastically changed. So much of what I hear coming out of these new art/media schools is trash, and it's all being trickled up into film and television because the scripts are interchangeable, require little creativity, and only require production money and slaves. And we're getting a bunch of young people that are often too timid to correct seniors despite seniors themselves being aweful. Good storytelling is beaten out of young people. So when you see things like "Why is this emotional control stuff there"? In industry, "sci-fi" is being requested even more (despite all the high profile flops) in scripts, and generic shit tropes like this are being pounded out at a totally different scale then before because new hires in the industry are under immense pressure to succeed and just even live and producers lost the entire plot of foundational film making decades ago. Too many people who can't write are typing stuff and making nonsense, and the rest are using still shitty not-really-AI to make scripts. Literally, sometimes it's starting with awful tropes first (we want a diverse cast...and a lgbt character...and a love scene...and family drama...and it's like "ok but where's the fucking sci-fi or even a plot"?). Again, there's no story in this tv show. It's just these stupid narrative checkboxes and however the directors can move the scene from one checkbox to another. Scripts are all looking like this, and criticisms/critiques of scripts look like this. Lots of really awesome stuff being passed around, even today. Standalone scripts that are like "That's the sci-fi I want". But they aren't "diverse" enough (I mean...not even true they just mean THEIR diversity), or "anime" enough (this one comes up embarrassingly often (just not for me)), not wall-to-wall action, or "we compared it to this shoggoth monstrosity called public perception and we think you should chain yourself to its teeth".
17:33 - The attack just happened 20 seconds ago and Granny is acting like she's been barricaded in for weeks. Seems like communication to actors and or just bad script writing at play.
Thank you for doing this. I don't know how anyone can enjoy this show with the writing and nonsensical plot. They've turned Halo into a generic sci Fi show. How can anyone been okay with this?
A few things. From what I’ve read online about the books, Chief actually does spend a decent amount time out of his armor. It’s not like he lives in the thing. In fact, we have seen him remove his suit before in the games (Halo CE, the Halo 5 Legendary ending). Furthermore it’s made clear: Spartans need the green light to suit up and deploy, which makes sense considering the fact those suits are critical assets. It also just makes sense Chief would want to when he’s in a controlled area like a UNSC stronghold. Really though; Chief without the armor in combat reinforces his skill. Spartans are more than their armor, especially Chief. Masked protags CAN work, but it is limited in the kind of performance you can convey. I’m sure Pablo prefer to be seen, but that just a performer wanting to be able to use all the tools of their trade. BUT THE THING THAT REALLY MATTERS… is Chief acting in character. Which I feel he has done so far this season.
@@paradoxinraindrops141 Feels like you just googled "when does master chief take off his helmet" and have never actually played the games. The most you ever see in the games in his eyes but honestly it doesn't matter, none of the Spartans act like Spartans, They feel like whiney, emotional teenagers. Canonically Spartans feel naked without their armour, their skin is very pale due to this, They don't need permission to wear their suits. He has discovered that the covenant are on reach thinks the planet is about to be under attack... and he takes the armour off, makes absolutely no sense. If you can't act in what should be very few but impactful emotional moments in a helmet while playing one of the most iconic masked characters then you shouldn't get the job. The games have amazing moments and due to body language, cinematography and music you can see exactly how he is feeling. The only moment he has acted like the Chief is when he was fighting the elites in the first episode, you have honestly lost me with this one as I cant even fathom how you could think he is acting anything like him which is what makes me think you haven't played the games. This whole thing is just depressing, I love one piece, the live action adaption was fun for people who have been fans for 20 years and people who knew nothing about it and it was great because everyone involved were fans of that world. The show runner said in an interview that they "didn’t look at the game. We didn’t talk about the game"
@@Aido68 I have played the games. I have not read the books, so I was more so referring to my understanding of them from discussions of the lore. I get “Spartans feel naked without the armor” but that isn’t a strong enough counter. The show makes it clear: they need authorization to equip the suits. The reason Chief wasn’t wearing the armor was cause Silver Team got busted operating without clearance, for which they were nearly court martialed. When Silver rallied up and prepared to reengage… they learned Ackerson took the rigs with him during the withdrawal of UNSC, ONI high command. Understand a big part of the story is Chief wanting to investigate a Covenant activity out of fear of another attack; only to be gaslit by ONI & Ackerson as a consequence for last season. All those are great examples of conveying a masked protag. But being able to see his face, lets laymen viewers relate more to the Chief. I agree: Chief was SUPER out of character in season one. But S2 Chief is much more stoic, quieter and a lot more like the games. Unlike S1, Chief faces his challenges & bears his frustrations a lot more in character. Finally, that quote was from the previous show runner. And I agree: it’s a fucking stupid thing to say when adapting something. But it’s clear the new show lead and creatives better understand what a Halo show should be. Judging by your comment, it just sounds like you only watched the first season. If the show totally lost you? I don’t blame you. But despite my numerous issues with S1; they stepped up their game and won me back this season.
