Why No One Knows How to Adapt Halo for Screen 

You make the movie. I’ll write the music. (If you want)

Master chief: *Fucks up the covenant.* Master cheeks: *Fucks the covenant.*

It’s crazy how the Halo Wars games managed to nail these vibes in both games and they weren’t even designed by their original dev teams.

This man just dropped the best video essay I have seen and just straight up murdered current Hollywood.

Holy shit, the algorithm has blessed me this day. This isn't just a video essay on how to adapt Halo, you're literally breaking down this franchise in a way I've never even considered before.

This guy knows what he's talking about. Cinema-wise and lore-wise.

Honestly the best incarnations of great movie adaptions for halo were the marketing ads for halo 3, ODST and reach, not to mention the landfall short.

"Palo-Cosmic Epic" YESSS YESSS YESSAS

If I ever win the lottery, I'm getting you to write a movie script for halo, and paying off whoever i need to, to get it produced.

I think whats missing is covenant dialogue aswell. Show how righteous they believe they are, the covenant is essentially Templars in the crusade.

This was an incredible video. And no exaggeration here, it was truly cathartic. Youve put into industry and technical terms the feeling all of us fans have been experieincing for a long time now but never knew how to convey.

You, marty, and halo VFX should all throw together a huge collaboration! Me and many others would love to see a full length film eventually and you guys are the ones we trust most!

Hopefully this is wake up call for all the general audience," this is what Halo should be".

I will pay money for the entirety of the rule 34 essay.

Instead of humans hunting mammoth, have the humans themselves being hunted by starving Neanderthals with spears until they come up against a tribe of humans wielding bows. And the final battle of Reach could be called Operation Longbow. I'm a sucker for tying it back together at the end. I really like channel and I'm gonna finger fuck the algorithm down here 'til you get those numbers up.

Never thought I'd get to hear Niko Bellic educate me on the philosophy of halo storytelling. Great video and you deserve way more subs!

"Wake me when you sneed me." -Master Chuck

This is the best analysis of Halo's story, and what makes it unique, that I've ever seen. As a fan from the CE days, it's validating to see someone articulate these ideas so much more clearly than I ever could.

I think a Band of Brothers/The Pacific tone would work really well in Halo. Follow a platoon of Marines from Harvest to Earth. Touch on major conflicts during the war. Watch as beloved characters die off during the war, and watch the replacements go as well. By the time we reach earth, the survivors have been whittled down too, grinded into dust after desperate defense and retreat after desperate defeat. This arc would bring out the dissolution of the people who fought impossible odds, but also their indomitable human spirit and heroics. "Replacements?" "This late in the war, who isn't?"

This went in my Works Of Art playlist, this has put words to the thoughts I had about what was putting me off the show. This is incredible, your love for Halo is shown here and I do hope in the future the game are done justice.

Jesus christ I feel like I just walked into someone’s personal studio room by accident but I was invited actually.That alone was an experience through out this video.I have no doubt in you to make things come to light.Spectacular video and best of luck my friend.

I’m at work sitting in my car as a 35 year old man--teary eyed. This game meant so much to so many of us growing up. You broke down the formula perfectly and as a life long fan of halo, witnessing these injustices corporations and studios have practiced on my favorite gaming franchise has been depressing to say the least. I hope one day we can get the perfect tornado of creativity again in a studio. I wish we could say we didn’t know what we had--but we did. That’s why we lined up in droves. I appreciate all the work you put into this video. Absolutely brilliant. Giving you a like and subscribe to hope for your future success.

I think the issue is how many studios don't understand that Chief *isn't* a character. He's an archetype. He isn't a soldier, he is The Soldier, and he has - only barely metaphorically - the goddess Athena in his helmet with him. He's a representation of drive, fighting spirit, and power. He's kinda inhuman in his focus, and that's *essential* to portray him correctly.

