THAT WAS IT!? (Halo TV Show Season 2 Episode 8 Finale Review) 

Amanda and Kwan have the greatest single defense against the flood: "PLOT ARMOR MK IV"

The only thing this show has accomplished is showing us that plot armor is stronger than Mjolnir.

So the forerunners couldn’t find a cure for the flood but Miranda is gonna find a cure to save Halsey….

Reminder that live action flood has been figured out since John Carpenters the thing that came out in 1982

I love how lots of people were predicting that the flood would be just regular ass zombies with maybe like a tentacle here and there and they did just that💀 This show blows

So glad you brought up the fact that Miranda just miraculously escaped infection and the fact the Chief punching the desk somehow downloads Cortana into his armor, because both of those gaping plot holes made me wring my hands

Stargate SG-1 is still the best "adaptation" of Halo in TV series. You've got human warrior, smart lady, renegade alien commander with a catchphrase, ancient rings, zealous aliens, humanity being the underdog, evil crabs who try to take over the galaxy and the big reveal that the ancient aliens who made the rings were humanity's ancestors.

Can't wait for the Kwan Ha Gravemind. The greatest monument to all our sins.

After their "Blessed One" BS, can't wait for them to reveal that Kwan is also a Forerunner-Flood hybrid child and that being the reason for the Flood's beef with her 🤣

That Flood spore might've been dormant for a while, hence delaying the mutation of the first person who was infected. But after infecting half the ONI base, surely the Flood would start incubating infection forms, making carriers, and more spores? And the infection would speed up rapidly and we'd get some proper looking combat forms? Also why were they just standing around when infected and let Kwan/Soren, more potential hosts just walk past? Oh yeah, because they need them to do that for the sake of the plot.

When the Flood was held back by mystic lady, I thought it was the Gravemind the whole time, leading her on to release it, "rewarding" her with knowledge seconds before consuming her. Except that would have actually been a really cool idea. Nah, I guess space shaman is as powerful as the Gravemind. Also, while projecting to her mind, Kwan was unaffected. So she's stronger than Chief in Halo 3 when the Gravemind spoke to him and he could barely walk. I've been binging SG-1 and it's endlessly more Halo than this generic sci-fi trash fire.

I count 10 "jimmy rings" Will recount after my 8am class

I had a seizure mid episode, thankfully my brother realised I was watching the halo show so he turned on halo reach and he cured it, little bro saved me 🙏🙏🙏

Johnathan Circumference

I love how Cortana is basically a conversation AI. She can't get into the covenant ship systems and explosively decompress the thing the stop makee.

They confused the flood with Necromorphs.

I quite literally described them exactly as they appeared lmao spot on

Its like they don't even understand the story. The halo show is the Last air bender movie.

they did it... they actually managed to turn The Flood into a generic sci fi zombie virus...

Why am I laughing so much at "Forerunner USB stick" 😂

Nerfing the flood into a generic parasite zombies, introducing space mystic, Spartan III's are... some kinda ODST's? Cortana is basically ChatGPT and not the Queen of AI technology she is in games and lore. The UNSC doesn't operate like a military of any kind. Coenant.... why are they after humanity again? Arbiter looks cool i'll admit, but he's not either Thel Vadam'ee or Ripa'Muram'ee. Also they made the Sangheili into space Dothraki. Don't like how they dishonored the Sangheili. I don't understand how they failed so badly at turning Halo into a good TV show. You could just do a contact Harvest show starring Johnson and go from there! Or hell, a tv movie pilot that covers that, then jump to Fall of Reach.

Boycott Silver Timeline! Give us the Halo we deserve.

They still never explained how Mickey is still alive.

Is it just me or are they over-doing it with the energy swords?

The entire Flood plot is so vague. So let me get this straight, “The Mother” leads Kwan, Halsey, Miranda to the Forerunner lab which contains the Flood, unleashing it. So you start to think “The Mother” is a forerunner consumed by the Flood becoming part of the Gravemind. Because she is the entire reason why it got unleashed. But then “The Mother” reveals she can hold off the Flood and reveals to Kwan that the Flood is her enemy and they are after Kwan. So “the Mother” released the flood just to reveal that this is her enemy to everyone…. 🥲

Was some of the action cool in this episode? Sure, maybe 3 minutes total. Was the rest of it awful and a kick in the nuts to the original creators and world builders? You bet. Who the hell could read this screenplay and be like "yeah! Halo would be better like this", film it! Mystics, chosen ones etc 😂. Kwanbat Evolved. She'll have the real battle and win on the Halo ring...just wait. You see her shooting and pistol whipping the flood. She's probably a Spartan and it hasn't been shown yet.