Dude, do you think the Spartans just stand in the corner and wait till you click on them, so they can be deployed? Yes, they are augmented super-humans, but what do they do, when they are not in the combat? Chilling in their Mjöllnir armors, having people polish their helmets? They are still in some way human beings, that need to eat and sleep and do another things. Tony Stark also does not live in his suit. Mando also does not marinate in his beskar all the time. Jesus Christ on a motorbike!
I just noticed this: At 17:38, Jimmy Rings lets Perez pass her, only for him to try to beat her up the stairs... so even something so basic like going up the stairs is poorly executed.
The answer to all your questions: the show runners and writers are all hacks who are allergic to nuance or anything that might portray ruthless military organizations in a positive light. We know ONI and Halsey did shady things, they work in a moral gray zone, but the show runners are going out of their way to paint them as complete incompetent villains. Not a single one of these characters makes sense
Obviously cobalt team wasn't shot down and eliminated by the covenant. This version of the covenant are not confident enough to be able to kill Spartans. They were actually killed by TK troopers and clone troopers lead by crosshair. Look at their bodies, the wounds on their bodies are not from plasma burns, nah that would be simple and easy thinking. Instead, the wounds are from blaster bolts, probably from crosshair's sniper rifle.
This show is so freaking terrible and the fact that people who watch this slop call themselves Halo fans. We're at the point where fans will accept anything. The fans are idiots and don't understand Halo just as the creators and writers of this show. Perez should've died as you said and she made no freaking sense. Seriously her helmet not being able to record what happened like wtf. The side plots are so bad and shouldn't even be in the show. Soren is just as terrible. Everything you said about the side plots are 100% correct. From the spartans being able to remove their chips like it doesn't matter is just crazy. And the fact that Chief and silver team are able to sneak out is awful. Pablo isn't Chief and should be fired. This show doesn't care about Reach nor does it do it justice. The fall of reach should've been epic. The elite should've beat tf outta Chief and yes killed Perez. The covenant should've been annihilating everyone, the wrath dying to that albino Spartan was something else. The jackals stopping was pure stupidity. And killing Keys in the fall of reach seriously who thought that was a great idea. The covenant should've glass that planet once they got what they wanted. Anyway I enjoyed your videos, don't stop critiquing this show as the fans of halo need their happiness destroyed for liking this trash. This show reminds me of Avatar the last Airbender movie.
I imagine that Ackerson's plan was to isolate Kai from the other Spartans in order to get her to train his Spartan IIIs and also to sabotage the Spartan IIs and prove them disobedient and ineffective in order to convince the UNSC to continue funding his Spartan III program instead.
I am glad I stopped at episode 3 and started watching the new season of the Bad Batch. It’s a really good show and I would recommend any person who likes Star Wars to watch it.
You start to wonder, before the previous 343 execs got fired did they greenlight this TV show with paramount and crappy script out of spite of halo fans and the company before they left.
Keyes was rightfully angry. Ackerson sent four Spartans to die and didn’t tell Keyes a goddamn thing. As a vet, upper command is rolling heads at first opportunity.
Yeah first 15 minutes of s2e1 was good then I clocked out. These show runners are making a mess of halo. There's not enough halo for the fans and don't explain enough for the average viewer. They're trying to please everyone but pleasing no one. It's the problem with hollywood now, there are so many books, shows, lore that exist. Just make a show about the existing book or comic. Disney has this same problem with star wars and marvel. Same thing with the DCU. People making shows and movies that have no interest in the material. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Sad to see this is what entertainment is now.
I stopped watching Critics now I actually love the show! I'm enjoying it without all the negativity. My Uncle just started Season one and he loves it. Still gotta finish the last game. But people won't leave me alone because of Dead by Daylight.
Remember when Noble Team fought hard as fuck and died, to deliver Cortana to the Pillar of Autmn? Yeah, that doesn't happen in the show lol I don't care how much folks like that ackerson actor but he made some dumbass decisions like taking the Spartans suits but leave Cortana behind for the Covenant to take lol
This is a loss leader. It’s being used to bring traffic to Paramount’s streaming service. And pointing out issues with the show is pointless when this show is made by people who don’t care about the source material.
id really like for them to rename master chief from the tv show to jimmy rings, would at least make the show salvageable if they didnt pretend this was master chief we were watching.
The reason they want Ackerson to delay the evacuation is because they want to do the childish "made-to-hate character has stupid plans/motivations that everyone can tell are dumb that a made-to-like character protests, only to be smugly told to know his place just to make the made-to-hate character look artificially bad to the audience"
I like how they mention the winter contingency but never tell the"wider audience" this is trash is made for. They mention evacuations but if the winter contingency is just that, why give it a stupid name? Just call it evacuation.
Damn, Halo fans are hard to please. At least you’re getting a show! Try being a Battletech/Mechwarrior fan with a split IP. We just get pretty artwork every now and then and some miniatures. I’d love a proper TV series.
Coming from someone who doesn’t care about the games, why do you have the right to say if it’s fateful if you don’t even care about halo. People are acting like something getting a movie or a show is good but it isn’t and halo is in bad place rn and the show is helping to kill it. Halo would be in a better place without the show.