Write a story about ODSTs. Take inspiration from the older advertisements. Marines becoming ODSTs or something. Then show the Chief for 2 minutes at the end of the first season, but keep the helmet on, contact his origional voice actor. Boom. Fill in the blanks. Itd be worth watching.

You deserve way more subscribers dude. Genuinely amazing work.

I got to hear Eric Nylund speak at San Diego Comic Con after the release of Halo 2. He said, when writing Fall of Reach, he locked himself into a hotel room for a week & didn’t come out till the draft was done.

I don't usually watch hour-long essay videos, but when I do, it's a banger in my book. I'm here to witness the growth of this channel.

This is probably top 5 video essays I’ve ever seen and I watch video essays A LOT

Wow I straight up thought you were a much bigger RU-vidr. You deserve more subs holy shit

Rampancy was actually talked about in the I love bees arg thing, so that was always a concept that existed before Halo 5.

That rule 34 rewind was GOLD 😂

Ive never had an hour long video fly by in 10 minutes before. This, like Halo, is a masterpiece.

This is why i stay with (some of )Halo Legends, Forward Unto Dawn, Halo 3 live action trailer and Halo 3 ODST live action trailer.

Excellent production and writing! O that we had people of your quality working on Halo!

Interestingly, you can see a lot of the elements you identified in Halo's genre in its music. You have the Paleo- element in the drums, which even the halo wiki calls a "tribal percussion section." You have the cosmic and techno parts with high floaty strings and synths. You have the mysticism part with the chants. If you stretch a bit, you even have the hyperagency come through in that it is an orchestral piece and is thus guided and controlled by the conductor.

I love how you said about master chief an aproximation of what Stan Lee said about Spiderman, that every child can be spiderman as he's behind the suit.

God, I love that old Marty vs Joe interview clip. That is just a workplace treasure right. Also, you have a great sense of humor and perspective. I must sub immaculately.

Amazing video!! Thank you my friend for having my voice in this!

YES! I thought exactly about Warhammer as another example of this genre. Humanity is always on the back foot even if they are the dominant power. The whole concept of the imperial creed and the concept of the emperor being an unwilling god gives an aura of mysticism that compliments as well the techno-mysticism of the dark age od technology, in which humanity is basically the ancient forerunners. I think mass effect as well fits this genre

This is the most complete explanation of Halo's formula that I've ever seen. I just wish it could be applied. 😭

Not using hyperbole, this is one of my favourite RU-vid videos of all time.

I love how this actually got to the point and wasn't just screaming nonsense the whole time. Good job man, this NAILS the reasons why the show doesnt work.

You've put into words that I've never been able to describe when I think about halo. That was an amazing experience, thanks

I didn't realize you were a smaller channel! You deserve so much more attention for this. This is hands down one of the best video essays I've ever seen. Very fun, incredibly educational, and immensely inspiring. Keep it up! :D

I am so impressed with your understanding of not only halo but film and genre in general. I learned so much and you presented it in such a cohesive and understandable manner. Would love to see what you can do with a big budget. Look forward to seeing the shorts u come up with✊🏼

When he said "Epic", I knew he knew what he was talking about. Halo was framed as an epic all the way back in 01. This video is great and im glad the algorithm blessed me with it today.

overall absolutely fantastic video essay, but can we talk about how god damn smooth the transition at 49:25 was

The rule 34 bit was gold.

Hearing "to give the covenant back their bomb" always make me giggle like a little kid as i remember the absolute badassery of chief lol

