I Finally Watched The Halo Show and...Yikes 

U know its worse than Halo 5 when frog has to pull out his human suit to explain it to us

It’s true the Halo show wasn’t as bad as everyone made it out to be. It was actually much worse.

My dad stopped watching in the first season, he said “there’s too much master chief bum, was that in the game?” 💀

Who are you imposter and where is our Frog

You know it’s bad when even the real master chief calls this show an abomination

This show isn’t halo it’s John circles

Unironically one of the best videos on the Halo TV-show I've yet seen and that's saying a lot considering how many I've watched. I think a LOT of people who talk about the TV-show get the problems it has very wrong, tbh. For example a lot of people in the videos I've watched will say stuff like "They tried to humanize the Master Chief but they shouldn't have!" But I think that's completely wrong. I think you pointed to the actual problems with what they tried to do with the Chief. As you pointed out with your Dexter example, instead of first giving us the Chief we're used to for at least a couple of episodes, they had him be that way for like half an episode and then they immediately try to change him. It's way too fast. You need to establish a baseline first before this "humanizing" is meaningful. On top of that, as you also pointed out, they took this humanizing in completely the wrong direction where he becomes this weird ragemonster who deserts and tries to kill Halsey. But they could've had him, again as you pointed out, struggle with all of this but master it while Kai fails to deal with it. That would've still humanized him, but not to the point of it being not Master Chief anymore. And it would've explored the idea they were going for there much better. The one other thing I'd say about that all which you didn't point out, is that I don't think they should've gone with the "emotion chip" bullshit. They should've just had it be natural character development where Master Chief was indoctrinated to suppress his emotions, but an important event makes him start to re-examine it. Would've felt far more natural. Like to return to your Dexter example, Dexter doesn't have an emotion chip. It's his experiences which make him change his thinking about certain things. This is all just on one topic (albeit an important one) but, yeah, I liked this video. I think it hit the nail on the head as to what the problems are far better than most other videos I've seen. Good job.

Honestly the best bits of the Halo show I saw is when people took the action scenes and then cut music from the actual games over them and edited out everything that wasn't the Spartans vs the Covenant.

How are they gonna make Captain Keyes black and simultaneously not include Sgt Johnson in the show lmao

Frog you’re stronger than me I couldn’t even stomach a hate watch of this show lmao. I’m very much a lore person and,, god,,

The show looks awful, can’t believe you actually made it through 2 seasons. Thanks frog 🐸

3:00 The current piece of media being consumed expects the audience to have also experienced a different form of media to properly grasp the story? Yeah, that sounds like modern Halo storytelling to me

Not even 343 would disrespect the chief like the producers of this show did. They had an example of how to do a faceless protagonist with the Mandalorian and just torpedoed the show with this stupid "make chief into a normal soldier dude" schtick

5:11 “Evil ruler guy who you probably remember as the scientist from…” Me expecting frog to say he likes Pacific Rim : (

having an "emotional inhibitor" is ridiculous, the spartans behave emotionally the way they do because of the kidnapping and military training from the age of 6

I feel like Walt trapped in the car shouting in vain trying to save Frog right now. FROG NO! FROG! FROOOOOOOOOOOOOOG!!!

Frog put on the human suit, this is serious business

He is not Master Chief... he is master cheeks

I’m surprised you didn’t mention that the rebels weapons didn’t work against the covenant but the instant a spartan has it, it works greatly. Spartans don’t make AKs more effective damage wise.

That's some nerdy kid in a Chiefs hat. Where is the frog?

I'm tired of these networks scooping up IP's that have big fan bases, only to then trash the show into something nothing like the original content so they can "put their own mark on it" and "appeal to bigger audiences". Can we just agree this doesn't work? They alienate the fans and aren't good enough writers to make something interesting ... if they were, they'd have made their own content instead of buying it.

The fact that you downloaded a arby n chief r34 for the graphic is is crazy 💀

9:11 Its the scene where Chief destroys the ring

My boss likes it. Should I quit my job?

This is a really detailed and well thought out critique of the show and from the description, I'm so glad it doesn't exist.

LETS GOO!!! Master cheeks!!!! my favorite character!!!!

So we’re all gonna ignore the fact that Spartans don’t even have emotional pellets? They’re just really well disciplined.

HE’S NOT A FROG

im so sorry you did that

When the trailer came out years ago I told everyone that this show is gonna be a Mass Effect tv show that was reskinned to Halo and I still stand by that.