@@PabloBudgaga-ui9gu I'm an average fan. Played a few of the games, thats all. What gives me the right? The same thing that gives you the right. Nothing! We're just the consumer, remember that. If you don't like it, don't consume it. For me, its fairly entertaining sci-fi show that I'll keep watching.
@@jamessmith5666 cause it negative impacts the franchise, if people like it then the games will be more like it. Personally I wouldn’t like seeing master chief butt booty ass naked whining in the games.
As someone who never played the game so truly unbiased this show has some inconsistencies but otherwise has me engaged and waiting for new episodes to drop the action when apparent is top tier
It's a slightly clunky but mainly fun Science fiction show but a dire HALO show. It really looks like the writers had a good idea for a show but needed a known I.P to hang it on.
It's like most TV shows adapting properties anymore, it wears the IP it's supposed to be adapting like a skin suite to tell a story that has very little to do with the property the fans fell in love with. It's hard not to hate it for that. It's kind of like walking into the theaters to watch Saving Private Ryan and an episode of Army Wives is on instead. Yeah they're both about the military, and some people like it. But you were expecting the brutality of war and fun action, instead you got house wife drama for 90% of the runtime sprinkled in with the occasional underwhelming fight. It certainly isn't the same as what you were expecting and I wouldn't blame you for leaving the theater and asking for a refund.
Remember when Reach fell and I took your armor? What a prank! Haha what a goof! Thank you halo the tv series to show us there’s no armor that can compare to plot armor.
tbh before i saw them kill enemies without their armor i thought they didnt have emotion, thank god the show removed their armor so i could read the detail and the emotions running over their face during the scene. i hope theres another POW sex scene so we know that jimmy rings has game and is infact not gay!
Lo fn l the internet is too funny
@@nobodykayaks1041we need a jimmy rings and John halo collab asap
Imagine Halo but without:
Sergeant Johnson
Pillar of Autumn
The Flood
Mjolnir Armor
Halo
I give you the Halo TV Series
#LightTheRings
Halo with NO CONTEXT on why the series is even called Halo, is just hilarious.
Well, they're adapting the fall of reach so the flood and halo itself would make no sense in being in it.
And the armour?
I get the armour but none of those things will be in it until they leave Reach. Have you played the games lol?
Yes. You wear the armour in the game. The the Master Chief has armour in the game when handing cortana off at the end in his pod. The following didn't happen in the game. Keys getting killed off . No Piller Of Autumn. Only blue team on Reach, no Noble team🤦🏻♂️ have you played the game? 😂
the problem is people keep watching it, reacting to it, engaging with it so it makes the executives think they can make more
Exactly.
This is what I'm saying. I've only seen reviews and it's going about as expected.
It's just unbelievable that they can't actually take the fan feedback and change the show just enough to the point where people don't hate it. It's not like people are asking them to completely scrap it and start over lol they already have most of the VFX most of the characters necessary they just need a serious fucking reboot
By definition that means ppl like it. You just dont...thats life
I wouldn't even pirate this garbage
I need to get this off my chest:
I’m not even a hardcore Halo fan, but I can’t stop thinking that tv show producers and writers freaking hate everything about the game, including soundtrack and sfx. Think of all the decisions to deviate as far as possible from the original material. After all the butt pellet freedom arch it wouldn’t make no sense for Master Chief to allow an IA to be shoved into his brain. That’s how you get rid of Cortana, but just in case, add a gazillion original characters with storylines that somewhat connect just to support Master Chief character development. I was willing to accept Johnny Ringworld sporting his guns with a tight t-shirt for half of S02E04 while surviving without armor or weapons before the “Suit up” moment. But the “he took our armor” made me lose it. It’s such a despicable and lame excuse, it looks like something thrown at the last minute with a couple of lines written over the script.
Also, the proper name for this tv show should be Coitus Interruptus:
“MASTER CHIEF IS SURROUNDED BY ELITES!
But they decided to just chill and walk away…”
THE SPARTANS ARE READY FOR ACTION LOOKING FOR COBALT TEAM!
Just found an automatic door banging.
MASTER CHIEF IS HAVING A BAR FIGHT WITH ONI AGENTS!
No he’s not.
MASTER CHIEF AND… Arbiter, maybe? ARE HAVING A PLASMA SWORD FIGHT!
No, it is not him and they won’t.
I’m telling you, they hate Halo and their sole purpose is to disappoint the fans.
He is the arbiter of
I have come to the same conclusion. _Coitus Interruptus_ ... Brilliant comeback.
1:37 what's funny about the helmet camera thing to prove there were elites is that they use helmet cameras in the first season for the covenant translator
"oh no, there will be chaos and panic on a planet we are planning to allow to be glassed in a few days"
- halo tv show logic
Exactly; what is the attack itself going to cause, peace and calmness? There is going to be panick when Reach is attacked but at least they could evacuate as many as possible while not under attack, have the defenses on high alert and as prepared as possible, and call in more evacuation aid in the meantime..
Like you say; not warning rhem makes no sense what so ever. I would rather have had no-one know about the attack or everyone told, rather than what they went with, which makes no sense.
