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Some_Call_Me_Tim wrote: I read the title of this post in a certain way and all I could think of was “Hi Dr. Nick!”
The plastic glue must be getting to me.
You’re totally fine because that was my exact thought/inspiration when I titled the thread, though it’s not an exact quote. In fact now that that cat’s out of the bag everyone is required to read the thread title in Dr Nick’s voice.
Finished the last episode, and already cannot wait to see the next season. Really enjoyed the series, and hopefully it will not dissapoint in the future. Together with the Peacemaker, it was the best fiction TV so far this year for me.
I’ll trust the people who are Halo fans when they says it’s not a good Halo series, but yeah, I did enjoy it as a sci-fi series. Hope it gets a second season despite the vocal poor reception because they definitely leave some loose threads.
Yeah, they approved/announced the second season before the first episode aired iirc. Gotta keep the content churn coming for streaming after all and figure it out as you go along I suppose.
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It ain't Halo that's for sure. Someone's own SciFi story, absolutely but the only Halo in there is the names and some designs.
Just so much of it is pain. I'm not even really into Halo anymore and the decisions the showrunners and writers made just make me cringe.
This legit feels like it was some generic sci fi TV show that was rejected and salvaged only to slap the Halo brandname on as a way to sell it since it wouldn't have the built-in audience otherwise. I really question the need for master chief going at it with a sex scene with Cortana watching, I feel like alongside him taking off his helmet, we're watching an entirely different character and they're trying to bring in some attempt at GoT risque stuff without going all in on the interspecies loving with Brutes. -1/10 would not watch another season again.
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Yeah, I didn't really think we needed Chief to get laid in the series. We didn't need to see his ass either, yet they insisted on showing us that too. Hell, Chief spent more time with his helmet off than he did with it on, and that is a mistake (note that this was NOT the case with The Mandalorian, and that show was overwhelmingly well received). Also, nowhere near enough of the Spartans kicking Covenant ass and taking names, that last episode notwithstanding.
That being said, I overall did enjoy the series, and I'm looking forward to season 2. Maybe we'll actually see them go to the Halo, and even fight the Flood or something.
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Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
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Mr_Rose wrote: Who doesn’t love crazy mutant squawk-puppies? Eh? Nobody, that’s who.
Were the worm things they attacked the human ship with not Flood? I don’t remember much about them, though I know they’re not supposed to work for the Covenant.
AduroT wrote: Were the worm things they attacked the human ship with not Flood? I don’t remember much about them, though I know they’re not supposed to work for the Covenant.
Grimskul wrote: This legit feels like it was some generic sci fi TV show that was rejected and salvaged only to slap the Halo brandname on as a way to sell it since it wouldn't have the built-in audience otherwise. I really question the need for master chief going at it with a sex scene with Cortana watching, I feel like alongside him taking off his helmet, we're watching an entirely different character and they're trying to bring in some attempt at GoT risque stuff without going all in on the interspecies loving with Brutes. -1/10 would not watch another season again.
Noble Team dies and Reach falls because Master Chief has sex with a Covenant spy who is a prisoner of war, while Cortana watches and sends the recording to Dr. Halsey.
Grimskul wrote: This legit feels like it was some generic sci fi TV show that was rejected and salvaged only to slap the Halo brandname on as a way to sell it since it wouldn't have the built-in audience otherwise. I really question the need for master chief going at it with a sex scene with Cortana watching, I feel like alongside him taking off his helmet, we're watching an entirely different character and they're trying to bring in some attempt at GoT risque stuff without going all in on the interspecies loving with Brutes. -1/10 would not watch another season again.
Wait. What.
She's not just a future USB stick in the "Silver Timeline" that slots into his armor. Apparently she's biotech goo injected directly into his cerebellum. So when he's having sex, she's along for the ride like an onlyfans sub. Unless she decides to flip the switch and take over of course.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I can't help but feel that many of the issues would have been moot for some fans (including myself) if they had taken a hybrid JJtrek/Reach route where they had new characters to do with however they pleased and could fork into a new timeline so weren't beholden to the games. I'm not advocating messing with the same events but the Covenant War was a galactic conflict and there are likely tons of important events they could have filled in the gaps with during the decades long conflict.
The problem is that they wanted their freedom AND to piggyback directly off of the two decades worth of existing effort without having to stand on their own two feet in any way. I doubt as many people would have cared if Stewey-337 was a nudist spartan with a semi-incestuous relationship with an ONI scientist mentor and streamed his romantic escapades with a female Elite turncoat to a UNSC data analyst watching his every moves.
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Gert wrote: Noble Team dies and Reach falls because Master Chief has sex with a Covenant spy who is a prisoner of war, while Cortana watches and sends the recording to Dr. Halsey.
To be fair, she had decided to switch to Master Chief’s side at that point. She just later changed her mind when the other humans found out about that ship full of people she killed and were mad about it and tased her.
Gert wrote: She was a Covenant spy and prisoner of war. Master Chief committed a warcrime under the Geneva Conventions.
Its still an absolutely awful moment in the show which itself was very bad.
The Covenant weren't at Geneva and didn't sign the accords...
I'll see myself out.
My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 12 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
Mr_Rose wrote: Who doesn’t love crazy mutant squawk-puppies? Eh? Nobody, that’s who.
Man, this sounds fething hilarious, and I thought current Trek was bad. Reading up on it, it feels like this was someone's bad Mass Effect fanfiction that died and then got reused.
Considering the creatives on the show didn't play the Halo games, they may have made the same mistake thinking Master Chief was that video game scifi soldier who shags people in cutscenes repeatedly.
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