The HALO Show is VERY BAD (and here's why) 

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“This is not a halo show” You’re goddamn right

What really pisses me off so much, is that they had all the work done for them already, they had characters, a story, looks, style, EVERYTHING, literally they were given an action sci-fi show, on a silver platter, hot n ready, all they had to do was bring the action to life,but they decided "what if we do anything BUT that"

The fact that Miranda Keyes is so not herself that elvis calls her "some woman named Miranda" and didn't even recognise her as Keyes is just so perfect.

I seriously don't understand how the people in charge of shows like this *_brag_* about knowing nothing about the franchise they're adapting and/or outright hate it (then why even work on it?) And when it bombs they act surprised no one likes it

Honestly, calling this show bad is a compliment for the people who made this.

The total omission of Sgt Avery Johnson is more unforgivable than Master Cheeks getting laid

If the Covenant were properly written in this show, they would have been wholly focused on the Forerunner artefact and would have considered killing all the humans a secondary priority, just like how they behaved in Reach.

As a Halo virgin myself, I would never think of Master Chief as someone who would sleep with some chick while not killing shit.

The Mandolorian got away with having a character who never removed his helmet and this show easily could have too.

This show takes away what makes the Spartans so heroic. The S II's fought and died to defend humanity bc they ultimately chose to. They knew they were kidnapped. But John himself said he was happy he got the opportunity to defend humanity.

I like that the entire novel series EU for Halo stressed SOOOO often that Masterchief was never the fastest, strongest or smartest Spartan, only the luckiest. The exact opposite of a chosen one. He just had luck on his side and survived. The whole helmet thing was also kind of just a 117 thing. All of the spartans felt more at ease in the armor than our of it, but John especially didnt take it off in most circumstances.

The reason Elvis liked the whole “kidnapping children and swapping them with faulty clones” is because that is actual Halo Lore. They had tried doing clones but obviously they didn’t serve the necessary purpose if they died too fast…

The moment John Buttcheeks took off his helmet in episode 1, I knew it was not going to be Halo and that we were getting garbage. Its such a shame that we got two very poor live adaptations of Netflix Resident Evil and Paramount Halo. The entire teams behind both of these live action massacres should never touch another video game adaptation. I really hope this whole "get a video game franchise and put it on our live streaming service so people have a reason to sub" dosent become a trend. Live action anime adaptations are bad enough.

The fact that they called the city on planet Reach, "Reach City" is one of many things that pissed me off in this show. They gave us Reach to try and hang above our heads like a big brother taking our favorite toy, "lOoK, wE cArE aBoUt FaNs". Instead, a better way would be to use the actual name, New Alexandria. And maybe have actual fanfare, like an interaction with Noble Team, or at least Carter-A259. Hell, even a pelican flying over Sword Base would suffice. But alas, like many franchises and brands these days, they don't care about their fan base. Additionally, both Miranda, and Jacob Keyes, were ignored as original characters. Race swapped as with every beloved character. They botched the uniform design, ditching the uniforms given by Bungie in Combat Evolved. They also ignored the armor sets and the already established Mjolnir generations. He is in the Halo Infinite armor, Mjolnir Mark VI Gen3, while in this time he should be in his Mark V armor. I can't believe 343 allowed this shit show to not only get beyond storyboarding but CLEAR A SECOND SEASON! This disappoints me to no end. The first season made me want to douche my ass with bleach and drink the runoff. A second season will make me actually do it.

Fun fact, in real war time scenarios morale is INCREDIBLY important. Usually one of the quickest ways to raise morale is through food and pleasurable stimuli, its recommended before intensive missions that soldiers eat candy and some of their kits even come pre packaged with it. So in a way, dampening their sense of taste would be worsening their effectiveness lol. Just thought I'd point that out

I love how the parts Elvis says 'I actually liked that' are almost universally parts taken from actual Halo lore. Go figure they couldn't create any new lore that was even remotely interesting or logical...

If the inhibitor chip blocks his sense of taste it should logically also block his sense of smell. That means that John can't smell anything, like a fire or a sweaty man sneaking up on him. It makes no sense to have an inhibitor chip block any of the 5 essential human senses, just because you want them not to experience pleasure. The sense of sight can also be very pleasureable, depending what you are looking at, so why not also make your super soldiers blind? Why would you make human super soldiers in the first place, if your are going to take away some of their essential survival senses? I do not understand how such a completely ridiculous plot point made it into this show.