Its crazy its got a 7/10 on imdb... but all the higher ratings are from people who admit they never played any of the games
so what you think the whole population has played HALO get over urselves some people just want to watch a decent series who gives a shit about the computer game lol
@@Nocontent826even if you take the halo skin suit this show unashamedly wears, it still sucks.
Once it is over, it will be easily forgotten like every other lame show made nowadays, when it has the ability to be really something.
it won't be forgotten especially not by the computer game nerds who insist on making it just like the game lol you guys will never ever get over it lol @@ericscheerer4138
@Nocontent826 hey are you a big fan of anything. It can be related to anime, video games, books/comics?
@@MrPrince383 based on his barely literate comment, don’t expect a response. But that is the thing that baffles me. Halo is popular BECAUSE of gamers. Many of whom have been waiting longer than 2 decades for a GOOD live action adaptation and when a studio with the budget to make that happen comes along, this garbage show is the best we get.
Everyone asked for more Master Chief in Spartan Armor with Helmet on ... We get a whole episode of battle without either .... PERFECT!
ikr. we got to see how stands against an elite.
I wouldn't complain if this episode was earned. The first time you see John fight without his armor in the books is eye opening and character building and is earned after a long period of him being built up.
0@@Rynyn
Anyone else think that the cut Scene's from the games are 1000× better than the show its self. I'd rather watch them than this absolute shit 😂
i would gladly watch them instead. I already do
My heartfelt condolences to anybody who enjoyed the game or has even just heard of it.
"Cortana gets captured".
WHATTTT?????!!! Of all the lore they bastardized, this has to be by far the worst offense.
This show isnt about loyalty to Halo or its story or its fans. They produce this garbage knowing exactly what they're doing. Then they (try to) gaslight Halo fans into submission. Race swapping characters. Changing the personality and motivations of characters. All because they don't want you to have a since of heroism or stoicism in your mind. Thats why they take chiefs helmet off. So you cant imprint yourself into the suit, so to speak.
So when they spend the big money on making these types of shows know that their goal is demoralisation. Apply the same to 343s games.
Microsoft should sue Paramount for the damages to its brand.
@@Marinealver "when they learn? fool, they ordered us to do it"
DUDE, thank you for this. All I have seen is "this is finally what we have been waiting for" thought I was going crazy. This was such a disappointment no one wants to see chief fight without armor
This isn't HALO,it's an attempt at crowbaring HALO into an approximation of the series that they actually wanted to apapt...
MASS EFFECTS.
That makes so much more sense.
I’d be just as mad if this was the attempt at mass effect
@nickolasturner I think it would be better if it was mass effect.
Because that is what they actually want.
@@Youcancallmeishmaell to a degree I can understand that, but given that they fundamentally don’t understand the IP that they were given, I have no faith that they would do any better with Mass effect and would rather this production team stay away from that IP as well.
@nickolasturner
I think they do understand HALO, they just like ME more.
The show is worse than season one which is really hard to do. They should’ve just done the mandolarian move and keep his
Goddamn helmet on. Too much feelings which isn’t what master chief was about
Can someone please explain why only Chief and Makee can interact with forerunner technology? Has this always been the case in the games? I thought Johnson and Miranda could, which is why Johnson wanted Miranda to kill them both at the end of Halo 3 so they couldn't be forced to activate it? Can someone please clarify?
@ird1832 oh ok so theyve changed it just because? Then why does 343 call only chief a reclaimer? or does he call all humans reclaimers?
Long term Halo Fan here: short explanation: In Bungies Games Forerunners are implicitly Humans. Its never actually said but its 100% clear from context. All Humans can interact with human (forerunner) technology. Then 343 came along and thought it would be a good idea to change this retrospectively. Too bad, as now nothing in the story makes sense anymore. This show just extends this nonsense even further.
@@TheRageEnterprise sorry, but reclaimer isn't Chief alone. Literally says entirety of Humanity are the reclaimers.
@eEnterprise , because 343 has hyperfixation on Spartans and tries to take Halo like a Superhero genre and not what it is. They try to make Chief the main character of the story when in reality, it was combined effort of all of humanity that prevented their extinction from the hands of the Covenant or Flood.
@@TheRageEnterpriseagain, its a different timeline you can’t use canon timeline logic on the hot garbage that is the silver timeline (the show). In the show it’s still not really explained who or how can someone interact with the forerunner tech.
thank you for pointing out the covenants inconsistency. This is been a biggest problem when watching the show everyone praises the action but me who has played the video games and read some of the books know that the covenant are 30 times smarter than this entire show
How is it smarter? When i play the game, the Elite just jump side way when i shoot at them, and they keep shooting like a Storm Trooper too.
The Sword weilding one would break stealth and charge at me like a Zombie.
@@steak5599 read the books then
@@sovietbear5084 last book I read Ghost of Reach, the covenant behave exactly like in the TV show.
Chief and his team just shoots them like they r on the show did.
@@steak5599 i’m going to have to disagree, the covenant have shown to have great commanders and shipmasters that have shown to destroy the UNSC without suffering casualties or using only sword elites or jackals with energy daggers
@@steak5599 Everyone is now doubting your reading comprehension.
