Love how elites went from unstoppable killing machines in episode 1 to a faceless, worthless, horde. Way to ruin your best enemy soldiers...

The person from 343 that approved these changes for this adaptation Kiki Wolfkill, must be so misguided on what she thinks halo should be. The show runners went to her with these bizarre changes and she just blindly approved them. The result is a show that wears its halo name with shame.

Season 2 should start with Chief in full Mk V armor waking up in a cryo tube while a technician says: “Sorry for the quick thaw Master Chief, things are a little hectic right now. You may have experienced some stranger dreams but they should pass soon.” And then Chief just nods without saying anything, and the story is just CE again but with more dialogue.

The funniest thing about the insurrectionist in this “halo” show, is that through out the series the unsc treat the alien threat as nothing more of an inconvenience to the point that the war might as well be propaganda like the insurrectionist think it is. So much so that they have no problems with cutting funding to the research of alien technology and are focusing more on capturing some nameless nobody Asian girl who poses absolutely no threat to them at all, to the point where even idiots would laugh at how dumb this whole concept is. It’s even made more blatantly apparent when it’s made clear that only the Spartans pose any real threat to the aliens, and despite this known fact they still want to cut more founding and destroy the spartan program all together. They want to destroy the only real weapon they have against the aliens while hunting down a girl that clams the war is nothing more then propaganda. With the way the unsc is behaving the war with the aliens is without a doubt propaganda, except for the fact that they really are at war with the aliens and are obviously losing. But apparently they just couldn’t care less, to the point of cutting all founding on the only weapon known to work against the aliens. The people who made this horrible parody of “halo” can only admit to one of two things ; either they hate halo and it’s fanbase with a passion, or they are so bad at their job that their lack of logical thinking and common sense couldn’t be fixed without scraping the whole project. I feel sorry for everyone involved in the project that didn’t know what was going on. Because after the 15 minute pilot everyone was probably shown, they were tricked into making the kwan show and every episode was somehow worse then the last. It’s like they learned how to write and produce a show for the creator of “the room”.

The story of Jimmy Rings is like the live action Avatar The Last Airbender for the Halo Universe

It’s mind blowing that the live action halo movie “Halo: Forward until dawn” is not only 100x better than the big budget show but it’s actually free on KZfaq.

You mentioned how it feels like a fan fic, except a fan fic would have been much closer to the cannon lore and be possible to put in to the lore without scrapping more than half of said lore

Halo: Forward Unto Dawn still gives me a lot of hope that a live action Halo can be a good success. This Halo Tv series should have taken away one of the biggest lessons of the FUD miniseries did right: Halo is a huge universe, you don't have to make a series about the MC or other huge characters in the Halo lore like Halsey, Miranda and Jacob keys, etc. Tbh I think I'd much more would have preferred a series on ODST's or even UNSC Marines other than main character Spartans and commanders.

I would've preferred to just simply NOT get a Halo show...AT ALL. If I would've known that THIS is what we were gonna get? Holy shit, man.

And we all thought Halo 5 had a bad story.... This show makes Halo 5 look like a master piece! Edit: I'm not saying Halo 5 had a good story. It certainly was downright terrible, but this show is just a lot worse.

