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Correct me if I'm wrong because it's been forever since I've seen this but the big bid was from Odo, right
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I think it says a lot of really interesting stuff about Quark that
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In the games, at least the first trilogy, there's this strong "last days of mankind" atmosphere. The war with the Covenant has been going on for decades, every battle is lost. Its basically just a matter of time until they find Earth and everyone left dies.
In the show the Covenant come across as little more than high tech border raiders. They mention a planet getting glassed at one point but they're really not presented as any kind of existential threat whatsoever.
I wonder how much of that is because
In live action, or live action + CGI, it's the other way around.
They've had like ten years to work on this and something more than most movies right? Anyway its not like the games had no(or even not many) human characters. This is another very specific narrative that the games made and that made them cool.
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Halo 2 felt like the climax to a movie up until the actual climax, which might as well say [SCENE MISSING] before smashing to credits
And yeah they had ten years, but these specific people didn't work on this project for ten years, it's been passed around over and over again. These are just the only people who managed to actually finish it and bring it over the finish line somehow
The show is clearly trying its best but it is working with some mediocre scripts and mediocre showrunning and that's really hurting it. Which is sort of how I felt about the original Halo narratives, to be honest, except that those have the excuse of being video games in the early 2000s when cinematic production values were like "check out these lips moving on these characters" and the high bar for writing was in vastly different genres
I mean c'mon they aren't even using the goddamn theme music for their own goddamn theme music, we just gotta accept that this thing is never gonna feel like Halo
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Very promising start for this series, and the contestants are great.
Imagine getting to your space port and finding out your family doesn't actually have a way off.
I'm certain I focused on that way more than other people and yes, it was season one, which might as well be a mulligan for most Star Trek, but it really left a bad impression on me.
I mean it’s clearly building up to something. It’s not saying this is all the status quo. And frankly it’s telling a halo story that’s new, In a new era, why would it be treading the same ground as the games? Why would it feel like the era of the games if it’s an origin story?
It’s 4 episodes in and it’s an origin story, it’s clearly building all this stuff up. There’s every indication that is where it’s going, every line of dialogue and every character set up supports this. Like why would a show about the beginning of the covenant war feel like the games that are set during and after a covenant war? Cortana is there but at this stage she’s still Halseys tool, and so it’s being set up that she’s going to side with the chief, but they can’t show that if they don’t give time to Halsey first. It’s just bizarre to expect the show to have cortana be the secondary character when it’s about them first meeting and developing their relationship in the context of johns initial overbearing relationship with Halsey. The show is spending more time on Halsey rather than cortana because without establishing the weight of the Halsey relationship you don’t fully appreciate the bond between chief and cortana. It’s like yeah the show isn’t just master chief and cortana walking around, because it’s not the narratives of the game. If that isn’t your thing that’s fine, but it’s still a legitimate take on halo as a franchise
Also the Covenant are 100% presented as an existential threat, every time they’ve shown up they’ve slaughtered everything but the Spartans. They took over a military cruiser effortlessly, and every bit of dialogue is basically the brass shitting themselves at what’s coming. The show is conveying that a larger confrontation is coming.
Like it’s understandable if people would prefer it was set later in the timeline, but it’s set before the war breaks out and before the majority if humanity really knows what the covenant are. That’s part of the established lore so it’s not even like the shows changing that
Also on a side note the theme music is briefly used in the intro, tho not enough
But I mean it’s halo. It has small changes here and there and is exploring a different era of the narrative but it’s Halo ass Halo and there’s every indication it will get even Haloeir as it goes on because all the table setting is indicating that
I mean I’ve laughed once or twice, and there’s some lore nods and references that are fun if you’re into halo. It’s not grim dark but it’s not super light either
It's the very first part of the opening credits music, and they use the theme in the soundtrack at least once in every episode, including in ep 4 right as they said the word Halo the first time.
For the record, no kids killed this episode. But there were plenty of child soldiers. So…
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Coulda had a decade of interesting, surprising shows, coulda had a dozen chances to fall in love, and instead there's one big bucket of reheated corporate slurry Because Brand Recognition. Even if the show hadn't negatively impacted me personally, I think I'd find it hard to muster anything but resentment for a show that so ably represents the worst impulses and tendencies of an industry hell bent on smothering and flattening itself.
Feel free to ignore those this one but is this a story that you can tell her then (or want to).
Satans..... hints.....
Oh I've alluded to it, but maybe never said outright, but enough time has passed that it's probably in the clear
My very first professional writing gig was on a Showtime show, back when Halo was still at Showtime. It was a high-fantasy action show, a prequel to a popular "series" (being generous with that term, honestly) of novels. Lin-Manuel Miranda was writing original songs for it, even demoed one. There were jokes and queer folks and the writers room was diverse as hell and filled with brilliant people (but also me, so let's not give them too much credit on that count). We had a full season scripted, ten episodes, we were ready to go.
But Showtime was bleeding money on Halo, and they had nothing to show for it. And they started axing shows in development left and right, putting more and more eggs in their Halo basket. And then they didn't even make Halo, it went to fuckin' Paramount. All those years, all those dead shows, for something they didn't even end up making. Because Brand Recognition.
I gave Mr. Policeman all the clues, for sure. Just don't wanna put anything that could get scraped by a bot or whatever, ya know
So simple, and yet. And yet.
I wanted to watch that!
I totally forgot it was in production until LMM got mentioned and now I feel robbed all over again.
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Never made it to production, got killed in between the writers room wrapping and production starting.
the Bruce Coville book?
Probably the only way I was ever gonna consume that series, let's face it
I am! I'm really enjoying it. A bit biased because I'm a fan of the character anyway. And I'm a filthy Marvel entertainment lover.
But the performances are good, the concept is done well and it's got F Murray Abraham!
On the other hand I started watching Winning Time and I love it, but I'm also a big basketball fan so that definitely helps.
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