Keep these videos coming. Please keep these videos coming I appreciate it
The more negative everyone is the less support they will give to future projects. If you want more halo content and hope it will continue to get better then you have to at least support them trying otherwise we just get nothing....
They're using AI to write this show. It's the only explanation....
Nah even AI would do better than this dumpster fire
You suffered through this show so thousands could be spared from it. Thank you sir.
I have played the game from when it first came out. I do enjoy the show but must agree some sub plots seem dumb. But to be honest is this version of Halo would be a more realistic one, with the political implications around the fall of reach, the oni leaving the Spartans to die because they know they can’t just control them. Sacrificing the whole planet of reach so not to waste the fleet in a un win-able fight. Those things seem more likely to happen if it were real events with humans susceptible to corruption and self preservation. The show has a long way to go and hopefully gets better.
They literally show in season 1 that the Spartan helmets are indeed recording, so that makes the season 2 plot even more sad.
I just re-watch the "we are odst" aka "the life" Trailer. a 3 minute trailer with no dialog and it's better than season 1 and 2 of the paramount "halo" show. Amazing, entertainment is evolving backwards.
Just when I started feeling warm and fuzzy about the show...you HAD to bring logic!😂 Damm u.
Man... The people behind the costumes put so much work into making them look so good and then they get used by absolute cancer of humans by ruining everything they can. This show is a horrible mischaracterization of anything the name of the show represents. Jimmy Rings will never be the person he's pretending to be and its all because most of the people running this show hate the world they got handed to them on a silver platter.
This show is ruining 20 years of good memories playing a game that I was genuinely emotionally invested in. This is garbage. I could have written better fan fic.. I really don’t understand how the studios can hire writers for these shows who don’t even care about the source material. I would have even been cool if they wrote their own storylines with new characters in the same universe as Halo, maybe from a different teams perspective or whatever but ruining beloved characters is heresy.
Don’t compare the show to invincible please don’t do that invincible is a much better show god damn with what halo puts out invincible is a amazing show best way of showing off character development and telling us who tf they are with halo it’s a complete disaster
Wait, a blind Spartan? How does that work, cause unless there's something in his armor that gives him sight, I don't think he's gonna be as effective of a solider as other Spartans.
>They kill Captain Keyes on Reach
Fuck off! I'm so tired of the lame ass excuse of "it's a different timeline/universe, so it's ok that we do things differently". If you're supposed to be adapting a story, just adapt the story faithfully. If you want to change something, you better make damn sure the change is to make the story better, otherwise, fuck off. Even if the change isn't better or worse, just different, don't. I came here to watch Halo, not some shitty, generic sci-fi slop that vaguely resembles Halo. At that point, it's just an officially sanctioned bootleg as far as I'm concerned.
Its a crime to some people to only want a retelling of the games you know :)
It worked for the last of us though, crazy huh? Don’t let people know that (or that League of Legends for some reason has a extremely better video game adaption and this is what Halo gets)
@TheDirtyCubeMan neflix cowboy bebop is more faithful to its source material than anything halo has done 💀
I think he was blinded from combat. He's not an active spartan in the show, just a former one.
Remember it’s Kiki wolf kill. She’s a failure and was involved with failure games such as Halo 4, and Halo 5 and is the last person standing that we need to be out from 343 industries 🤷🏽♂️ all the other frauds are gone she’s the last one standing
Damn, y'all are like children who can't understand a basic story.
That character is not a "blind Spartan"; he was a Spartan candidate as a child who went blind during the augmentation process. He was not an active soldier but when the Covenant knocked on the door he picked up a weapon and eventually sacrificed himself so that our crew could make it.
The problem with hate watch content is you only get a distorted view of the story. It's part of the reason media literacy is so low now.
No one is talking about how they killed all the black guys in one episode 😂
The show writers need to play the games and read the books
They hate both of those.
Bungie making the games: We didn't spend time figuring out who the Chief was or humanizing him, he's just a badass in a big chunk of armor you move around in.
343 and Paramount: We are humanizing the chief and he always has his helmet off
Do the world a favor and delete this show from existence
It could be better in life to lower your expectations and try to be happy they made the show and try to find the joy in it that allready is. I know the golden Halo fans like book readers are dissapointed, but come on. Try enjoying it for what it is. I believe they have watered it out "a lot" to make it a lasting tv show... It's obious it's a tv show for everyone and not for Halo blood fans. Captain keys looks like Jhonson also in the way he smokes. Never understood that one.
Like Assassins Creed, I just ignore what they release and I only enjoy the good stories that I once played
I refuse to believe this show exists
Microsoft should sue Paramount.
BELIVE IT
@@kevin98608 noooooooo
There is no story in Halo TV. I mean that in their own documents, likely they don't focus on any central plot or narrative. (ranting)
There's a huge dearth of shit ghost-writers who are trying to make a living shopping around scripts like this.
If you talk to recent-grads of writing programs, some of the ideas about "good story telling", creative writing, general English has drastically changed.
