Damn the Halo show is still brutal lmao 

This show seems to be allergic to anything military. Which is weird for a Military Science Fiction franchise.

Its hard to watch people act their asses off for some pretty 1/10 writing

Halo season 2: halo not included.

Carter "the covenant is on reach I repeat the covenant is on reach" Some dude: "Are you suuuuure?" The end

The war with Covenant seems less like a fight for survival by the human race and more like it’s an inconvenience. Both in-universe and out. Like it sounds like the writers feel inconvenienced by having to write this big genocidal war going on against an alien empire so they push it to the back as much as possible.

Foward onto dawn captured the feeling of dread and treated the Covenant like an actual treat to humanity

You mean Halo fans’ favorite part of the entire game franchise wasn’t Del Rio being a total wad? Inconceivable

I really didn't like how the Spartans act like a bunch of rival frat houses instead of you know, a family that grew uo together

The biggest thing that is sticking in my head to show they don't care at all is a quote, "The O.N.I", I have never heard ONI refered to as the O.N.I like what the actual hell have never seen any real Halo content

I hate how master chief is referred to as a name and not his rank, which is where he gets his name from. Like everyone just talks down to him like he's not a superior ranking officer in the unsc .

you see the Covenant for all of 5 minutes in the entire two episodes

The stuff with Chief and Ackerson reminds me a lot of 24. Basically every season Jack Bauer has to deal with some new bureaucrat who doesn't believe what he's telling them despite the fact that Jack had already stopped like a dozen major terrorist attacks by that point.

I'm very surprised the ratings are that high. Maybe the halo show is experiencing the same thing that marvel and star wars shows are, where the only people left watching are the 25% who didn't already hate it

Honestly the show depicting hostility between the Spartans is at least an attempt to be fresh, but I feel like there was a much better plot to explore in the tension between the Spartans and the ODST's, the UNSC's elite force before the Spartans.

How the hell did the Covenant get _INTO_ Sword Base, before Visegrad went down, and NO-one called Winter Contingency? Sword Base is like the UNSC's Edwards Air Force Base or something, and it's under ACTIVE assault by the Covenant, to a point where Marines are being deployed _inside_ the base...And no alarms have been sounded. The Covenant aren't even following the same tactics they were described as using _in the same episode._

It's actually quite an amazing feat to have such great visuals and such wacky highschool drama levels of writing both at the same time.

Soon as Chief was walking around in casual clothes it was over

Im gonna pass away an old gray haired lady before we get a decent live action Halo show. Show runners were probably set up for failure not knowing the what this meant to fans. They had a story they wanted to tell and they just had to cram into a Halo themed universe. I imagine they were fairly clueless to how violated so many people would be.

They should win an award! After all, it takes determined effort to mess up something THIS difficult to mess up, and not once, but twice. The main story beats were already written for them and proven to be liked, the art and visuals were already made for them, they had a license to print money handed to them on a silver platter, and yet... here we are. Again. Bravo, I guess.

Is anyone surprised?

The dinner scene and return of makee absolutely killed any remaining hope I had for this show so sad😭

How has Halo been so difficult to adapt into film/tv. Its really not that complicated of a story I dont get it.

What I don't get about the TV show: They have Star Trek Level holodecks, and yet when the Chief grapples his way up the cliff, Kai says she she's going to loose him in the fog...uh... don't you have a thermal scope on your sniper Kai?

Honestly, having not watched the show but hearing the reviews, I'm surprised they're doing so poorly after they did that miniseries with the background story of young Captain Lasky that came out pretty good.

I thought the animosity between military personnel in locker room was Spartans and ODSTs until I realised they were all the same height etc. Kinda sad considering they gave off a family unit vibe in the rest of the lore

It sounds like they are trying to go Mandalorian. Forward Unto Dawn was so damn good for how much money it had, I haven't watched any of it since it's had such a negative perception.

I had to do a bit of a doubletake and rewind at 5:02 . "Kearny-Fuchida Station". Someone on staff is a Battletech/Mechwarrior fan. Cuz that's very clearly named after the creators of the Jumpdrive in Battletech. LoL Weird place for a cross-series nod.