Your analysis is incredibly well thought out, you clearly know what you are talking about, not only about storytelling, cinema and understanding the audience, but also about Halo, the lore, the themes and how characters, scenery and lore all comes together to make what was a unique story. I loved how deep you dug down to find the leitmotif of Halo, coming out even with a proper name for the genre, defining it and well encapsulating what makes Halo what it is. While watching your analysis, I've got both entertainment and education about things that always interested me but never got to study them. I wanted to make this premise before telling you my feedback to say that I'm not as educated and well versed in the art of storytelling as you, but my vision for a Halo film is different. In my opinion, the rings should always be the main focus and setting, of Halo. In my opinion, a Halo movie should start following as you said the pov of a hunter-gatherer human but not the actual primitive humans but the ones that were kept on the halo ring before reseeding them on the Earth. The camera follows one of those humans trying to hunt a prey while making his way through a thick forest, and after some time he gets out of the forest with the prey escaping but showing the horizon of the Halo ring to the camera and the viewer, the enchanting Marty music kicks, beam emitters shooting their beams of energy towards the sky, and then here's the Halo title forming up with a fade out. For the movie itself I would try to tell the story of the first Halo game, the ring, the convenant and the cosmic horror of the flood everything of what you explained about what makes halo actually halo, comes together in this kind of setting. For the characters I really like the idea of following the story of normal soldiers with their moral struggles like an ex insurrectionist odst (as you pointed out) in parallel to the master chief that is silently trying to stop the covenant and then the flood. I actually see this more as a TV series, because we could have all the time to make a buildup to the flood reveal, to flash out the personal stories of the marines and the odst protagonist and to make the lengthy solitary parts of the chief exploring the ring deeper and more immersive. This is how I immagine a Halo story using the cinematographic visual media. Whoever reads this comment, should take into consideration that this is the opinion of someone who never studied anything related to storytelling and who even has some issues with the English language too! I'm not a native, so please excuse my grammar. So please, take everything I've said with a huge grain of salt.

If there was some kind of hall of fame or mountrushmore for Halo vids I feel this would(& should) be up there. Every word stated, every term coined, jus felt so right & like I & every Halo fan were tryin to scream these words into the ether where no-one was listenin. We knew, we understood, we had the answers, but not the words. Until now. Thx so much!💙💙💙

This was a great video. I got into Halo later (following the release of 5) and ever since then I’ve always wanted to see a good adaptation done for it. Your idea about what it could’ve been/could still be was really great to listen to. Glad I found this channel.

This is incredible, amazing production, analysis, and solution. Dude you are gonna go places, and you deserve every subscriber you ever get!!

Nice to see someone with such a love for Halo. Keep it up!

We can only hope Halo will ever get the level of love you displayed in this video again.

This guy is making a whole hellavu lot a sense. HALO was more ground breaking then i realized.

Dude, I legit though this video was going to have 50,000 - 100,000 views. You are extremely under-rated! I am glad I can be the 100th comment and I hope you get many more! (Also, Marty being here is amazing!)