So much of what I hear coming out of these new art/media schools is trash, and it's all being trickled up into film and television because the scripts are interchangeable, require little creativity, and only require production money and slaves. And we're getting a bunch of young people that are often too timid to correct seniors despite seniors themselves being aweful. Good storytelling is beaten out of young people.
So when you see things like "Why is this emotional control stuff there"? In industry, "sci-fi" is being requested even more (despite all the high profile flops) in scripts, and generic shit tropes like this are being pounded out at a totally different scale then before because new hires in the industry are under immense pressure to succeed and just even live and producers lost the entire plot of foundational film making decades ago. Too many people who can't write are typing stuff and making nonsense, and the rest are using still shitty not-really-AI to make scripts. Literally, sometimes it's starting with awful tropes first (we want a diverse cast...and a lgbt character...and a love scene...and family drama...and it's like "ok but where's the fucking sci-fi or even a plot"?). Again, there's no story in this tv show. It's just these stupid narrative checkboxes and however the directors can move the scene from one checkbox to another. Scripts are all looking like this, and criticisms/critiques of scripts look like this.
Lots of really awesome stuff being passed around, even today. Standalone scripts that are like "That's the sci-fi I want". But they aren't "diverse" enough (I mean...not even true they just mean THEIR diversity), or "anime" enough (this one comes up embarrassingly often (just not for me)), not wall-to-wall action, or "we compared it to this shoggoth monstrosity called public perception and we think you should chain yourself to its teeth".
I really have to wonder wether all the people defending this show in the comment section aren’t paramount chatbots
Now there's only one way for this show to please the fans of the game which is to be cancelled.
I liked the tv series, i have watched it twice.
They couldn't even learn the first step which is keeping chiefs helmet on lmao it will never get better
The actor for makee overacts the sangheli languages so much lol
Charlie Murphy
17:33 - The attack just happened 20 seconds ago and Granny is acting like she's been barricaded in for weeks. Seems like communication to actors and or just bad script writing at play.
Thank you for doing this. I don't know how anyone can enjoy this show with the writing and nonsensical plot. They've turned Halo into a generic sci Fi show. How can anyone been okay with this?
I think Pablo is just being greedy by wanting to show his face instead of wearing Mjolnir armor
A few things. From what I’ve read online about the books, Chief actually does spend a decent amount time out of his armor. It’s not like he lives in the thing. In fact, we have seen him remove his suit before in the games (Halo CE, the Halo 5 Legendary ending).
Furthermore it’s made clear: Spartans need the green light to suit up and deploy, which makes sense considering the fact those suits are critical assets. It also just makes sense Chief would want to when he’s in a controlled area like a UNSC stronghold. Really though; Chief without the armor in combat reinforces his skill. Spartans are more than their armor, especially Chief.
Masked protags CAN work, but it is limited in the kind of performance you can convey. I’m sure Pablo prefer to be seen, but that just a performer wanting to be able to use all the tools of their trade.
BUT THE THING THAT REALLY MATTERS… is Chief acting in character. Which I feel he has done so far this season.
@@paradoxinraindrops141
Feels like you just googled "when does master chief take off his helmet" and have never actually played the games.
The most you ever see in the games in his eyes but honestly it doesn't matter, none of the Spartans act like Spartans, They feel like whiney, emotional teenagers.
Canonically Spartans feel naked without their armour, their skin is very pale due to this, They don't need permission to wear their suits. He has discovered that the covenant are on reach thinks the planet is about to be under attack... and he takes the armour off, makes absolutely no sense.
If you can't act in what should be very few but impactful emotional moments in a helmet while playing one of the most iconic masked characters then you shouldn't get the job. The games have amazing moments and due to body language, cinematography and music you can see exactly how he is feeling.
The only moment he has acted like the Chief is when he was fighting the elites in the first episode, you have honestly lost me with this one as I cant even fathom how you could think he is acting anything like him which is what makes me think you haven't played the games.
This whole thing is just depressing, I love one piece, the live action adaption was fun for people who have been fans for 20 years and people who knew nothing about it and it was great because everyone involved were fans of that world.
The show runner said in an interview that they "didn’t look at the game. We didn’t talk about the game"
@@Aido68 I have played the games. I have not read the books, so I was more so referring to my understanding of them from discussions of the lore. I get “Spartans feel naked without the armor” but that isn’t a strong enough counter.
The show makes it clear: they need authorization to equip the suits. The reason Chief wasn’t wearing the armor was cause Silver Team got busted operating without clearance, for which they were nearly court martialed. When Silver rallied up and prepared to reengage… they learned Ackerson took the rigs with him during the withdrawal of UNSC, ONI high command. Understand a big part of the story is Chief wanting to investigate a Covenant activity out of fear of another attack; only to be gaslit by ONI & Ackerson as a consequence for last season.
All those are great examples of conveying a masked protag. But being able to see his face, lets laymen viewers relate more to the Chief. I agree: Chief was SUPER out of character in season one. But S2 Chief is much more stoic, quieter and a lot more like the games. Unlike S1, Chief faces his challenges & bears his frustrations a lot more in character.