I do think that Master Chief in a show or movie should remove his helmet, but only when it makes sense for him to actually do so, from his point of view. In the Mandalorian, every time they removed his helmet, it was done so with the purpose of strengthening his character. It wouldn't be hard to do that for Halo either. Just have Chief _only_ remove his helmet when he's alone with other Spartans. That way, you can show how strong the bond between them is, and how isolated they feel from regular humans.

Halo lore actually mentions that the suits upgrade their reaction times and reflexes. Having the whole suit on became like a home comfort for spartans. They got used to easily communicating with their teams, the HUD as well as just the feeling of being inside of it. I believe the helmets also are required to aim any weapons because the suit links with the firearm to project a crosshair

The reason the Spartans were considered so mythical wasn't because of their legendary feats or their freak physiques and abilities but their lack of appearing human. They rarely ever appeared out of Armor and that was only within their units. This aura of mystery and fear is what aided to their legacy. And it's the very same crux that was used in Reach to showcase how human they really are that there's just regular soldiers under all the mjolnir. But nah. The show has infinite facetime 😑

“Learning about how the Spartans were treated as children and how they were brought into the Spartan program was actually interesting.” Ah yes, the one part they decided to copy from the Halo books. That’s why you liked it, because it was written by somebody else 20 years ago who was much better at writing things lol

Idk why but the thing that really pissed me off was them calling it Reach City, when the architecture is obviously taken from New Alexandria from the game- the actual major city on Reach

I never liked the idea of the chip since it inhabits his ability to be sympathetic. I know in the games Chief comes off very stoic, but it’s only because he has to be. I don’t doubt he would follow orders. But John is extremely sympathetic to all people. He understands the role he plays for humanity’s survival. I believe he comes off as stoic because he knows he has to. No other human in history has been bestowed as much responsibility and pressure as him. He his humanity’s savior, he has to have the answers, he’s the one person that literally cannot afford to fail. Also the chips take a shot at John’s character. In a way, he reminds me of Captain America. Yes, the suits, Cortana, and luck help, but it’s his morality and selfless need for human survival that makes him a hero. He’s more than willing to sacrifice himself if it meant he could save people. He’s shown that throughout the games. But with the chips, by that logic, he wouldn’t.

The writing team: "So we never looked at the games..." The animation team: "Every one of us EARNED Recon"

The main theme of this show is “Don't think about the plot, just pay the subscription monthly!”

Just a quick note. In my college, yes not even real world yet, the professor stresses that we have to pick an audience for our brand. It’s extremely difficult to please everyone, most brands start out targeting a specific audience then they expand. What the halo show maker did was not focusing on a specific group. They literally tried to attract everyone, from the fans, minorities, LGBTQ communities, young, old. And with that the message gets extremely confused and distorted Also the locations used in the shows are from the novels, and the stories that took place involving those places are amazing. Which is one thing I don’t understand, they could’ve literally just adapted it from the book, and the location will make much more sense and has more emotions connected to it

18:28. What a totally missed opportunity to use “New Alexandria” for Reach. Woulda been a bittersweet reminder of our time on Reach.

The Mandalorian is actually the perfect comparison. Because the writers for the Halo show said it wouldn't work if Chief kept the helmet on all the time because people wouldn't connect with him. Meanwhile we have the Mandalorian, Din rarely ever takes his helmet off, barely speaks, and yet everyone loves him and connects with him. It just goes to show the writer's they got probably weren't the best pick for this kind of show

Karl Urban knew how to play a masked character without letting his ego get in the way. Most actors want to take helmets and masks off so people see their faces (even if it makes no sense in-world to remove your head protection), but Urban insisted keeping his portrayal of Judge Dredd helmeted because the character never removes it.

Why is no one addressing the fact that in this show a Pelican (an aircraft designed for suborbital troop transport that can travel from close planetary orbit) is some how capable of deep space travel…..

If they wanted to do a 'Cortana takes over temporarily', why not just have John either get a concussion and thusly cannot function optimally, or his spine gets either damaged or he suffers a temp-paralysis, so Cortana literally hijacks the suit itself for movement and it's not anywhere near 100% function, but it saves John. Also, wait... John's body is in the suit, but it is someone else 'at the wheel'. What is this, Crysis 2/3?!

What makes it worse is that they so much material to work with & they intentionally had to try to make it trash

Show creators: "This show is for everyone" Also show creators: "We know nothing of the source material, we didn't play the games, nor read the lore" Bruh...