Great video breaking down what went wrong with so many aspects of Hollywood, current game makers, and why so many adaptations bomb out. It’s crazy just how out of touch those people are. My ideal Halo adaptation (made by an idealized version of me who actually has the skills and resources necessary to make this a reality) would be a mini series that juggles the events of CE, The Flood book (the parts directly adapting CE weren’t very good due to a combination of Chief’s sections being set in stone so the author couldn’t do anything interesting with them, and Halo’s gameplay simply does not directly translate into book form. “Chief swaps out his weapon, Chief picks up a health pack, he shoots his gun and reloads once he reaches x amount of bullets”. The side stories on the other hand were truly PHENOMENAL! I loved the parts where Keyes and Jenkins were infected by the Flood, the missions with the marines and ODSTs, as well as the Grunt and Elite pair hunting Chief that gave us insight into how the Covenant operate), and Fireteam Raven (yes, the arcade rail shooter. There’s some cool moments in there that could be used to better flesh out the conflict. Plus, the team actually have some really interesting back stories. Unfortunately, none of that is presented through gameplay since it’s a rail shooter). In terms of tone it would mostly be a gritty war movie with some moments of levity, the parts with Chief would be like 80s action movies to show that Spartans can do all kinds of things that normal humans simply cannot, and once the Flood show up it would become horror focused and desperate. If they wanted to explore different characters’ origins they could have flashbacks to Fall of Reach, Contact Harvest, The Cole Protocol, and other books/comics. A separate universe would be perfectly fine as long as they kept it mostly faithful to the source material, while simultaneously taking a page from the Dead Space/Resident Evil remakes where they rearrange certain events for the sake of flow, make connections where none existed previously and reference other events that didn’t exist in the lore yet to make the world feel more cohesive, and have soft retcons to fix various plot holes and rectify old and new lore contradicting. I’d also throw in Digsite content like cut weapons, vehicles, Covenant species like the Engineers (they’d be located on Covenant ships and certain Forerunner structures to help the Covenant interact with unresponsive Forerunner technology) and Drinol/Sharquoi. If the show gets good number then they’d move onto season 2 electric boogaloo and that’s when things would get really crazy and take advantage of it being a separate universe. There would be an intermediate set of episodes that adapt First Strike, have a flashback episode showing how Johnson and others got off the Ring, and maybe even adapt the Halo 2 terminals that have to do with Guilty Spark conversing with the splinter group that would become the Heretics. The way season 2 diverts from the mainline story is by giving us Bungie’s original vision for Halo 2. Cut content like levels, storyboards, vehicles, weapons, enemies, and the third act with its “big reveal” would all be present. Along with Halo 3 content where appropriate (we know from Digsite that a lot of the ideas Bungie had for CE and 2 would make it into later games). There would also be some big changes to the Arbiter’s sections like having him fight against humans and alongside Brutes prior to the Great Schism. This would be a great way to show the viewer what it’s like the fight on the other side of the conflict, make the eventual human Elite alliance feel far more shaky and like one of desperation, and we’d be able to see Sentinels fighting alongside Reclaimers as a way to Foreshadow the human Forerunner connection. It would also make the eventual betrayal feel far more impactful if Elites and Brutes were fighting and dying alongside each other for the same cause, and make the Brutes feel like a proper member of the Covenant instead of just kind of being there until Bungie needed a new enemy type to mix up the gameplay. The cut third act would use a lot of ideas from 3’s earth sections mixed with what they had planned for 2. Once they get to the Ark (later changed to the portal to the Ark in 3) we’d get the infinity superior confrontation between Truth and the Arbiter where it’s revealed that Truth knew all along that the Rings would kill everything. In fact that’s exactly what he planned on doing. Upon learning this Arbiter would remove his helmet and throw it on the ground rejecting the title that Truth gave him. After killing Truth and having Chief deactivate the Array they’d go their separate ways with Chief fighting through a bunch of Brutes and escaping the destruction, and the Arbiter chases after Spark. He’d then be led to the Data Vault where falling rubble would break open this floating sarcophagus revealing a “Forerunner” skeleton that acted as template for the Ark’s machinery to guide the evolution of indigenous life along a desired path. This being who fired the Array was implied to be the Abrahamic god who’s been guiding human development. The more mythical Bible stories like Noah building an Ark to save life from a coming Flood and God creating man in his image were recontextualized as symbolic retellings of Forerunner history and apes being molded into Forerunners to create humans. Truth intended to use this to create a new species based on his genome becoming God that way. The reason he has the other two hierarchs killed was a way to both eliminate competition and consolidate power. The Great Schism happened to ensure the Covenant was too distracted with a civil war to figure out what Truth was doing. All while this is happening Truth would be safe beneath the Ark’s shield as the Rings wipe the slate clean and the new species created through the reseeding process would eventually come to worship him. The whole reason he and the other Prophets started the Human Covenant War was to hide the fact that in the old lore we were the children of their gods. After learning this the Elites would call off their war of extermination and leave to put out the fires of civil war that burned throughout the Covenant. In the end humanity would be free of the influence of the Forerunners and the Elites would be free of the lies of the Prophets. Now that would’ve been an INSANE ending! It’s such a shame that Halo 3’s story was a dumpster fire. 3 was a lot of fun, but aside from a few cool moments barely anything of substance happened. The Arbiter went from being one of the driving forces to being a side character, Miranda and Truth both took a noticeable intelligence drop, and it mostly just spun its wheels with Bungie clearly filling out a checklist of things that needed to happen and but barely any thought into how they’d connect. The absence of Jason Jones and Joseph Statin REALLY show. Again, I had a lot of fun with 3, but the story was a pretty big letdown. There would also be a side story that adapts ODST, but it would differ by having enemy Elites. We REALLY should’ve been fighting Elites for a good chunk of ODST, with Brutes appearing at night and in the last few flashbacks. The Brutes would show up to reinforce the Elites before going Order 66 on them. Then the squad and maybe a few marines would use the ensuing chaos as the perfect opportunity to collect Virgil and escape the city. The story would’ve really benefited from being able to see the Great Schism from the perspective of a normal human (more on the topic of being a normal human. ODST was a lot of fun and I loved the small details, but the gameplay kind of falls flat since they didn’t do enough to make you play like a normal human. Instead it was just diet Halo 3, Bungie didn’t take the opportunity to fix their overcorrection of the Brute’s gameplay in 3, and should’ve done a lot more to make the lesser Covenant feel like your equals/close lessers. It should’ve been a tactical shooter with a fleshed out stealth system. The game also should’ve had a few more levels). For the Great Schism Elites would have Halo 2 vehicles like the Shadows (includes the troop transport variant that was cut), Spectors, and for the section where you destroy a Scarab it would be the Halo 2 version staffed by Elites fighting off Brute Banshees. They’d also have a Drinol, and there’s would be a part where the characters have to run from it as it chases them through a tunnel (think the section from Half-Life 1 where Gordon is being chased through that tunnel as a Gargantuan is laying waste to marines, but with a Drinol fighting Brutes). Towards the end as Alpha 9 are escaping you’d have Elites and the few lesser Covenant still aligned with them (mostly Spec Ops Grunts) are also trying to get out. That’s my schitzo idea right there. What do you think of my ramblings?

