HALO THE SERIES | A Show Made For NO ONE! 

So if this show wasn't made for fans of the games and wasn't made to be accessible for new fans, who exactly do they think is going to be watching?

Imagine Peter Jackson saying "No, I didn't read any book of the LOTR because I didn't want my creativity to be limited"

'It's not about money, it's about sending a message. Everything burns!' - The Joker (noted social justice warrior)

So Thorias, Mercy in the games was one of the three main leaders of the covenant along with the prophets of Truth and Regret. Together the three lead the covenant on a religious holy war against humanity. In the games, under no circumstance would Mercy of all three prophets have even allowed a human to breath in his presence. He was probably the most dogmatically vicious in his beliefs from the way he's portrayed in Halo 2.

The thing that inspired awe when i was young playing Halo for the first time was the fascinating idea of existing on an orbiting halo while battling alien species. Never did i care about the characters or politics. The Red vs. Blue series went on for years without needing ANYTHING but the game and exploring lore. They bought out and sold out another loyal following

So sick of no name actors insisting on having their faces being exposed. Don't take the job if you don't want to wear the costume!

New adaptation of a loved ip , let's see: Character deconstrotion ✅ Making the whole story about a female/non white/mb even non cis non hetero ✅ General exclusion of the game influence ✅ Unwarranted dislike for the core fanbase ✅ Villain is a white guy ✅ Bad world building ✅ Characters acting stupid for plot convenience ✅ Barely at the first episode and we're already getting all those , and judging on the fact that they're supposed to wow us by putting more resources here to keep an audience for the rest of the show I think it's fair to say it's only downhill from here...unless you're in for inclusion ,diversity, tearing down the patriarchy and all that oh! so enlighten trend of ruining everything for the message

25:33 Kwan says at one point that the colonies would believe her and the scientist's daughter responds "But we have everything on record". Well they also have this very same exchange between Kwan and the emissary, where the Korean teenager overtly admits "what if I lie and... " The UNSC could just broadcast that and let the galaxy know their version before Kwan even gets the chance to walk out of their custody. No assassination required. But then the authors would have to invent some other reason for the stand off at the end of the episode.

It really says a lot when a small collection of anime short films understand Halo a lot more than the actual TV show itself.

Halo: Reach did a great job of showcasing why civilians were afraid of the Spartan teams, without making the Spartans into outright monsters who apparently murder families and children on the regular. There's a fantastic scene in the first mission where they find a frightened civilian and we get some exposition where some of the colder members of the team just brush her off, but there's a moment that I think the show lifted from the game (despite the top writers claiming to have not even played the games...) where Jorge takes off his helmet and speaks to her in her native language to try to calm her down. It's a nice touch, and it's subtle- unlike what this nightmare sounds like.

This show being on Paramount Plus was warning enough that it was going to suck.

"not seeing the guy's face wasn't doable" Ahem:. Did you forget how popular the Mandalorian is? And no, not in the entirety of the Halo franchise do we see Master Chief's face as an adult. At the end of Halo 4 we see the top of his head and down to his eyes, but that's it. Even shots of him as a child are a cartoon.

Yeah...in the games the Covenant were so dogmatically anti-human that Mercy would not have even tolerated one breathing the same air in the same room.

So, the alien artifact gives Master Chief basic human empathy he didn't have before and produces an electrical thing that does completely opposite effects depending on who it hits? It's the Joker's joy buzzer from Batwoman!

seriously from my understanding, the UNSC in this show seems to care more about farmers with bootleg AK-47's than a multi species religious alien regime that has technology nearly a millennia ahead of them and upon first contact with them completely and obliterates a town full of people regardless of age or gender, but no the problem is the farmers. I've read at least 4 of the books one of them being contact harvest and the minute the UNSC learned about the covenant they immediately did a 180 and switched like 98% of there attention to the Covenant.

Remember when we thought we couldn’t go any lower than Halo 5? Now we’ve got TLJ: The series on our hands, it’s gonna get MUCH worse from here.

These authors really have a thing with finding out you had special powers all along that THE MAN tries to keep you from finding, huh?