Starship troopers is everything a halo movie/show should be

Idk man I’m watching this show because it’s quite literally comedy gold. Like who coulda guessed that chief would go to a hologram prostitute to make it look like Cortana? I was actually laughing out loud at that scene

All hail baby Eckhart. The best part of the halo series.

that "the expanse" bit is on point, I thought similar from certain scenes

I'm a 40 year old dude who played Halo: CE when it came out. Hell, that's the reason why I got an Xbox. I played all the rest of the Halo games as well. I even read most of the novels about the expanded universe. I love Halo. I love the Master Chief as a character. Watching the first few episodes of this aborted fetus pretending to be a show made me physically angry. Much of my gaming days were pure Halo. Not only did this show manage to shit all over those memories but they couldn't even get the lore right. They don't even understand the reason why The Chief always keeps his helmet on and why he doesn't speak all that often. There's absolutely no heart in the story. They fucked up the entire point of Halo; Master Chief. From the beginning of the story where John as a child is noticed by Dr Halsey for being an exceptionable boy, until his transformation through augmentation and training into a Spartan; John-117 IS Halo. Without the real John, there's no heart. This series has no heart. They don't even understand the basic concepts of Johns' character. He's super-human but he isn't. He destroys entire platoons of enemies by himself but he still doubts his leadership skills. He still struggles with the guilt of sending a fellow soldier under his command, to die. He constantly fights within himself over what it is to feel human. THAT is the heart of Halo. He doesn't speak often because he is deliberate in everything he does. Because the internal struggle of understanding his place in the galaxy is always on his mind. The heart of the character of Spartan John-117. This abomination has none of that.

I was at the premiere with the Q&A with the new Showrunner, Kiki and Pablo and I think I have some small insight. First I want to say every aspect of the show has improved, the dialogue is more natural, the writing *slightly* more subtle, the action significantly better directed, the lighting makes the suits look better, the CG is much better, the music is slightly more Halo and the suits which were already the best part of the show got better range of motion so they can use less CG and more wire stunts. That said, I don't know if that's enough when the bones of the plot stay the same. The showrunner, David Weiner, said at the premiere that he wanted to make the season more like his inspirations, Saving Private Ryan, Fury and Band of Brothers but the biggest challenge was staying true to the original vision while adding his own. He basically said he's course correcting but there's only so much he can do without changing what came before without directly stating that. Making a Halo adaptation is a fraught venture from the start, it has to be handled very carefully and they didn't do that, and now they may be in a hole they can't dig themselves out of. ALSO I SHOULD MENTION David Weiner said he played Halo 1-3 ODST when they came out, but went back and replayed them as well as playing Reach the first time to do it justice. That's at least far more than the previous writers could say, and it shows so far with adding Visegrad relay and Sword Base instead of "Reach City" now.

This is what happens when you let someone make a show with an IP they don't care about.

Everyone’s allowed to have their own opinion you are correct but it doesn’t mean their opinion is right.

Honestly, when they mentioned Madrigal getting glassed in the first 10 minutes or so I assumed that was partially the "eraser" of the last season. But nope, Kwan was still there and all of the usual season 1 baggage came roaring right back in came back. Though the Covenant does look pretty darn epic, but still lacking.

"Will you be watching a season 3?" I didn't even watch Season 1.

With how the chief actor acted about keeping the helmet on and how the first 2 episodes look form the trailer it looks to be very similar to the first season and it’s issues. It’s probably gonna be the first 2 episodes will have flashy spartan fights and a ooooh look the arbiter remember him then back to master cheeks, then the final fall of reach A halo reach show sounds cool a good set up for a halo CE season but we get this instead, you could probably adapt parts of the mission into episodes but that would mean the writers have to play the game once or twice which by the looks of S1 they didn’t

I've been very lenient towards the show as I try to show grace for 1st seasons to give them time to set the stage but season 2 has been more exposition and not enough action. This being the Expanse from Temu is a pretty accurate comment.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there's two main elements to the good halo games we loved. One is the focus on fighting men and their struggles against a superior foe, as it fits into the broader narrative of the war. The story takes place on that knife-edge, where humans are a short shove away from extinction but there remains the tiniest, most unlikely strand of hope to hold on to. The second part is the cool factor of the military industrial complex. Seeing organized humans employ real, smart strategies and awesome weaponry/vehicles to achieve a tactical victory.

Remember, rotten tomatoes has been caught filtering what reviews they accept.

I don’t get why Chief was asking Ackerson to warn Cobalt team when Chief LITERALLY JUST TALKED TO THEM.