Watched it now for the 4th time. And I still have the same feeling that you are *insert* God damn right GIF

Phenomenal video. I didn’t think I would sit down and watch a 1 hour video essay about Halo, but here I am. You’ve earned a subscriber sir 🫡

Insane video. The level at which you get halo was almost emotional for me. Halo 2 was one of the first games I ever played with my dad. It means a lot to me and to see a glimmer of hope through your ideas is truly heart warming after the desecration of halo we’ve seen these past years. I saw Marty’s comment about the music and it’s exciting. I really hope you do something here. You are humanities last hope haha

I spent a good part of my life trying to figure out the Halo (X factor). Holy shit you explained it perfectly For me as a kid, it was the perfect blend of mystery and tangibility of the story. Not everything was explained and didn’t need to be. You didn’t need to be told this ring was unimaginable advanced, but also unfathomably ancient. I loved that Bungie left the mystery a mystery you kinda filled in the gaps. But the forerunner were 100% originally meant to be human ancestors.

🥺 I haven't yet played infinite, but that scene with the chief... I immediately teared up. The inner turmoil, the feeling of loss, of heartbreak, of the chief seeming incomplete with our Cortana a part of him... 💔 No fucking face needed. I'm so glad I've never watched the show, this series really is my childhood heart and soul.

After watching, I expected this channel to have like a million subscribers. Only 2.8k? Guess I can say "I was there when he was only at 2.8k" once we really hit a million 😂

Dude, you make THE BEST videos ive seen on youtube. stellar work 🙌 ATTACK ON TITIAN then HALO !?!? I wish we were friends man

Pure genius at work here. I've wanted the movie you described for years and am sorely disappointed every time halo media is released. I believe the statistic is that it takes 7 times to finally leave an abusive relationship. Somebody please, make this movie.

