Halo' TV Series Moves From Showtime to Paramount+ (DISCUSSION)

neoafrican

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Why you say this?

I really like master chief fighting the flood and Covenant. The horror aspects and isolation as well as the music.

I want to tune into a space Waking Dead type show (which is a little bit what the Flood on the Halo ring were like). And maybe watch a separate Expanse type show, which is what the Soren and girl stuff fees like.
 

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I really like master chief fighting the flood and Covenant. The horror aspects and isolation as well as the music.

I want to tune into a space Waking Dead type show (which is a little bit what the Flood on the Halo ring were like). And maybe watch a separate Expanse type show, which is what the Soren and girl stuff fees like.

Got it.

I was never a big Halo fan so I'm coming at different
 

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By the way does anybody sense a fifth element type vibe with the alien broad and the master chief.. she was basically gonna turn into Leelu and now shes the evil leelu( fuck humans and love haha)
 

playahaitian

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They just killing prominent characters left and right.

I don't know if it's for story

Or for budget

But OK.
 

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Halo TV Boss Discusses Master Chief Having Sex For The First Time
There was "a lot of conversation" about whether or not to have Chief go to bed with Makee, Kiki Wolfkill says.

By Eddie Makuch on May 19, 2022 at 10:04AM PDT
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In the first season of Paramount +'s Halo TV series, Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) has sex, a moment that generated a lot of discussion and debate online. Halo's Kiki Wolfkill has now shed some further light on the intimate moment, saying the creative team on the show went back and forth on the idea.
"There was a lot of conversation leading up to whether to do that or not and it was a tough one. I mean, I will say that there's a lot of different opinions and voices," she told Deadline.
From Wolfkill's own perspective, she believes Chief and Makee (Charlie Murphy) hooking up was an important moment to demonstrate that Chief was capable of having a "human connection with someone."
"There's a lot of different opinions on how to do that, and ultimately, we ended up with that path and I think a lot of us feel conflicted about it and that's not a bad thing," Wolfkill said.
Wolfkill went on to say that Chief and Makee going to bed together helped make Chief's storyline and character arc more genuine and believable. Whereas Chief begins Season 1 as a soldier through and through, he becomes a "fully defined character" along the way, in part by sleeping with Makee.
"It's super interesting to be able to see his journey, and you know, admittedly some controversy along the way in getting there," Wolfkill said.
Going into Season 2, Wolfkill said she hopes the audience can "rise beyond" that sexy moment and appreciate Chief for all that he is. And once again, Wolfkill reminded everyone that the Halo TV series sits within the Silver Timeline, which is separate from the games. As such, the TV series will sometimes show Chief in a different light than the games and books. After all, Chief also removes his helmet in the TV show, which is something he never does in the games.
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The Halo TV show's Season 1 finale debuted today, May 19. The series is coming back for a second season, but no release date or other details have been announced yet.
 

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‘Halo’ Season Finale: EP Talks
’s Death, Season 2 Plot & “Controversy” Around Master Chief’s Love Life
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the Halo season finale “Transcendence.”
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bounces back from a conflicting moment with an action-packed finale that’s reminiscent of the games and sets a new path forward for John, Cortana, Halsey and more.
Written by Steve Kane and Kyle Killen, “Transcendence” picks up after the brutal Spartan-on-Spartan battle. John (Pablo Schreiber), bloodied and bruised, stumbles around the rubble to reach Kai (Kate Kennedy) and search for Makee (Charlie Murphy). The Covenant spy and his one night stand escaped via Phantom with the artifact to the Covenant base.



Amid the chaos on Reach, Vannak (Bentley Kalu) threatens to kill Kai but John tells his fellow super soldiers about Halsey’s brainwashing, with the help of Captain Keyes (Danny Sapani). John convinces them to work with him to regain the artifact. Before they could leave for the Covenant, Kai pursues Halsey and demands details of her personal life and identity. Before she can get anything substantial, Halsey makes a quick exit through an escape pod. With that, the UNSC has yet another fugitive to hunt down.