This is one of those shows where you actually just want the bad guys to win

The flood's reveal was way too rushed. Would've preferred their gradual reveal on Halo.

Bruh calling Makee Christopher Walknen is just spot on 😂. Shes also really bad at hiding her accent.

Kai busting a Jorge was funny "Covie ship goes boom!"

the season finale felt like the mid season episode typical of most studios

So literally their promotion posters were a bunch of lies lmao I remember people copping over those posters where they made it seem as master cheeks cared about the marines lmao Im glad I didnt watch this garbage this season, thanks the reviews.

I came for the roast, but I stayed for the Walken walk-on.

Ok, I’ll keep track of all the Jimmy Rings variants. I hope I got the all: 1: Jacob Randal 2: Jeremiah Wheels (2X) 3: Julian Ovoid(?) 4: Jackal Lips(?) 5: Jaquan(?) Cylinders 6: Jude Spirals There. I might’ve misheard a few of them, but that’s all of them I think. Oh what’s that, the Halo show is a let down? Yeah, what else is new . . .

I just... I can't even... I want to ask a serious question: What made the flood so impactful in the original Halo? You have this big, mysterious construct. Nobody knows what it is or does. And you have this fight between the covenant and humanity. And then we find out the Halo has some "deep religious significance" and that it may be a weapon. And Keyes goes off looking for a weapon cache. But then we put Cortana into the control room and omg, Keyes is doing something bad and it's not a weapons cache. And we go there. And we see all this creepy shit and then we see this horrible stuff through the soldier's recording and then... bam, the flood comes out. And everything changes. The covenant are running for their lives, Chief is working with Guilty Spark until... wait, Halo would wipe out all life, actually. it doesn't kill flood, it kills their food! And now the humans are dead, the covenant is fleeing and Guilty Spark is trying to chop off our head and dispose of the rest! See where I'm going with this? There's a very specific sequence of events that happened which made all of it work. One thing happening before another. It's very, very important things happen in this specific order. But on the TV show we find out Halo is a weapon before the flood is even introduced. Then the flood is introduced before Jimmy even sets foot on the ring. And then I guess his POW fuckbuddy reveals it kills everything just... cuz? They just screwed it up. They've screwed up the flood completely already and they've barely been introduced.

If they weren't gonna follow the games and expand on the story, they could've made an anthology series of halo stories. Three stories that would've worked as episodes: -A brute rising the ranks and becomes a chieftain - An elite and grunt trying to survive High Charity's flood infection - Following a marine recuit into his first encounter with the covenant/ banished (They would've found a way to mess it up)

Can’t belive that there are people who think that this shit is the best show they’ve ever seen…I mean come on man I’d say that literally any other show is better then this

I wanna say, "Look how they Massacred my boy... 😢" But their parading the Desiccated body around the Town center at this point! 😱😒 Never was My Halo from Forward Unto Dawn. It's the MonKey & QuanHa show now 😢😒

Did it suck? Makee and Jameson Hoop walk into the "Forerunner" structure, hand-in-hand.

didnt the creators of this halo wannabe show said that there will be no flood back before season 1 dropped? imagine how they gonna butcher our boy gravemind?

it was just, talk talk talk, run away, talk talk talk, crash ship fight on steps talk talk talk. The end.

The quick cut away from the corvette-supercarrier collision to reaction shots was the ultimate way to cheat the audience out of a spectacle and tells you all you need to know about how much of a budget they didn't have. Don't get me started on the Flood. These people had no business making a Halo show.

Of course we see the show writers lack of halo knowledge shine through. Remember "a single flood spore can destroy a species" If this was actual halo, the flood would have taken over the entire planet in the timespan of it being introduced on it. but instead they just ruin the flood into being a generic space parasite.

I didn't even bother watching the show and thought that your videos on the series were more interesting lmao

Do you think if Makee owned a haircutting place, would it be appointment only? Or would she accept WALKENS!?!?!

The Walkin impression… bravo 😂😂😂😂

Thank God the series is over. AND THANk GOD you got a Walken impersonation in there too!! LMAO "WOooowa!"

This made my day, thank you❤

Self deprivating "let's fucking gooo!" outros are my favourite. 😅

7:10 I'd argue it was their pursuit of original ideas which is responsible for this mess. 😂

I was so pumped when Kwan was about to be killed by the flood and then... Disappointment..