Brillant video and completely spot on. How this channel hasn’t exploded I don’t know

This is absolutely incredible. Thank you for this beacon of light. I'd like to add though, is one thing Halo does in addition to everything you mentioned, and I think overarches the genre, and makes its' story so compelling: Its also a creation myth in itself, and it runs parallel to the Abrahamic Genesis - which is a story so compelling to humanity that it's essentially written into our DNA, right from ancient Sumer and Ur. We LOVE creation myths. We see a story of the origin of man, with the Flood wiping everything out, and then we land on the Ark, a final refuge, and we cant help but attach our own knowledge of these stories to that, and like you said, we become the peasant making sense of the unfathomable advanced technology by condensing it into our own human creation myths. "Wow, this is the Ark! This is how humanity was saved from the Flood!" Anyway, this is why i, as a teenager, found it so compelling and still do today.

Great analysis of the Master Chief as a character. He's Clint Eastwood, he's Indiana Jones, he's James Bond. Cool guy who kicks ass but is still likeable with morals to guide them.

Good video man. The boobas bit cracked me up.

This blew my mind as someone who doesn't know anything about storytelling. It all makes sense now.

I shared this video out immediately. It truly captures all the issues as to why halo adaptations have just flopped and why it hasn’t been done right. Bravo man. This was fantastic

I constantly hope for the collapse of the modern entertainment industry that has continually mutilated our beloved franchises. At least if that happened, there would be hope that “new blood” would bring on a renaissance of sorts. This “Halo” show is a travesty and I can only pray that one day it’ll be adapted as it should. Thanks for the great video and the laughs. I hope your channel grows fast! More people need to hear you

Subbed for "40 year old virgin IN SPACE" Absolutely fantastic video and channel

Honestly, there is so much content in the Halo universe, that it’s embarrassing, that there is not more major motion picture Halo content out.

I am amazed this video goes unbelievably hard

10 10 would watch your version of the series/movie!

This is the greatest video on Halo Ive ever seen. Bravo and thank you.

I love the intro of starting with prehistoric humans. Amazing concept

Man, I wish you were in charge of it!. You get it 100%. Great video.

You could probably analyze the Dune chronicles (only Frank Herbert's books) from the framework of a paleo-cosmic epic around when Dune Pt. 2 comes out to get tons of views. The glove definitely fits for the chronicles as a whole. That'd be a lot of very symbolically and thematically dense books to read and understand in a short time though. Dune itself might fit into one of Save the Cat's archetypes (no idea which), and that's more along the lines of your analysis too. I'd watch the hell out of that.

I always go “meh” when the L/C/S is said at the beginning of a video, especially one this length, but you’ve earned it, and as a Halo fan you have my thanks. For standing by it when it needs ya ❤

Dude, you need to write the screenplay for a feature length Halo movie!

Halo, both games and books, should be remarkably easy to adapt to screen. How the hell did the dingleberries at Paramount fumble it so badly? Where the HELL was Spielberg?

Awesome!!, As a die hard 40k and Halo fan I agree with your comparison.

Incredible video, and I'm subscribing and desperately waiting to see what you do with a Halo short! Something you said especially resonated with me, about the Flood. Halo hasn't tackled the flood in a while and I doubt they are going to any time soon, but while it's been shot down and ignored by many people I've tried to talk about it to, I fully and wholly believe that the Flood are an adaption of the concept of Gnostic cosmology. The way the Gravemind talks throughout the games, in the Halo 3 terminals, and the wider context of the forerunner/flood themes (and Joseph Staten's father being a professor of theology) lead me to believe that the universe of Halo is a living product of consciousness (Neural-physics??) and while the precursors represented Aeons (earlier divisions of the "One consciousness", the Flood represent the universes return to the One through forced unification and assimilation of all sentient life, all while the Forerunners, Humanity, and the "Mantle of responsibility", are trying to plead the case for life that sin can be overcome and the living universe of diverse life can stave off it's extinction and deserve to exist in it's material status-quo. This is the core, in my opinion, of what makes the Flood the best (and truly biblical) cosmic horror creation I've ever known, they are the ultimate dread on every level from physical, to psychological, to spiritual. These deep mythological themes are one of the biggest things to get me into Halo in the first place, and I can credit them directly for getting me into philosophy and ancient mythology as fields. And 343 is trying to make some squid-people "a worse threat than the Flood", of course...