Oh my god you imagine a teen drama about the spartan kids training at spartan school and its like one of those high school animes but they are training to be spartans 😂

With the direction, tonal change and the fact this was green lite right before S1 came out I really think I was all be design. A sort of test run to see what the public would prefer more, while introducing a wider audience to the franchise. S1 seemed like it was trying to be its own thing while this season seems like it going for the big blockbuster feel. Big name writers, producers and composers. All this will hopefully end right before they get to the actual game. Then we get a movie based on the first game and another “reset”. Just doesn’t make a lot of sense for paramount to pour all this money into it with makeup artists, visual effects artists, props etc only for them to cancel it right before they can actually turn a profit on it by having a seasoned crew who knows what there doing. Pablo even says there trying to get to a point where they can become efficient enough to produce more seasons with in a reasonable time. I’m really just trying to make sense of everything.

Halo sets the tone of its universe so damn well, that's part of why its one of the most beloved sci-fi franchises of all time. How on earth do they miss the mark time and time again? The reference material is all right there in its full glory!

space days of our lives

6:54 "it was wrong its just wrong" Nay! It was HERESY!

5:03 is so true and yet each will take up an immense amount of valuable screen time. This show stands no chance, and that’s because the showrunners completely ignored fan feedback

Honestly my biggest issue with the series is how the marines just get absolutely slaughtered everytime, that scene with the 2 squads in the hallway with the elite had me screaming at my tv because they were so fucking stupid

They really didn't need to try and reinvent the wheel, yet here we are.

Shame, the interaction between the CAA and the resistance are actually some of the more compelling and human stories in the background lore, and unsc cleaning up the CAA’s mess while fighting a war is a constant struggle. Could have been good. The CAA’s unofficial motto (kilo five trilogy): “We can, so we will”

I gotta say seeing Joseph Morgan brings me back to the good old days, bro’s a legend.

Thanks, it sounds they really did learn nothing from season 1. Maybe they even doubled down on it too. What I liked about the Reach arc and humans initial war with the Covenant, was that the humans realised they were on the edge of annihilation. They put aside all their differences for the time and worked to prolong their survival for as long as possible. Victory wasn't even on the cards. They were losing. And losing badly. Then MC and few key individuals gave them a fighting chance. They tipped the balance. If it wasn't for Cole, Halsey, Keyes and the Spartans humanity would be dead. It should be enough to grant them immunity. That's why I was pissed off how they treated Halsey and the old Spartans later in the games. I loved the expansion of the lore, but I hated some of the directions they took.

Commanding officer: "First team - go die. OK... Second team - go die. Uhm... Third team - go die. Well, shit. Please don't kill m --" *(Commanding officer dies)*

they have done well to steer away from season ones mistakes, they focus more on the spartans like cobalt team, kwan finally shut up about going home (and is hopefully killed off soon), the war with the covenant actually seems like it exists now with elites "training" on outer colonies and glassing planets..... fingers crossed we get to actually fight on halo this season.

They should have made the show kind of like battlestar galatica with humanity losing and any victory no matter how small is a big thing. Like imagine if you see master chief doing a crazy fight to win but it in the end they still lose.

#AskEck before the Rebels found out about the Second Death Star and the Emperor overseeing its completion, what was their plan for winning the war? I ask because in the Essential Guide to Warfare it states that most of the Rebel leadership was opposed to seizing and holding territory. Answer for both Legends and Disney Canon plz Lore ship Versus video request: Resurgent vs. Starhawk Tie Striker vs. New Republic V-Wing World Devastator vs. Vong Worldship Tie Silencer vs. X-83 Twintail Tie Silencer vs. Tie Defender (legends version) Keldabe vs. ISD II MC90 vs. Nebula class star destroyer Nebula class vs. Pellaeon class Majestic class vs. Bothan Assault Cruiser EAWX: FOTR’s Mandator II portrayal vs. Subjugator Praetor vs. Subjugator EAWX: TR’s Mediator portrayal vs. Resurgent Starhawk vs. Bulwark MK III Gargantua/Aratech 520 Battle Platform vs. A6 Juggernaut

Athens, and Malta blows up. Halo season 2 releases "This is bad, real bad."

Cortana is literally a Kiki Wolfkill self insert

nice plot hole point out - camera in the suite as we saw in season 1.

I disagree with you about the opening action scene of this season being worse than season 1s I felt season 1s opening action was really poorly shot whereas the cinematography here was much more dynamic. However everything else you said u hit right on the nail I was kinda excited going into this season but after watching these 2 episodes I would agree that they are just as bad if not worse than season 1

Watching people argue on what’s canon and what’s not is funny too me, I’m just here enjoying the show going all out fresh

freaking LOVE this show, as a long time Halo fan, that's read the books, and played the games so many times. I'm loving the show.

