imo the problem wasn't that he was ever out of the armor, the problem was that he was rarely _in_ the armor. Showing John's humanity is a great and integral aspect of the character, but the whole point is that he doesn't ever let himself be human. He literally doesn't even see himself as a one. That's why Cortana says "Before this is over, promise me you'll figure out which one of us is the machine". When chief later says "Our duty as soldiers is to protect humanity", Lasky responds "You say that is if soldiers and humanity are two different things". In another game someone asks him why he keeps fighting no matter what, and he says "It's all I know". Him not taking his armor off is symbolic of the distinction he puts between himself and the people he protects. It could have been so much more impactful if the act of taking it off itself was more special and had a build up instead of like the first thing they did
The overarching story throughout Halo is Master Chief, the spartan, slowly realizing his humanity and becoming John, the human, again. They tried to rush it way too much and used the removal of his helmet way too early. It's crazy how they tried to claim that you can't show emotions when The Mandalorian showed exactly how to do it in live action, and it's still a fundamental part of the game franchise.
@@ShloppyShmeatit's even more ridiculous because in Halo Infinite, god damn you can know exactly how Master Chief is feeling in every cutscene. This show is just sh*t because it tries so hard to be like other famous shows like GoT to be more precise. The mentality of the producers probably went "yeah this is a videogame, and videogames are for children, so let's do the show more mature, let's add exaggerated emotions to the characters, let's add nude and sex scenes and let's add a ton of new characters, because people love a show with ton of characters right? So they won't get boring for seeing the same guys" damns idiots, a Halo show was my dream as a kid, and they ruined it
@@chickenmaster66 Makes sense given how heavy the things are. We'd feel vulnerable naked outside of spaces we feel safe and secure. I'm sure it feels the same.
THANK YOU!!! I thought I was taking crazy pills on how everyone was somehow happy with this season 2. Its still shockingly stupid and again a HUGE fumble! That Kotaku article is pure garbage lol 😂
I can't agree that Pablo "embodies master chief even out of the armor." His portrayal is too emotional, impulsive and quick to anger. He yells and has to argue too much, like no one actually respects him. The real chief's presence alone commanded enough respect to allow him the ability to speak softly and firmly. There's no powerful and mystic aura or stoicism about him. Chief speaks primarily through his body language and actions. This show fails to capture that.
Amen. The guy is probably a half decent actor, but he's not good at this role, and does not deserve any applause for his terrible performance as the Chief.
The man tried to argue that Chief's helmet absolutely needed to be removed in order for audiences to connect with him...in a time when The Mandalorian is a thing.
The thing is, nobody can embody Master Chief “even out of the armor” because the second he is seen by the viewer out of the armor that’s not Master Chief. They should have pulled a Mandalorian Season 1 and trusted their actor to carry a show wearing a mask.
Kotaku's business model is 100% hate clicks. Their brand of "journalism" can be summed up as, kick the bee hive. They purposely say ridiculous and borderline offensive things to attract attention and traffic.
@@robd9921 Ah yes, because when I watch a Jenny Nicholson video I can sense the vile, cynical hatred in every spoken word. Her video on the 13 Land Before Time Sequels was a particular example of her unabashed indulgence for rage-baiting.
I'm tired of people trying to convince themselves that it's anything but garbage. If wasn't called "Halo" I wouldn't be quite as critical, but when you use that name you set a standard, and dear Lord they did not hold to it.
It's basically the same situation that's happening with the games. If 343's games didn't have the name "Halo" stamped on to it everyone would collectively say it's bad.
2:45 - The writer is Alyssa Mercante. She's one of those 'journalists' who hates the people she's supposedly reporting for. ('gamers') To her, it's everything a video game adaptation should be precisely because it shits on said video game.
Kotaku ain't long for this world. The brand is in shambles, their staff are obviously under "constructive dismissal" and after they clean house, I don't see any other path aside from folding up.
@@xiiir838 Lmao, these are the leftoids who think it's alright to punch somebody they think is a nazi (not even one tattood with a swastika or anything).
It’s so funny that they’ve just completely dropped the subtlety and gone for a purely reaction-based title (“I Told You So”). You can practically _taste_ the desperation.
I won't accept the actor playing Master Chief, because of that interview he did, where he said the audience can't connect to a character if they don't see his face. Which is the stupidest thing to say when you are the lead actor, playing Master Chief. A character who millions connected to even if we never saw his face.
@@GG-ou7it Gods, I miss The Mandalorian. I might just have to re-watch it again. They made Mando right. Only removing his helmet when the plot called for.
I laughed at the part where Kai says “Ever shot a plasma rifle? Everyone remembers their first time.” and then they proceed to pick up a Carbine and Needlers.
Just rewatch the Deliver Hope live action trailer for Halo Reach, the Halo 3 live action test footage, or the Forward Unto Dawn short film. All made over a DECADE ago, with a fraction of the budget. And they all elicit more emotions, better story and most importantly they LOOK and FEEL like Halo. I cant believe we waited 10+ years after those released for this garbage. God knows when we'll another chance at a live action Halo adaptation, if ever.
I still love that fight in Forward Unto Dawn between Master Chief and the Hunter. Master Chief sticks a plasma grenade into the Hunter’s back, then backflips away and it’s such a badass fight.
Honestly the comment you made about the flashlights brings up one of my main issues with the Halo live action series. The Technology of the UNSC, it goes back and forth constantly. Having condors DECADES before the halo games timeline, but not having flashlights that can turn on? Having the grappleshot from halo infinite, but not having IFF Transponders?! Being able to quickly and completely translate and solve ancient alien puzzles, but...not having hazmat suits?!
@@jadeno.2872 Not with FTL drives they weren't, miniaturize Slip space drives weren't created until post Human Covenant war due to them being reverse engineered from Forerunner and Covenant tech. Before that the smallest human vessel that could perform slipspace jumps were ONI Prowlers. Even then those were pushing the limits of Human Tech at the time.
yeah, i mean how hard it is to simply use the original work, like is already there wtf are they trying to make "generic badass protagonist" in a show like halo???
The bots are coming out of the walls like the flood. “I’m emotional” “God tier stuff” “Never played the games or read books” “The characters and action were engaging and made sense” “Can’t wait for 3rd season” “I like the show, you don’t know what you’re talking about” Years of source material and potential stories , yet they failed hard. What IP is gonna get ruined next?
Almost like having showrunners who couldn't give one shit about the source material would lead to a bad show. Halo is so interesting and has so many cool themes... That get tossed out of the window. Such a shame man
Honestly not even the game makers seem to seek to make an artistic product, at least not one that both sells well and can have an emotional impact in the audience, its just a product, another piece for a production line, akin to modern Star Wars (in the movie side) and Assassin's Creed (in the game side). If even 343's known activity over this series has anything to say, this is just another attempt at getting more quick profits with no care for the long-term, using a fanbase that is curious over how their game would work as a tv show.
@@TheShadowguy138 What's worse is that there's literally nothing we can do about it. People with no standards/fake fans will always just come to argue should you make any criticism for star wars or Halo, or any other media that got treated the same. And be treated as part of the community. Destroying it from the inside. Not to mention money speaks louder than any form of care these days. So Halo will still be raking in millions for Microsoft, and they won't ever stop agreeing to make bad content for Halo if it means more money.
The insane part to me is how the writers, specifically on The Acolyte but it’s the same problem here I’ll bet, brag about hiring people who don’t know anything about the source material/canon to work in the writers room. Which can be a useful thing. Provided that you have like 5 super fans who are the main force to that one person who makes sure that the product itself has some digestibility for casual audiences. And of course they should all be competent and consistent writers, which they never seem to be.
@@davidphillips-zee1083 provided you have a showrunner and a show bible for the lore. making sense in the overall lore of the IP is one thing but these shows don't even make sense in their own lore introduced within them.
Not that any Kotaku writer would be better at this, since they are "journalists" and aren't required to play any games. Bet she's never played a single Halo game in her life
@@JohnDBlue Some people call some youtubers that are very genuine "Grifters". Alyssa Mercunte here is a perfect example of an actual grifter. Someone who tries to farm outrage and engagement with the worst faith possible, and is currently trying to become head honcho at kotaku. Joke website. Joke person.
It's sad seeing so many journalists and Halo fans huffing copium to convince themselves the show isn't bad. I miss the Bungie-era Halo, how the hell did 343/microsoft green light this?
Because Microsoft doesn't care about Halo as a game or a franchise. They see it as a money generator, that's it. They heard TLOU was getting a show and they thought "we need to get in on that", purely as a business decision.
@@csnorth7Halo has pretty much been a wet fart ever since 343 took over. Infinite was a step in the right direction, but how the fuck do they not understand the IP.
@csnorth7 the TLOU show was made *with the game creators* though, which is the biggest reason it was so good and didn't conflict at all with the game.