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John, Cortana (Jen Taylor), Miranda (Olive Gray) and Parangosky (Shabana Azmi) meet to talk strategy. They look to find the Covenant planet and John promises that Silver Team can make it to the planet. Parangosky supports John, but encourages him to set his personal feelings aside. Keyes apologizes to John for his complicity in Halsey’s experiments, but John promises a reckoning in the future. Silver Team boards the Forward Unto Dawn while some UNSC Marines detain who they think is Halsey after her pod crashes.
En route to the Covenant base, Cortana comes clean about Halsey’s plan to takeover John’s body completely. She explains that she disobeyed orders to save John’s humanity. After a turbulent journey, Silver Team reaches the Covenant base.
Back at Reach, Miranda sits down with her mother, and shares that the court has decided to execute Halsey. In the process of the execution, Miranda realizes that her mother left a clone in her place and that she continues to roam free.
Chief and his team face off with Covenant Grunts, picking up needlers and various Covenant weapons on the way to the artifact. During the Covenant ritual, Makee and John reconnect at the Halo, revealing Silver Team to Covenant forces. A horde of Elites emerges to fend off the Spartans in a battle that feels reminiscent of the games’ brute combat. Silver Team struggles to hold their own, with John failing to best Covenant forces. Makee manages to stop a fatal blow by touching the keystone, which which transports her and John back to the Halo. While trying to convince John to help her activate the Halo, Makee collapses after Kai shoots her. With Makee down, the starmap to the first Halo’s left incomplete.



Now, Chief must decide whether to save the artifact or his team members, who fight for their lives. He surrenders control to Cortana who will accomplish both. Master Chief, but not John, returns with renewed strength and impeccable killstreaks. He easily demolishes all the Covenant troops, with the help of Cortana remotely controlling the Forward. Without a word, he carries out the artifact.
Undetected by the UNSC, Halsey muses about the “unguided evolution” and the “true potential” of humankind on the outskirts of Reach. “I suspect the Halo will be the key,” she hypothesizes.
Master Chief steers back to Reach. But noticing a silent, seemingly emotionless and once again faceless Chief, Kai asks what viewers may be wondering as well: “John, is that you?”
Executive producer Kiki Wolfkill spoke to Deadline about Season 2, weighed in on the Episode 8 moment that left fans split and working with new Halo showrunner David Wiener. Read the full interview, which has been edited for length and clarity, below.
DEADLINE: It seems like you were saving one of the biggest battles for last with the Spartans really going head-to-head with Covenant forces. How did this finale come together?
WOLFKILL: We definitely wanted to end with a huge Spartan moment, and I think what we’ve seen through the season is this race to get to understanding where the Halo ring is. We understand that’s the thing that these artifacts are pointing towards and that’s the thing that the Covenant are trying to get to, and ultimately, we in UNSC understand that that’s the thing we want to get to as well. I felt it was inevitable we would get to this point where we would understand sort of the power of these artifacts together.
It was important for John and Cortana and their relationship, which in season one is quite new, to have that trust relationship solidified. It felt like there’s a lot of things we had been taking our time to get to through the season, and I think we always knew that they were all going to come together in this finale moment.
DEADLINE: What were some of the challenges, if any, of putting this massive battle together? Audiences saw Needlers, Covenant Grunts and a number of other easter eggs.
WOLFKILL: The thing that’s most important to start off with crafting any of these battle sequences is there’s still a story to be told. It’s not just action. There’s a story you want the audience to be able to follow through the actors of the whole battle.
Then, you layer on top of that the complexity of bringing these CG, the Covenant to life in a way that feels believable. The Spartan action, people probably think of as being easy because we’ve done it for so long in the games. Doing it in live action and doing it with real physical, practical armor in sand with real actors and stunt actors with pyro going off and blue screens – it’s madness. It’s literal madness.
The funnest part of that is the sights and sounds of Halo. The easter eggs, and how do you create a battle that somebody can watch and because they have such a visceral understanding of how it feels to play through a battle like that, how do you relay that feeling to a viewer when they don’t have the controller in their hand and have that same intensity and excitement? The thing about Halo is that you have such much muscle memory around it. Those battles are really, really insane to produce.
DEADLINE: The finale comes after a very intimate moment between John and Makee. The two sleep with each other in Episode 8 and that elicited a very strong reaction from Halo fans. What did you think about that reaction?
WOLFKILL: There was a lot of conversation leading up to whether to do that or not and it was a tough one. I mean, I will say that there’s a lot of different opinions and voices.
I will say from my perspective, having the audience getting to understand what it means for him to make sort of a human connection with someone, with Makee, was important. There’s a lot of different opinions on how to do that, and ultimately, we ended up with that path and I think a lot of us feel conflicted about it and that’s not a bad thing.
I think ultimately what we’ve been able to deliver on with this season is a Master Chief who is wholly the soldier, and hero, and leader that he has always been and we also leave the season with a character in John who is really a fully defined character. It’s super interesting to be able to see his journey, and you know, admittedly some controversy along the way in getting there.
My hope is that we can all sort of rise beyond that and sort of look at where we end up with Chief and with John going into season two. I believe really strongly that we have an amazing story to tell with him and we’ll continue to do so, and sometimes as we know with the Silver Timeline that it’ll be different than we’ve seen him before. But who he is as a character both as Master Chief and as John is wholly the same.
 