All I want from a Halo TV show is stuff like *Halo Legends Prototype.*

Always sparks joy with your outro. Just think, your son will inherit this channel. xD

It’s like all the creators played for reference for this show was the multiplayer, and were like “ Yea we can make something that looks like this!”

Halo and rings of power having a competition on which fandom they can disappoint and which franchise they can ruin worse lmao

Thanks for jumping on that grenade

Wow.... You'd *think* they'd have learned the simple lesson: MC is an amazingly skilled (and lucky) soldier in a war. The focus is the war and the nearly miraculous circumstances that change the outcome of that war from certain loss to surprising stalemate. It rather explicitly *cannot* be Halo if they don't focus on that, as the point of the universe is this war is so existential that humanity is united against the overwhelming odds. Circumstances consistently served to demand nearly every person able to use a gun on the front lines. What were those conscript numbers again from the books? Some billions of conscripts, tens of billions more refugees, and several dozen planets with most of their populations glassed? Something like 24-25 billion dead? But no, some weird dude in a suit's gotta tell MC how disappointed he is and removes him from active service while the single most important planet to the UNSC's military (save, arguably, Earth) is going to be glassed. I haven't been this disappointed since Star Wars got picked up by Disney.

Sort of fitting, honestly, that the showrunners are using the 343 formula: "We've learned from our mistakes last time, and we're committed to bringing you something great on this next installment." Then, of course, they proceed to prove that was not, in fact, true. At any rate, I'm glad you and Luc are covering this for us, because I was waiting to see what you guys said about it before giving it another shot. Seems like I'll be saving my sanity.

It wasnt about the helmet, but it shows how they treated the source material

There’s an Eckhart Jr.?!?!?

So do we have any proper grunt scenes in the first few episodes?

Love the opener with the grunt to “the season is finally here” 😂

The Covenant landing on and attacking Reach was something else. I know absolutely nothing of Halo lore and thoroughly enjoyed that, from beginning to end.

Well, I'm not disappointed, because I never place hope on the series in the first place, when I saw the trailers.

When will people learn that television and film adaptations of video games have a maximum 5% chance of being halfway decent. Not even good. That percentage is way lower.

We're fighting Makee because the Prophets and Elites are very expensive.

They really gave Chief a goon cave

Pls don’t tell me qwan is back

Didnt even know it came out

The worst part of it all is the "budget cuts"

My cousin is as a big a Star Wars fan as me. Even read more of the books than I have. He also thought episodes 8 and 9 were great. Sometimes people don't make sense, just like the first episode of the Halo series, which is where I stopped.