I just don’t get it. It’s like - they had an incredible, award winning, masterpiece of a story on a gold platter. And they purposely bastardize and reduce every part of it. Everything that mattered, the gravity of the plot, removed. Arbiter? A bitch pawn enforcer of a senseless human covenant spy. Brands HIMSELF a traitor to no fanfare or show, then immediately gets beaten to death after a short fight with Chief. His importance squandered. Given to Makee who they know most people hate the idea of. The Flood was meant to be a result of the Covenant’s ignorance and attitude. Here, it’s some basic accidental infection because a scientist broke basic safety rules and touched an unknown substance from a test tube and frolicked in the Onyx lab from its control or something. The Fall of Reach was way too brief and under-expressed. Lacked the depth of importance and mass destruction of a planet full of billions of people being annihilated. The military complex of humanity. Felt like a town was sacked. The Spartan IIIs are a joke here. They went way too hard on the mass sacrifice and don’t know what they want them to be. Are they trained for years since children like in the books? Some characters act like they have been, but are scared of battle for no reason. Or are they adult volunteers like Perez? Both? They purposely do stuff that are the major complaints of the series. We don’t like Kwan? They force her into the major plot by giving her mystical shaman powers. We don’t like Makee? They RAISE HER FROM THE DEAD and make her the Arbiter’s handler and replacement. We want more armor? They literally have someone take it away from the characters so they can’t use it. They seem to think the Covenant is made up 90% of Elites. Where are the grunts? We see way more of them than we do of grunts or jackals. They don’t care about feedback. It’s not redeemed in the slightest. Every point they touch, they bastardize and ruin. They took the story of Halo, abandoned it to die of starvation, buried its corpse in a shallow grave, exhumed it’s rotting remains, blended it’s contents in liquid excrement, and served it with a fresh coat of paint. It is sad and frustrating to me that this is some people’s only experience with Halo.
You ripped every thought from my head... could not agree more and it is so aggravating that some Halo fans actually "like" this shit... all because it taunts some aspects of the art style, armor, weapons, and characters from the game. Case and point, everyone was hating on this show, (for the most part), before this last episode, and now with the last episode, (the exact same garbage as before basically) they then introduce the flood and everyone is now saying it redeemed itself... all cause we got "fan-service" and saw the flood on TV... LIKE WTF
@@CJDevo117 yeah exactly. Get a taste of the bare minimum expectation for once and suddenly all is forgiven. And even the flood is introduced in a lackluster and soulless way
They went the zombie route for the flood? A scientist (who should know better) touches a random alien substance then starts a flood infection? Sounds like every zombie movie ever made.
I’ve been watching it, the show actually progressed at a snails pace. Like there was no need for there to be that much screen time spent on that dude finding his kid. And Makee is so annoying. I hate how she gets more attention than chief. Maybe it’s a combination of her look and the way the sangheli language sounds but every time she was on screen I got annoyed
The only thing that I hate more than this show is everyone who fell for the marketing scheme that wanted us all to spread the word that “season 2 is so much better than the first season because there’s a different showrunner and they learned from their mistakes and blah blah blah.” Like how gullible can you be.
Arguably it is much better than season 1 but as stated in the video that is no praise at all - this season was watchable. However this is not what anyone wants other than those behind the decisions of this show. We could easily have had a main universe story, the budget is CLEARLY there, I believe the cast was done very well too, the story as well as how it was implemented are the hard hitter downfalls.
@@Krosshairbbyg it’s a perfect continuation of the first season or, in other words, it’s just as offensively bad to long time halo fans as season 1. The writers keep treating halo like a brand new experiment when the books and games have already established everything a show could ever need to know about the world. The themes, the characters, the story, the battles and events, it’s all there. And yet they get it all wrong. It’s just crazy to me how one of the big selling points for this season was the fall of reach and that turned out to be a huge disappointment that couldn’t even live up to the game let alone the book because they were to busy filling up screen time with kwan and Soren and other bullshit. And I’m still on the side that is adamant that Chief should never be shown without his armor and Steve Downes should absolutely be the voice because he is the voice of master chief.
@@TinkerTailorSailorTy ehhhh I get that most people feel that way, I think chief without his armour is fine if we put it in a scenario like him back on base not in operations. But when it's him fighting on Reach without his armour, it's soul destroying to me. I agree with you - just for reference, Game of Thrones was adapted from the books but because of lack of source material (writer George RRM) / didn't finish his last book, the directors fumbled with awful writing or at least that's how it seemed. They did brilliantly with the source material that was available through the many seasons they had. Halo is no different or arguably it's in a better position because there is SO much source material. There is no excuse for what has been developed. No excuse good enough for this idea of another universe. They have alienated a huge part of their audience.
@@Krosshairbbyg The thing is halo really didn’t need to be a show but rather a movie. I don’t think we need to see so much of Master Chief’s personal life outside of missions because ultimately he is a spartan who was bred for combat. That being his purpose is kind of the tragedy of his character. His life can pretty much be broken down like this: 50% of his time is spent in a crypbay (gotta get the most mileage out of that limited batch of spartan IIs), 25% he’s in the field on a mission (especially during the height of the war), and the other 25% he’s either training or preparing for missions. And all the other plot stuff is what character like Jacob and Miranda Keyes, Johnson, Lord Hood, Halsey, maybe some ODSTs etc are for. So I don’t exactly think Chief should be a character that we want to relate to as much as they seem to think so. It’s like they’re trying to rectify the tragedy that defines him by going “wow look how human he is, look at his face, it’s very human isn’t it? Isn’t that just heart warming to know he’s a human just like us?” Showing his face shows a complete lack of understanding of what Chief is and a complete disregard for bungie’s intention for the character.
@@destructocat1960 idk if the shows good or not but that takes totally bullshit lmao That's like saying the one piece show shouldn't be called one piece cuz it's different
its written by Alyssa Mercante who if I am not mistaken is the same person who wrote the lie filled slander piece against Kabrutus and his Sweet Baby Inc Detector. that's all you need to know to understand how bad the halo article is.
The bots were so obvious on the marketing for season 2. My feeds across multiple platforms were those low interaction ads paid for by paramout where it had like 4 likes but 18 comments with the generic "Cant wait! love it!" comments. Same on youtube. just droves of those 1 word comments from fake looking profiles like john012340140120401240104. It's so embarassing you have to essentially pay to generate fake hype rather than admit your writers, producers and directors fucked this up. They wanted to write other terrible garbage but were given halo by paramout who had no idea wtf to do with it. Some dude just saw the IP was popular and wanted the rights. The give it to a writers room who has no idea wtf to do with it and obviously mixed other shitty scripts with the Halo IP.
They literally think we are STUPID. Hollywood thinks this.............if your non conservative or far left, please consider it..... conservatives STICK to lore most of the time. Anyways........they had one job........in everything, and destroy everything. I mean look at star wars.........I could do better with 0 directing skills.
Imagine killing off the arbiter and having Chief be the one that kills him. That should speak volumes about how little the writers care about halo Edit: I am aware he is not Thel Vadam. That doesn’t change the fact that they wrote him like Thel and set him up for Thel’s storyline
Remember: they didn’t look at any of the games (as in the actual source material). Who writes a show without knowing anything about the source material?!
That's not the Arbiter that we know from the games. "Arbiter" is just a ranking in the covenant. If the show gets renewed for another season, we might get the Arbiter that we're familiar with in a future season.
My mom is so hype about Halo 2 and she doesn’t even know anything about the game series. It’s so frustrating that she keeps arguing that the series is different from the game and so it’s not possible to pay respects to the original work while also making something new. First and foremost it’s an adaptation and not a tv series.
Is this satire? Haven't watched the show, but if regular people are having fun with it, it seems like they made a good choice. I truly and honestly do not care about faithfulness of adaption if it's good enough to stand on its own. The original work is still there if you prefer it, like literally who gives a fuck if adaption is not for you.
@@marko39383 This is not satire, I’m allowed to flame my own mother for not being able to see the whole picture. I recognize that wether or not it’s a faithful adaptation may not matter to some people and how much they enjoy it is subjective. But when choosing the name “Halo” you’re inherently setting expectations and connecting your adaptation to the original work. It is quite honestly just foul how they can maim the Title of Halo and use it to capitalize from fans of the series for pure financial gain. If “Regular people” enjoy it, then hell yeah good for them. But if they don’t care about how other people are perceiving it and don’t care about the consequences that supporting a work like this has? Then they’re selfish. I suggest you watch the series before you make such blatant statements, who cares? I do obviously, Supporting this damages both the video game and movie/series industry and lowers the bar for future content and allows people to be manipulated into consuming bad works. You might not care but remember, my opinion is solely my own. And you’re the one that came here in order to respond to my comment, but nooooo you came here and said “literally who gives a fuck” to a person who quite obviously gives a lot of fucks and to my face tried to invalidate my opinion?
Even if Pablo acts his master cheeks off in this show, I don’t think he will ever be accepted as a respectable Master Chief by the fans after his whole “if you don’t agree with the helmet coming off, you don’t like our show” thing and always staunchly defending Master Chief constantly removing his helmet. At least he gained some points of respect for admitting the sex scene was a horrible idea.
Lol I was thinking about that the entire time while watching the show. The spartan armor looks spectacular in all of their variations, but they chose to focus on the narrative outside the damn suit 🤦🏿
The story of Halo and Master Chief has so much potential to be one hell of a movie/show if it was directed by someone like Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium director)
He was responsible for the short, live action advertisement back when Halo 3 released. It had a great atmosphere and it gave the impression that humanity was out of its element with who they were fighting. I remember I finally realized how damaging the weapons were when they show a marine impaled by a spike from a spiker. It really felt like how a war like that, SHOULD have felt like….and it was for nothing more than an advertisement. It’s sad when more effort and passion is put into an ad, rather than an actual tv show or movie. Like seriously, do better….you have all that money and all those resources. Please, for the love of god….do you research and due diligence before committing to a project.
A show is not the correct medium for Halo. This show is not cheap and still looks cheap and clearly stretched.They need a $200 million dollar budget for a movie. However, Blomkamp is not even a good director.
I’ve gotta disagree with the Ackerson bit, he’s never presented as a villain in the novels, and it infuriates me that this show essentially puts the entire Fall of Reach off the table because he stole billions in military assets and LIED on purpose to gaslight characters for his own ego which guarantees the loss of Reach (though I will agree the actor killed it)
To think in an alternate timeline we would’ve gotten a Halo film directed by Neil Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson. We truly live in the worst timeline. But we got District 9 so all is not lost.