Life is like a box of flood droplets...

The official Halo discord server is full of people meat riding the show. You literally just aren’t allowed to hate it over there

Watching this show as a lore nerd.........IS JUST ABSOLUTE PAIN AND AGONY. -The Fall of Reach being 1, arguably 2 episodes max when it was a pivotal battle in Halo lore is insulting. It deserved a full season and barely touched on anything from the book or game. -The Spartan 3's being shoehorned in post Reach is odd. Granted I liked a few bits here and there with them and Kai, overall I think adding them in during that point was stupid. -Having the Flood be released on Onyx and in such a pitiful way is disgusting, and not in the good space zombies way. It would've been terrifying to see Infection forms crawling around and bursting out of people's chest. I know its an early outbreak but the slugs and akward neck tentacles just felt....cheap. -Having the Halo be so close to human space is ridiculously inept. -CHEIF IS ABLE TO FLY THROUGH SPACE FASTER IN HIS ARMOR THAN AN ENTIRE ARMADA OF SLIPSPACE CAPABLE ALIEN SHIPS. -Kwan getting a get out of jail free card when surrounded by discount Flood zombies, insane plot armor. -The lack of security just letting Chief walk around freely and an entire outbreak later on is hystericaly mind boggling. I have more but this is only top of the list for this series and its horrible flaws. I was slightly intrigued when they brought up the spores but was soon crushed upon the remaining bit of the episode. Such a waste of resources, honestly. Sorry for the borderline autistic rant. The books and games deserve so much better than this

Jimmy Rings punching the Covenant console is the stupidest sh!t possible. This series is NOT a Studio Trigger anime ffs. Those mad japanese earned their status and can do dumb stuff making it look cool and epic.

Maybe I have a touch of the tism because after hearing Parangosky say, "Master Chief" I just kept exaggerating her accent and repeating it every time Jimmy was on screen.

this was several orders of magnitude worse that halo nightfall

I just want them to stop all production of this show. Microsoft to give all the money the Dune director Denis Villeneuve wants, hire Joe Staten to be the writer, Hans Zimmer to work with Marty O’Donnell/Mike Salvatori to do the score for them all to do a big budget HALO film trilogy following the original reclaimer arc. But that’s all just a dream 🥲…..

4:08 ahh good reference😄

The flood having an outbreak on onyx puts the final nail in the coffin for any kind of faithful halo ce storyline. At the end of CE you blow up the halo and kill all the flood and stop the spread but obviously that can't happen if the outbreak isn't contained on the ring.

It pains me to call s2 an improvement over series 1 given most of it was utter crap, but anything would’ve been an improvement over the shite s1 was pumping out every week. The stuff with Kai and the 3’s was the highlight of this one for me, but even that was ruined by her last words being a crap little quip. The rest of the episode felt…empty. Not a clue what was going on with Kwan’s visions, Halsey getting infected while Miranda is perfectly okay was…a choice and Makee survived because of course she did. Was so hoping Jimmy Rings would just launch that energy sword at her and be done with it. Even then, this needed to be the finale of season 1, not 2

They should have make a TV show base on Halo Evolutions: Mona Lisa imo.

No “you wouldn’t, you’re way scared”? I’m almost disappointed. But I do definitely think the flood should’ve only been teased. It was a terrible choice to fully reveal them now.

In case anyone was wondering he used 8 different names to refer to John halo

this ... just ..... 😢

Not surprised this show was such a mess with Kiki Wolfkill at the helm.

I freaking love your style brother keep up the amazing job ❤

There probably won't be a season 3. If you compare season 2 to season 1, you can see that they were on a tight budget for season 2. I belive this is the reason why the flood was such a disappointment, no grunts, bad CGI on the final MC and Arbiter battle, and why we have a bunch of garbage subplots.

wow no build up to the flood. Just throw it into the show. wow

Please just cancel the show

The Flood in this show remind me of resident evil somewhat ngl.

I felt like I was watching Alien Convenant, again........ No biohazard protection in a TOP secret Lab. Advanced technology, ignored for the sake of 'plot'. Sending in strike teams before the main fleet, felt like throwing eggs at a wall. I quit watching this half way through the episode as I think the writers were the Flood, rather than actual HUMANS..... Now, lets all just breath, step back and all run away for this shit storm on fire.

please god let this show end

Feel free to chime in Johnny rings Jay Circle Joe circumference Jake band Justin Loops Johnathan PieRsquared Jason Donuts Joey spaghetti-o

My god this is awfull.

