If he can't act through a helmet, that's a skill issue.

When Karl Urban did Dredd. He stayed true to the source material and respected it by not showing his entire face playing Judge Dredd like in the comics. Fans are still wishing he would do another Dredd movie.

The strength of Master Chief as a character is that he starts out as this stoic dude that just gets stuff done and as his relationship with Cortana develops, he gets softer but retains his edge because he's not just doing what he's told, but because he has something and someone to fight for. They don't get that.

After removing his helmet, the actor decides to behave like a helmet. Imagine having so much of an ego that you blame the fans for something they had no say in. Disgusting.

Fans: "You're ruining something we've loved and supported for decades!" Showrunner: "It's your fault."

How about he stop blaming the fans for which the show was created and honor the freaking source material.

Reminds me of the Judge Dredd issue - Sly didn't want his face covered while Urban didn't mind and wanted to stay true to the source material. Not a coincidence that one is considered a joke of a movie while the other was well-received by fans.

This reminds me of the scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood where Leo’s character is speaking with the director of a western he’s going to be on and the director wants to put a wig on him and a biker mustache to look more villainous, and Leo asks the director “how will anyone recognize me” to which the director responds “I hired you to play a character not yourself.” That is what these actors don’t seem to understand. If their character is meant to have their face covered like the Master Chief or the Mandalorian, then that’s the role you are supposed to play. You’re still going to be doing tours to promote the show, your name will still be in the credits, so people will know the character is you. If you want to play yourself then go do a reality tv show or start a podcast. The destruction of franchises like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Marvel and The Witcher is a whole other can of worms.

Pablo: "Only the game fans hated this change from the original!" Fans: "....................................Yes!"

Pablo: "If you don't agree with the helmet coming off, you don't like our show." Fans: "Ummm ... have you seen the ratings? We'll go rewatch Forward Unto Dawn."

It’s great that there are actors like Karl Urban and Hugo Weaving out there

“Am I…out of touch?” “No, no…it’s the fans who are wrong.” - Every Hollywood exec ever

I miss the days when making the customer happy was the the goal. 🤦‍♂️

I'm with the people who never watched it in the first place.

“One of the reasons behind the success of Halo is that we DIDN’T pump a lot of time into who the Master Chief was or why he was a ghost in his shell. We thought ‘He is a husk. He is a big, green suit of armor that you move around.’” -Joseph Staten, lead writer for Halo 2 and 3

That’s NOT Master Chief. That’s a guy not wearing a vital piece of armor protecting their head in war zones.

So they want: - leverage franchise - leverage fans of the franchise but they dont want to actually make something that fans of the franchise would want. It simply makes no sense. This is another case of franchise abuse.

HALO SHOW: we'll do whatever we want with it! HALO FANS: fine. We won't watch.

"Oh everyone hated it? Better make another season!" Welcome to the era of Too Big To Fail, folks!

One of my favorite moments in movie history is in return of the jedi (pre special edition), when the emperor is torturing luke and aleven though darth vaders face is covered you can see by his body language and his looking back and forth the pain and torment, he is wrestling with his love not just for his son but his wife, as this is a part of her, and his thoughts that he is to far gone and there is no turing back. Without any words you can see the exact moment he makes his decision. It is an amazing piece of cinema that with no dialogue and a faceless actor can still tell a great story of inner torment.

-Make a product for Fandom -Dissapoint Fandom -Criticize Fandom -Double down on disappointing Fandom -Move on to another IP and repeat.

Respect Karl Urban for not taking off the helmet when he played Dredd. Stallone's ego was too big to do the same when he played the character.

The entertainment industry as a whole seems to have forgotten who they work for, they work for the consumer because without us there is no money for them.

Attacking the fans who made the franchise big in the first place is the most disrespectful and unhinged thing what you can do.

It's clear that the writer isn't good. The character wouldn't have to lose the Helmet to make you feel the emotions or anything like that. We all watched V for Vendetta and Dredd. Loved them both and never saw the actors face

This is an excellent example of what happens when writers focus on messaging instead of entertaining.

Forward Unto Dawn Master chef was awesome

What an ego. Playing a character whose lore is never showing their face, then not only being cool with showing your face, but telling the fans they're wrong about being upset. Karl Urban's role as Dredd will remain legendary for respecting the lore.