The moment he took his helmet off, the show was doomed. Shows you that the showrunners had absolutely no interest to make something that continues or expands the real history of the Masterchief. They wanted to write Bad fanfic and gave a Shit on one of the most tension building Secrets in Video Game History, masterchiefs identity. Cant be that hard to find an actor thats willing to wear armor and a helmet all the time. Or throw Money at a Stuntman and let him Play the masterchief while hiring a good actor to do the voiceovers... Nah they fucked it up big time
But this show isn’t made for the fans. The show runners have said this numerous times, just like with Rings of Power, various super hero projects, and the upcoming Fallout show. When will people learn that when the creators say “this is not for the fans”, they shouldn’t to touch the project. It will only disappoint them
@@Lawrence_Talbotnever understood that. The fans are literally who u want to please for a good adaptation. Look at FNAF. Fairly standard horror movie, but the accurate lore and general fan service made it more enjoyable than it would have been otherwise But I mean that's FNAF which is gonna be infinitely more difficult to make a good adaptation out of than Halo. Making a good Halo show would be so easy but it's like writers like to actively shit on fans
I wouldn’t be surprised if this Kotaku Article was written by Installation00. Halo Season 2 Releases. Everyone: 😔 Installation00: *“WOOOO! YEAH BABY! THATS WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR! THATS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT!”*
Some of the backlash Instalation00 got was kinda gross and uncalled for, but I'm not gonna lie that video he made defending the show was terrible. I didn't watch him much before since he focused almost entirely on 343 era or Spartan related stuff, but I certainly haven't since.
@@infrared7759 I actually wanted to see that video he made defending the Halo TV Show but he’s privates it and I can’t find a reupload or download or anything anywhere. I never got to watch it 😔
@@infrared7759I swear 343 fans have the absolute most trash tier takes and any time some soulless cash grab of a Halo product comes out they swarm it like fucking flies. Half the time their reasoning feels like it's only to spite Bungie, and I'm pretty sure they're the only ones who care about Halo anymore but they always go off like they're pariahs for liking 343 when something new comes out. Like don't get me wrong, nothing wrong with liking the 343 games I still like playing fucking CoD: Ghosts, but damn it's ok to like the rest of the franchise too.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 From what I remember, it was a lot of forced positivity and dismissing of opinions that aren't in-line with his. Kind of a mixture of stop disliking what I like and shut up and consume product.
9:27 I kept screaming “NOOOO THAT IS SO NOT RIGHT” and keep getting flashback of first time playing CE and encountered the flood damn that was one of the scariest things i’ve ever seen
I was 9 when CE came out, the flood scared me so much I actually stopped playing for two weeks. The game is so colorful and action packed, and then your entire world gets turned upside-down, scary music starts playing and now you're fighting zombified humans and aliens out of nowhere.
@@justmeok2 She's that senior editor that wrote the article stating SBI wasn't pushing any messages into videogames when SBI said so themselves, and that's literally the reason they exist.
@@justmeok2 I still can’t believe this is a thing. It’s like we’ve reverted back 10 years and everyone’s calling each other snowflakes…just proving that anyone and everyone taking part are snowflakes alike.
My favorite part is them turning the flood into regular boring zombies that just freeze up and stare at you awkwardly. There’s absolutely no build up or tension to their reveal like in ce
The core aspect of Halo, the Covenant, had like maybe 20 minutes of screentime in the first season, and still very little in season 2. Not to mention, a show called Halo, barely mentioned any Halos.
It's like they do not understand *any* of the most important elements from the games, namely, you know *HALO*, The Covenant, Master Chief and Cortana, Johnson, The Flood(although we did finally get it), and finally the Forerunners.
I can kinda defend that last bit, since Halo 2 onward the actual Halo structures had less and less appearance. The last mission in Halo 3 was the only time in that game you actually stepped foot on a Halo ring, and it wasnt even finished. As long as the writing and plot direction is good, you can have a Halo show devoid of any Halo rings.
Every time I skip a video, it gets reuploaded with a different name, then I finally watch it. It's strange to me that it always happens when I don't watch someone that I usually watch daily
the way that season 1 was made and talked about by the producers was such a slap in the face that no matter how good any new seasons are we shouldn't watch them its not worth our time we must show them that they can't keep taking our beloved ip and ruining it with awful shows that aren't good for fans or people who are new to it
it's genuinely so baffling when adaptations refuse to actually use their source material. Their target audience SHOULD BE the people who know and love the franchise, but they completely ignore the 1 demographic that would give them the most support. And worse still, they throw everything that makes a franchise unique in the garbage and then seem so surprised when it's shat on. I'll always be a little glad games like Dishonored will never get a show, I'd hate to see how they'd screw that up, too
Seems like Hubris. "I have a better direction where to take the Halo story. Dont need to use the og material, I can do a better job" *Fans dont like the new direction* "Clearly the fans dont understand my genius Creative direction, and Its not that Im un the wrong. I will double down. They will come around eventually."
@@Reaperherpderp Well, first they said they restricted the employee’s rights, then the number of people they employed dropped from 16 to 12. Put two and two together, yknow.
This show is actually offensive. Halo fans fought for years to have lore canonized and to make a beautiful cohesive timeline. These showrunners took all that lore and story and Haloness, carpet bombed it, but the pieces in a bag, shook it up and dumped it on a story board. And then re-wrote it anyways.
Joseph Morgan is brilliant, thank you for mentioning that. Loved him ever since his performance as Klaus in The Vampire Diaries / The Originals, was always the stand out in that show
The only way the show will ever work in the future is when they retcon that the MasterChief we got is not the real one nor even close to even being him physically or otherwise in any shape or form. It's a MasterChief that was created to keep morale up because the real one has gone missing for some years now and they MADE this emotional clown in the lab so that they can control and manage the situation. They thought they could get away with this because no one really knows how MC looks like except for a few and none of them available either. If it was an original story line they were looking, they could embark on a mission with new people looking for MC and his group and discover new nastiness and eventually, MC, the way he is meant to be - enigmatic, mysterious, intimidating and most importantly - faceless.
Joseph Morgan is fantastic. He played "Klaus" in the The Vampire Diaries then got spun off into his own series, "The Originals." Last thing I saw him in was playing "Brother Blood" in that crappy live-action "Titans" series over on HBO Max, and once again, he was the best part about the show's final season. If he's in Halo Season 2, I might have to actually go give it a watch, just for him.
They've got to have bots inflating the show. I've seen a ad and and checked the comments and seen the same person comment 5 times about it saying "this is the greatest show." There's just no way this is real.
Its not halo, Not as "Arhhgg they didnt follow the games or books exactly the same". But because its genuinely a completely different story, the only way i can explain it is if Iron man 1 had tony be a neckbeard that Shit himself in social settings. It's literally not Mastercheif/John, his personality is completely different. The Characters act completely different. The plot followed the worst aspects of a story.
I don’t know if anyone else feels this, but I feel like attempts to take Halo outside of the games keep on making Halo feel more like Star Wars, and that’s part of what I don’t like about it. Like, I’ve enjoyed both franchises at different points in my life, and as much as I have liked both of them they feel different, so it feels wrong every time I see Halo introducing all these worldbuilding details that don’t feel like they come from the Halo universe I grew up with
bruh, look at old halo live action short trailers. like odst and reach. all we needed was that action and story from the books following the battles and everything would have been golden.@@Excelsior1937
I have coworkers praising the show. I tell them that I respect the game lore, so I won’t watch the show. And there response is, “It’s based off the games.” But like you said they only share name and armor.
@@marko39383I've seen you going around saying that same thing. Firstly, I have no idea about any of Halo's story-- but I'm gonna guess that you neither, so you *_really_* shouldn't try to sell your assumption as fact, or even as an assertion. But I'd also just like to point out that lore =/= story. OP here was primarily talking about how the show obviously fails to uphold the integrity of the game's lore, failing to provide a connection between the world of that in the video game main series and the world of that in the "adaptation". I'm honestly curious as to what your agenda is, what could possibly make it worth it to spout all that crap across this comment section, and then proudly holding it up in your arms as if it has any worth as an actual argument. Is it simply to crap on a story you've never even seen, or are you defending the show? Are you getting paid?
@smol_Idunn Dude, this is literally my 4th comment on this video. My agenda is that I disagree that adaptations owe anything to source material, so I voiced my opinion. Please get help.
@@marko39383four comments dedicated to that same purpose is too much. Also, that's way too vague. Just asking, did you happen to explain why you think that way in any of your other comments? Also, in this specific instance you tried to degrade the source material that you're not even acquainted with, attempting to make a stereotype of *_all_* videogame story quality even, as if to say "well it's not the show's fault that the source material was lacking"
@smol_Idunn I truly do not give a fuck about Halo show and never plan on watching on. I just like discussing movies and TV, so I used this as a jumping point to discuss something I find interesting. Namely, is good adaptation a faithful adaption, or does it just have to be simply good on it's own. I did offer an explanation and example (different stuff works for different mediums, see The Shinning), but I can try to expand. I believe most video game narratives are too simplistic and derivative to make a good movie or TV. And those that aren't are really hard to adapt. Basically impossible in movie form due to time constraints. So yeah, I'm completely fine with using just setting and characters and basically disregarding plot. But that's just my opinion, obviously.
@@KingKakarott Rightfully so. The missed opportunity to portray a great representation of the arbiter and his lore should be complained about. It sucks.
I’ve said this time and time again. It’s not the actors, it’s not the cinematographers, and it’s not the special effects team. They’re doing great. IT’S THE WRITERS.
