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343 has botched the Halo narrative in general from the time they took over the series. I had no faith in this show whatsoever. 343's spin on Halo hasn't been very compelling and in most cases is totally hallow
Both Paramount & 343 have said the show is not canon.343 has botched the Halo narrative in general from the time they took over the series. I had no faith in this show whatsoever. 343's spin on Halo hasn't been very compelling and in most cases is totally hallow
That’s fine but I don’t believe in their ability to make a compelling narrative with any Halo IPBoth Paramount & 343 have said the show is not canon.
I have the exact opposite opinion. On everything you wrote.This show is an embarrassment.
Imagine going from a rumored Neill Blomkamp/Peter Jackson joint (eventually became District 9) to this garbage.
I'm convinced anyone who enjoys this doesn't actually like halo.
I have the exact opposite opinion. On everything you wrote.
343 has botched the Halo narrative in general from the time they took over the series. I had no faith in this show whatsoever. 343's spin on Halo hasn't been very compelling and in most cases is totally hallow
I thought Halo 4 had a brilliant campaign, but they lost me when they introduced Sci-Fi Nations One to the universe and how they fought the Forerunners to run away from the Flood (writing that made me lose brain cells lol). That moment then gets excerbated during the first couple of seconds of the Halo 5 opening trailer where it was like Michael Bay on loads of coke.This show is an embarrassment.
Imagine going from a rumored Neill Blomkamp/Peter Jackson joint (eventually became District 9) to this garbage.
I'm convinced anyone who enjoys this doesn't actually like halo.
Now, on the eve of the video game adaptation’s UK streaming debut on Paramount Plus, 343 Industries and Halo series producer Kiki Wolfkill says the creative team is "looking at all the feedback, good and bad" ahead of production starting up on the second season.
"We’re still getting feedback. It’s interesting to me to see characters that are resonating or not," Wolfkill tells GamesRadar+ over Zoom.
"I will say, philosophically, [we are] absolutely looking at all of the feedback, good and bad, from each episode. And those are the things that will carry forward as learnings into season two, just like all of the learnings we had on season one [that] we get through the course of production, we’ll carry those forward. We will look at everything."
The fans, then, will likely have a say in how the Halo series moves forward. It was one decision in pre-production, however, that was expected to caused a considerable amount of debate behind-the-scenes – and it’s not the one you’re thinking of.
"One of the big shifts that we did for the very mainstream – and by that, I mean people who may have just played the games and not read the books – was bringing in the timeline of the Insurrection up against the Covenant War," Wolfkill says of the two events that, in previous Halo media, were about three decades apart.
"We bring that up so that we could actually get a view into the sort of the sociopolitical dynamics of the inner colonies, the outer colonies, and the UNSC role in that," she continues. "Also the idea that, for a lot of people in the human colonies, the Covenant War wasn’t always front and center in the way it was for the UNSC and for the people on the frontlines."
At the time, however, Wolfkill admits the shifting of key events felt like a "breach": "It’s funny now looking back on it because that feels very appropriate for what we wanted to do with the story," Wolfkill recalls. "At the time, it felt like such a big change…That’s one of those places where it does help flesh out the world for viewers in a way that's a little more comprehensive and lets us touch on these themes that we would not have been able to do if we were looking at the Insurrection as something that had happened decades in the past."
Not super surprised. It wasn't as bad as some thought it was and definitely got better as it went on, but it wasn't really Halo. More like inspired by Halo.