But why is his HUD orange? It's a staple that Chiefs HUD is blue, Arbiters is purple, and ODSTs are yellow.

I can't believe they actually produced a second season, lol. I smell a tax write-off

I get the feeling they just wanted their own”The Mandalorian”, and Paramount was just desperately digging for anything they had the rights to. Without understanding what made The Mandalorian or Halo any good.

I love when you said "I loved the part with the children being replaced by clones" which is one of the few actual Lore pieces in the show

Literally take the books “fall of reach” “the flood” and “first strike” boom 3 perfect seasons right there

Here’s a quote i like “If you try to market to everyone, you end up hooking no one.”

It's sad because there's even lore-based reasons to leave the helmet on 90% of the time. In several of the books, it's mentioned that a lot of spartans, even more specifically John, don't like taking their armor off because they felt like freaks after their initial reception by the public/other military as well as being pretty seriously emotionally scarred from their physical augmentations at childhood and that whole bag.

I hate the idea of "chosen ones" compared to the games idea of all of humanity being the reclaimers. It's so weak

This show is just explaining Halo to your friend without stopping to let him understand, letting him ad lib the story immediately once you finish, and letting him pitch the idea of a Halo show

As a dude with a ponytail and a halo costume, I can confirm it does not work.

Actually the part where John sleeps with the enemy is lore accurate because of how many times he Tea Bags the enemy after he kills them

Why is it so hard for these producers to just get someone who’s PLAYED THE GAME. Same goes for resident evil. It’s really getting sad

Also one thing that I feel like you forgot to mention that actually drives me crazy in movies and TV shows is when the characters suddenly loses their accent and it's never acknowledged. Like in the flashback scene when John talks to Soren, Soren is extremely British. And when John finds him on the asteroid years later he suddenly has no accent. It's like a really obvious continuity error and I think the creators missing a detail like that pretty much sums up the (lack of) quality of this show. Also I have to add that you could kind of tell from the get-go that the show would not be good. Anytime that a series has a super interesting plot by just being itself (like Halo actually does) and then decides to focus on some random ass teenage character....you know it's not going to be good because nobody gives a shit about *that character.* In this case Kwan, because she is just annoying and uninteresting. Why did they focus on her at all? Like it's fine if Master Chief wants to save her, but outside of that what the hell were they doing?

Hilariously one of the few things you liked, how they replace the taken kids with clones was one of the incredibly few things they didn't just pull out of their ass. Halo Legends has an entire episode about it. It's very interesting.

Elvis: “I’m going to refer Master Chief as John from now on. Because he’s not Master Chief, he’s just John in this show.” *Everyone liked that*

The answer is simple. The studio admitted they didn't even look at the source material... Then like like the narcissistic psychopaths they are, got mad at the fanbase for not liking it.

I find it hilarious that any reviews on majority of apps that speak out against how bad they f up the Halo lore. They block those reviews. If you go to reviews for the tv show on google. You will see a bunch of fake 5 star reviews of people claming to be Halo fans when they arent. Anyone that speaks out against that and how bad the tv is. They will remove your post. I wrote about everything wrong with the show. My review was taken down the next day. I talked about the bad writing, not following the Halo lore. Having a team of writers in charge that came out saying they didnt play the games or read the books. Master Chief talking to much. Not able to keep his helmet on. Kwan being extremely annoying and wondering why shes even there. The weapons dont feel like Halo weapons. They look like stuff we have today. Bad CGI. Along with the vehicles. Master Chief being stronger without his power armor. The race swapping. The human Covenant spy which made no sense. Master Chief being way to emotional. Doing things that would get him sent to military prison. Dr. Halseys colleague trying to make out with a flash clone for what ever reason. No Noble team. No other Spartans. Master Chief turning into Master Claps cheeks. As Cortana watches. The weird implant garbage. The show feeling like a light porno at times. I tried to tolerate the show as long as I could. Once I saw Master Claps Cheeks happened. I turned off my xbox. Stared at the screen for a good 4 minutes. Yelled what in the actual f### was that? I was so confused. I took a look at my water thinking I was drugged or something. I canceled my subscription to hbo after. The tv show is so bad that its not even worth watching if you see it free or pirate it. Its not worth anyones time to any capacity. The show is so bad they actually need to redo it again start over. Fire everyone. I was 😡🤬 for a month. Seeing one of my favorite video games that i had a lot of fond memories of growing up. Waiting for a tv show series to happen. Only to feel like I was spat on my face with this horrible dumpster fire. Its like they burned a building. Added not just jet fuel. They added rocket fuel.