2:20 - Dunno if Charlie notices this later but I noticed the writer of this article is the same person that "infiltrated" the anti Sweet Baby Inc discord thing
Just a reminder to never listen to a damn thing Kotaku has to say. Recently their parent company wanted to crack down on the politics and go pure videogames journalism with guides and walkthroughs, then their journalists got all upset and pissy and didn't want to do that. They're videogame "journalists" who don't want to talk about videogames and want to be more of a shitty tabloid pushing their politics.
Halo on the 360 back in the day was an amazing time I'll never forget the ending to Halo 3 driving the warthog and the theme song in the background what an experience im glad I was there.
Halo back in the Bungie era was just something else. I'm afraid Halo is never coming back so long as it's under 343s control, even if Infinite was a step in the right direction.
02:08 Written by Alyssa Mercante who also wrote "I spoke to the team at Sweet Baby and infiltrated the Discord group rallying against them to try and paint a clearer picture of WTF is going on.".
It's Alyssa Mercante who wrote it, she always has the worst takes and demonstrates time and time again she doesn't have any experience with any of the things she talks about. A DEI hire all the way, and she's definitely one of the "Journalists" that they're trying to get rid of.
Charlies dumbest take that I've heard: "Adapting One to one is pointless." Wrong. First off, nobody has even tried 1/1 source adaption since the complete success of Sin City.. where was his example to back up his wild claim? This unfounded, arrogant view that someone who has never created an IP capable of garnering a following suddenly has the chops to not only adapt it, but make it better, needs to be mocked and destroyed in public discourse. They need to make their own new awesome IP or humbly bring an existing IP to a new medium in as accurate a fashion as possible or f**k off.
When the fall of reach was 30 minutes long, off screen and not a single spartan in sight. This slop lost any chance of redemption.
@@arish_xo And a whole game
@@arish_xo it was an entire game what are you on about
@@arish_xoyes but it was also an entire game with argueably the best story in halo
@@arish_xo yet they could make an 8 hour campaign with that.
@@arish_xo you are basically defending a convicted rapist
If "watchable" is the new standard for praise we are never getting anything good.
It’s been the standard for a while now lol look how much praise force awakens got
@@kylesawkon4074force awakens was the only decent one of the trilogy, the others fucking sucked lmfao
@@bandit3019 you’re proving my point lol
@@kylesawkon4074 fair enough
Fight the Status Quo!
The audacity of the advertisers claiming it has a 94% on rotten tomatos when it doesnt is absolutely insane to me
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Season 2 did at one point have 94. It since dropped to 89 tho.
@@chrisb5243yeah but it has a 94 from the "critics" which means absolutely fucking nothing
@@speedyx3493 Ok? Not arguing against that I’m just saying it did in fact have 94 lol.
imo the problem wasn't that he was ever out of the armor, the problem was that he was rarely _in_ the armor. Showing John's humanity is a great and integral aspect of the character, but the whole point is that he doesn't ever let himself be human. He literally doesn't even see himself as a one.
That's why Cortana says "Before this is over, promise me you'll figure out which one of us is the machine". When chief later says "Our duty as soldiers is to protect humanity", Lasky responds "You say that is if soldiers and humanity are two different things". In another game someone asks him why he keeps fighting no matter what, and he says "It's all I know".
Him not taking his armor off is symbolic of the distinction he puts between himself and the people he protects. It could have been so much more impactful if the act of taking it off itself was more special and had a build up instead of like the first thing they did
The overarching story throughout Halo is Master Chief, the spartan, slowly realizing his humanity and becoming John, the human, again. They tried to rush it way too much and used the removal of his helmet way too early.
It's crazy how they tried to claim that you can't show emotions when The Mandalorian showed exactly how to do it in live action, and it's still a fundamental part of the game franchise.
@@ShloppyShmeatit's even more ridiculous because in Halo Infinite, god damn you can know exactly how Master Chief is feeling in every cutscene. This show is just sh*t because it tries so hard to be like other famous shows like GoT to be more precise.
The mentality of the producers probably went "yeah this is a videogame, and videogames are for children, so let's do the show more mature, let's add exaggerated emotions to the characters, let's add nude and sex scenes and let's add a ton of new characters, because people love a show with ton of characters right? So they won't get boring for seeing the same guys" damns idiots, a Halo show was my dream as a kid, and they ruined it
Also if I’m not mistaken Spartans including chief don’t like taking their armor off too long. As it makes them feel vulnerable I think.
@@chickenmaster66 Makes sense given how heavy the things are. We'd feel vulnerable naked outside of spaces we feel safe and secure. I'm sure it feels the same.
That's his appeal as a character to me. He sacrifices his own humanity
Red vs. Blue will always be better than the official Halo TV shows.
Agreed. The show is genuinely good television especially if you stop at season 13 and the final episode is on par with the Games in terms of story
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THANK YOU!!! I thought I was taking crazy pills on how everyone was somehow happy with this season 2. Its still shockingly stupid and again a HUGE fumble! That Kotaku article is pure garbage lol 😂
“That Kotaku article is pure garbage”
I don’t understand, why did you say the same thing twice
"You done fucked it up!"
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Yo it’s AngryJoe!
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“Now you fucked up! Now you fucked up! Now you fucked up! You have fucked up now!”
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Halo fans constantly feeling what us Witcher fans felt. Slight hope then despair mixed with more despair seasoned with confusion.
as a fan of both I’ve just given up on watching shows right now
@@michaeljamesm Atleast Shogun that's running nowadays is *excellent*.
I'd say the Witcher series was a bit better, might be because I am way more a fan of Halo than of The Witcher
@@michaeljamesmI feel that, it’s a struggle
the only thing worth watching for The Witcher is that animated movie on netflix, I hope they do more things like that
I can't agree that Pablo "embodies master chief even out of the armor." His portrayal is too emotional, impulsive and quick to anger. He yells and has to argue too much, like no one actually respects him. The real chief's presence alone commanded enough respect to allow him the ability to speak softly and firmly. There's no powerful and mystic aura or stoicism about him. Chief speaks primarily through his body language and actions. This show fails to capture that.
Amen. The guy is probably a half decent actor, but he's not good at this role, and does not deserve any applause for his terrible performance as the Chief.
The man tried to argue that Chief's helmet absolutely needed to be removed in order for audiences to connect with him...in a time when The Mandalorian is a thing.
Yeah how you said it is how it felt playing the entire franchise. Master Chief is basically a living legend to people
The thing is, nobody can embody Master Chief “even out of the armor” because the second he is seen by the viewer out of the armor that’s not Master Chief. They should have pulled a Mandalorian Season 1 and trusted their actor to carry a show wearing a mask.
And badass one liners
"This Kotaku article" Well that's where you went wrong Charles.
@itz_me_peaceful_devil_21dumbass bot
@@p-__My farts are better than your farts
he picked a super stinker, look at its writer
of course that Kotaku article was written by Alyssa Mercante
@itz_me_peaceful_devil_21 lmao imagine being you, in this comment section X,D
Kotaku's business model is 100% hate clicks. Their brand of "journalism" can be summed up as, kick the bee hive. They purposely say ridiculous and borderline offensive things to attract attention and traffic.
Muck-raking. Yellow journalism. Sensationalism. Hearst syndicalism. All the same thing.
"Jenny Nicholson Journalism"
@@robd9921
Ah yes, because when I watch a Jenny Nicholson video I can sense the vile, cynical hatred in every spoken word. Her video on the 13 Land Before Time Sequels was a particular example of her unabashed indulgence for rage-baiting.
@@robd9921 bro's still seething over her Joker review lmao
They're the Motley Fool of... well... yeah... they're basically just the Motley Fool
I'm tired of people trying to convince themselves that it's anything but garbage.
If wasn't called "Halo" I wouldn't be quite as critical, but when you use that name you set a standard, and dear Lord they did not hold to it.
Accurate.
Other than a few brief moments of fan service that last mere seconds, it’s ass.
you just gotta say this to everybody? @itz_me_peaceful_devil_21
It's basically the same situation that's happening with the games. If 343's games didn't have the name "Halo" stamped on to it everyone would collectively say it's bad.
Like Charlie said, even without the Halo name the show sucks
2:45 - The writer is Alyssa Mercante. She's one of those 'journalists' who hates the people she's supposedly reporting for. ('gamers')
To her, it's everything a video game adaptation should be precisely because it shits on said video game.
"All men are enemies" is one of her tattoos
She also has a tattoo that says all men are enemies. These people aren't of sound mind.
Alyssa "you cant be racist to white people" Mercante.
Kotaku ain't long for this world. The brand is in shambles, their staff are obviously under "constructive dismissal" and after they clean house, I don't see any other path aside from folding up.
@@xiiir838 Lmao, these are the leftoids who think it's alright to punch somebody they think is a nazi (not even one tattood with a swastika or anything).
Leave it to Kotaku to have the worst take
Least goofy Kotaku article
Kotaku: We're going to focus more on video game guides and try not to work for rage bait.
Also Kotaku:
Can't wait for AI to replace them
Kotaku has been dead to me since Jason Schreier left. Kotaku is just trash now.
@@bluemutt9964lol they already are mostly ai with the amount of dogshit takes
Kotaku just wants rage clicks because they're still clicks, in other words, good for advertisers numbers
Don’t translate... भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु……
yeah but apparently they went so far down that road , that people don't even care to click on their bait , thus driving down said number .
@@ZarathosDaimaohthey fail to realize once you go to far it’s really just gonna be “whatever you say Kotaku” where no one clicks on their shit lol
It’s so funny that they’ve just completely dropped the subtlety and gone for a purely reaction-based title (“I Told You So”). You can practically _taste_ the desperation.
I won't accept the actor playing Master Chief, because of that interview he did, where he said the audience can't connect to a character if they don't see his face.
