Though the second season of the show attempted to rectify some of the vocal backlash it faced, particularly from avid fans of the Halo videogame franchise familiar with the game’s extensive lore and its Season 2 premiere was among the most watched original shows across all streaming platforms — it appears the efforts were too […]
  • gianni@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I guess I was the only one who thought it was a fun action show and enjoyed it?

    • rowdy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

  • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    When my dumbass father calls out BS that same guns do different damage when a spartan hold them you missed up.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

      • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

  • solarvector@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Wow, that’s one more season that I knew about, assumed it’d never go beyond the first.

  • cordlesslamp@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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?

  • pachrist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • Pregnenolone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The fact they couldn’t even make it as good as Red vs Blue is amazing. And that’s not a high bar.

      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.