The movie Halo: Forward Unto Dawn is a masterpiece in comparison to the TV Show…

Part of the draw, at least for me, for MC, Boba Fett, and other "faceless figures" was the anonymity. The mystery that it could be anybody, a step above a standard human, but the possibility there for us to become MORE. Once you "humanize" those characters, they are defeatable, failable, discardable. Similiar to when a show expands on a side character's relationship or backstory, you know they are not gonna make it to the end.

you know how wouldn't mind a whole season with a helmet? Henry Cavil.

I miss the good old days when actors did damage control after the movie/show sucked. They are all, "Sorry to disappoint you. We will do better next time. We should have done what the fans want". But today, actors have become big fat jerks and want to get into a fight with a fandom.

Way to kill Season 2 before it even starts…

I mean if they had just followed the source material they'd have been on point but noooooo....we've got to be smashed over the head with "the message" or fan blaming when their vision looks nothing like the ip's we love. Also I still love your hair girl! Hope you're doing well!

These individuals consistently attribute their decline to the fans, akin to going to a restaurant, experiencing food poisoning, and blaming the customers. It exemplifies the madness within Western media. If people dislike the game, they're labeled as virgins living in basements; if anime translations go awry, it's pinned on toxic anime fans. 🤦

The original Halo was captivating, sound, plot and the depth of the script was superb, the Master Chief was bordering on a drone with a blossoming personality with the help of Cortana, he needed his helmet for all his information as a soldier so would not take it of, the armour helmet and all his kit was symbiotic, all part of him, HE IS NOT AN ACTOR WHO NEEDS TO SHOW HIS FACE its narcissistic in the true sense of the word ie in love with your own image.

Master Chief is well known to never take his helmet off, And even if he does take it off, You never see his face on the screen. And the worst part is because the producers wants to see Master Chief helmetless just to see his emotions, expressions and all that while with his helmet on, They can't see or feel it. Hell! We had plenty of characters wearing masks that you can tell their emotions by their body languages! For example in Freddy VS Jason, in the dream Jason fighting Freddy and saw a pillar of water pourring down, He held his attack and he stepped back, You could tell he was actually scared of water.

I remember hearing back around the time of Halo or Halo 2 that the devs specifically made Master Chief, from the beginning, monotone and generic so anyone could relate to him or something like that. Him taking off his helmet in the Longsword at the end of the first game and not revealing his face was on purpose, obviously.

It’s actor recognition…that’s all it is. Simply a leverage for this actor to use a stepping stone to better his career!

That's like saying fans care about Bruce Wayne wearing no mask at all fighting the Joker

I stopped watching Halo and I blacklisted the show on my Amazon account. What they did to the lore is damn disrespectful. They wanted to turn the Halo franchise into Game of Thrones, with all the buttcheeks shots and the first ever Master Cheeks sex scene with a prisoner of war. Also, the bluntly disregard of leaving the damn helmet on in almost every episode.

It's all ego. The star of the show wants you to see the star that is himself, and since you don't because you want faithfulness to the source material, then it's all your fault because of reasons.

MASTER chief would not be caught out of uniform..

Fans of a franchise like it when the movie or show is faithful to it. Wow what a concept

The Mandalorian and Goblin Slayer worked just fine without flaunting taking off their helmets. Saying that the Chief needed to as the only way for the story to work is just a big red flag...

Dang, sounds like a bad time to be a Halo fan right now.😬😰

The Grimdarkness of Henry Cavills 40k adaptation has ironically become our only hope for good sci-fi

He did take his helmet off, just never in combat, we never saw his face, and he never got naked. Halo died after reach. Anything halo now is a fan fic

When DEI and ESG are what guides the "story" tells you that you can't write a good story. Hollyweird can't write a good story to save their industry. Thanks for another great video @Melanie Mac Go Boom. God bless you

1) Buy an IP 2) Create non lore based show 3) Market to “modern audience” 4) Have 11% of audience watch 5) Attack fans for not watching 6) Have Media carry their water 7) Throttle everyone talking 8) Loss of profits & respect Now you too can be a out of touch company buying conglomerate.

All they had to do was be faithful to the games and use the books to explore even more of Halo lore. Halo lore is so rich and deep in detail, it's impossible to run out of material.