In the games it is indeed extraordinarily rare to see the Master Chief's face... in fact, I don't think it happens in a game until the *end* of 4 or 5? It's very late in the game. In the books, it's far less a rare thing as there are times when he isn't in a forward combat zone and on a space ship or at a primary military base world and is wearing dress uniform and *not* the MJOLNIR armor - all really normal stuff that makes sense but, otherwise, the Spartan II's generally feel like the MJOLNIR armor is their second-skin - they spend so much time in them and they work so well with them (suits were specifically made for their augmented biology) that they're more at-home in them than out. The funny thing is that, in the books, Master Chief comes to have a really, really devoted view to the sanctity of human life after he gets some perspective due to the war with the Covenant and general military service that he does go out of his way, when he can, to *not* kill fellow humans... but I can't see him ever taking off his helmet to placate *one* human, especially a total asshole like Quan. Not that a regular human would have a hope in hell of shooting him anywhere, nevermind in the face when he's looking at them, but he knows his value and his value to his team and to humanity as a whole... I can't see him jeopardizing that for some scrublord rebel.

200+ script rewrites and this is what we get. As a huge HUGE halo fan, this broke my heart.

Imagine if Marvel Studios hit my line telling me "Hey, do you want to direct Spider-Man 4"? I say yes but I never read a single Spider-Man comic in my life. In order to make an adaptation of something, DO YOUR DAMN HOMEWORK!

Deuterium is an isotope of water, also called heavy water. It is used in some fission nuclear reactors to slow down neutrons. There are other, non nuclear, industrial applications

Since the people who made it never apparently even played the game, who is surprised?

This is not Halo, this is the Mandalorian with a coat of Halo paint.

These lunatics have the same mindset as Dr Who, Witcher, He-Man, Trek. Who basically came out and said the same as Klutzman about Trek saying we dont want Trekkies we dont care about canon its our own platform. Thats why its trash and no-one watches any of the shows they put out. Halo is another go woke go broke example by having Master Chief as a cameo in his own show cos its all about the girl with the key to everything as usual...smh

The part about Spartans being originally basically UNSC hitmen used for targeted killing of rebel leaders is actually in the canon lore. The Spartans were a secret though at that point unless I am mistaken. After the war against Covenant started Spartans were revealed as a trump card against the alien and their shady origin was kinda swept under the rug. And admiral Parangosky being an a-hole is accurate to the lore too. That being said everything else about the show seems wrong - especially how they sort of mashed up elements from very different time periods - war against the covenant lasted nearly 30 years (with the games taking place toward the end) and the whole story of Spartans is even longer.

I hope the show fails spectacularly, they just changed everything to create an abomination. And didn’t they call it silver timeline after the backlash from when they said they weren’t following the lore of the games? Awful.

I don't watch movies or tv shows anymore but it's really great to see how far your channel has come. I've followed you since fk9 days

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't sending a strikeforce of exclusively Elites vs an unimportant human outpost a laughable violation of Covenant Battle Doctrine? Seems like a job for Jackals and Grunts with one or two Elite supervisors.

Deuterium is what makes heavy water. Rather than the typical hydrogen in a water molecule, it is oxygen bonded with a form of hydrogen that has a neutron as well as a proton.

I don't get why they would just disregard the source material. When adapting a book or a game or whatever into a movie or a tv show, you already have a shake-and-bake audience set in place. Pissing off those people, and just praying that you'll attract a new audience, seems deliriously stupid. I swear to God, this is why some people think that video games are a lesser medium for story-telling. We just keep getting terrible video game adaptations, shat out by people who don't give a fuck just so long as they get their paycheck. EDIT: The group in the beginning, I'm guessing, is a group of the Insurgents who opposed the central government within the series, the United Earth Government, and subsequently the UNSC. This may be why the Spartans may have been teased as being the bad guys in the intro? Because, from this group's perspective, the Spartans would be the bad guys? I mean, this is an alt. universe, so who knows what's actually going on.

Deuterium is hydrogen with an atomic mass of 2. Heavy water is water with Deuterium instead of regular hydrogen. It has a role in nuclear moderation. It is more dense than regular water so it slows down neutrons.