Nice to hear an opinion from someone who loves Halo, but doesnt know the lore. Most people talking about it are focused on how the story and characters are so different to the games, and theyre right to complain, but theres more than just that 😂 such a shame. Maybe the Fallout show being so good might wake them up to the issues

Does anybody remember the old story that went around Van Halen and M&Ms? The helmet debate reminds me of that. The guy taking his helmet off is not THAT big a deal in itself but it's the "brown M&M" in the bowl, so to speak; it's a quick, easily identifiable sign that somebody hasn't paid close enough attention to what they were doing.

you're a stronger man than i lmao. my aunty likes it though so it seems to do well with people who know nothing about the games

Not even acknowledging Keyes, and them omitting Johnson....

I think what the show should have followed was a group of Marines, ODSTs or Spartan 4s and Chief was a recurring side character who would intervene, save the main cast then leave again periodically. I think Chief as a character doesn't really work for a TV show because he's in universe, effectively just a vehicle, a plot device, something for the commander in charge to point at something and wait a week for Chief to do it somehow and actually following through with that would make for really bad TV but not following through with that would make for a really bad Halo TV show. The show instead tries to go for something in between where they follow Chief but make it really hard to believe that's Chief because they have to nerf him to create tension when like, he's supposed to be, in the eyes of this hyper advanced alien race, a literal demon. Like in order for the UNSC to defeat a single Covenant Ship they need to deploy 100 of their own ships and even then they lose like 30 ships in the conflict, and this wimpy horndog is supposed to be a literal demon to them?

I can't believe frog managed to get a human to do this video with him. Frog really is the F.O.A.T (frog of all time)

Thanks for doing this. I couldn't bring myself to watch it.

Lol the Ackerman counter was perfect!

The best part of the Halo TV show is content creators making videos like this calling out how terrible this production is. This show is a straight middle finger to fans of Halo lore.

Honestly, the Halo tv show is such a letdown I don't see Halo ever getting back to its golden days like Halo 3

Definitely one of the best analyses of the ahow's shortcomings i've seen.

Love the mention of Dexter. Severely underrated show

After the first episode, I was very optimistic. The battle scene with Chief and the Covenant made me feel like I was watching the video game in live action. By episode 4, I was done with the show, and never finished it

amazing takes from a good amphibian. Thanks for watching this so I didn’t have to suffer alone.

I've tried to defend this show but man it shouldn't take 2 seasons to really get going. Season 2 was definitely an improvement and I will watch a 3rd season but the 1st season did quite a lot of damage. I like the deviation from the lore because it allows for suspense to build.

I didnt think that the halo show could get worse until frog showed his face in a review and somehow it became worse

Season 1 left me thinking "Thank god that's over" where as Season 2 left me thinking "Wait they might actually turn on the stove and start cooking" In all seriousness I have resigned myself to watching all of the show and I want a season 3. It's bad and inaccurate to the tone/lore/character of the source material but I enjoy watching it just to see what kind of random shit they will do next. Plus I am super curious to talk to people who don't know anything about Halo and see what they think, as for the most part they liked season 2.

Congrats to Halo 5 for not being the worst Halo story anymore.

I'm gonna have to steal "Jimmy Rings and Pals" to refer to Chief and friends.

Ah, yes, my favorite character from Season 2, Ackerman

It's funny that in the actualy canon of the games, Halsey chose not to use emotional inhibitors because of the risk of the *exact* type of fail plot the TV show does. It's so completely bizarre and obvious that the people involved didn't really want to make a Halo show. And yeah, the show DOES over-rely on you knowing existing lore. The lore it deliberately goes out of its way to shit on. It's really strange. So I'm expecting that Miranda will find a cure to the Flood and that the Halo rings will have a feature that can bring people back from the dead.

How does it make sense for the infected to go from zombie to combat form if on our introduction to the flood in halo 1 where we see an outbreak also start there wasn’t a single zombie just combat flood and the little ones

I agree. Kwan Ha not dying by the covenant is criminal. Makee is genuinely more interesting. I never realized that the Halsey and Miranda reveal would have been better later. I like the idea that Kai being the more emotional one plot would have been cool to see. However, the actress did a phenomenal job regardless 9:05 great 💯 joke

I saw the first season only. Action was top notch in my opinion. It’s everything else that’s the issue. 5/10

I personally liked the show and have been playing halo since CE came out. Obviously it doesn’t stay true to the source material at all, but personally I didn’t really care about that. To me, it’s more just a show containing elements from halo, but not really directly related to it

I might give it a chance again after this video. I stopped mid season 2 because I was getting phisicaly sick every time kwan showed up on the screen.

Frog is it spelled Ackerman or Hackerman?