9:06 “John one-seventeen”😭

7:43 “Queerdo” MY NEW FAVORITE WORD! 🤣

It’s Halo! What makes Master chief mysterious and cool is that we don’t know what he looks like.. he’s like another version of judge dread or the Mandalorians, wearing the helmets and not taking it off is actually the charm of these kinds of stories.

It’s the fans that made, and brought life into the story when they say our show, they don’t care that without the fans, there is no show or our anything because it doesn’t exist they are bullies with no power, taking from others, and calling it their own, because without someone else they don’t exist

It’s not rocket science. The formula is so simple. Source material man.

To quote the late great wrestling legend hall of famer Macho Man Randy Savage: No one can't handle Melanie Mac Go Boom. THE CREAM OF THE CROP!!!!!! Nobody does it better 😎

03:05 Exactly, such open malice towards the fans, and yet there are "real" Halo fans that are going to watch it. Go ahead, pad their viewership numbers, and by doing so you can help keep giving that abomination legs.

Making Chief have Intercourse with the Enemy was going waaaaaaaaaay overboard. 🤣💀

Oh Pablo...I had such high hopes for you. You wound me.

I still thought an amazing swan song for Robert Downey Jr would have been having the role as Master Chief where he could take on a hero’s namesake that isn’t associated with Marvel; he would have worked really well and he could have mainly provided the voice lines for the suit of Chief while it was worn by someone relatively tall. I think he’d like the role especially as it wouldn’t cause much conflict with his movie schedule. Second to that; I would love Kelsey Grammar as The Arbiter

There is no Halo after Reach, these showrunners and 343 can kindly go pound sand

It's tiresomely predictable if a show or movie doesn't go over well with audiences, the showrunners and filmmakers will blame the fanbase.

Someone never Watched the 2012 Movie Dredd. That Movie was Awesome and Karl Urban as Dredd Never took his Helmet off. And he was FUCKEN AMAZING!!

I don't get why these people are so unhinged when it comes to hating the fans... Who do you think watches the show?

When Vader took his mask off, it was the last movie at the time and fans wanted to know what he looked like under the mask. Halo is a different story. There is no reason for Master Chief to take his helmet off because he isn't on the verge of death like Vader. In Mandalorian, Dinn took it off 3 times one because Grogu wanted to see him. Plus we already knew who was playing him.

I completely forgot this show was getting a second season. This actor clearly doesn’t understand fans in any shape or form, “how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man!!” Fans will win always!

It's not about learning and doing the right thing for Hollywood and other entertainment companies. It's a coordinated demoralisation campaign.

The helmet coming off was only one of the horrible things about that trash show. The writing was trash and the changes that were made to the story were horrible. Halo was some of the best Sci-Fi out there and this mess is what they gave us. It’s almost like Kathleen Kennedy works for them as well lol.

Oh no , i wasn't going to watch anyway

Only bad actors say the shit that guy has said. His performance in Halo helps back up that he is probably a bad actor(not that the writing helped). Karl Urban as Dredd, Hugo Weaving as V in V for Vendetta and others were able to convey emotion fantastically, despite masks and they're hardly alone. There are reasons why certain characters have hidden faces and part of it is mystery. You want to take the helmet off? Okay, but you do it when it matters, not at the drop of a hat. The Master Chief we know wore full armour to an award ceremony, getting some shit from Johnson. You definitely don't take it off in the middle of a fucking active combat zone. It wasn't just MC they fucked with that, half the Spartans presented kept taking their helmets off at stupid times.

They should have had Niel Bloomkamp turn his short film Landfall into a series.

Its not even his helmet Its was a "save the cheerleader" plot with an unlikeable cheerleader. The story for season 1 was doomed at the writing table

One of the few creators that I followed for like 10 years and still provide us with quality content. Also the fact that she is absolutely gorgeous is amazing. 😄

There’s so many moments in halo where you can feel how chief is feeling. The mask doesn’t need to constantly come off. In Forward Unto Dawn the actor of chief played the games so he could understand the character and respect the source more

Master chief never took his helmet off in forward unto dawn and that was pretty damn good. This show should've been an easy win.

Happy Tuesday Melonie Mac!