Anyone see the theory that Halo was originally going to be a Mass Effect show? Theory goes that the show was written for Mass Effect, but they [Paramount and EA/BioWare] couldn't come to an agreement and lost the rights for Mass Effect to Amazon. Paramount had the rights to Halo, so they just took the script and adapted the characters to be a Halo show. The general focus on internal, smaller-scale human conflicts, intergalactic politics, and relationships with the bigger alien threat building largely in the background. The Covenant’s motives and reasons for attacking humanity being built up as a mystery like how Mass Effect makes a big deal out of nobody knowing why the Reapers do what they do (in contrast to the Halo games, where the Covenant’s motives are more or less known from the start). Also, how the Covenant aren’t really humanized in comparison to the games, being portrayed more like inscrutable beings using brainwashed human servants like the Reapers. The frank depictions and discussions of sex and nudity. Halo’s generally always avoided outright sexual content beyond the occasional silly joke (e.g., “he was my lover!”), whereas Mass Effect never shied away from that subject. The sheer fact that Master Chief fucks at all, and especially that he fucks a woman aligned with the aliens (and is speculated by some to be originally intended AS an alien). Fucking aliens is one of the bread-and-butters of Mass Effect, but can you ever imagine that in a Halo game beyond obvious non-canon gags like Johnson hugging the Elite in CE? The portrayal of AIs. Cortana is a mix of EDI (AI made by morally dodgy group that slowly aligns with the good guys) and SAM from Andromeda (implanted into Chief’s nervous system rather then just carried in a chip like in the games). More vaguely, the Spartans’s portrayal as basically human robots “rediscovering their humanity” feels eerily similar to the Geth and their whole arc of developing individuality, with Chief filling the role of Legion. Halsey acts a lot like a female Illusive Man, manipulating people for “the greater good” and lacking a lot of her more sympathetic traits from the games. Similarly, the guy playing Captain Keyes looks and acts A LOT more like Captain Anderson from Mass Effect (seriously, Danny Sapani is the perfect pick Anderson aside from getting Keith David to reprise the role; he’d be an amazing casting choice if this were a Mass Effect show). And just to cap it off, this Makee character is suspiciously similar to Benezia, serving the villains, the sex appeal, and it would explain why so many people get the vibe that she was intended as an alien. The fact that the whole plot is kicked off when Master Chief goes to colony to find it was attacked by aliens and touches an ancient alien device that gives him a vision… just like Commander Shepard going to Eden Prime and touching the Beacon at the start of Mass Effect. The way Parangosky is portrayed, arguing with and seeking respect from a Council while also covering for undercover black ops stuff would make a lot more sense as the Citadel Council and the whole subplot in Mass Effect of humanity having to prove themselves as newcomers who have only just got onto the Council (which would also explain Parangosky being made a lot nicer then in canon Halo; she’s a stand-in for the first human councilor in Mass Effect, taking elements from both Anderson and Udina). Kwan and the Madrigal subplot feel ever so similar to Tali and the Quarians (younger girl from a culture on the outskirts of galactic society leaves home and ends up working with her peoples’s perceived enemy and learning they’re not so different - again, lining up with the ”Spartans as Geth” idea). Kwan also seems to take a bit after Ashley, being survivor of the heretic Geth Covenant attack on Eden Prime her hometown and having similar ”angry tough girl” characterization.

The people who wrote and approved this show must start to be held accountable. We need names, and they need to be called out directly.

This is the most accurate review I've seen. The problem was not only being a bad adaptation. Its a bad sfi and drama.. Looks proposufully made to fail. I just cant belive someone test watched this and didnt cancel it. The only solution I see is ''Special Editing'' this mess to reduce damage. Make it into a 3 episode ''pilot'' and reboot the series from there.

They already had a script that had nothing to do with Halo ready to go. They changed a few things that make it """work""" and then bought up the Halo IP for an established market. They are doing stuff like this all the time recently and once you recognize it you will see it in everything.

This just made me appreciate “Forward onto Dawn.”

Dredd and Mandalorian both showed you could absolutely keep the helmet on.

Not gonna lie. This show became kind of a guilty pleasure to watch. I knew it was bad but I couldnt wait to see what else they would mess up. The sheer stupidity of it kept me engaged.

They did what Disney did to Star Wars, messed up a set story that was set and had deep lore and cherry pick the few things they wanted from the Games and made their own Story that changed previous foundations and rewriting characters that didn't need to be.

The best way to sum up the Halo TV series in one sentence: Master Chief takes off his helmet a lot.

See chief in the books and games was the epitome of what I wanted to be as a human being. The ironic thing is that he was a perfect symbol for humanity on what we should strive to be. I’m talking about his character, not his physical attributes

Does it have a captivating story? Does it leave you engaged? Paralysed?Dumbstruck? NO Yet the Halo Show directors were able to avoid your criticism, hire the actors, and desecrated Halo with their filthy storyline

Something about halsey in the tv series looks unsettling to me. Also a tv show based on a series which at its core is about the fun of shooting aliens having minimal scenes where chief shoots at the covenant is probably one of the worst misunderstandings of the source material that i have seen in a video game adaptation

The funny part is there’s nothing wrong with a sex scene in a halo show. Just not with chief or Spartans. I could be down with a “secret” marine love story that builds throughout the season only to have one of them die in the invasion.

Their biggest mistake was in having writers who actively DID NOT RESPECT the source material and lore.

Agreed completely on every point made here. At this point I suspect their decision to go with a "Silver timeline" and focus more on the Insurrectionists was a cost cutting measure. Rather than costly CGI to render the Covenant races and effects they gave us mainly human antagonists in a story about a genocidal alien threat to humanity....which no one but mostly newbies or casuals wanted.

What I find crazy is that there are some minor lore pieces that the show gets spot on, like how normal humans evaporate when hit with a plasma bot or how an Elite can run into a moving vehicle and flip it without breaking stride, or even just how Spartans are capable of running alongside a speeding car. Clearly, some of the writers know the halo lore but I suppose they just got superseded by their bosses who said something along the lines of, "GReEn sPacE MaN neED SeXy TIMe"

At this point, it needs an entire remake.