I for one can't wait for Angry Joe to review S2 lol

Love you Eckharts, but I have a feeling you misunderstood a few parts of the first 2 episodes. I agree that Kwon is uninteresting, and Maki's return is disappointing. However, your complaint about the dinner scene kind of confuses me, as Chief isn't there to have the dinner scene. He was there to question Perez as to why she lied to Ackerson, I do think it's dumb that it happens this way because of the fact that chief should have been recording the small battle at the beginning of the season, but they could have used the fact it was insanely foggy in the area as a crutch. The episodes are much better than season 1 already, and that's simply because the writing is more concise alongside the dialogue. Your description of the 2 episodes makes me feel like we didn't watch the same show. I agree with some of the mistakes made in episodes 1 and 2, but it feels like you want about 10 times more action in the show. I understand that feeling; I want more action, too; there wasn't enough in the first 2 episodes, and you are right about the last scene of episode two, where the Marines used little to no tactics. I also have noticed how people have been ignoring the propaganda in the show, like how it points out in the medal ceremony that the UNSC fakes how much personnel and equipment is there. Which was well done. However, I think the biggest thing I have to disagree with is the expectation. It feels like many people expected the show to scrap everything and start over. But for one, people need to recognize how the industry works with contracts for actors, the fact that many of these scenes were probably shot prior to the writer's strike, meaning before the change in the head writer role. The new lead writer and showrunner are trying to fix many of the mistakes made in the first season, and expecting a complete 180 is unfair to the thousands of people who worked on the show, the actors' and writers' strikes were happening for over 4 months as well. These first few episodes are likely the fringes of what the original showwriters were doing. After watching the first two episodes, I only realized this a few hours ago. But the show needs time to be fixed; I am not saying it excuses the mistakes made last year, but it's also disingenuous to assume they could fix such a turd that was season one in 1 year. Realistically in 8 months, with the strikes occurring throughout the year. I also think you missed many aspects of the first 2 episodes that were good, which shocked me as I learned a lot of lore from you when I was much younger. I would have thought you would have been happy or intrigued by Ackerson and the role he would play in the story. So, as someone who sees it differently personally, it feels like you missed a lot in the episodes. I recommend watching them a second time to kind of gauge why many of us do like it. I love political intrigue in war shows. It is important to the show as the action only has meaning when implications are set. I also love the scene of Rizz going to therapy as someone with family in the military. It was wholesome and reminded me of talks I had with my uncle, who went to Iraq and Afghanistan from the 90s- to the present day, and the man is a petty officer. I think you went in expecting full-blown action, the complete disappearance of all of last year's actors who were uninteresting. But the whole reason we wanted a Halo show was for two things: to see live-action in the Halo universe and the story around the war. You said you didn't see much about the war in the first two episodes, but I disagree entirely. I saw a faction struggling to keep its facade of patriotic fervor to the point they lied entirely about what a marine did just to boost morale, and that they even faked all the equipment and number of people to hide the apparent number of losses. The Dinner that the Chief goes to shows what the affluent people in the universe hear about the war and how unserious many people, like Perez's brother, take it. How the overbearing intelligence agency can intimidate low level marines into complying. Or about how much information is hidden, allowing people not impacted by the war to interact with those who have been impacted and show the differences between refugees and those who think the covenant isn't a danger. I don't like the Pirate aspect either; however, it's very similar to insurgent writings from the books. So I will recommend you watch the 2 episodes again and look at the details in and around the world. Look at how things are portrayed to us as viewers but also to the people in the world. Sorry for making this long, but I just had to say my piece; I am an analyzer of stories and also one who can read the fine details, so I tend to see messages that are being mentioned or shown more often than others. It's one of the qualities that's helping me with my education and history degree. I think episode one is a 7/10, and episode 2 is a 6/10, already higher rated than half of season 1. Love you and your content, but maybe just take a second look and analyze the show for a second. Granted, I am just an optimist, but I was much more intrigued and happy to watch the show. Granted, some parts piss me off, but I also recognized that some of those are nitpicks.

Bro I promise you.....We all standing with you...we all feel the pain

I think you’re forgetting about how bureaucracies work. It’s about covering your ass on both ends and that’s exactly what’s happening with MC. “Well there’s no way he actually saw that despite the cameras recording it!” Yet the USNC Infinity was being designed and constructed for the war. Take a look at Mogadishu or even Afghanistan. When the politicians got out of the military’s way, what happened? As for the underground, there’s never been a war in which the criminal element of society hasn’t affected the war effort. WWII you had European smugglers getting refugees out of German occupied territory, the Italian mafia supplied the OSS (CIA’s precursor) with information and someone had to supply the French Resistance with weapons and ammo. That’s just one war mind you. Imagine if the UNSC had to transport supplies by their lonesome. 90% of the UNSC would be ineffective (I’m basing this off of the US military’s structure if you’re wondering).

I don't get why 343 continually fails to build on the most interesting aspect of Halo: Humanity. There's a reason why some of the most beloved stories told in Halo are the most tepid ones- Reach, and ODST. Even when these themes aren't the focus, they were always present, it's *HUMANITY* vs. the Covenant, not Master Chief, as much as people will make you believe. While 343 has failed to provide the story of the striven, average human battle, they did make a, in hindsight, fairly compelling personal story in regards to Master Chief's humanity. This makes sense as a rhetorical tool as Master Chief is ubiquitous to the powerful stoic- but in trying to match that humanizing element they overstepped, with the TV show (I'm using they because it's easy, I don't actually think 343 was what made this show bad). Basically, they sought to show humanity persisting *despite* of the Covenant, where the more compelling narrative is persistence *in spite* of the Covenant. Show us the criminal, individual elements of the UNSC, but use it as a reminder of what hangs in the balance, not cheap Sci-Fi. Halo just keeps catching L's and it's infuriating.