after finishing the show (about 5hrs ago now, just because S2 is coming up) I see what they were going for, I understand what they wanted to do. But it could've been done differently and better. The argument for being helmet off so much is to establish a connection with the character. Also why they humanized him so much with the emotions and the Halsey stuff, also Kai. The more interesting thing to do in my opinion would've been to use ODSTs and Marines to establish the threat of the Covenant and how hopless humanity was against them. Follow some ODSTs everyone knows they barely get enough love for a pretty badass troop. Then when things start going south call in the Spartans. Honestly, following ODSTs in a losing battle on a few planets, where Spartan teams are called in and work with them to establish the prestige of Spartans along with how they are the hope of humanity, I think would've resonated with the audience. Chief being the main spartan saving the lives of the ODSTs that people are growing attached to, i think would've festered some good faith and connection with Chief in preparation for the Fall of Reach. The way the show goes about everything. It looks like the Covenant finding Halo and Reach are Halsey's fault. Chief/Cortana had the opportunity to end or severely damage the Coveneant War effort by killing the Prophets in ep9 and didn't. Chief becomes a 'robot' as a result of sacrificing himself for his team and the mission (which while good takes away from the more horrific truths of the Spartan-II Program.) The show also paves a way for discord in the ranks as a result of Keyes compliancy and involvement in the Selection phase of the SII program. There is so much that could be changed for the better or even just elaborated on. The entire Madrigal plot could be dropped and we'd lose nothing. Makee was a contestable inclusion, but one that in some ways makes sense when you remember that only humans could activate Forerunner artifacts. Also they made Hood sound like your typical corrupt official that only cared about covering his own ass.

Also not only was Cortana meant to give instant battle info and data, she was built as a code breaker, she was the most advanced hacking software ever designed yet in this its like she couldn't hack a potato

Season 2: the protagonist is an elite. But instead of pursuing the great journey, he's just chillin and talking with some grunt.

Twist: That isn't Master Chief, it's a clone with artificial memories and a copy of Cortana, and they couldn't make a second one after all.

Is anyone going to mention that Soren has armor, but his arm was deformed from augmentation.... meaning he wouldn't have received his armor. 👀👀👀

It’s like they took pride in the fact they knew basically nothing about the games and we’re either way gonna make a painfully inaccurate adaptation Like seriously how do companies still mess this up, you have an audience in the fans of the games which are clearly a big enough audience to warrant a show being made, just don’t mess it up and you’re golden, and it’s like they mess it up over and over The only time I can think of companies actually appealing to the fans is with the Sonic movies and Detective Pikachu and who would’ve thought, those movies were massive hits and beloved movies

The flash clones replacing the future soldier children is canon, so that's likely why you liked that part of this show, because it's one of the few things Halo they chose to include.

Every time this show comes up, I can't help but remember how well Forward Unto Dawn did the live action version of Chief and Halo. A RU-vid series managed to make an infinitely better live action Halo show and this big budget corp. managed to just destroy it. Even the very end of Forward Unto Dawn (spoilers) Fred and Kelly take their helmets off and Chief keeps it on. So like, 343 KNEW not to take his helmet off for no reason, so why the fk did they think it was a good idea to have it off so much in the show???

the armor of a spartan requires a whole damn facility to put on and take off, meanwhile in the show they can take it off like its nothing. John talks in the novels but doesn't talk as much as the show, also the covenants hated, absolutely hated humanity, they see humans as cockroaches, so seeing them have a human on their side working as a spy was just wrong even in the novels the only covenant species that would work with humans aside from the elites are Jackles, and they did so because they are originally pirates and smugglers, they traded with the humans to gain intel to kill everyone, everyone including the people they traded with

Whats weird is cortana and chief’s dynamic from the games would have been great for tv. Give chief few lines and more to cortana shes the “human” element of the 2 and chief is the “machine” She can pop up anywhere being a hologram and with the helmet and her being an AI you can just have whoever talk and you dont have to show any faces or anything if need be.

Master Chief lose his v-card to a covenant spy and potentially lead to the destruction of Reach" That single line should be enough to summarize how insanely off the rail that show is.

I forgot to pause the first episode when I went to go take a shit. I came back to Mister Chef with no helmet, and I stopped watching the episode. Best shit I've ever taken, btw.

That actor seems like a nice guy. Kinda sucks that he agreed to become Master Cheeks instead of Master Chief.