Imagine they just followed the story from reach, start with chief whooping ass but ultimately losing rech and escaping on the autumn

the fact that the whole point of halo originally was "humanity is on its last leg and spartans and human strategy are the only advantage we have", like even in CE you get told in the start that their ships are superior, a planet got destroyed and your ship is going down, its all about how humanity is struggling and dying, this series gives no importance to how bad it was to live this war, the covenant is just an enemy that sometimes appears and there is really just no narrative whatsoever

That human vtube avatar gets better looking with every video.

The Halo show would've benefit from the spartans being shallow 2-Dimensional killing machines, and the main drama veing the external conflict, ie. The human vs covenant war

Ah good you've seen the horrors of master cheeks

When the show focuses on the weird space people, it genuinely feels like a Bargain Bin Sequel Star Wars. That's bad by the way.

I really thought you were a frog 😢

The chief from the show is literally mister chef.

Didn't know "Act Man" was in this show, would have been cool to see him more

Nice bro has that office cubical vibe

man spartan ops then the halo show oof, you are going on a pain trip, next you are gonna tell me that you learned how to sword fly and are attempting halo 2 laso

i gave up after episode 3 when mc had his helmet off for 99% of the show so far

The nicest thing I have to say about this show is that it's an abomination and everyone involved in making it should be ashamed. I hope it gets canceled so we can all forget about it and move on. What a colossal wasted opportunity.

My Dad liked the show. As with everything else he watches, he refused to explain why, and I don't think he knows. As for myself, I gave up around about the time that a bunch of civilians got killed without setting off the super-hearing or motion sensors of the Spartan super-suit. If you did that to Iron Man, you wouldn't have a series.

Ackermens lure is trying to oppose Halsey and delete spartan 2s. He played (lore wise) really well for the role, Frog

I just discovered your channel and your content is pure comedy gold dude😂😂👍🏼

It’s like what happened with game of thrones ( at least for me). Once the white walkers were shown to be real and a massive threat, it was really hard to care about the political bs when that is happening in the back ground. Maybe if the covenant were kept as a rumor for a while in season 1 with some characters contacting it but the leaders didn’t wanna believe it?

i think if they stuck close to the books of 'insurgents vs UNSC' then going to 'oh hey, yeah. Covenant. MUCH bigger threat.' it would've been a lot better for season 1.

Wow. I thought people said the CGI was good? Master Chief moves so weird, and the covenant look bad, especially the elites.

idk, i only watched the first episode and the last episode of season 2, and that made it much more enjoyable.

0:26 now I have to leave this video here for later 😁😁

Frogtastic😄

As I halo fan,I don't mind the series that didnt follow the games or lore accurately. The problem I have is the lack of understanding of what they were adapting. If they wanted to tell their story that's fine,but it's gonna keep some of the core elements cause why call it a adaptation when it's in name-only. Arcane and castlevania actually did this well.

The whole Halsey/Ackerson/Parangosky story and the ONI secrecy was a lot more interesting in the books, but yeah, they got everything wrong in this damned show.

I feel like with kwan stuff or any minor "companion" stretched a whole season even two season was a mistake like kwan and soren they did not need to be stretched like a series regular

I agree with literally every word you said.

I liked the series but it had its fair share of mistakes, I was really dissapointed that arbiter was killed of cause i was looking forward to the halo 3 ish storyline.

i wish season 1 they just retold halo ce with some creative liberties of their own. what we got just doesn’t feel like halo at all. elites dont even act like they do in the games

Now if you want to wash the taste of that horrible show off. You should watch The Fallout show even if you're not a fan of the games, it's great.

Are we not gonna mention the jackal with a plasma rifle?

Frog got to enjoy master cheeks like the rest of us

Master cheeks jimmy rings

Every single person that has never played Halo said they enjoyed the show. I didnt think it was beyond excellent, but what helped me enjoy it more was seeing the show from the pespective that chief is a human being and not a super soldier. The show highlights wayyyyyy more human element than the game. 8:04 specifically. Seems to be everyones gripe 😂

I've seen quite a few people saying they liked the show and that "it's not that bad", which makes me seriously wonder what they got out of the original story in the first place.

Pretty much exactly how I felt. Cortana is core to the games and she's just a side character in the show.

Why was there a human talking to me in a frog voice?

Now hold on a darn moment! I thought you were a frog not human!!!!

"theres no way its as bad as everyone says...." You're right, people are too kind when trashing it

Im praying there won't be a Season 3

You're a stronger man than me. I couldn't get through all that garbage.

Finally; a pretty objective opinion, but by someone who does actually know what they're talking about. Not a superfan who hates everything, and not someone who literally knew nothing before watching it, but an informed person who took the time to analyze it.

Glad that you watched it, this way I didn't have to.

i think the main issue is that the show focuses more on the drama than the action that the games are,noone plays the halo games for the drama,its not a soap opera