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Halo co-creator reacts to TV series: 'Not the Halo I made'
By Andy Chalk published about 2 hours ago
Bungie veteran Marcus Lehto said he doesn't hate the show, it's just very different from the Halo he knows and loves.
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I have not watched the Halo television show on Paramount+, so I have no opinions on it. Former Halo art director Marcus Lehto has seen it, however, and he does have opinions—and he hasn't been shy about sharing them on Twitter.


Lehto was with Bungie from the early days, credited for graphics and artwork on Myth: The Fallen Lords before becoming art director on Halo: Combat Evolved, a role he held through Halo 2 and 3. He then served as creative director on Halo: Reach, the last Halo game to be developed by Bungie, before leaving the studio in 2012.

It's fair to say that history entitles him to some thoughts about the Halo TV series, and he's been sharing a few of them on Twitter. "I'm still getting through the series. Lots of mixed emotions and opinions!" he said last weekend, when a follower first asked him about it.
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That opinion seemed to harden a couple of days later, though. "I'm not sure where the inspiration for the show comes from now," he tweeted during a conversation with followers. "Not the Halo I made." In response to another fan, he quickly clarified the point: "The Halo I helped make."
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It sounds pretty harsh, but Lehto later noted that he wasn't implying criticism, just change. "For clarity, I never said I didn't like it," he tweeted later on. "It's just so different than the Halo I helped make—it's like a different universe.


"I actually like some of the battle scenes. Cool action and some great VFX. In particular, the plasma hit effects in ep1 are spot on."


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It's not too hard to understand Lehto's perspective. He's one of the original leading figures responsible for the creation of Halo so he's bound to have deep connections to it, but he's also been away from the series for well over a decade—Halo: Reach came out in 2010. Things have changed a lot since then, and it's fair for Lehto (or anyone, really) to say that it's cool, but it ain't my Halo.

(To be fair, the Halo series didn't exactly knock our socks off either, although chatter around the virtual office suggests some have warmed to it. It's amazing what a little ass can do.)

When he's not talking about the Halo TV series on Twitter, Lehto is heading up a new studio at Electronic Arts, where he's working on the Battlefield series.



 
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You know when you can tell some ethnic background seeping in the DNA of a woman. That's what I saw in the other Spartan who had the least lines. Turns out she is British but her pops is from St Vincent. Her name is Natasha Culzac.

Yeah she probably don't have a body but I will go a round with her tall Spartan/Amazonian self....

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I was so pumped for this and then he took off his helmet in the 1st episode. Really. It wasnt until like Halo 4 for that to happen. My son would not watch another episode. I understand artistic integrity but somethings have to be observed.

The 1st season was ok, especially if you have no Halo knowledge.
 

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I was so pumped for this and then he took off his helmet in the 1st episode. Really. It wasnt until like Halo 4 for that to happen. My son would not watch another episode. I understand artistic integrity but somethings have to be observed.

The 1st season was ok, especially if you have no Halo knowledge.
That last line was for people like me

zero halo knowledge
 

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I was so pumped for this and then he took off his helmet in the 1st episode. Really. It wasnt until like Halo 4 for that to happen. My son would not watch another episode. I understand artistic integrity but somethings have to be observed.

The 1st season was ok, especially if you have no Halo knowledge.
That last line was for people like me

zero halo knowledge

^^^^

Yup

I forgot all that stuff

And remember it's a business

They need non Halo fans to watch too.

Cause these diehards complain but most in the end still gonna watch any way.

Now let's see how many are like your son and stay committed to skipping this.
 

blackbull1970

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Episodes One and Two

I finally got around and watched the first two episodes the other night while in my truck.

I will say that I have no knowledge of Halo, the video game and whatever there is they have out there. So I basically went into this series like going into Virgin Pussy for the first time.

For somebody not knowing anything, the way it started out with primary character introduction/development was done well. It looks like they did it for gamers and folks like me. It was quick and informative.

The primary story from what I have seen so far was clear, direct and simple. Nothing complicated.

VFX/SFX was ok. Nothing impressive and I didn’t see anything that would make you go “WOW”. It came off like what we saw in the SYFY Channel Battlestar Galactica in how it was presented.

My only pet peeve was when they showed the alien Covenant, they started out talking their native language with subtitles in episode one. They showed them again in episode 2 and they still talking their native language with subtitles. Shit was annoying cuz I was sitting there eating dinner and I had to stop stuffing my face to look at the damn screen. I understood doing it in the premiere episode, but after that mofos need to be speaking the English already.

HaHa!! :cool:

So far it is playing out ok. It’s different from whatever else is out there, so that makes it stand out for now.

Hoping to get the season completed before the end of the month.
 
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