Finally, that quote was from the previous show runner. And I agree: it’s a fucking stupid thing to say when adapting something. But it’s clear the new show lead and creatives better understand what a Halo show should be.
Judging by your comment, it just sounds like you only watched the first season. If the show totally lost you? I don’t blame you. But despite my numerous issues with S1; they stepped up their game and won me back this season.
Because of his ego
Dude, do you think the Spartans just stand in the corner and wait till you click on them, so they can be deployed? Yes, they are augmented super-humans, but what do they do, when they are not in the combat? Chilling in their Mjöllnir armors, having people polish their helmets?
They are still in some way human beings, that need to eat and sleep and do another things.
Tony Stark also does not live in his suit.
Mando also does not marinate in his beskar all the time.
Jesus Christ on a motorbike!
Can't wait until SEASON 3!!! Love this series!!!
I just noticed this: At 17:38, Jimmy Rings lets Perez pass her, only for him to try to beat her up the stairs... so even something so basic like going up the stairs is poorly executed.
after watching this video I subbed instantly
Same
It's shit. It's like amazon and lotr. It's been desecrated.
Omg you are reading my mind ! I am loving the truth in your words ...
The halo franchise is going to die because of this a start to a downfall look at the game its horrible and not getting any better
You can't say this shit on reddit...they will downvote you 😂😂😂
"- He went to an escort AI to talk about her, this guy is a psycho".
Dude you crack me up 😅
They are clearly not turning the games into live action. I don't know what's going on, but it's not that ...
I gave you a thumbs up just for the title
The plot direction reminds me of those shit Sci Fi channel monster movies except with a waaaaaay bigger budget lol
The answer to all your questions: the show runners and writers are all hacks who are allergic to nuance or anything that might portray ruthless military organizations in a positive light. We know ONI and Halsey did shady things, they work in a moral gray zone, but the show runners are going out of their way to paint them as complete incompetent villains. Not a single one of these characters makes sense
It got worse, that's not arguable either
Obviously cobalt team wasn't shot down and eliminated by the covenant. This version of the covenant are not confident enough to be able to kill Spartans. They were actually killed by TK troopers and clone troopers lead by crosshair. Look at their bodies, the wounds on their bodies are not from plasma burns, nah that would be simple and easy thinking. Instead, the wounds are from blaster bolts, probably from crosshair's sniper rifle.
This show is so freaking terrible and the fact that people who watch this slop call themselves Halo fans. We're at the point where fans will accept anything. The fans are idiots and don't understand Halo just as the creators and writers of this show.
Perez should've died as you said and she made no freaking sense. Seriously her helmet not being able to record what happened like wtf.
The side plots are so bad and shouldn't even be in the show. Soren is just as terrible. Everything you said about the side plots are 100% correct. From the spartans being able to remove their chips like it doesn't matter is just crazy. And the fact that Chief and silver team are able to sneak out is awful. Pablo isn't Chief and should be fired.
This show doesn't care about Reach nor does it do it justice. The fall of reach should've been epic. The elite should've beat tf outta Chief and yes killed Perez. The covenant should've been annihilating everyone, the wrath dying to that albino Spartan was something else.
The jackals stopping was pure stupidity. And killing Keys in the fall of reach seriously who thought that was a great idea. The covenant should've glass that planet once they got what they wanted.
Anyway I enjoyed your videos, don't stop critiquing this show as the fans of halo need their happiness destroyed for liking this trash. This show reminds me of Avatar the last Airbender movie.
I imagine that Ackerson's plan was to isolate Kai from the other Spartans in order to get her to train his Spartan IIIs and also to sabotage the Spartan IIs and prove them disobedient and ineffective in order to convince the UNSC to continue funding his Spartan III program instead.
Thank you! The scene where Chief is talking about the coin flip has gotta be the dumbest scene in the series so far.
I'm pretty sure that came from one of the halo books I read a long time ago
That was from one of the novels
13:07 - Rich folk, donation holders important people for fleet command need time to get their stonks out of the banks.
I am glad I stopped at episode 3 and started watching the new season of the Bad Batch. It’s a really good show and I would recommend any person who likes Star Wars to watch it.
And the flood is a virus that can be transferred by bites and scratches…. UGH FUCK MY LIFE
No nod to noble team oh dear
You start to wonder, before the previous 343 execs got fired did they greenlight this TV show with paramount and crappy script out of spite of halo fans and the company before they left.
Keyes was rightfully angry. Ackerson sent four Spartans to die and didn’t tell Keyes a goddamn thing. As a vet, upper command is rolling heads at first opportunity.
Also remember that marine chick was standing (yes standing !!!!!!) when she blasted the ship off to safety
Great vid. I knew from the trailers that it wasn't going to be good.
Halo is much better then this trash. There's nothing else to say
Yeah first 15 minutes of s2e1 was good then I clocked out. These show runners are making a mess of halo. There's not enough halo for the fans and don't explain enough for the average viewer. They're trying to please everyone but pleasing no one. It's the problem with hollywood now, there are so many books, shows, lore that exist. Just make a show about the existing book or comic. Disney has this same problem with star wars and marvel. Same thing with the DCU. People making shows and movies that have no interest in the material. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Sad to see this is what entertainment is now.