Which is the stupidest thing to say when you are the lead actor, playing Master Chief. A character who millions connected to even if we never saw his face.
Mandalorion crushed that idea 😂
He's completely correct.
@@GG-ou7it Mando shows his face several times throughout the series.
@@GG-ou7it
Gods, I miss The Mandalorian. I might just have to re-watch it again. They made Mando right. Only removing his helmet when the plot called for.
@@skyhunter2816i worked for dredd
I laughed at the part where Kai says “Ever shot a plasma rifle? Everyone remembers their first time.” and then they proceed to pick up a Carbine and Needlers.
Just rewatch the Deliver Hope live action trailer for Halo Reach, the Halo 3 live action test footage, or the Forward Unto Dawn short film. All made over a DECADE ago, with a fraction of the budget. And they all elicit more emotions, better story and most importantly they LOOK and FEEL like Halo.
I cant believe we waited 10+ years after those released for this garbage. God knows when we'll another chance at a live action Halo adaptation, if ever.
ive lost hope
Very well said
Ep 8 season2 is better then that trailer imo.
I still love that fight in Forward Unto Dawn between Master Chief and the Hunter. Master Chief sticks a plasma grenade into the Hunter’s back, then backflips away and it’s such a badass fight.
@@AAAboxing Pass!
Honestly the comment you made about the flashlights brings up one of my main issues with the Halo live action series. The Technology of the UNSC, it goes back and forth constantly. Having condors DECADES before the halo games timeline, but not having flashlights that can turn on? Having the grappleshot from halo infinite, but not having IFF Transponders?! Being able to quickly and completely translate and solve ancient alien puzzles, but...not having hazmat suits?!
Condors were always in service
@@jadeno.2872 Not with FTL drives they weren't, miniaturize Slip space drives weren't created until post Human Covenant war due to them being reverse engineered from Forerunner and Covenant tech. Before that the smallest human vessel that could perform slipspace jumps were ONI Prowlers. Even then those were pushing the limits of Human Tech at the time.
@@Echo1608.I promise you sir these people who defend this slop aren’t real halo fans and they don’t truly care if the ip dies
"Kotaku is trash" = "The floor is made of floor"
"Kotaku bad" = "Water is inherently moist"
This article is by Alyssa Mercante... I wouldn't have expected anything else
This comment needs to get pinned
The same one who did that smash persona 5 take? Or was it someone else?
Ya, I'm glad someone else pointed that out. She's a piece of work.
2 cheeks of the same ass
Common Alyssa Mercante L
Fun fact: The comments section was turned off for this article as most of us decided to counter that it’s actually a really bad show
The only thing legendary about this show is how bad it is.
@itz_me_peaceful_devil_21 yes, I too suffer from my stomach draining it’s contents from the pure glory of Charlie’s words of wisdom.
yeah, i mean how hard it is to simply use the original work, like is already there wtf are they trying to make "generic badass protagonist" in a show like halo???
Nah the visuals are actually really good
Charlie hard on COPIUM about season 3 to be good show in future
@@atch300who gives a shit if the show sucks tho.
I didn't even realise Kotaku was still around after they shot themselves in the foot like mid 2010s...
Ok
@@ArchangelExileyou think you did something? Whyre you even commenting
I saw their name on occasion, but I always thought it was some nsfw forum bc of the thumbnails
The bots are coming out of the walls like the flood.
“I’m emotional”
“God tier stuff”
“Never played the games or read books”
“The characters and action were engaging and made sense”
“Can’t wait for 3rd season”
“I like the show, you don’t know what you’re talking about”
Years of source material and potential stories , yet they failed hard. What IP is gonna get ruined next?
Gears of War
40k
@@servo-skullscudsworthConsidering Henry Cavil is leading that adaptation, hopefully not.
Borderlands
Dead or alive
Almost like having showrunners who couldn't give one shit about the source material would lead to a bad show. Halo is so interesting and has so many cool themes... That get tossed out of the window. Such a shame man
Honestly not even the game makers seem to seek to make an artistic product, at least not one that both sells well and can have an emotional impact in the audience, its just a product, another piece for a production line, akin to modern Star Wars (in the movie side) and Assassin's Creed (in the game side). If even 343's known activity over this series has anything to say, this is just another attempt at getting more quick profits with no care for the long-term, using a fanbase that is curious over how their game would work as a tv show.
@@TheShadowguy138
What's worse is that there's literally nothing we can do about it.
People with no standards/fake fans will always just come to argue should you make any criticism for star wars or Halo, or any other media that got treated the same. And be treated as part of the community.
Destroying it from the inside.
Not to mention money speaks louder than any form of care these days.
So Halo will still be raking in millions for Microsoft, and they won't ever stop agreeing to make bad content for Halo if it means more money.
The insane part to me is how the writers, specifically on The Acolyte but it’s the same problem here I’ll bet, brag about hiring people who don’t know anything about the source material/canon to work in the writers room. Which can be a useful thing. Provided that you have like 5 super fans who are the main force to that one person who makes sure that the product itself has some digestibility for casual audiences. And of course they should all be competent and consistent writers, which they never seem to be.
Season 2 has a complete different team making it. New showrunners and writers.
Season 1 showrunners left before the first season even aired.
@@davidphillips-zee1083 provided you have a showrunner and a show bible for the lore.
making sense in the overall lore of the IP is one thing but these shows don't even make sense in their own lore introduced within them.
I haven't seen this many bots since Malevolen Creek
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Golden comment right here
Ngl its charlies fault since he has the power to delete them automatically and en mass but he cant be assed lmao
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Alright, mhm
The bots are here in droves already and it hasn't even been two minutes
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They’re called bots for a reason
yeah almost like they are written and designed to respond instantly to uploads of big channels and get notifications of uploads
Article written by Alyssa Mercante, that's why it's so stupid...
Not that any Kotaku writer would be better at this, since they are "journalists" and aren't required to play any games.
Bet she's never played a single Halo game in her life
@@JohnDBlue Some people call some youtubers that are very genuine "Grifters". Alyssa Mercunte here is a perfect example of an actual grifter. Someone who tries to farm outrage and engagement with the worst faith possible, and is currently trying to become head honcho at kotaku. Joke website. Joke person.
@@JohnDBlue Bet she's never played a single game in her life.
Isn't that the weird obsessed activist that only writes rage bait?
@@RobotnikPlngas Yessir
It's sad seeing so many journalists and Halo fans huffing copium to convince themselves the show isn't bad. I miss the Bungie-era Halo, how the hell did 343/microsoft green light this?
Because Microsoft doesn't care about Halo as a game or a franchise. They see it as a money generator, that's it.
They heard TLOU was getting a show and they thought "we need to get in on that", purely as a business decision.
@itz_me_peaceful_devil_21bro the bots on this video are surely something
At least 343 had some banger art designs in infinite. The elites in Infinite are the peak of all elites in all of halo imo
@@csnorth7Halo has pretty much been a wet fart ever since 343 took over. Infinite was a step in the right direction, but how the fuck do they not understand the IP.
@csnorth7 the TLOU show was made *with the game creators* though, which is the biggest reason it was so good and didn't conflict at all with the game.
"Can't get a bad adaptation if Microsoft doesn't remember you." ~ Blinx
The time sweeper?!?
Man, what a gem.
I just don’t get it. It’s like - they had an incredible, award winning, masterpiece of a story on a gold platter. And they purposely bastardize and reduce every part of it. Everything that mattered, the gravity of the plot, removed. Arbiter? A bitch pawn enforcer of a senseless human covenant spy. Brands HIMSELF a traitor to no fanfare or show, then immediately gets beaten to death after a short fight with Chief. His importance squandered. Given to Makee who they know most people hate the idea of. The Flood was meant to be a result of the Covenant’s ignorance and attitude. Here, it’s some basic accidental infection because a scientist broke basic safety rules and touched an unknown substance from a test tube and frolicked in the Onyx lab from its control or something. The Fall of Reach was way too brief and under-expressed. Lacked the depth of importance and mass destruction of a planet full of billions of people being annihilated. The military complex of humanity. Felt like a town was sacked. The Spartan IIIs are a joke here. They went way too hard on the mass sacrifice and don’t know what they want them to be. Are they trained for years since children like in the books? Some characters act like they have been, but are scared of battle for no reason. Or are they adult volunteers like Perez? Both? They purposely do stuff that are the major complaints of the series. We don’t like Kwan? They force her into the major plot by giving her mystical shaman powers. We don’t like Makee? They RAISE HER FROM THE DEAD and make her the Arbiter’s handler and replacement. We want more armor? They literally have someone take it away from the characters so they can’t use it. They seem to think the Covenant is made up 90% of Elites. Where are the grunts? We see way more of them than we do of grunts or jackals. They don’t care about feedback. It’s not redeemed in the slightest. Every point they touch, they bastardize and ruin. They took the story of Halo, abandoned it to die of starvation, buried its corpse in a shallow grave, exhumed it’s rotting remains, blended it’s contents in liquid excrement, and served it with a fresh coat of paint. It is sad and frustrating to me that this is some people’s only experience with Halo.
You ripped every thought from my head... could not agree more and it is so aggravating that some Halo fans actually "like" this shit... all because it taunts some aspects of the art style, armor, weapons, and characters from the game. Case and point, everyone was hating on this show, (for the most part), before this last episode, and now with the last episode, (the exact same garbage as before basically) they then introduce the flood and everyone is now saying it redeemed itself... all cause we got "fan-service" and saw the flood on TV... LIKE WTF
@@CJDevo117 yeah exactly. Get a taste of the bare minimum expectation for once and suddenly all is forgiven. And even the flood is introduced in a lackluster and soulless way
They went the zombie route for the flood? A scientist (who should know better) touches a random alien substance then starts a flood infection? Sounds like every zombie movie ever made.