3:36-3:38 "It's a Different universe" rhetoric is why rippa hates multiverses because it becomes a free for fall. I have my own thoughts about different universes but I can agree that it's getting irritating when Hollywood hacks don't want to follow through with the lore & just do whatever the fuck they want it show's how lazy, uninspired & Creatively bankrupt they are.

Chief “remembering” things and going rogue is nonsense. In the novel The Fall of Reach, Halsey is advised to use chemicals to wipe the minds of then-6-year-old Spartan candidates. She refused that option, explicitly expressing that she wanted to prevent the specific scenario that we’re now seeing in the show. (For all the terrible things Halsey did to the Spartans, she did care about their psychological well-being and tried to minimize the damage done to them.) The majority of Spartans - including Chief - wouldn’t go rogue simply because they remembered their childhoods. Their childhoods are something that they’re willing to leave undisturbed in favor of the purpose-filled lives they’ve been given. (There’s room for commentary about that, and the franchise has touched upon that in the past, but not like this.)

THIS IS PARAMOUNT+ THE SAME PEOPLE THAT MAKES STAR TREK DISCOVERY, DID YOU REALLY BELIEVE THIS WAS GONNA BE GOOD?

Now we know why one the showrunner left before this show came on cause just saw the first episode and to be honest … him taking his helmet off killed it for me, Bruh Mando kept his helmet on longer than master chief and it got worse when see a human ally with the covenant

I think a recurring problem show-writers have is they don't know how to convey messaging subtly. So you end up with these preachy characters who just naturally incline people to hate them, because people don't like being lectured, particularly by people who are lecturing absent any connection to logic or actual events. Add to that the infuriatingly common response by established characters of "Wow, they're so right! I've been terrible but this wonderful person has shown me the way, let me follow them to the ends of the earth."

Been funnier if when the Master Chief took his helmet off, he had a tiny head.

Hey Thorias you skipped a very important point, the soundtrack. Halo has one of the best if not the best soundtrack in FPS history. The sound track feels weird, like they changed 20% of it in order to not pay rights. And its a shame.

In case anyone _is_ wondering what Deuterium is, it’s a naturally occurring isotope of hydrogen, which has a neutron in addition to the proton in its nucleus. (Who let all those crickets in here…)

This show could have started with the creation of the Spartan 2, the abducted, brainwashed and tortured children, worked from there to show Master Chief's creation and upbringing and show how the Spartans were created to be the perfect tools for the political leaders to use to quash all resistance against them and show how ruthless they became, before the Covenant show up and the Spartans were then turned on humanity's enemies. Which, if I remember, was how the actual creation of the Spartans came to be. Even if it is not beat for beat or if I am remembering some things wrong, it still will be more faithful then this show ever will be.

So about the memory erasure stuff. It is brought up in the books during the early days of the Spartan-II program. Halsey states they will not do it because if something happens and the Spartans begin to remember or find out they were lied to, they run a high likelihood of the Spartans rebelling. So they tell the Spartans the truth from the start. Funny how the books already went over the logical conclusion of this and they end up using the exact opposite for the show and low and behold, the thing Halsey states would happen in the books, happens in the show.

"Made for no one other than the writers themselves. ", absolutely 110% right, writers today aren't just lazy, they are also insanely selfish!

Deuterium is essentially a hydrogen isotope, and is used to make heavy water for nuclear reactors, afaik.

For what it's worth, Thorias, the other reviews of this episode echo what you said: it started out great, then went off the rails after that first battle.

Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen with one proton and one neutron as opposed to ordinary hydrogen which only has a proton. Heavy water is water where the hydrogen component is either deuterium or tritium, which has two neutrons. These heavier isotopes of hydrogen are valuable for military and industrial applications since they will undergo nuclear fusion at lower temperatures and pressures. None of which makes the show good, but this pretty basic physics, and it is much better grounded in reality than much of sci-fi.

Imagine deciding to become a surgeon but deciding you don't need to bother studying the human body. Such is the absolute empty headedness of modern showrunners.

3:17 "A tv show would never work as a first person shooter." Hardcore Henry: am i a joke to you? sarcasm aside. good stuff as always thorias.

