Don't currently have a Paramount+ sub so I'm going to wait a few weeks until some more episodes are released and then binge watch them. Very excited for the show as I was a big Halo player back in the 1, 2 and 3 days. [Reply]
I’m not a huge Halo fanboi so I don’t really care about the story diverging from the games, but the CGI during the Covenant battle just wasn’t good. Once that was over, the show got a little better, but still nothing better than distraction level entertainment. [Reply]
Well, that was not was I was expecting at all. First episode felt more like a political drama. I thought it would be something more like the storyline of the games. Not really terrible though. I'll probably watch more episodes just to see what happens.
Spoiler!
The motivations of the UNSC don't really make any sense. While the Spartan costumes look cool, it makes their movements pretty clunky and they had to CGI quite a bit of the action. It was pretty noticable.
Never played the video game. But this got me interested..
according to “Halo” executive producer Darryl Frank. In a new interview with Total Film, Frank revealed that Spielberg was heavily involved in the show, and left his mark on nearly every aspect of the series.
“We treated it as though it was a legacy project of Steven’s,” Frank said. “He godfathered it in terms of reading every script, helping choose showrunners, writers, director, cast, production design, and visual effects; every aspect of it, he looked at.”
Given Spielberg’s extensive experience with both science fiction and war movies, the material is firmly within his wheelhouse, as “Halo” focuses on a 26th century war between humans and an alien threat known as the Covenant. The “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” director’s involvement will likely be welcome news to “Halo” fans hoping the series can break the long streak of troubled Hollywood adaptations of beloved video games. [Reply]
Haven't had a single bit of exposure to whatever HALO is outside of/preceding this show. I know it's a video game franchise, but I'm not a gamer even a little tiny bit. Outside the [unused] capabilities of a PC, the closest I've had to a 'gaming system' in my life is one of those novelty old-school Atari joysticks with the 'classic' games built-in.
Based just on the first two episodes, it has plenty of holes, but it seems decent enough in visuals, pacing and presence. I guess that's a roundabout half-hearted way of saying, if you want 'turn your brain off' zip and zazz that doesn't bog TOO much, you could do worse.
I'm sure there are plenty of fans of the existing property with passionate criticism, just a newcomer/outsider take on how it works as a weekly 45+ minutes of couch potatoing. [Reply]
I watched the first episode on Youtube and thought it was fine. I played Halo 1-3 and loved those games so I know the characters, except for Kwan Ha because she's new. Seeing the Covenant and the Spartans and them battling with all the familiar weapons was pretty cool.
Hearing that Halo theme song is like crack to the ears for me.