Fallout show will be like this, guaranteed ruined and dead on arrival.
Ironic how in the current climate of wanting "representation," they chose literally the most privileged Covenant species, aside from the San Shyuum.
I’ve been watching it, the show actually progressed at a snails pace. Like there was no need for there to be that much screen time spent on that dude finding his kid. And Makee is so annoying. I hate how she gets more attention than chief. Maybe it’s a combination of her look and the way the sangheli language sounds but every time she was on screen I got annoyed
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@@valth4no one cares my dude
You still lying in here lol
rip bots
But yeah total agree, the side plots went on way too long
The only thing that I hate more than this show is everyone who fell for the marketing scheme that wanted us all to spread the word that “season 2 is so much better than the first season because there’s a different showrunner and they learned from their mistakes and blah blah blah.” Like how gullible can you be.
Arguably it is much better than season 1 but as stated in the video that is no praise at all - this season was watchable. However this is not what anyone wants other than those behind the decisions of this show.
We could easily have had a main universe story, the budget is CLEARLY there, I believe the cast was done very well too, the story as well as how it was implemented are the hard hitter downfalls.
@@Krosshairbbyg it’s a perfect continuation of the first season or, in other words, it’s just as offensively bad to long time halo fans as season 1. The writers keep treating halo like a brand new experiment when the books and games have already established everything a show could ever need to know about the world. The themes, the characters, the story, the battles and events, it’s all there. And yet they get it all wrong. It’s just crazy to me how one of the big selling points for this season was the fall of reach and that turned out to be a huge disappointment that couldn’t even live up to the game let alone the book because they were to busy filling up screen time with kwan and Soren and other bullshit. And I’m still on the side that is adamant that Chief should never be shown without his armor and Steve Downes should absolutely be the voice because he is the voice of master chief.
@@TinkerTailorSailorTy ehhhh I get that most people feel that way, I think chief without his armour is fine if we put it in a scenario like him back on base not in operations. But when it's him fighting on Reach without his armour, it's soul destroying to me.
I agree with you - just for reference, Game of Thrones was adapted from the books but because of lack of source material (writer George RRM) / didn't finish his last book, the directors fumbled with awful writing or at least that's how it seemed. They did brilliantly with the source material that was available through the many seasons they had. Halo is no different or arguably it's in a better position because there is SO much source material.
There is no excuse for what has been developed. No excuse good enough for this idea of another universe. They have alienated a huge part of their audience.
Same shit 343 keeps doing. People get fired or quit, new people come in, & it's still the same shit every time but the fans always fall for it.
@@Krosshairbbyg The thing is halo really didn’t need to be a show but rather a movie. I don’t think we need to see so much of Master Chief’s personal life outside of missions because ultimately he is a spartan who was bred for combat. That being his purpose is kind of the tragedy of his character.
His life can pretty much be broken down like this: 50% of his time is spent in a crypbay (gotta get the most mileage out of that limited batch of spartan IIs), 25% he’s in the field on a mission (especially during the height of the war), and the other 25% he’s either training or preparing for missions. And all the other plot stuff is what character like Jacob and Miranda Keyes, Johnson, Lord Hood, Halsey, maybe some ODSTs etc are for.
So I don’t exactly think Chief should be a character that we want to relate to as much as they seem to think so. It’s like they’re trying to rectify the tragedy that defines him by going “wow look how human he is, look at his face, it’s very human isn’t it? Isn’t that just heart warming to know he’s a human just like us?” Showing his face shows a complete lack of understanding of what Chief is and a complete disregard for bungie’s intention for the character.
"Kotaku is trash"
In other news, rocks are hard.
The "Halo" Tv show is an abomination, and all the 2nd season does is completely solidify that.
Me when the non-canon Halo show does non-canon stuff😡
Video game shows are always garbage and the only people who watch them are consoomers.
@@notme3384if they are going to completely change the characters and story, it shouldn't be called Halo
@@notme3384 "Let's do non-canon stuff that's MORE generic and boring, because that's worth doing!"
@@destructocat1960 idk if the shows good or not but that takes totally bullshit lmao
That's like saying the one piece show shouldn't be called one piece cuz it's different
its written by Alyssa Mercante who if I am not mistaken is the same person who wrote the lie filled slander piece against Kabrutus and his Sweet Baby Inc Detector.
that's all you need to know to understand how bad the halo article is.
Also extremely racist
@@kimikothetanuki314 yeah she is the one who said that you can't be racist against white people
@@PassWiseP1You can’t though
@@glazzy4826 Racist spotted!
When it's printed, it's libel.
The bots were so obvious on the marketing for season 2.
My feeds across multiple platforms were those low interaction ads paid for by paramout where it had like 4 likes but 18 comments with the generic "Cant wait! love it!" comments.
Same on youtube. just droves of those 1 word comments from fake looking profiles like john012340140120401240104.
It's so embarassing you have to essentially pay to generate fake hype rather than admit your writers, producers and directors fucked this up. They wanted to write other terrible garbage but were given halo by paramout who had no idea wtf to do with it. Some dude just saw the IP was popular and wanted the rights. The give it to a writers room who has no idea wtf to do with it and obviously mixed other shitty scripts with the Halo IP.
They literally think we are STUPID. Hollywood thinks this.............if your non conservative or far left, please consider it..... conservatives STICK to lore most of the time.
Anyways........they had one job........in everything, and destroy everything. I mean look at star wars.........I could do better with 0 directing skills.
Not to meantion the paid off Halo youtubers desperately tryong to generate hype
Show is amazing.
@@AAAboxing show is a ‘fun’ switch off brain scifi show
it is not a good Halo show
@@kyleonpluto still a halo show tho that’s entertaining. Halo 1. Was always a switch off game too.
Go to a Michelin star restaurant and tell the chef his food is “edible” and you’d see what a low compliment “watchable” is
Imagine killing off the arbiter and having Chief be the one that kills him.
That should speak volumes about how little the writers care about halo
Edit: I am aware he is not Thel Vadam. That doesn’t change the fact that they wrote him like Thel and set him up for Thel’s storyline
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Remember: they didn’t look at any of the games (as in the actual source material). Who writes a show without knowing anything about the source material?!
That's not the Arbiter that we know from the games. "Arbiter" is just a ranking in the covenant. If the show gets renewed for another season, we might get the Arbiter that we're familiar with in a future season.
its not even THel Vadam.
@@ThatWeirdGuyYouKnow the fact this wasn’t even something that got leaked and was something they proudly stated in an interview 💀
My mom is so hype about Halo 2 and she doesn’t even know anything about the game series. It’s so frustrating that she keeps arguing that the series is different from the game and so it’s not possible to pay respects to the original work while also making something new. First and foremost it’s an adaptation and not a tv series.
Make her play halo 2 on legendary
@@ShitboxFlyerLASO
Is this satire? Haven't watched the show, but if regular people are having fun with it, it seems like they made a good choice. I truly and honestly do not care about faithfulness of adaption if it's good enough to stand on its own. The original work is still there if you prefer it, like literally who gives a fuck if adaption is not for you.
@@marko39383 This is not satire, I’m allowed to flame my own mother for not being able to see the whole picture. I recognize that wether or not it’s a faithful adaptation may not matter to some people and how much they enjoy it is subjective. But when choosing the name “Halo” you’re inherently setting expectations and connecting your adaptation to the original work. It is quite honestly just foul how they can maim the Title of Halo and use it to capitalize from fans of the series for pure financial gain. If “Regular people” enjoy it, then hell yeah good for them. But if they don’t care about how other people are perceiving it and don’t care about the consequences that supporting a work like this has? Then they’re selfish. I suggest you watch the series before you make such blatant statements, who cares? I do obviously, Supporting this damages both the video game and movie/series industry and lowers the bar for future content and allows people to be manipulated into consuming bad works. You might not care but remember, my opinion is solely my own. And you’re the one that came here in order to respond to my comment, but nooooo you came here and said “literally who gives a fuck” to a person who quite obviously gives a lot of fucks and to my face tried to invalidate my opinion?
@@ShitboxFlyer I might honestly
I think the fact that the article was written by Alyssa Mercante should tell you everything you need to know
I recognise the name from something but cant think who she is, whats her deal?
@@ethanrosenberg6570 She's the chick who thinks that you can't be racist to white people.
@@ethanrosenberg6570sweet baby Inc defender, currently trying to write how asmongold turn to the "fwArd rIghT"
@@ethanrosenberg6570 If you're male, white or straight (I said or, not and) she hates you and will say it proudly.
@@ethanrosenberg6570 I'll give you a hint: "hi! you can't be racist against white people! thanks for tuning in!"
Even if Pablo acts his master cheeks off in this show, I don’t think he will ever be accepted as a respectable Master Chief by the fans after his whole “if you don’t agree with the helmet coming off, you don’t like our show” thing and always staunchly defending Master Chief constantly removing his helmet. At least he gained some points of respect for admitting the sex scene was a horrible idea.
I don't think he's a bad guy just wrong in terms of opinion hope he gets a better role in a different show tho
The only thing that’s impressive imo is how well the actual Spartan suits look for practical costumes, it’s a shame we just hardly get to see them.
Lol I was thinking about that the entire time while watching the show. The spartan armor looks spectacular in all of their variations, but they chose to focus on the narrative outside the damn suit 🤦🏿
The story of Halo and Master Chief has so much potential to be one hell of a movie/show if it was directed by someone like Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium director)
Underrated director
He also directed Chappie and worked on Gran Turismo, I love most of his films, I think he would be perfect to help direct the show
That was the plan until it got cancelled and so Blomkamp made District 9 reusing some of the props he had designed for Halo.