Literally, why did they do this. It hurt me so much. Now he is master cheeks

You're a stronger man than I. I couldn't finish it. I love Halo, it's easily my favorite FPS and one of my favorite sci-fi properties in general. If they made an entire series of just Chief saying "I need a weapon" I would have creamed my pants. I couldn't even finish the freaking show...

*Prophet Of Truth:* *_Your inability to safeguard Halo TV, was a colossal FAILURE!_* 😑

I've never seen the show and never will... Halo is one of my favorite games and lore ever, and this show has shattered every single piece of what is the greatest si-fi lore ever created

Short answer it got made after 2016, when story and character development fell to the way side for “tha message”

These people should've done what the sonic movie team did; bring in people with experience on the game and listening to the fans. Also, imagine if this show was a 2D animation like mortal Kombat legends, that would've been awesome

Oh and you forgot to mention that they wasted atriox in the show. Remember the brute in ep9 and I think 5 as well? Well he was gun down by the cortana controlled pelican. I'm not joking, that is what happened to him

I'm Sharing this. Everyone needs to tag the producers to this video

I could answer the video title in one word EVERYTHING

The perfect example of this show is with my boys the hunters it's like so cool. To see what they would look like in live-action but we never really get to see the hunters only get to see it is the worm things and not the actual Hunters

The Thumbnail Brought me here.

Edgerunner is a great example that if you respect the source material people will love it, find it funny that the chatter for the halo tv show fell flat almost immediately.

I mean, I haven't watched the show but literally any real Halo fan prior to this show would have known it's going to be bad when they showed Master Chief's face on the very first episode. Just imagine telling someone 2 years ago that a Halo tv show would be showing Master Chief's face in the first episode, seeing him naked, having him have a love scene and a sex scene. It's beyond believable, everyone would have thought it was April 1st prank. Also I disagree with not blaming the actors, Pablo literally defended the show's writers, so he is as bad as them, look at other actors (such as Viggo Mortensen who done his research on Aragon from Lord of the Rings) he didn't know anything about the character before, then you got Henry Cavill on his portrayal on Geralt the Witcher who was actually a true fan and read the books and played the games, now look at Pablo agreeing to take of Master Chief's helmet on the first episode, I don't know why people defend actors like they don't have a voice. Main lead actors have to take responsibility too.

If you don't have a passion for the source material, don't even try writing something supposedly based off of it. The sheer disrespect for a rich and highly interesting ip is staggering. You might as well make the ad campaign called 'fuck the fans'. From strange 'diversity' recastings to flagrantly ignoring the games themselves this show was clear that it wasn't really meant for fans or for people to really love the story and universe of Halo. Instead it was like taking a costume and throwing it over some cheap ass forgettable sci fi plot. And since this was disgusting, who knows if any legit expanded universe media is even gonna done. I've watched a ton of reviews on the show and they all say the same thing. This isn't for anybody. It's so easy to write in the universe. With the amount of history and content it's so fucking easy to make a interesting story. Want a chief story? He's been alive for many many years, you can start literally anywhere and show his character off fully. Want a human story? Show off the UNSC-Insurrection conflict, show the transition into the covenant war, show the war itself. Introduce new characters that enrich the lore with unseen facets of the universe. Include stories with the arbiter, half-jaw, the prophets, even new characters about the minor species, show the life of grunts and drones and hunters. Show off the flood. Make a story about alpha halo and the first encounter with the superweapons. Give a pre-explosion arbiter some screen time, show his realization about the upcoming destruction of the relic of his gods. So much content, so much to show. A TV show would be great as it would allow you to explore the details that showcased. Give us views about the background tech, as you said the orbital platforms would always be cool to see. Even give love to the rest of the UNSC, the helljumpers, marines, ship personnel. This is genuinely frustrating to see. There's no need to be revisionist about existing concepts and stories. Don't overwrite, add to them. Why do so many showrunners feel the need to be contradictory. It's like arrogance, why add to a work when you can just rip what you want and discard the rest. Even a retelling of game content straight up would have been more interesting than this monstrosity. This wasn't a colossal failure, it was heresy.

when they added a sex scene, it just feels like ripoff mass effect and trying to go in that direction and not to mention i heard rumours that when halo was given to 343, almost half of them didnt like halo and wanted to change everything that made halo halo (cough halo 4 mp and halo 5 and halo infinite beta s1-2), this is why halo vets love bungie era halo cus they put much love and time to it

I honestly think that they came up with the "This is the Silver time-line" excuse after they realized that the fans they originally intended the series to be for actually hated it and decided to back pedal and made the excuse and said it was for a "broader audience" to try and face what little face they could.