The creators of this “show” must absolutely despise Halo and it’s fans. They just wanted to piss everyone off so badly that they were willing to spend millions of dollars to do it. Absolutely wild.

I really agreed with Elvis when he said that when they tried to make Halo for everyone, they made it for no one. This pattern can be seen for many franchises. Companies just need to stop taking franchises that have a fanbase already and trying to change it to bring in more people from other fanbases, 9 times out of 10 it ruins the franchise for everyone, especially for the original fanbase because the formula that made them love that franchise is gone. Stick to the formula that works and that made Halo successful instead of trying to warp it to invite the larger masses, it ruins Halo! Also, great video Elvis.

Literally all they had to do was make a show about master chief clapping alien cheeks with a battle rifle and it would’ve been a hit tv show. but noooooo, We hAvE tO HaVe hUmAN DrAMa. Such a disappointment and a disgrace.

You are somewhat right about covenant cells at 21:15. However, the example you first provided were forerunner/Promethean cells in Halo 5. We see covenant cells in Halo 1 on the Truth and Reconciliation and Halo 2, which you do show, of the brute walking the arbiter. The funny thing is, is that in Halo 1. Captain Keyes does learn what Halo is thru eavesdropping on the covenant in his cell. Even the creators wished they had better done this lore dump.

The Spartans might not have a code to never remove their helmet, but it's an exceptionally dumb decision to remove it in a combat zone. Even a Spartan can't survive a round to the head without armor. Add in the HUD and other features and there really aren't any reasons to take off your helmet if there's even a small chance for an enemy to be around.

Honestly, if I had all my friends and family slaughtered by aliens and my “oppressors” sent in super soldiers to save me that would change my mind a lot about the revolution.

The Spartan II kids being replaced by flash clones is established canon, btw. Has been for a very long time.

Season two: Cortana hasn’t given back Master Chiefs body back but she created a legendary status for him. Season three: John is essentially skeletal corpse in a Spartan suit that Cortana controls. She declares “I am Master Chief. Ugh. I’m joking but same time this could be real today.

Explain to me how the live action halo commercials are better made than this atrocity of a show

I really don’t understand why they made a show based on Halo and didn’t make it for the fans? What’s the point in basing it on Halo if it’s not for Halo fans

"is this like a personal attack or something?" -people from Kansas City

I read someone describe the TV show as "the writers and producers couldnt get the license for Mass Effect, so they just did a ME story with the Halo IP instead and hoped no one would notice." and it feels continuously true every time I watch reviews and recaps. I salute you for shouldering the pain for the rest of us.

In the aminated Halo anthology- can't remember the name- I recall a story where a silent Spartan leads a hotshot special forces group on a mission to assassinate a Prophet. SF is there to back up the Spartan, but they keep getting their asses saved by this stoic badass in a giant suit of armor. The Spartan never says a word through the whole episode. At the end, after sacrificing their own life to make sure the mission succeeds, the Spartan removes her helmet and tells the starry eyed private she rescued to take the shot and kill the Phophet. It was glorious. That 12 minute short was a thousand times better than this entire bullshit show.

Only Madrigal I can remember in the Halo Universe is the Easter Egg when you climb the Forerunner building and you get to hear “Siege of Madrigal” play as you stare out into the distance.

i dont get it. why dont companies just adapt existing video game plots into shows/movies? the plots and series of events in the campaigns of 1, 2, 3, ODST and Reach could all easily be some form of amazing show/film for the general public to consume, which fans would also eat the fuck up. but no, we get... this. like, O.K. 😐

I saw a thread on Tumblr about how almost every aspect of the show would work infinitely better if it was a MASS EFFECT show, and it almost seems as if it was written with that intention.

Halo show was a strategy to make people admire the Halo games more!

Fun fact: A "madrigal" refers to an old style of choir music that was typically composed in the musical style of a hymnal but whose purpose was not religious in nature. The Encanto family being named Madrigal was almost certainly a play on that term, while I don't know if there is any meaning behind the naming of the planet in the Halo universe.

