Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
One of the worst second episodes to a show I have ever seen. This will be my last time reviewing this show.
Where to begin…. The thing I had the biggest issue with was the fact that this episode let all the air out of the balloon in terms of the momentum the first episode set up and greatly slowed down the pace. I wasn’t expecting all that much from this second episode, especially after the mixed bag that the first episode was, but I was at least expecting it to not be dull, sadly that is too much to hope for.
Moreover, though last week I said I didn’t really care that this show completely ignored the games and the pre-established lore, well things changed here. Midway through the episode I realised that this show has the exact same problem as Netflix’s Witcher series, it takes character names and the franchise name but it makes something unrecognisable out of it. By all intents and purposes, this is just a deeply generic science fiction show with the Halo name slapped over it.
Further in that vein, Master Chief, played by Pablo Schreiber, is taking off his helmet so much here that you forget he even is Chief at times and think you are following a new if entirely forgettable character, but no.
I won’t even start on what they are doing with Cortana, but I will say yikes.
Overall a huge miss for Paramount +.
Pros.
Pablo Schreiber is really trying and deserves far better than this mess.
Cons.
This isn’t Halo
Master Chief constantly taking his helmet off
Cortana
The pacing
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