You've put words to exactly what i have been thinking for a very long time. Fantastic video.

Spartan-IIs as 2D characters is so articulate! The function of boot camp (in the Marine Corps) is to break you down and build you back up into a Marine. It’s why the Marine Corps wants you as young as possible because that breakdown phase takes less time if you’ve lived less. For the Spartan IIs not only are they young enough to rebuild but enhanced to become more. It is for this reason that Spartan IIs have a mysterious allure to them. Like Demi-Gods themselves. They’re not robotic at all, they’re just fucking honed into spears. It’s why I liked the Halo Wars 1 depiction of SIIs so much. The motherfuckers just WORKED the whole god damn time but they’re such capable change agents that the whole narrative would be impossible without them. Spartan IIs should NEVER be the main character. When Jerome first entered the Spirit of Fire he said two phrases to Captain Cutter and Sgt. Forge and it kept the story moving. “That puts it outside weapon range” in reference to fucking killing Anders because she’s so important. And “Sir, Anders represents a significant security breach.” Spartan IIs are the rational/duty part of the main characters inner dialogue but walking around in badass power armor fighting alongside you.

"10,000,000 BCE is almost the average age of members of congress" - I lol'd so hard. and yet so true and sad : (

Some of the best story analysis i have ever seen.

I think your analysis of Halo is spot on. I hope Hollywood goes away as it stands now. And smaller independent creators rise. This way we can have someone that’s passionate about Halo, or at least respectful of it, to give us a great Halo movie then shows there after.

Insanely good video. We're all looking forward to that short you mentioned in your comment lol. I think I might get that save the cat book for a buddy of mine who's going to school for filmmaking. I don't know if you watch anime at all but if you do I'd love to hear why you think film adaptations of anime have had a similar fate (that is, if you agree with that consensus at all).

Great minds think alike. I beat you to this realization about Halo's genre being the core issue by a couple of years and got my video out a few weeks before you. I'm a smaller RU-vidr, though, so you got the audience and the experience to make a more engaging video. Great job! 😁 Obviously got a subscribe from me on this one.

I can't believe you don't have more subs man. This is a fantastic video essay and a great dive into actual writing concepts. Good work!

Fascinating video man. At first I was worried your talk about genre would devolve into FIlmento-style gobbledygook. But I think you kind of nailed it. The Halo show broke my heart. You've helped articulate the deeper problems behind adapting Halo. Cut through all the modern hubris in Hollywood, and that sticky, disgusting zeitgeist we're all dealing with today. Earned a subscriber for sure.

This is it, we have to circulate this video. That mountain of garbage from Paramount it's a disgrace. This is what we need.

Great job my friend! Thank you so much, I can tell just how much work went into the analysis, outstanding! And I totally agree with you. Also, I think there's another franchise that shares Halo's Paleo-Cosmic Epic genre, and it's Mass Effect, I don't know how familiar you are with it, highly recommend checking it out. Those 2 are my favorite franchises of all time, if you like Halo, which it seems like you do, you'll love Mass Effect as well! I'd love to hear your thoughts on it and whether or not you agree with it being Paleo-Cosmic Epic. See you in the next one, cheers from Canada!

I loved the covering of the genera, that felt very refreshing from other channels, good job. Im excited for your future videos after this. Fantastic stuff is all i can say.

What an amazing video-essay. Seriously loved this man.

This was a great video man, loved it! I always thought a film on Noble Team leading up to the opening of the the game and the new Npble 7 would have been a great introductory film too. Mostly cuz I never believed anyone in Hollywood could handle the Master Chief as you've shown so Spartan III's give an opportunity to ease into a full Master Chief film! Oh well, we'll prolly never see a good one. I liked Forward Unto Dawn though and really enjoyed the 2 season podcast drama leading up to Halo 5 too bad they completely wasted all of that with the actual game...