I feel like a few of the problems with the show could've been solved or at least lessoned if the story took place when all the spartans were younger. Like maybe the UNSC were experimenting to see what worked best with the Spartan soldiers, so at first they tried making them into completely unfeeling robots who would blindly follow orders. However, in a few field tests, perhaps more than a few times the spartans (despite being completely advanced and enhanced) would fail at certain tasks because of that blocker inhibiting certain human functions. Maybe a few spartans, like Master Chief being the first one, begin removing their blocker after discovering it. They're hit with the all the human emotions and feelings that they've never felt. They become more reckless and feeling, a few of them dying or trying to go AWOL, but a majority of them manage to control those new impulses. During combat, the things that the blockers inhibited turned out to be massively useful to humans, such as spontaneity, confidence, improvisation, and even sometimes disobeying orders. The spartans were more freely thinking, viewing things from the human perspective AND the enhanced supersoldier perspective too, creating effective warriors. And perhaps the overall arc was the spartans realizing that emotions are necessary, but in the end many of them learn to also set them aside because they can get in the way. Perhaps Master Chief in particular almost goes back to his robotic ways after experiencing too much loss or something, which would explain why he's so cold and stoic in the main series.

This is what happens when you force creators into making shows and they adapt their preexisting ideas into something “based on” halo

The one and only reason I watched this series is because my girlfriend was an extra in it and it was fun to fish for her few seconds of screentime

😂😂 awesome review. Agree with all. If you just skip all the scenes with Kwan, it makes absolutely no difference in the story... and makes series better 😅

Here's something you have to remember. When they say an adaptation was "made for newcomers and fans alike", they are actually saying "we took a franchise that had fans and completely changed it to appeal to a completely different audience." Because there's nothing alienating about a franchise; those die hard fans were all newcomers once too. If they did a faithful adaptation it would attract as many new fans as the original franchise did. Saying it was "made for newcomers and fans alike" is basically a polish-the-turd tactic to try and justify all the pointless changes they made.

fun fact: The Covenant when compared to humanity are extremely overpowered to the point that they were handing the UNSC their ass in most instances as is evident by Reach. That said they could have been much more OP if they made the choice to include humans into their ranks as many Forerunner artifacts were locked to them as they went left to the 'Reclaimers' or humans. Its the reason why Miranda and Johnson were required to activate the rings and why the Covenant couldn't do it themselves. That said the stupidity of the Covenant having a pet human in their ranks and there even being a war at all is so colossally that only a group of lobotomy victims could conjure it into existence.

"She removes her hormonal chip, and experiences creative thought." How do they define creativity? It's not just artistic creativity the ability to defy orders. It also includes things like creativity in battle, which seems to be a large part of what makes a Spartan. Helps with the whole "one man army" thing.

Ahh yes, I remember all the mystic wizards in Halo. This is such a fuck up.

We almost got a Spielberg produced Neil Blomkamp directed Halo movie but it never got made.

Here’s the funny thing about Reth: they could’ve fixed that entire plothole about how he knows everything about the Covenant’s religion if they just stuck to the games’ lore. You see, Reth isn’t an original character made for the show. He’s from the Halo lore. And in the lore, he wasn’t a human. He was a Jackal. A race prominently featured in the Covenant’s military force that would know about the Covenant’s religion, even if they didn’t believe in it since they were motivated by money. That way, Reth’s reason for going to the Rubble would make more sense since they’re also a band of pirates.

This man is a legend, sacrificing 9 hours just for a review for us

"Why does it feel like im watching someone else play the most boring missions in Outer Worlds?" 😅😂😂

1:07:00 In regards to the covenant cells and the fact the random dude heard the covenant talking, I think I remember a similar situation in Halo 1 or 2. You rescue someone from a covenant ship (captain of a UNSC ship that just crashed I think? It's been a minute) And the guy tells you he overheard some of the covenants battle plans. So there is some kind of small allowance for that if were solely talking about the games.

I feel like sense of smell would be pretty damn important for a soldier to have. "Does it smell like gasoline?" "I don't know I can't smell."

If it helps clear up some of the confusion around why Reth knows so much, he is originally a Jackal in the books and they just swapped him for a human for literally no reason at all in the show and that's what made every plot point involving his character make no sense at all

Here's an idea. What if instead of trying to make some kind of character drama using a character known for being a stoic action hero, you instead make a plot focused action series where the master chief is less of a character and more of a instrument. Meaning that he mostly follows orders in service of the plot. Let Halsey and Cortana be the dramatic ones and let Master Chief be the stoic warmachine. That would at least satisfy the core gamer audience and attract general action movie fans.

I always find it so funny. “Here’s a video about something that sucks… anyway here’s an ad from our sponsor, Raid shadow legends”

The absolute worst part is the fact that Makee's character doesn't make sense because all humans were kill on sight and not a single one would've been able to join the Covenant