Theres a few things it improves so far. What I'll say right away is that this show does Halo right by the music, the effects (for the most part), and the character designs. When we get actual Halo stuff going on, you know, Covenant battles, glassing, ect, it succeeds. That's what we Halo fans wanted. We wanted to see gritty combat, Spartans and Marines fighting the Covenant. We wanted to see the supersoldiers that idolized our childhoods and younger years fighting against the unstoppable Covenant and worse. What we actually have though still horrifyingly misses the mark, putting it lightly. Emotional Jimmy Rings taking his helmet off still, poor adaptations of the characters from canon, and even worse, a story that doesnt have any canon connection to the original game. I mean, this show was announced in 2013....we had YEARS to get a grounded CANON story. It could've literally been about ANY Halo Character and still be canon with faithful ties and designs to the games or novels. I would've even been happy having Silver Team be their own canon characters with their own story. We couldve even got a faithful live action retelling of the games, or even the novels, like Ghosts of Onyx, or First Strike...the Flood! It absolutely baffles me that we got this instead. This is why it is acceptable to think that whoever greenlit any season or episode alone for this in MS or 343 Industries should be purged from the companies for it. Also, what the Hell is up with Palpatine Makee? We pulling a silver timeline Johnson survival now for her? Halo has infinite potential for story telling that can be canon to the franchise, I genuinely don't understand how this was favored for something new and unique in the Halo Universe, or again, a faithful recreation of the games, for those who wanted to see gritty, gory combat that we know from the novels and first games. The only way the show really will hit the mark on anything right is to literally do away with it and give us a canon story that is faithful in every single way possible. I dont know why that is so hard for us to get. Why can't us Halo fans just get a live action show that is badass from start to end, with a CANON universe story? We have 20+ years of Halo lore to use! :/

I remember seeing an ad for halo at some point in the last 3 months and was like, wait aren't they in season 2, how have they not done reach yet

In Halo Infinite they should have included in the story that you sit around the camp fire at night with the soldiers and tell each other stories

#AskEck I've had the idea for a little while now that Lucasfilm should pursue adapting George Lucas's sequel treatments in comic form and getting Lucas himself to consult on it. This may sound like an out-there idea but Lucas was clearly unhappy that the story of his sequels was never told, he's had a life long love of comic books as a medium and even though he's retired, he's always been happy to consult on projects whenever Lucasfilm have asked him to (Solo, The Mandalorian, Dial of Destiny, etc). For Lucasfilm's part, they're fine with producing non canonical content like Visions and the rumored 'What if?' series. Marvel Comics has also just announced they'll be publishing 'What if?' Alien comics and Dark Horse recently published a comic adaption of one of James Cameron's old drafts for an Avatar sequel, so I don't see why Lucasfilm can't get either company to give Star Wars the same treatment. It could even be nice way to celebrate the upcoming 10 year anniversary of the beginning of the sequel trilogy, taking a look at what it could have been. So, what are your thoughts on this? Do you think it's an idea Lucasfilm should pursue?

Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next product.

Thanks for bringing things in perspective now i think the only way i can get through this show is being super baked.

What crazy, I watched a great Halo movie this weekend and it was called Battle Los Angeles. Military dudes doing military things. Figuring who the alien enemy are and what their weakness and taking them out. That's all the Halo show had to do. And maybe "one" sub-plot and that's it.

I’m confused, does Eckharts not know who Colonel Ackerson is? The guy who hates Halsey and anything she created (like the Spartans) so much that he tries to literally kill the Master Chief in the comics and makes the Spartan 3 program to one-up-her. So, in the show when Ackerson is poking holes in Chief’s story, questioning his stability, etc. I see that as him trying to undermine Halsey’s legacy (the Spartan 2s) so that he can replace them with his new, and improved Spartan 3s.

Oh, Kwan is back? Thats all you needed to say to guarantee that I will never watch season 2.

THEY DID IT!!!! THEY FIXED HALO. Master chief doesn't take off his helmet randomly theres actually meaning behind it and the plot just got 1000x more interesting with halsey and cortana. I DARE SAY even kwan finally caring about the covenant. SORREN is so cool and we see other spartans COBALT TEAM. AND WE SEE MILITARY PRESENCE on planets. ITS EVERYTHING I ASKED FOR. THEY ACTUALLY LISTENED LETS GOOOOOO!!!!!

I can confirm, after watching 4 episodes, I have no idea who these reviewers are that are saying that S2 fixed all of the issues from S1🥴I've been watching since launch and I really just dont get it... And after this last episode, I'm really lost with who is saying that this season is vastly improved. I didnt even mind S1 that much. Yea it had its many issues but over all, it was still "Halo" sorta🤷🏽‍♂But S2... Nothing even fits. They throw in canon names/places but nothing is as it should be. Keyes, Akerson, Reach, none of it. I wouldnt be surprised if by time we actually see a Halo that even that is like a cube or a triangle or something completely foreign to what Halo is supposed to be. If this show gets a S3 I'll be impressed. Because if this were Netflix it wouldve been the first show that they wouldve pulled midway through binging S2.

#notmycortana