The moment you watch humans shooting a gun turrent at the covenant doing no damage, but then watch chief pick up same weapon getting a triple kill.... That was my first sign this show was goin suck on multiple levels.

Did we really need chief committing a war crime by screwing a pow? It also legally makes chief a rapist lol! Wtf were the writers thinking.

Early on I was thinking that they could probably pull a George Lucas and make something akin to the Special Edition edits where after the season is done they go back and make certain changes/fixes. This would be stuff like redoing/removing scenes that weren’t working for the sake of pacing, making Ref a Jackal like in that one book (keep Squidward’s house because that was hilarious!), make Chief wear his armor, improve the cgi/fight choreography, and various other small things. I now realize that they’d have to change so much because the show is so fundamentally flawed that you’d be better off just rebooting the thing. They really dropped the ball with this. I’m really sad that it didn’t just stay in development hell. Hopefully season 2 is cancelled, or acts as a reboot that ignored literally everything from the first. They should have just made a mini series that juggles the plots of CE, The Flood book (the parts adapting CE weren’t very good, but the side stories were truly phenomenal), and Fireteam Raven. In terms of tone it would mostly be gritty with a few moments of levity, and have the over the top action with Chief. That way they could ground the audience in the world, while showing that Spartans can do stuff that’s impossible for normal humans. Plus, they’d be able to show off the events from different perspectives. Basically anything would have been much better than what we got.

"We tried to sell Halo to a broader audience" "What did it cost" "Halo's audience"...

Them calling it a silver timeline is just a copout, so they don't have to respect the establish lore. Hollywood is under the wrong impression that they could come up with a better story than what's already there.

"The showrunners basically looked at the box cover art from some random Halo game and was like, Yep that's enough research." I assume they looked at the version of Halo 2's where it's nothing but the oval logo and a 2 inside it.

Me after following this show: Hi Covenant, where's your glassing beam? I would like to use it.

"The Halo TV Series - What Went Wrong?" *It's very existence*

Excellent Assessment. I agree with everything you stated. It was obvious that no one involved played the Games or knew the Lore. They had a Story Already Written... Sad

Thsi show needs a total reboot and people who have actual played or read Halo or at least care about the fans. Imagine Henry Cavill as Chief would be cool imo.

"The other two act more like robots than human being" Wait, that's exactly how they're supposed to act like, they did an awesome job. Its the other ones that were acting like emotional crybabies that completely screwed up their spartan characters.

Loved this loool thank you Fr

Mmm Humans good, you had me dying with that 😂

Omfg thank you all my friends defend this show like its what they grew up with

but EBR you don't understand, the show has warthog so u should be happy and coomsoom content. Don't think, only consume. When I saw Mister Keef I calpped! I knew what that was!... I'm tired of stories getting beaten to death and then passed around for bad installement after bad installment all so some company can show me a jpg of a warthog or starship enterprise or whatever in order to get their piece of the pie. I'm at the point where I just want media I like to die in peace with dignity lol.

Worst part is that episode one was actually pretty good. It was a bait and switch. Episode one sticks to the Halo theme, then once you're in, episode two creates almost an entirely new IP.

After seeing chef took off his helmet. I walked from watching the show. I remember at one of the xbox events, they announced that halo tv show. But it seem that this show was knocked out to meet the quota of "halo show".

I dont blame 343 for this mess, yes someone from 343 had to approve this and I believe they should be fired. But we have seen what 343 can do when given freedom to write. I don't even think Halo 5 is their fault fully due to concept art and the trailers having a different story and I think Microsoft wanted shareholders to be happy with the game. Halsey from 343 was always a good character, she can't rise the Spartan II program to freedom as it was a war crime and she is a criminal for what she did. She is still grey if you watch the scenes from Halo 4 and Spartan Ops. This show is just aess that will be forgotten or remembered for how bad it was

Dear Halo 5, I am sorry for all of the insults I have hurled towards your campaign's story in the past. Sincerely, Bio Goji 1989.

Man, you hit the nail on the head! I had to play some Halo MCC campaign and watch The Fall of Reach just to scrub my mind that nonsense after watching it.

Who ever made this tv show, deserves 20 to life.

They made changes to "subveet expectation", which makes this series a bad way of being introduced to Halo, and it was made by people who don't understand Halo. Halo isn't about human vs human conflicts.

Forgot to mention that only two people could interact with Forerunner tech: Chief and his ‘love interest’. Making those two ‘chosen ones’ was a stupid idea and it completely changes on how the whole war would’ve started.

