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Edited by jmann43b:
10/4/2025 8:24:58 AM
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'Halo' TV Series
I just wrapped up watching the title show (both seasons are currently on Netflix for those interested) and I honestly liked it.
Admittedly though, I've never played the games and therefore went in with zero expectations about the plot nor any reservations about how true to the source material it was so that surely played a big part.
I will say that watching gave me more of a compulsion to replay the 'Mass Effect' series ('Dead Space' too, for that matter) than it did the title series itself. Maybe I simply don't get it because I'm not an XBOX player.
Anyway, there's my take on the show and I'm disappointed there won't be a satisfying conclusion, but this wouldn't be the first time a series has done that and isn't likely to be the last.
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I think I got through maybe three episodes.
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1 ReplyEdited by SometimesIDrinkCoffee: 10/7/2025 5:13:01 AM"Admittedly though, I've never played the games..." And that explains why you enjoyed it.
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2 RepliesThat’s what I hear too. By that I mean people who haven’t played halo went in with no expectations so they were able to enjoy it better where as halo fans had expectations of them meeting source material that was already there. I’m a halo fan but I haven’t watched it just by word of mouth saying I won’t like it.
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2 RepliesI didn’t know they made a second season. I had a hard time finding any redeeming qualities in it even as generic SyFy channel slop, and as a Halo show it made my soul very sad. A lot of the changes run counter to core themes of the source material. Plus the depiction of Chief as an angry cyborg man-child was not enjoyable. The fight scenes were cool, everything else not so much.
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I watched it as it was airing. While a passable scifi show, the creators refusal to honor source material really hurt the show overall. Halo fans wanted a Halo show, non-halo fans most likely didnt subscribe to paramount plus to watch it. As a scifi series to me it was C-B rating but as a Halo it was closer to D-C.