Thanks for the heads up. I am a big fan of the Halo franchise. I would of been pissed watching this episode if not for your review. Thanks for taking one for the team.

Deuterium is heavy hydrogen. It's H2. Used for fusion reactors as fuel for those wondering. :)

>humanity is being wiped out >Labor unions are causing trouble instead of helping Actually true to life.

"I hate to be that guy but there were no Halos in that show" Paramount Plus Writers: "Whats a Halo? You mean Halo is something more then the video game title?"

It feels like whoever wrote Quan's character took cues from Batwoman's Mary: an insufferably smug, self-righteous, ungrateful Asian chick that the audience is still meant to sympathize and identify with.

Whats amazing is Halo is not just a game - It's an expanded lore universe with existing TV/ movie media and books/ comics/ along with games as well, both FPS, and RTS. To ignore ALL that because "the game is limiting to our medium" is the most ignorant thing of all time. Edit* Deuterium is the scientific name for heavy water - they are the same thing.

They actually did the whole [the damage of weapons depends on who uses them] thing, that, even when you ignore the woke, disqualifies this entire dumpster fire of a show.

You are so cute when you rage. Yes more of this please

I never have to watch any shows you review your breakdowns are so on point it's better than looking at it your the best keep up the good work my ninja

I called IT when they anounced it. I callet IT, and IT said: "Don't bother, gonna be shit. Here have a Balloon instead."

Had to drop the like at the Halo choir already! Bravo Thorias!

There was a time when we used to be excited when the mainstream adapted comic books, video games and other products from nerdom. Those days are long gone. Until the SJWs and the ESG standard is abolished, nothing will improve

Yes please continuing reviewing this show

Deuterium is pretty well explained in several other comments here, but it's also used in multiple sci-fi stories (especially military sci-fi) for fusion reactions. Most of the stuff it's used for is not fake science either, though it *is* firmly theoretical - we don't do fusion reactors that well in real life, so making tech dependent on them like Hellbore cannons would be beyond us for a good while.

You need far more subs. You're great and I love your sarcasm and wit.

This rant is funny lol.... i don't think much research went into this before the blow up on youtube but hey was a great laugh thanx.

The only thing this show did for me is make me realize "John Spartan" and cannot believe it has taking me over 20 years to realize this.

Thories you should watch Reacher a new Amazon series based on Lee Child books about Jack Reacher. It is a good series who tells the tale of the first book. Tom Cruz made two movies from this books. It is not woke and it actually has a real masculine male lead :) The Sjw Whould hate it for being "Toxic Masculine" tv show :). People should know of this Anti Woke show. You can also review the movie Karen just like Az who made a very funny review :)

So Master Chief pulls a Sylvester Stallone and takes his helmet off. Well that's just...wrong. Hoo boy. This sounds like the start of Halo: The Batwoman Era

Need more intros like that 😆. Voice of an Angel Sir.

I have been waiting. Thank you.

Coming from someone who knew absolutely nothing about Halo, I really enjoyed the first episode. Can't wait to get to know more about Master Chief, his background, how he became Master Chief, ... but am also invested in some of the other characters of whom I wish to learn more. Looking forward to the next episode in a few hours.

"Silver timeline" aka We have some shitty ideas. Yep, that worked out perfectly for Star Trek too 😏

I kinda wish that elites did not have energy swords and saving them for the Elite Ultras and Zealots. (Also make the Elites less bulky) They could have Jin get his neck broken by the Elite Major.

I've been waiting for this...

No one noticed that Quan kept the blood and brains of her friends on her face the whole time? That she didn't think to wipe her face like a human being would?

I'm here to hear how it burns! Keep doing it

I'm sensing a lot of the typical "I want huge payoffs for reveals, but I'm not willing to put in the work for them" crap we've been getting lately.

they could've *absolutely* had Master Chief with his helmet on the whole time.

Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen. Deuterium oxide is heavy water. So, as long as you brush up on your physics before watching the show, you'll be fine.