"Halo is a pretty cool guy" - Showrunners

Its just Halo fan fiction at this point. They dont even have Halo music. Lols. Good video.

Funnily enough, i genuinely think i could write a better narrative than those "writers"

343 Industries, CBS, Hollywood writers. Sooo pretty much EVERYTHING. #LightTheRings

While watching this i got an ad for the show and couldn't help but laugh

Writers are "artists" and they write for themselves. They should have kept this writing to themselves.

Sad that Karl Urban's Dredd from 2012, was a better Master Chief than the one in the current Halo TV series.

you know you fucked up when EBR starts cursing

One word. EVERYTHING

They could've had the arbiter as a way to look at the covenant's perspective. But the show writers suck too much to do that.

Imagine if the TV series followed Spartan II’s on missions. Like we could see more of Arthur, Solomon, Cal, Daisy, and Jorge. We could see Jorge BECOME the ‘Gentle Giant’. In Legends we hear Solomon say “I’ll take my chances” implying he has arrogance to an extent. Cal ONLY talks when she is forced to, her being the ‘Strong and Silent Type’, even more so than Chief. It could also give the novel characters some real exposure, like Naomi from the Kilo-Five books. Musa failed augmentation but kickstarted the Spartan IV program. These characters behave differently so it wouldn’t get boring. Overtime, we could see episodes from the perspective of the Marines or ODSTs to change it up a little. Hell, even an episode from the Covenant or Insurrectionist perspectives would be awesome. I understand the insurrection being in the series, it was the initial enemy for the Spartans to fight.

Halo Tv series is ONLY good because of the action scene despite the odd cgi and visual effects. At least the battle scenes aren't too dark to see and not too shaky like Forward unto dawn's majority action scenes and halo 3 odst live action trailer where the odst runs around and shoot. My favorite character was just Vannak and Kai that's all lol and Vannak acts more like bungie master chief where he spoke less words and more action. Forward unto dawn at least tried to be like the games with chief not having to take of his helmet to show those kids he's human. And the action scenes was the only good thing really reminds me of the later transformers movies lol Transformers 2 to 5

"yeah let's just make a halo TV show now that the hay day and the main trilogy is over and when we can no longer reference marathon(thank god) or anything like that!"

Bro you spoke my mind

I loved the thumbnail lmao

They turned Master Chief into Herman Munster ruining his reputation and that of the Spartans. Wolfkill and producers only had to watch Let's Play game video to understand the lore. The writing is like a bad RPG game where the characters act only when scripted. It's Mass Effect's storyline.

If Paramount doesn't mind trashing their own legacy shows, why would they care about Halo?

I have never seen an episode of this show. Will never. Hopefully Chief will get the respect he deserves in films.

When you’re handling millions of dollars to make a tv show, ruining the franchise is no longer a result of incompetence, but rather maliciousness.

Read a theory that the show was actually meant to be set in Mass Effect, but when they couldn't secure the rights and the green light for that concept and script they jerry-rigged it into the Halo universe. The more I looked at it in that context the more I could see it, in overall tone and some of the stuff they did like Master Cheeks getting it on would not have raised any eyebrows if it was set in the Mass Effect universe. That's the camp I'm in right now to justify in my head how this thing turned out, they wanted to do Mass Effect, but only tweaked the script just enough to fit Halo when that fell through.

Loved it. Never played halo. Now i want to.

if you thought this was going to be good, you've been living under a rock.

“Find the halo, win the war” 🤓

I'm watching this with a grin in my face, this feels like a serious version of a "Terrible Writting Advice", it's only missing the love triangle. XD

This why i wanted Neill Blomkamp to direct the halo tv series he was the one who directed the short film halo landfall.

Same thing that goes wrong with all games made into movies - games and movies are different and to make one into the other you have to change so many things it ends up nothing like people were expecting.

my take on this is just put the ones who made the games in charge with the story and i mean the OG ones from CE to reach those games were great

good thing I never watched the show, did not miss out on a thing it seems

Great video. 💯 you are right.

Yoooo my manz goes in! Im dead 😂😂☠️☠️ No ODST pissed me off

Finally! An honest halo tuber! You have my thanks EBR!

Wasn't the moral ambiguity of Halsey and the O.N.I. explored in the books? Like the O.N.I. aren't good people, but they did incidentally save humanity from a genocidal invasion. Too bad the show didn't even bother with any of this.

Great video, and I 100% agree with everything you said! I only watched one episode of this sh*tshow last year, and I’m still trying to forget about it

Just out of curiosity, did CBS try and copyright strike this video?