 Well, it's finally here. We only waited near on a decade for this to be created, having tossed out multiple movie scripts, television show scripts, directors, producers, a buttload of people. We finally have a Halo media of some sort, and I still don't know how to feel about it. Hey guys, this is my review of the first episode of the new Halo series produced by Paramount. I've been a big Halo fan. It's pretty much the reason why I got a console in the first place. Playing Halo back in 2002, my cousin's console was a mind-blowing experience to me. Even with the recent shortcomings in certain areas withstanding, I've always been a fan of the media, the characters, the world, and just the entire universe it is based on. To see a television show clearly have a lot of visual and reference material to the games that it's based on. Yet it is a completely non-canical story, which means that it's not going to be following the events of the games. It's going to be doing it at its own pace, but it is clearly still trying to have some kind of respect for the original fanbase. But then it also does almost near on nothing to help introduce a newcomer to this show. To say that it does the bare minimum is a stretch, because this is an episode that is an hour long, yet they really tear and stretch a 22 minute pilot episode concept over the course of an hour. The pilot episode opens with a colonial planet full of, I guess you would call them rebels or renegades, people who don't want to be a part of the UNSC, getting absolutely fucked by the Covenant. Fricking first person gets blasted into pieces. I was not expecting that, but I am not going to complain about it either. And then when Master Chief appears and he starts fucking up all the other Covenant, there's some really decent fight scenes in here, if a little bit kind of hokey with the CG, but again this is a television show so you're not expecting $200 million per episode CGI effects, but you're still gonna get pretty good CG effects for most things. Just some things are a little bit clunky. Seeing the Chief on screen got me Jonesed every time. It was actually really cool. Admittedly, there were some bits where he was using the exact same guns that the rebels were using and it was shown that the bullets were just bouncing off the Covenant elites, yet when Chief did it, it worked just the same. I'm not gonna complain about it because he looked badass doing it every time. Definitely the action of this show is a high point. The first 20 minutes is this battle scene, essentially, and that's pretty cool. And then the other stuff starts to take over. We get introduced to this version of Catherine Halsey. We get introduced to Jacob Keys, Miranda Keys. Halsey I'm a little bit out on because I don't know if this woman is gonna try and emote anything more than a wet paper bag. To say that she's nothing like Halsey that we know is a disservice. To say that she's like any kind of human character would probably be a little bit more accurate because she's deadpan. Very little emotional curve or any kind of difference to her to make any sort of differentiation from any other what be character that this show could introduce. So they really have to improve that Halsey element. One thing I will say that I did like that is going to be a little bit controversial for some people is the chief because the chief definitely has a lot more of an emotional basis to him than he did when he was first introduced into the into the video games. They're really taking a lot of references from Halo 4 in particular. Maybe a little bit of Halo 5 which I'm gonna say really out of all the ones you're gonna reference you're gonna reference those two. Sure those do have a little bit more development for the chief per se because that is what you are trying to do especially for those audience members who don't really know a lot about Halo. You're trying to create this emotional connection with this main character who yeah they do something at the end of this first episode that might quite rightly should piss a lot of people off. Again this is the different direction they are trying so again this is not canon. This is their own interpretation of it so as long as they can kind of hold that line in terms of being respectful to Halo but also carving their own path. Sure but as I said at the beginning of this review it's a very short lived idea concept that is stretched over an hour and you don't get a lot of world building nowhere near as much as you would hope. At one point we see high charity which you and me as Halo fans would understand but anyone who has no idea what this is they're like what the fuck is this thing what is this upside down organic screw head flying in space doing what is this weird aging floating's nutsack doing talking to this weird albino white chick who looks like she could be a related Dakota fanning which by the way we don't know that either that's a new concept apparently to this show and I still have absolutely no idea how the fuck they're going to explain this. For the amount of time that we were given in this episode and so much of it was based on the chief and his actions that happened after him touching this they don't say the word but possibly forerunner artifact he starts to have kind of confictions and weird thoughts about who he is and what he means and there's this whole sort of insurgent thing where they almost kind of have a mutiny against him. Sure it's a little bit dramatic sure it's a little bit nail biting because you're kind of wondering how was the situation going to turn out regardless it still doesn't really hook you I really kind of questioned it why they would do just this episode first if they did release a second episode and I just don't know about it I'm not watching this on Paramount Plus because I don't have access to it I'm going to just do the 30 day trial once this is all said and done sure you don't want to pull all of your ace cards but I feel this is more like a seven of clubs rather than a face card or an ace really you should have done two episodes I think they should have done that because I'm very curious as to how the numbers will reflect the reception as they come out with more and more episodes because so far the most that we've seen in terms of anything is middling from most people are very kind of depressed sort of view which is also kind of my view on it I feel that this has some potential it's not going to follow the same storyline we are going a little bit of a different direction and if they can land those different jump points maybe this can work but they still have a lot of a ways to go and they definitely need to improve on the human characters but in the end I'm going to give this opening episode of the Halo series a three out of seven it's an entertaining first watch but then everything afterwards is quite drivel drawn out and doesn't take enough time to help further establish this universe both for people who are fans of the video game series and especially for those who have no fucking clue what's going on but anyways those are my thoughts on the opening episode what are your guys's I'm very interested to see what you guys have to say if you're going to be following along with this show or not I hope you enjoyed this review if you did leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe either way guys I'll see you guys next week when the next episode comes out