The dreaded return of Master Cheeks

As a proper fan of the show. Im glad i heeded the warnings of the Drinker and left it alone. This show and its cast are getting everything they "Worked" for, in their failures.

This just reminds me of the Mandalorian and how originally he was never meant to reveal his face but the actor complained about it so they revealed it to appease him. Don't employ actors to play the roles of "faceless" characters if they're obsessed with having their face seen, part of the appeal of "faceless" characters is that we don't know who they are and that makes them mysterious, the focus then ends up being on how they interact with the world and those that inhabit it. Something i never understood with a lot of adaptations of well loved IPs is this combative attitude towards the fans, these people wouldn't be adapting a series in the first place if there wasn't already an established fanbase, it should always be about appeasing the fans first and then trying to pull in a wider audience, because the the fact of the matter is that the fans can sink a lot of these projects and we've seen it happen a number of times... Bungie disowning this adaptation is the biggest red flag going...

It's time that these narcissistic fan haters get taught a good an proper lesson. STOP watching their garbage when they start with this behaviour, let them fail completely and feel it in their pockets until they stop this childish behaviour and learn how to respect their fans i.e. clients and behave like grown ups

My brother who’s a video game normie even knows that Mastercheif doesn’t remove his helmet. Just another example of no respect for the games, the books, the fans and the source material.

There is no controversy, its called sticking to established fact. The chief dose not take his helmet off...

Just don’t give them your money. That’s the only thing they understand. They don’t deserve the money of fans they disrespect.

The show is bad because the fans don't like it. It's always the fans fault and not the writers and directors apealioto the fans. Of course!

When you don't respect the fans at all..not only did they take off his mask, but his pants. What did Disparu call it? Master Cheeks.😅 Edit: 😂😂 you mentioned it, too. What is that hoodie?

They've told Master Chief's story through 6 games without taking his helmet off...

love how they can just take the most iconic part of beloved franchise and bastardize the hell out of it, and say "maybe it's not for you" please wake me up!

It's so wild that the only modern actor not attacking fans is Henry Cavill.

Even 343 with their over-dramatized writing could convey Chief's feelings with the helmet on. Also the Mandalorian isn't old enough to act like it doesn't exist.

Actor says the show isn't for you if you don't like their fan fanfiction stories. Correct.

They also race swapped Keyes which in turn also means Miranda has to be mix raced in this universe, yet they completely excluded Johnson, who is fact black and a fan favorite

So let me get this straight, they don’t use the main halo theme what so ever either in the beginning credits of the show or in the show or even when an episode ends, then they let the actor take his helmet off because he wants to be seen so bad, and they don’t really stay that true to the source material. As an actor you should be able to make people feel something with just your voice just how the voice actor did within the game. Like dude had his helmet on for like a good 30 minutes for the first entire season every episode he took his helmet off and in like bro what are you doing. It’s annoying at this point when these companies hate fans so much, disrespect the source material and when the show does shitty numbers they blame the fans when they should’ve listened in the first place

Disrespect is probably the perfect word for what they are doing to Halo.

Picked up all the classic Tomb Raider games when they were on sale through GOG. The nostalgia hit me like a truck! Truly great games.

There’s a whole video of people who worked in the MCU that said “ They said you don’t need to read the comics. DONT READ THE COMICS! We’re doing something different”. Which makes sense. And apparently they’re doing the same for Halo.

The thing is that the master chief was always on mission in the game or about to embark onto a mission. I assume at some point in between missions takes off the helmet. Maybe he learns later to not take off his helmet.

the whole point of the helmet staying on is so that he is all of us. white, black, asian... master chief can be any of us, cuz we have never seen his face. you'd think the show runners would of understood this in the current media meta. not to mention, the helmet is iconic. without it, he's just another dude in armor. he could just as well be a starship trooper. as to tomb raider... the show runners have legit said, one of the biggest issues was deciding if her boobs should be big or small cuz reasons

I don't understand people who adapt video game characters into the live version BUT insist on CHANGING EVERYTHING that makes the source material have a loyal BUILT IN FAN BASE! Making it as close to the source material is apparently ROCKET SCIENCE to these people 😳

Unless we have more people in the industry like Henry Cavill, who are passionate about these stories and the franchise... Most of the adapted material Won't be respected. And neither will the fans. They only care about themselves and their Ideology.