re: Halo Season 2 Paramount+ (Spoilers)

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I assumed it was on purpose. He seems to be a turncoat of some type(i know zero about the lore other than the alien fricks are just after some cool antiques of theirs and will kill entire planets to find them)

Also the lady gaga alien sympathizer seems miscast.

But really do enjoy the show. Master Chief is a badass. Loved the form tackle he made on invisilizard

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I don't know much about Ackerman because I think he's only a character in the books. Don't remember him from the main game timeline.
Lady Gaga is a character created solely for the show. And the whole Rubble plot with Soren and Kwan.
Also I wonder if TV show Keyes survived.

I don't want to spoil too much if you haven't played the main games but the Covenant sees humanity as "heretics" and wants to wipe them out. At least on the surface.

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The new writers had a lot to unfrick, im pretty sure (well I hope) that this loose end will get dealth with this season.

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She was shot and considered dead at the end of last season. If anything they purposely kept her in there.

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Hope for those watching that this is true. I won't be one of them. And I'm betting not many here played more HALO back in the day.

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My son and I were discussing this. He played Halo and is incensed, I didn't and find it intriguing.

Which boils down to this, and honestly this goes for a lot of the new shows that piss people off:
if it's just a random sci fi (in this case) show, it's ok. I can roll my eyes and overlook the gay moments. I wouldn't have to roll my eyes if they didn't crank up the kissing for the sake of it. The rest is pretty decent.
It's just NOT HALO.

Same with Rings of Power; if it's a random fantasy, it's pretty solid, with great visuals. It just ain't Tolkien.

I don't really get why they have to attach the name, unless it's the only way it gets funded... which, if true, sucks for getting shows out.

Andor really is the only new show that was really good no matter what, that was successfully shoehorned into a big name IP. It would have been brilliant either way, as a standalone it's fantastic. It adds depth and mature themes to Star Wars.

All the rest of these shows, and I kinda assume that includes the Star Trek shows on Paramount, are solid enough to start a different franchise, but they don't mesh with the existing one.

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It's just NOT HALO.
It just ain't Tolkien.

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But they try and tell us that it IS, and if you're not onboard, you're the problem, not them.

See, they specifically choose these iconic franchises because of the built-in audiences. They feel the hard work has already been done, and they can just rubber stamp anything with the known brand logo and the praise & money will follow.

Doesn't work that way.

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Same with Rings of Power; if it's a random fantasy, it's pretty solid, with great visuals.

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Yeah, about that...



Ya might wanna take a closer look.

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It's just NOT HALO.
It just ain't Tolkien.

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But they try and tell us that it IS, and if you're not onboard, you're the problem, not them.

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You're right to an extent, but I think the bigger problem remains-

you're not getting greenlit from the studio unless you are diving into a known property.

I think we'd all love a variety of shows to come out in a genre, and not be anything specifically tied to a known story. A new one would be great.

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]Same with Rings of Power; if it's a random fantasy, it's pretty solid, with great visuals.

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Yeah, about that...[/quote]So you posted one guy in full plate armor with ringmail under, and another guy wearing a chestpiece.

Did you look at the work they put into Adar and the Orcs; and remind yourself this is a TV show, not a movie?


Or Durin and the Dwarves


I'm not going to debate whether the story is good or not. I'm talking about visuals, production values. That shite is great. I want that fricking hammer

That's kinda what we're looking at with HALO... it's clearly not 'correct' to the story, so why make it. But a lot of the visuals are looking good.

Either keep looking good, and be accurate so fans have something to enjoy;

or look good, but not a straight copy: and call it something else, and make whatever story you have envisioned. Because who knows, maybe people will like your tale too, and it then gets it's own place in the genre. Like Star Wars --> BSG. Lots of similarities, but they didn't try to shoehorn BSG into SW.

The orcs are paler than I am. Nice generic fantasy monsters, I suppose, but don't tell me these are Tolkien orcs. And for every OK still of an orc you toss up, I can find 5 or more really bad examples of Numenorean or Elvish gear, and don't get me started on 2nd Age Elvish high fades or the Salon Selectives hairstyle of Celebrimbor.

Can we create a separate thread for the LoTR talk?

Agreed. Halo is due. I veered off course.

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Why not change a few names, craft the suits a bit different, and just call it something else?

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you do realize the point of making a show based off the Halo series is that you get MILLIONS of fans before the show even comes out right?

the whole point of the show is to sell Paramount+ subscriptions. You are gonna get way less people signing up to check out "generic sci-fi show" than fricking Halo, one of the most successful franchises of all time with millions of players over the past 20 years

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No, I understand that fully. And as such, they should have followed HALO's established canon and lore... which, combined with the visuals, would have made this a big hit.

Instead, they decided to make something different, antagonizing the preset fan base and negating that advantage.

So like I said, why go off the course and still call it HALO? If you have this burning desire to tell the story YOU want (and it doesn't fit this IP), why not sell the idea to someone who will fund you, and you have a completely clean slate to work with? It's still a futuristic action SF show, someone would have likely picked it up.

The point I'm making is, if you get a job within an established IP, the obvious correct choice is to follow canon and lore. If that's not for you, then make your own show premise.
It's not like a disappointing show with angry fans is going to boost your career, so there's really no reason to veer off course here.

The latest episode didn't help you with that