How The Halo Show Made My YouTube Start Horrific - A Show That Fails In Every Aspect Of Storytelling

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When I first started KZbin, I made a bunch of videos focusing on the Paramount+ Halo TV show and breaking down its writing. I regret doing this. This video will explain why, as well as my thoughts on the show, how it compares to the mainline universe and how I have little faith in season 2
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Halo 2 (2004)
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[@akumak1ng641]

Its so aggrevating how adaptations of different games are getting better treatment than a beloved franchise like Halo. Last of Us, Arcane, Mario Movie, etc did really well, and yet The Witcher and Halo did the exact opposite :/

[@shreksnow1918]

The new Mario movie is a MASSIVE letdown when you compare it to the masterpiece that was the live action Mario movie from the 90s😂

[@Mac-eo4bc]

​@@shreksnow1918 And Fallout now

[@shreksnow1918]

I remember when this dumpster fire first started I was under the delusion that after the first season was over they’d be able to fix various issues with something akin to the Special Edition edits for Star Wars (ignore any thoughts you may have on how George Lucas changed the Original Trilogy for this comparison). What I mean by that is they’d reshoot certain scenes so that Chief is wearing his armor/helmet, rearrange or cut some scenes for the sake of flow, fix up flaws with the special effects, add in Covenant species where needed like making that Reth guy a Jackal like in the Cole Protocol (keeping Squidward’s house on his desk is absolutely mandatory😂🗿), and some other things. Keep in mind this was before the show jumped the shark and became universally hated. Back then people were still really mixed on it and rapidly changed their minds depending on the quality of each individual episode. I now realize it’s so fundamentally broken that rebooting the thing would be cheaper and easier than completely overhauling what’s already there. The trailers for season 2 electric boogaloo look a lot better and like a step in the right direction. But, Halo has always had INSANE marketing regardless of who was in charge. People forget just how good the whole Hunt the Truth audio drama and dualistic trailers that shows Chief and Lock going after each other were. They were genuinely intriguing and advertised a COMPLETELY different game from what we’d eventually get. I’m sure if they do improve things it will be mediocre at best. It will be a mixed bag that improves in some ways, and regresses in others. I almost don’t want it to get any better and would instead embrace the fact it’s a complete dumpster fire because that would be funny. Just go all out and make it as ridiculous as humanly possible🤣. My ideal Halo show would be a mini series that juggles the plots of CE, The Flood book, and Fireteam Raven. In terms of tone it would be like a gritty war movie that has occasionally moments of levity, Chief is on screen it becomes an over the top 80s action movie to show that Spartans can do things that normal humans simply cannot, and when the Flood show up it shifts into horror and desperation. If they wanted to explore the origins of different characters they could have flashbacks to Fall of Reach, Contact Harvest, Cole Protocol, and other books/comics. The different side stories would also be a great way to show how the different Covenant interact, how the UNSC branches interact, and how the two factions deal with each other. A different timeline would be perfectly fine if they kept it mostly faithful to the source material, and used it as an opportunity to include soft retcons that make connections where none existed previously and tie things in with later lore, as well as rearranging certain events for the sake of flow like what the Resident Evil/Dead Space remakes do. They could also throw in some cut content like Engineers, weapons/vehicles, and the Ring’s wildlife, as well as some things from other games to make it feel more fleshed out. Then if that does well they’d go on and adapt First Strike as a way to lead into Halo 2 (I’ll expand more on what I’d like to see with season 2 if you want. This comment is already long enough).

[@TheDisquietingNight]

That's the issue, though. 80's action heroes are trash according to "modern audience".

[@EndThusIAm]

Another Windows Movie Maker veteran. Hello, brother in arms!

[@TheRealLoomar]

Greetings. It's not the best software, but it's a good, free start for doing simplistic editing

[@EndThusIAm]

@@TheRealLoomar I went ballistic trying to use it for one of my first fandubs. FFVII Last Order, what I ended up doing was rendering as much as possible, then added that to another project to add music and such. Ended up remastering it after using Sony Vegas for the first time for a .Hack GU Trilogy fandub.

[@TheRealLoomar]

Yeah, if it's anything that's more complex than putting a few clips next to each other with some voice over it's not great. Definitely not a precision tool

[@EndThusIAm]

@@TheRealLoomar But as you said, a good starting point and I'm happy it exists. Keep up the good work yourself, I definitely agree with you on Halo 4 being better than most want to say. Although...Reach is my Halo game haha.

[@varogoth]

Halo died when 343 took over, I refuse to play anything after reach

[@JediSteve-J3-]

A shame, but an understandable one.

[@averymicrowave1713]

You know, what's really tragic is that Halo was definitely written with taking notes from popular movies and TV shows, you would think a Hollywood writer would love the story if handed to them. But then again there's too much high-minded ideals in a lot of the games' writing for mass appeal (hence why Halo's more known for gameplay), but ffs you can tell they deliberately turned Halo's story into slop with the Covenant human, helmet removals, absolute parody of the UNSC, general angst, etc. Funny enough people hold TV and movies as being higher, more intelligent entertainment than video games but good God looking at Hollywood has butchered adaptations of different franchises in the past decade (and infected the video game industry with the same overrated writing) you can tell that's BS.

[@cassidybronson6891]

What halo is better in what way is irrelevant. We can all agree that the woke mind virus is a cancer to everything and that what the halo series and recent halo games are suffering from.

[@varogoth]

Truth

[@jimmieloop8587]

Stopped f ing with Halo after reach. ..i liked reach personally but everything after was not interesting at all.

[@Dat_Dude]

How dare you talk shit about Reach

[@TheRealLoomar]

I'll fuckin do it again

[@GundamKnowItAll]

Breaking our hearts