He was responsible for the short, live action advertisement back when Halo 3 released. It had a great atmosphere and it gave the impression that humanity was out of its element with who they were fighting.
I remember I finally realized how damaging the weapons were when they show a marine impaled by a spike from a spiker.
It really felt like how a war like that, SHOULD have felt like….and it was for nothing more than an advertisement.
It’s sad when more effort and passion is put into an ad, rather than an actual tv show or movie.
Like seriously, do better….you have all that money and all those resources. Please, for the love of god….do you research and due diligence before committing to a project.
A show is not the correct medium for Halo. This show is not cheap and still looks cheap and clearly stretched.They need a $200 million dollar budget for a movie. However, Blomkamp is not even a good director.
Crazy how that old Forward unto Dawn / ODST movie was better than the entire paramount show.
Forward Unto Dawn was pretty kickass
Ngl anytime I hear about the show it just makes me want to go watch Forward Unto Dawn.
It's funny how a low-budget Halo movie is 100x more accurate to the source material and has a better story than the terrible 'Halo' webtoon show.
I’ve gotta disagree with the Ackerson bit, he’s never presented as a villain in the novels, and it infuriates me that this show essentially puts the entire Fall of Reach off the table because he stole billions in military assets and LIED on purpose to gaslight characters for his own ego which guarantees the loss of Reach (though I will agree the actor killed it)
This. The actor was a really good actor at playing the character given to him. However, that character was NOT Ackerson.
Helps that the actor actually read the books.
To think in an alternate timeline we would’ve gotten a Halo film directed by Neil Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson.
We truly live in the worst timeline.
But we got District 9 so all is not lost.
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But then we wouldn't have gotten District 9...
I think it supposed to be punishment for what happened to that gorilla in Cincinnati.
At least we have District 9
Also Kotaku after posting that hot garbage:
"Money in hand please Paramount"
The moment he took his helmet off, the show was doomed. Shows you that the showrunners had absolutely no interest to make something that continues or expands the real history of the Masterchief. They wanted to write Bad fanfic and gave a Shit on one of the most tension building Secrets in Video Game History, masterchiefs identity.
Cant be that hard to find an actor thats willing to wear armor and a helmet all the time. Or throw Money at a Stuntman and let him Play the masterchief while hiring a good actor to do the voiceovers...
Nah they fucked it up big time
This show does have potential, as some of the snippets reveal, but it's just not living up to expectations. The fans deserve better.
But this show isn’t made for the fans. The show runners have said this numerous times, just like with Rings of Power, various super hero projects, and the upcoming Fallout show. When will people learn that when the creators say “this is not for the fans”, they shouldn’t to touch the project. It will only disappoint them
Yet is the fans sad-watching it that keep this show alive, i assure you.@@Lawrence_Talbot
@@Lawrence_Talbotnever understood that. The fans are literally who u want to please for a good adaptation. Look at FNAF. Fairly standard horror movie, but the accurate lore and general fan service made it more enjoyable than it would have been otherwise
But I mean that's FNAF which is gonna be infinitely more difficult to make a good adaptation out of than Halo. Making a good Halo show would be so easy but it's like writers like to actively shit on fans
@@pootzmagootz ngl an oppenheimer esque film abput the creation of the spartan iis would be so good
edit, if they had the right people i should say
Video title went from "Halo TV show is still bad" to "Kotaku is Trash Journalism" to "Kotaku is Trash" mid watch. lmao
An yet, all of them valid arguments to the point.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this Kotaku Article was written by Installation00.
Halo Season 2 Releases. Everyone: 😔
Installation00: *“WOOOO! YEAH BABY! THATS WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR! THATS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT!”*
Instalation00 has been meatriding this show since it came out, which really makes me cringe because it's such a slap in the face to Halo fans
Some of the backlash Instalation00 got was kinda gross and uncalled for, but I'm not gonna lie that video he made defending the show was terrible. I didn't watch him much before since he focused almost entirely on 343 era or Spartan related stuff, but I certainly haven't since.
@@infrared7759 I actually wanted to see that video he made defending the Halo TV Show but he’s privates it and I can’t find a reupload or download or anything anywhere. I never got to watch it 😔
@@infrared7759I swear 343 fans have the absolute most trash tier takes and any time some soulless cash grab of a Halo product comes out they swarm it like fucking flies. Half the time their reasoning feels like it's only to spite Bungie, and I'm pretty sure they're the only ones who care about Halo anymore but they always go off like they're pariahs for liking 343 when something new comes out.
Like don't get me wrong, nothing wrong with liking the 343 games I still like playing fucking CoD: Ghosts, but damn it's ok to like the rest of the franchise too.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 From what I remember, it was a lot of forced positivity and dismissing of opinions that aren't in-line with his. Kind of a mixture of stop disliking what I like and shut up and consume product.
God, please let there be no season 3 🙏. Such incredible story potential & hundreds of millions of dollars wasted, shame.
9:27 I kept screaming “NOOOO THAT IS SO NOT RIGHT” and keep getting flashback of first time playing CE and encountered the flood damn that was one of the scariest things i’ve ever seen
I was 9 when CE came out, the flood scared me so much I actually stopped playing for two weeks. The game is so colorful and action packed, and then your entire world gets turned upside-down, scary music starts playing and now you're fighting zombified humans and aliens out of nowhere.
at first I was like thats not right, then as the story progressed and the flood forms began I got it, it worked
Well.. any future movie or TV inspired by Halo is going to be trash in your eyes. Give up and go play the games.
@@TeKolTlaTzoIt's crazy people still hang onto the belief that shows based on video games that stay loyal to the material are impossible to make lmao
@@ScottThePiscesWhat forms? It was just people acting like zombies in any zombie movie. Maybe one or two grew a tentacle, but that's it.
That Kotaku article is a prime example of why their journalism division is shutting down.
Alyssa mercante wrote it, shes unhinged with gamer gate 2 lol
It's like a bunch of dumb weirdos from school was in charge of the local paper. Crazy pills
@@justmeok2 She's that senior editor that wrote the article stating SBI wasn't pushing any messages into videogames when SBI said so themselves, and that's literally the reason they exist.
Gaming journalism never existed as an institution, it’s always been a front for companies to puff up their own products.
@@justmeok2
I still can’t believe this is a thing. It’s like we’ve reverted back 10 years and everyone’s calling each other snowflakes…just proving that anyone and everyone taking part are snowflakes alike.
when a game from 2001 with less than 2000 words of spoken dialog in it has better writing than a $10 million per episode show
Kotaku writing a trash article is as predictable as the weather.
You mean as predictable as tomorrow there will be weather?
My favorite part is them turning the flood into regular boring zombies that just freeze up and stare at you awkwardly.
There’s absolutely no build up or tension to their reveal like in ce
I see the irony that this garbage article is written by the only Alyssa Mercante.
Isn't she supposed to be writing game guides now? Tsk tsk.
The core aspect of Halo, the Covenant, had like maybe 20 minutes of screentime in the first season, and still very little in season 2. Not to mention, a show called Halo, barely mentioned any Halos.
It's like they do not understand *any* of the most important elements from the games, namely, you know *HALO*, The Covenant, Master Chief and Cortana, Johnson, The Flood(although we did finally get it), and finally the Forerunners.
@@TehIdiotOne Or any of the context from the novels that they're mashing together into this undercooked chicken of a tv show.
@@TehIdiotOne that's because they don't, they're proud to have actively ignored them
I can kinda defend that last bit, since Halo 2 onward the actual Halo structures had less and less appearance. The last mission in Halo 3 was the only time in that game you actually stepped foot on a Halo ring, and it wasnt even finished. As long as the writing and plot direction is good, you can have a Halo show devoid of any Halo rings.
Covenant? You mean the elites, brute and handful of jackals? lol
It's Alyssa Mercante writing the article, it's basically ragebait lol
I’ve seen so many people genuinely defending this show and that makes me irrationally angry
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@@valth4 Suck my fallacy
It’s really quite terrible. I don’t understand how anyone would like it even as a generic science fiction show.
@@BrabyTheCool177defending something insultingly bad when we could’ve gotten something resembling the source material
Remember when reviews were about the thing being reviewed and not the reviewer talking about how they think they know better than the reader?
the writer is a former camgirl specializing in poorly-done hitpieces, not a reviewer
Article by Alyssa Mercante. Yup that explains everything. If you don't know who she is I suggest searching her name on RUclips.
Every time I skip a video, it gets reuploaded with a different name, then I finally watch it. It's strange to me that it always happens when I don't watch someone that I usually watch daily
the way that season 1 was made and talked about by the producers was such a slap in the face that no matter how good any new seasons are we shouldn't watch them its not worth our time
we must show them that they can't keep taking our beloved ip and ruining it with awful shows that aren't good for fans or people who are new to it
it's genuinely so baffling when adaptations refuse to actually use their source material. Their target audience SHOULD BE the people who know and love the franchise, but they completely ignore the 1 demographic that would give them the most support. And worse still, they throw everything that makes a franchise unique in the garbage and then seem so surprised when it's shat on.
I'll always be a little glad games like Dishonored will never get a show, I'd hate to see how they'd screw that up, too
Seems like Hubris. "I have a better direction where to take the Halo story. Dont need to use the og material, I can do a better job"
*Fans dont like the new direction*
"Clearly the fans dont understand my genius Creative direction, and Its not that Im un the wrong. I will double down. They will come around eventually."
Are we shocked from this article? Its from Kotaku + the same "writer" that was defending the SBI employee harassing people
The SBI employee who was also immediately fired, so even SBI clearly thinks their behavior was inappropriate.
