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Neill Blomkamp too yeah? Some of the props were repurposed for District 9.
IIRC the props weren't repurposed for District 9 (though might have been for the Halo 3 live action shorts) but the CG asset for the Flood spore form might have been used in District 9 (the bugs fighting in a little cockfight scene)
 
yup. Kinda sad we never got those movies.They gained steam but then always died.
They were ready to begin filming having gone through all pre-production but arguments between the movie studio and Microsoft over money killed it IIRC. Biggest lost opportunity ever right there. And sadly not the last time the movie rug was pulled from under Blomkamp (Alien 5 taken from him thanks to Ridley Scott backstabbing and Robocop also)
 
3 eps in. better than season 1? yeah. Great? hell no.

The bad from season 1 is carried forward with marginal improvements.

Halo this is not. Generic sci fi CW show with mystical elements and bad soap filler it is.

I will say there may be enough usable material by the time the season ends to edit together a half decent movie.
 
3 eps in. better than season 1? yeah. Great? hell no.

The bad from season 1 is carried forward with marginal improvements.

Halo this is not. Generic sci fi CW show with mystical elements and bad soap filler it is.

I will say there may be enough usable material by the time the season ends to edit together a half decent movie.








The show has little practical tension in it's tone, and the actual stakes are hard to encapsulate for the audience, particularly those who have no immersion in the games themselves.

IMHO, in a production like this, you have to look at the practical mechanics and logistics involved, including your functional budget. You have an "enemy" that will require extensive CGI/SFX, so that limits how often you can use them. Hence you have to create peril and conflict in some other way. This show, in it's current form, tries to push through a type of geopolitical backdrop and investigate the clear psychological damage/emotional damage from the Spartan program.

The world building here is too expansive.

If it was me, and it's not, I'd put these Spartans on the UNSC Leviathan , start the series with a space battle, have the ship be damaged and alone, and then put it on the run. To drag the enemy threat away from other human planets, etc, etc. Still wouldn't cheap, but it would be easier to focus the budget. Also create limits to what the Master Chief has and can use. You can't appeal to the audience by having Master Chief eating soup and talking about his isolation. You need to actually put him into a situation where he's isolated and no help is coming.

One of the struggles of any writers room of shows like this is to actually get people to detach from trying to mirror themes and conflicts in actual present time current events. It's just really hard to do it and not many performers can pull of the volume. Aaron Sorkin could do it because he generated a massive amount of dialogue per script and per episode. But part of that skill was doing heavy exposition drops that could bring the audience up to speed quickly. This is part of why JK Rowling was so successful with the first half of the Harry Potter series. She pumped in a lot of information in a digestible way that wasn't forced upon the reader all at once. You can get away with writing like that if you have Alison Janney doing your dialogue. But you can't with most performers.

Halo, this show, is a version that wants to tell a story that cannot be contained by it's practical logistics and budget. They are intentionally spacing out the action sequences and patching in filler to bridge the gaps. But the attempts at world building, IMHO, is just really inefficient spending waste.

Get smaller. Not bigger. Terminator 1. Predator 1. Aliens. Alien. Die Hard. Robocop. The Thing. Even something modern like Severance. You can do a lot and make something good with a story that is mostly contained. A limping heavily damaged UNSC battle cruiser on the run from the Covenant, that would be plenty to interest the general audience. Try putting Master Chief in a situation where he doesn't have a full army behind him.

But just my take on it.
 
Maybe by season 3 everything will be set for chief to go forward without the bagage characters and we can watch it as if it was season 1 and the first 2 seasons never happened, or maybe a fan can edit the first 2 seasons into 1 good movie by removing all the crap.
 
lol Chief wakes up from his coma and Halo 3 and dreamt about 4,5,infinite and this show and starts freaking out.
 
In the game: Cortana chip placed in chiefs suit to get her off the crashing Pillar of Autumn

In the show: Cortana chip smashed by strong female OC but its ok, she uploaded into the covenant ship computer first. But the ship is crashing with only seconds till impact so Johnny Rings punches the computer which magically allows Cortana to seep into his suit. Then the ship crashes and chief wakes up unharmed in some gras far from the crash site because reasons
 
Because they did the whole “we want to do our own thing. If you don’t like it we don’t care” approach that always works so damn well lol. Good riddance. Man I miss when halo was peak.
 
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