Every time you do your Christopher Walken impression leads me to further believe the show needed him as Makee lmao this adaptation is so bad

That Christopher Walken impression was Awesome lol!!!!

I can't understand the reason of the protests on Hollywood actors' union they suck at their jobs lately. this is a franchise that has an history over 20 years, it didn't deserve this episode, it didn't deserve this series. they have to suck up their mistakes and deliver something solid.

Glad im not the only one that noticed that about them using weapons that arent even in Halo lol

the guy that called it.... LISAN AL-GAIB

Honestly the Jimmy name egg hunt was more enaging than even the recap of this show. Jacquad Cylinders! 🤣

Can I just mention how much disdain I have for the pseudo ironman face cam camera angle? Particularly how over used it was in this specific episode. It felt like we were watching characters react to stuff more than actually being shown the stuff they're reacting too. Why? Why do I have to see Perez panicky eyes when Kai "sacrifices" herself and we dont actually see the explosion you hear in the background. It just seemed like a lazy work around for the limited budget. Anyways that's my random rant done. Thanks for reading if you got this far 👍

Him hitting the console in the corvet was him transfering cortana back into his suit. Makes no fucking sense like most of the other parts in the episode and or season 😂

Why did they kill me? Like bruh

We need to see John's baby in S3 only way to enhance his humanity....the writer's probably

How to massacre an IP

The only thing worse than this whole show is the number of people using lore as an excuse to justify the showrunners' lack of respect and care to Halo.

Jaquad Cylinder 🤣🤣🤣 I died 😂

As always, the reviews on this channel and others are way better than the episodes. I've never seen the episodes from this season or the previous one, and I've only watched the reviews. We were right that the trailers showing Reach being annihilated was some trick to make us believe things were retconned from Season 1, and that we would actually watch something true to Halo. The season was again more of a boring drama than a sci fi action. Mackee somehow returns. Reach's destruction didn't feel inpactful and convincing like Halo: Reach. Master Cheeks still shows his face and can fight without his armor. Keyes is killed very early without ever being seen commanding a ship against Covenant fleets. Cortana is a guide to the enemy for reasons I don't know why. The Flood are introduced not on the ring but I guess from some Forerunner structure found by Kwan. The finale felt too weak to even be considered one, and the production was so cheap. This wasn't made for Halo fans, and I'm sure sci fi fans in general who never played the games were extremely bored.

Whilst watching the flood scenes the only thing I saw was cod zombies not the flood

Short answer Yes, long answer Yes...

Every single thing in this episode fell flat. I felt nothing. Also, I'm confused. When exactly did they introduce the Arbiter? I honestly don't remember. Wasn't he supposed to be the commander who failed to protect the ring? Now he's just... here? Then he just dies? What?

you know a show is bad when they rely on fight scenes to make it slightly enjoyable

It’s so irritating, the disdain the show seems to have for OG fans. Solid video mate.

Okay is anyone going to tell him about the four strages of The Flood infection from lore and extended lore? Cause if I am not mistake those Flood cells were dormant and when Miranda opened up the vile she actually released spore that was still waking up and just to let him and everyone else in the comment section what we saw wasn't the Combat Forms like in the games at the moment they need to feed on organic flesh and stread more and if I am not mistake will lead to a Proto-Gravemind will probably use Parangosky for it but most people like to over look the extended lore or other lore in general about the Flood cause it seems not everyone knows about The Flood in Halo as much as I thought

MaKee is gonna replace the arbiter from halo 2, 3 etc... you watch! She already branded herself and now thinks she's a demon lmao or they just don't bother doing arbiter

I can't believe that the Latin American community liked Paramount's halo series, they literally praise it as if it were a masterpiece, it makes me sad to see that a part of the Latin American halo community lie to themselves about Paramount's halo series being a good one (Google Translation)

I couldn't even stand season 1. Canceled my subscription for it and not regreting it. I am fine with artistic leeway, but they are doing the same thing as star trek and star wars did. Ignore previous story lines and character development. I would be suprised if chief married some flood wife and became a farmer anymore.

Why do the flood look nothing like the flood? Why do they suck? Why must everything that was once good be bad now? WHY?

So the halo ring was on earth the whole time!!!!!!!!! 😮😮😮 I know that location!!!