@@warlordofbritannia ive never saw anything saying they were fired
@@Reaperherpderp
Ok, well now you have. 🤷🏻
@@warlordofbritannia i think its fake news you are spouting because i looked and found nothing about it
@@Reaperherpderp
Well, first they said they restricted the employee’s rights, then the number of people they employed dropped from 16 to 12.
Put two and two together, yknow.
This show is actually offensive. Halo fans fought for years to have lore canonized and to make a beautiful cohesive timeline. These showrunners took all that lore and story and Haloness, carpet bombed it, but the pieces in a bag, shook it up and dumped it on a story board. And then re-wrote it anyways.
Joseph Morgan is brilliant, thank you for mentioning that. Loved him ever since his performance as Klaus in The Vampire Diaries / The Originals, was always the stand out in that show
he's the best ❤
He's a bloody brilliant actor
I don't pay my taxes
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based
Same
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Good.
The only way the show will ever work in the future is when they retcon that the MasterChief we got is not the real one nor even close to even being him physically or otherwise in any shape or form. It's a MasterChief that was created to keep morale up because the real one has gone missing for some years now and they MADE this emotional clown in the lab so that they can control and manage the situation. They thought they could get away with this because no one really knows how MC looks like except for a few and none of them available either.
If it was an original story line they were looking, they could embark on a mission with new people looking for MC and his group and discover new nastiness and eventually, MC, the way he is meant to be - enigmatic, mysterious, intimidating and most importantly - faceless.
would have been an interesting plot point for Halo 4, but there's not really any way they could write that into this mess
This plot point will be the main center point of season 6
Oh, so this entire show is like the propaganda ads in Starship Troopers.
Joseph Morgan is fantastic. He played "Klaus" in the The Vampire Diaries then got spun off into his own series, "The Originals." Last thing I saw him in was playing "Brother Blood" in that crappy live-action "Titans" series over on HBO Max, and once again, he was the best part about the show's final season. If he's in Halo Season 2, I might have to actually go give it a watch, just for him.
They've got to have bots inflating the show. I've seen a ad and and checked the comments and seen the same person comment 5 times about it saying "this is the greatest show." There's just no way this is real.
Its not halo, Not as "Arhhgg they didnt follow the games or books exactly the same". But because its genuinely a completely different story, the only way i can explain it is if Iron man 1 had tony be a neckbeard that Shit himself in social settings. It's literally not Mastercheif/John, his personality is completely different. The Characters act completely different. The plot followed the worst aspects of a story.
All we've ever wanted was the story of the games worked into a live action story. These showrunners are looney.
It's basically a really bad fanfic
That sums up perfectly what I, a Tolkien nerd, felt when I watched Rings of Power....
I don’t know if anyone else feels this, but I feel like attempts to take Halo outside of the games keep on making Halo feel more like Star Wars, and that’s part of what I don’t like about it. Like, I’ve enjoyed both franchises at different points in my life, and as much as I have liked both of them they feel different, so it feels wrong every time I see Halo introducing all these worldbuilding details that don’t feel like they come from the Halo universe I grew up with
bruh, look at old halo live action short trailers. like odst and reach. all we needed was that action and story from the books following the battles and everything would have been golden.@@Excelsior1937
This is the adult equivalent of some kid in the play ground taking your toy and breaking it
Whats up with big companies having a giant easy slam dunk but they always end up fumbling the bag
Even if the Halo series were to end with an: “it was all a dream” it would still suck
It was all a nightmare. And it would finally all make sense lmfao
I have coworkers praising the show. I tell them that I respect the game lore, so I won’t watch the show. And there response is, “It’s based off the games.” But like you said they only share name and armor.
Well they sure as fuck didn't adapt Halo because of it's amazing story lmao
@@marko39383I've seen you going around saying that same thing. Firstly, I have no idea about any of Halo's story-- but I'm gonna guess that you neither, so you *_really_* shouldn't try to sell your assumption as fact, or even as an assertion. But I'd also just like to point out that lore =/= story. OP here was primarily talking about how the show obviously fails to uphold the integrity of the game's lore, failing to provide a connection between the world of that in the video game main series and the world of that in the "adaptation".
I'm honestly curious as to what your agenda is, what could possibly make it worth it to spout all that crap across this comment section, and then proudly holding it up in your arms as if it has any worth as an actual argument. Is it simply to crap on a story you've never even seen, or are you defending the show? Are you getting paid?
@smol_Idunn Dude, this is literally my 4th comment on this video. My agenda is that I disagree that adaptations owe anything to source material, so I voiced my opinion. Please get help.
@@marko39383four comments dedicated to that same purpose is too much. Also, that's way too vague. Just asking, did you happen to explain why you think that way in any of your other comments? Also, in this specific instance you tried to degrade the source material that you're not even acquainted with, attempting to make a stereotype of *_all_* videogame story quality even, as if to say "well it's not the show's fault that the source material was lacking"
@smol_Idunn I truly do not give a fuck about Halo show and never plan on watching on. I just like discussing movies and TV, so I used this as a jumping point to discuss something I find interesting. Namely, is good adaptation a faithful adaption, or does it just have to be simply good on it's own.
I did offer an explanation and example (different stuff works for different mediums, see The Shinning), but I can try to expand. I believe most video game narratives are too simplistic and derivative to make a good movie or TV. And those that aren't are really hard to adapt. Basically impossible in movie form due to time constraints. So yeah, I'm completely fine with using just setting and characters and basically disregarding plot. But that's just my opinion, obviously.
I saw the author was Alyssa Mercante and immediately knew how this article was going to go
Imagine coming up to a chef and saying "your food is... edible"
The moment when you realize Master Chief hasn't fought in his armor since the 1st episode of this season.
The way they did the Arbitor was so foul like really they did my boy and all the elite’s dirty
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You do know that the arbiter isn’t them vadam right?
It ain't even Vadam
@@cyphoah8748naw. Thwy dont know. They just trying to complain lol
@@KingKakarott Rightfully so. The missed opportunity to portray a great representation of the arbiter and his lore should be complained about. It sucks.
bro, you're reading alyssa Mercante, no wonder its a bad take
Not enough people know who she is yet.
@@1234_Fluxpeople are likely to learn about her from this
I’ve said this time and time again. It’s not the actors, it’s not the cinematographers, and it’s not the special effects team. They’re doing great.
IT’S THE WRITERS.
2:20 - Dunno if Charlie notices this later but I noticed the writer of this article is the same person that "infiltrated" the anti Sweet Baby Inc discord thing
The one who then proceeded to state they were a journalist and wondered why they got kicked out of the server?
Just a reminder to never listen to a damn thing Kotaku has to say. Recently their parent company wanted to crack down on the politics and go pure videogames journalism with guides and walkthroughs, then their journalists got all upset and pissy and didn't want to do that.
They're videogame "journalists" who don't want to talk about videogames and want to be more of a shitty tabloid pushing their politics.
I quit watching when he took off his helmet, that was the only crash landing I needed
Kotaku isn't journalism. It's opinionated, low-brow egotism that gets paid for mashing away at their keyboards all day.
One more thing the halo Legends was the best animation ever
Halo on the 360 back in the day was an amazing time I'll never forget the ending to Halo 3 driving the warthog and the theme song in the background what an experience im glad I was there.
Halo back in the Bungie era was just something else. I'm afraid Halo is never coming back so long as it's under 343s control, even if Infinite was a step in the right direction.
Yup, Bungie's Halo was something else. Absolute banger of a trilogy.
@@TehIdiotOne the bit at the end of Infinite after beating Escharum just being a cutscene instead of actually being playable was so disappointing
02:08 Written by Alyssa Mercante who also wrote "I spoke to the team at Sweet Baby and infiltrated the Discord group rallying against them to try and paint a clearer picture of WTF is going on.".
The person who wrote that article is currently in some drama for misrepresenting an interview for boob physics.
Literally seeing the thumb nail of Master Cheeks doing an action pose WITH NO HELMET IS AN ABOMINATION ON TOP OF THIS ENTIRE SERIES BEING ONE.
@itz_me_peaceful_devil_21ur gay
@itz_me_peaceful_devil_21 Ok
It's Alyssa Mercante who wrote it, she always has the worst takes and demonstrates time and time again she doesn't have any experience with any of the things she talks about. A DEI hire all the way, and she's definitely one of the "Journalists" that they're trying to get rid of.
Having a known racist write your Halo defense force should be the first sign of trouble.
She will be back to bartending by next week the way she's insulting her bosses on X last couple of days.
Kotaku's not gonna be a news site anymore anyway. For some reason, the new owners want them writing and I quote, "at least 50 guides a week".
@@roydsy316 she's already said if she loses her job she's just going back to porn
@@Chas-OTEthe reason is they suck.
I just seen the title change in real time
"The halo show is still bad " or something like that
@@akihikohoshide3964 then it was “Kotaku is Trash Journalism”
Charlies dumbest take that I've heard: "Adapting One to one is pointless." Wrong. First off, nobody has even tried 1/1 source adaption since the complete success of Sin City.. where was his example to back up his wild claim? This unfounded, arrogant view that someone who has never created an IP capable of garnering a following suddenly has the chops to not only adapt it, but make it better, needs to be mocked and destroyed in public discourse. They need to make their own new awesome IP or humbly bring an existing IP to a new medium in as accurate a fashion as possible or f**k off.
It's like Captain Price said, "Better, but it's not hard to improve on garbage."
This show sucks, and the cope on reddit is insane. Season 2 was not the redemption arc this show needed, it did not stick the landing. lol.
But you see, season 3 is going to fix everything. And then once they release season 4, it's going to fix everything again.
Reddit isn't exactly a hub for normal people these days.