I think the scene with the girl refusing to cooperate and trying to use the situation could have worked if they had established two things. One, her father was a leader and if they had show that she was well known like him (maybe she stood beside him at most of his speeches/made her own speeches) her threat to lie about what happen would have held more weight. Two they could have established that maybe it was her young nieveness that made her think this was a good opportunity to seek independence, aka have a scene with her and her father where he's basically drilling into her head that they must do what ever it takes to gain independence earlier then when this scene comes up it could be her repeating a bunch of the lines not realizing due to her youth that this may not be the best time to do so when such threat threatens to wipe out her entire colony. There's always a chance in later episodes they could reveal more information that makes these actions make more sense, Problem with the netflix moddle of releasing all episodes at once now that a lot of places are going back to weekly (for more money) people are used to having all the answers right a way, but then again writers not bothering to give backstory to peoples motivations and assuming audience members will understand what they're trying to do is a big problem with writing these days.

Please please watch this show…. I really don’t want to 😂 I love how you break things down and make them more enjoyable than the original content.

Jesus Christ, why didn't they just take notes from Forward Unto Dawn. That movie was an excellent love letter to Halo while also portraying Chief as someone genuinely larger than life. Even when sitting next to other Gen 2 Spartans, he feels like the odd man out; stronger and more laser focused on the conflict.

This was a really good video! You raised some very good points.

Deuterium is a hydrogen atom that has a neutron. When they are combined with an oxygen atom it forms heavy water

I feel like I gotta say this: deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen, and heavy water is water (H2O) with deuterium as the H. Perhaps they should've explained that in the show, and hinted why it's valuable.

What the hell is happening to iconic franchises now?

It is literally Halo 5 2.0 electric Boogaloo. Halo being marketed to Normies and has Chief Go rouge and betray the UNSC because of past memories and an Evil Chick.

So just small science note. Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen that has two particles in its nucleus, hence the name... and a water molecule made with this hydrogen is called Heavy Water, which is theoretically(since we haven't build a working one yet) useful in fusion reactors, which is what the humans use in this setting... so basically it requires intimate knowledge of both the setting... and actual nuclear science because they couldn't be bothered to tell you anything.

On a positive note: Forward to Dawn is getting a big shout out 👍

If you want an idea of who they're making movies and shows for nowadays, look at a particular Pixar article for Turning Red where they say it literally out loud... They are making movies and shows for THEMSELVES.

Paramount is a shadow of its former self when I worked there in the late 80's. But I could see all this happening. The Executives have gone nuts.

Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen which is found in heavy water. It is twice as heavy as the most common isotope of hydrogen, hence the "heavy" of heavy water. It is used in various capacities for nuclear reactions.

In two episodes, they only got 10 minutes correct.

Master Chief had red hair as seen in a childhood flashback in one of the games. They couldn't even get the hair right. They took his helmet off, which was already a mistake, and they couldn't even get the hair color right.

I didn't expect you to review this show cuz ppl are moving on from this

Deuterium : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium The Leaders of the Coveant would not allow a human to be alive within thier sight Yes Spartans were orginally meant to quell a terrorist faction that wanted indepentance Once the Coveant showed up, spartans were under orders to recover any and all alien tech As for not seeing John 117's face, this was done with the orginal Judge Dreed film where thay had Dreed unmasked for most of the film (admittedly for plot reasons) but in the Dreed film, we never saw his face for the entire film and it worked fine

Breathe man! We still need you in good shape when Batwomans newest season comes around! XD

Good vid!!!

The masterchiefs mask is never meant to come off so the player imposes his own ideal look on him under the armour I picture it's the Great Khali, other people might imagine its themselves doing the tasks

I liked to hear your singing :) 👍

This series looks to be on par with the Milla Jovovich Resident Evil series and the 2021 Mortal Kombat movie. It's amazing that Sonic the Hedgehog is the only recent video game IP that has had two well-received film adaptations.

Doesn't ONI (spelling?) eliminate EVERYONE that learns of the Spartan's existence? Like, they're top secret super soldiers made from kidnapped children that were tortured into perfection. They don't want anyone questioning things, or learning of any secret weapons. Until the Convenant showed up, at least. But as Halsey says, no one cared to ask any questions at that point.