I guess I was the only one who thought it was a fun action show and enjoyed it?
In a vacuum it could have been a fine sci-fi show, IMO. They took something completely unrelated to the lore and put a Halo skin on it.
I agree it was fine, a little slow at times but not a bad show. I enjoyed watching it, it’s too bad they cancelled it just as it was getting good.
Halo at its core is a first person shooter with a lot of lore built up around it. The show did a good job with respecting the lore and world building.
Halo deserves a bit more than a fun action show, yaknow?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
When my dumbass father calls out BS that same guns do different damage when a spartan hold them you missed up.
The second season was a lot better than the first. They made Cortana so strange looking in that first season…
It was a good sci-fi show, just not a good Halo show.
There was a Halo show? Oh Paramount, I hate paramount. When I had to do the contracts for renewing channels at a cable system they were by far the worst.
What was it like working in the cable TV industry? Did it pay good and have good benefits?
It generally sucked. I was the sysadmin and the whole system was maintained with near end of life or end of life equipment. I fell into doing the renewal contracts for programming because I maintained the channel maps. The worst were viacom, paramount and espn. What a bunch of opportunist trash. I started in late 2008 before netflix hit and watched the price go up as the subscribers for TV went down. I battled the old school notions of cable while watching the owner and his cronies flail about without understanding the changes. They couldn’t understand why we were topping out on bandwidth every night and I tried to tell them that people were actually using it now. They wouldn’t pay for any type of proxy. They also at first wouldn’t pay for more bandwidth. They had a absurd user to bandwidth calculation in their head from ten years before and were slow to recognize that what was true then wouldn’t stay that way.
I did predicted how it would end up though. Cable isn’t gone like everyone said it would be but many cable companies have dumped video completely. There is no profit in carrying video. I knew that netflix wouldn’t remain the only game in town and that all those cord cutters would soon be faced with similar bills to keep the same amount of access to programming in the end. I was told I was wrong by both sides of it and I have to say the smug from being right about it all hasn’t earned me one dime. All in all I’m glad I’m out it.
Wow, that’s one more season that I knew about, assumed it’d never go beyond the first.
Does anyone else remember seeing this video and getting excited for the movie?
I remember seeing This video and getting excited
I was so sure that was going to turn into a movie
It was a sure thing. It was greenlit with Peter Jackson producing and Niell Blomkamp directing. It went into development hell, sadly.
We did get District 9 out of the deal though (with Jackson still producing and Blomkamp directing), so at least something great came of that collaboration.
It was amazing promo for 3 when they did this, they knew how to hype it perfectly. I watched this so many times back then
Don’t do this, don’t give me hope
This was done a decade ago. There’s no hope of it being a project now.
I cancelled it after the first episode.
only two seasons
Two more than it deserved.
Ah!
Now let us never discuss it if we can help it.
Discuss what?
Every single character in the show is unlikeable. Maybe except Cortana, but idk if I’m biased. Been having a thing for Cortana since 9th grade.
So, I tried to watch it…
The non English parts with the aliens wouldn’t show the subtitles no matter what I did.
I wasn’t the only one having that trouble
Wtf am i going to watch something where I can’t understand important scenes?
For what its worth, you weren’t missing much…
Let’s just pretend this fever dream never happened
Truly one of the worst adaptions ever made. It’s astonishing that people might have actually tried and worked hard to make this heap of garbage.
Usually, in trash movies/TV you can see the vision at least and understand how maybe studio executives, or lack of technology, or even lack of ability destroyed the project. The kernel of what originally sold it is still there. But with Halo, I didn’t see any of that. Everything was bad. Nobody cared, and nobody tried.
I couldn’t even get through the first episode. Legitimately horrible direction, shit acting, cliche story, terrible cinematography, and crap stage design. I’m surprised it lasted this long. I’m glad I didn’t need to get Paramount+ to watch it.
The fact they couldn’t even make it as good as Red vs Blue is amazing. And that’s not a high bar.
The mid-late seasons of rvb were pretty good. Story got fucking convoluted at the end because they had to turn the silly jokes of the early seasons into honest plot points, but overall an amazing series.
But, but, it has Halo man in it, how could you not enjoy it? ~Investors
They just straight up canceled the John Halo. It’s preposterous.
Same as. It felt like watching a higher budget Power Rangers.