I just realized that nothing will ever surpass Bungie’s Reach…..
They keep showing Jimmy Rings' face!
Never stop
I stopped watching Critics now I actually love the show! I'm enjoying it without all the negativity. My Uncle just started Season one and he loves it. Still gotta finish the last game. But people won't leave me alone because of Dead by Daylight.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR REVIEWS!!!!
I STILL HAVEN'T SEEN ONE EPISODE YET.
This is trash they do not care about the fanbase
They couldn't even give us a hot Cortana, , sigh#
Halo Games: a story about humanity fighting a losing war against merciless and genocidal aliens.
Halo Series: a Soap Opera. A boring one.
The whole video game series he was dope asf cuz he never takes his helmet off…every time I see clips of this show he never has it on
Well, this takes subverting expectations to the next level.
We need to stop watching the ahow for them to stop
This is the BEST ever TV series ever made. This will win multiple emmy. and even Oscars
Halo TV show is NOT halo. This is just a cheap knockoff of the series and is not even canon. I’m sure after season 2 this show will be canceled.
Honestly I hope it's cancelled.
Lets hope microsoft takes full control of it or smth and they actually make a tv series of the games, canon, exact copy, just live action
Remember when Noble Team fought hard as fuck and died, to deliver Cortana to the Pillar of Autmn? Yeah, that doesn't happen in the show lol I don't care how much folks like that ackerson actor but he made some dumbass decisions like taking the Spartans suits but leave Cortana behind for the Covenant to take lol
Doesn't happen in the book either
I still don’t understand the necessity of the Korean plot.
Great review!
This is a loss leader. It’s being used to bring traffic to Paramount’s streaming service.
And pointing out issues with the show is pointless when this show is made by people who don’t care about the source material.
id really like for them to rename master chief from the tv show to jimmy rings, would at least make the show salvageable if they didnt pretend this was master chief we were watching.
“She’s probably going to kill an elite or multiple,” try a brute chieftain lmao
Blind man kills a bunch of elites and a tank. "If I was riding that tank, this would've been an easy splatter kill". HAHA
looking through some of these comments makes me realize how dense we humans can be.
The reason they want Ackerson to delay the evacuation is because they want to do the childish "made-to-hate character has stupid plans/motivations that everyone can tell are dumb that a made-to-like character protests, only to be smugly told to know his place just to make the made-to-hate character look artificially bad to the audience"
I like how they mention the winter contingency but never tell the"wider audience" this is trash is made for. They mention evacuations but if the winter contingency is just that, why give it a stupid name? Just call it evacuation.
this show is not for you buddy. what dont you just stick to panflip and gmaies. You cannot please everbody.
Damn, Halo fans are hard to please. At least you’re getting a show! Try being a Battletech/Mechwarrior fan with a split IP. We just get pretty artwork every now and then and some miniatures. I’d love a proper TV series.
Tbh I would rather have no Halo show than this absolute garbage...
Coming from someone who doesn’t care about the games, why do you have the right to say if it’s fateful if you don’t even care about halo. People are acting like something getting a movie or a show is good but it isn’t and halo is in bad place rn and the show is helping to kill it. Halo would be in a better place without the show.
@@PabloBudgaga-ui9gu I'm an average fan. Played a few of the games, thats all. What gives me the right? The same thing that gives you the right. Nothing! We're just the consumer, remember that. If you don't like it, don't consume it. For me, its fairly entertaining sci-fi show that I'll keep watching.
@@jamessmith5666 cause it negative impacts the franchise, if people like it then the games will be more like it. Personally I wouldn’t like seeing master chief butt booty ass naked whining in the games.
As someone who never played the game so truly unbiased this show has some inconsistencies but otherwise has me engaged and waiting for new episodes to drop the action when apparent is top tier
You're the sheep they made it for so pop off.
It's a slightly clunky but mainly fun Science fiction show but a dire HALO show. It really looks like the writers had a good idea for a show but needed a known I.P to hang it on.
You are so wrong not even funny@@markgrehan3726
It's like most TV shows adapting properties anymore, it wears the IP it's supposed to be adapting like a skin suite to tell a story that has very little to do with the property the fans fell in love with. It's hard not to hate it for that. It's kind of like walking into the theaters to watch Saving Private Ryan and an episode of Army Wives is on instead. Yeah they're both about the military, and some people like it. But you were expecting the brutality of war and fun action, instead you got house wife drama for 90% of the runtime sprinkled in with the occasional underwhelming fight. It certainly isn't the same as what you were expecting and I wouldn't blame you for leaving the theater and asking for a refund.
How? The story doesn't hold up under the slightest bit of scrutiny.
I have given up. We are never going to get a proper live action Halo show or movie. What a shame.
So bad I have to imagine "Master Cheif" with his armor and helmet voice always on. Which makes it slightly watchable.
Yeah I only played halo couple of times but this show is crap especially Master Chief not being Master chief.
Can't wait for quan to replace Jimmy as the next master chief, you know they're totally going for the Rey story arc