Halo S1E05 Watch Along
Added 2022-04-21 20:12:16 +0000 UTCHey Peaches! We've been waiting. And waiting. Watching a lot of really good character development and drama play out. But finally! Master Chief, has returned, to the Battle Field. Strap in, and make sure your shields are fully charged cause this is one heck of the fight.
Comments
I'm sorry, but the plasma pistol is the WORST weapon in the whole game
Stephen Lawrence
2022-05-09 20:43:14 +0000 UTCSeveral thoughts 1) I absolutely do not care about the whole Madrigal storyline. I want the girl to be smart and this whole "Yeah, sure I have lost every family member I have known, I ahve no money, resources or freedom fighters, BUT I REFUSE TO GIVE UP THE FIGHT! is just terrible. Just ONCE I want someone to look at a character like that and go "Okay then, off you go" and let them die horribly. I just wish she would be 10% smarter and realize she needs to go away and regroup FOR YEARS in order to legitimately do what she wants. 2) Miranda IS distractingly cute and she also has just the right mix of hyper competence and awkwardness. 3) I am pretty much in love with Kai and her trying to find her new self. 4) If I had a Cortana I would just hope she would be a Her situation, because otherwise there would be some very awkward times whenever you have sex with just yourself or with someone else.
Ryan Weishaar
2022-04-24 23:04:07 +0000 UTCI'm not on board with hating the girl. Also, you two need to have some kind of animated show!
Gand
2022-04-22 17:07:53 +0000 UTCthe lack of action early on was deliberate... most people know about the action, but they may not be book readers, where a lot of character development took place.... so we've spent time early on building the characters. Now that's happened, the battle can happen.
Rob Dean
2022-04-22 10:51:16 +0000 UTCI think your lack of bonding goes back to something you mentioned last week, which is that you're not thinking about this between eps. That's totally fair given that this isn't main channel work, but I can tell that's the case in terms of structural details you're not putting together. I'm not waiting to see action. I'm getting a surprise really solid scifi show that's easing some of my mourning for The Expanse. While I really like Moon Knight, I find this to be the vastly more interesting of the two b/c we get psychological superhero fare (Daredevil, Legion, etc.) far, FAR more often than we get good militaristic scifi.
M Bee
2022-04-22 10:33:24 +0000 UTCI'm HOPING that this show is just going through the growing pains of setting up exposition in Season 1. I'm not a Halo player, but I do love everything in this show...that isn't strictly about Madrigal. If that stuff wasn't there, I guarantee more people would be as into this story as I am. Now Kwan Ha might turn out to be a great character with some relevance to the overall plot, but so far we're really not seeing that. I like Miranda a lot and I feel like the Spartans may transfer their trust from Halsey to her. Kai is my fave character outside of Master Chief, and I suspect she'll ask to have herself re-pilled, but who knows if you can even go back to that once you've been human? I'm really crossing my fingers and hoping for the show to pick up momentum in the second half.
Bethlee Swanson
2022-04-22 08:11:15 +0000 UTCOne word……NEEDLER!!! 😆
Joey (Hustlemando)
2022-04-22 02:15:55 +0000 UTCMiranda @ 3:45 - "What's Halsey doing, setting up her own coloney?" Me - "Behold the battlefield!" Yeah, I agree the pacing is a little off, but I was having the same conversation with a friend that you guys had at the end. There were 3 ways this could have gone: 1) Hardcore end-to-end combat. I was afraid they would pick this option, because it would be a waste of a show - you could just plug in an XBox and watch your friend play the game. Plus any movie that's done this sucks. Act of Valor was a balls to the wall shootout, complete with all the military toys (like GAU-6 gatlings on the back of assault speedboats), but nobody remembers anything about it (hell, I had to google for 10 minutes to find the title!). Important characters die and you don't care. Bad guy dies and you're like "OK, I guess we win?" Any memorable war movie/show, like Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan, are like 70 to 80% story to 20 or 30% combat. I mean, would we be freaking out about Kai right now if we hadn't spent the last two episodes seeing the effects of removing pellets? 2) Obligatory fight of the week. This was the thing Adam brought up from all our favorite cheesy shows of the 80s, 90s and 00s. Problem is that it's contrived and gimmicky. It doesn't serve the story, and then we just end up making fun of it, "OK, here comes Elite platoon of the week..." You can only cycle through so many combat weapon combinations before the show is boring. 3) Let the story play out. This is basically what they did, and I think it was the right call, but yeah, the pacing seems off. I suspect it's the format of the series. Having multiple seasons means they're really drawing out/spacing out the story quite a bit. Plus, they're pulling in a lot of threads and arcs. And, they drop a single episode every week, so you stew for a week wondering when the payoffs are coming. When all is said and done, and we watch the whole thing to conclusion, we might realize they spent the right ratio of story-to-combat, but we won't know that until end of season 2, and we'll be fretting about it a week at a time until then. The payoff beats just need to come a little sooner, even if they are smaller bits at time, and even they aren't necessarily combat.
Droid Herder
2022-04-22 01:12:43 +0000 UTCRelease the foam! The beat has dropped and we finally got the fight we wanted. What an epic battle sequence. I hope things just continue to go up from here. As someone who's never played the games, I've been actually really enjoying the character development.
Sean Teng
2022-04-21 23:15:57 +0000 UTC
