The live-action "Halo" series has been canceled at Paramount+, Variety has learned.
      • @Death_Equity@lemmy.world
        26•4 months ago

        I watched season 1 until the sex scene and closed the tab.

        I watched all of season 2. They obviously did a course correct but were left being dragged down by the events of season 1.

        If they had kept his damn helmet on, done creative ways to mask his face, and kept the story about John’s early days up to Harvest, they would have done great. The fucked up so hard trying to make him into anything but a quippy alien murdering machine and I hate them for it.

          • @Death_Equity@lemmy.world
            2•4 months ago

            They did it right with Dredd.

            We never see John’s face in the source, we should never see his face on film. If they had only shot the back of his head, the reality is maintained and they can tease as much as they want.

            Any actor that respects the role should mandate his face is never shown, but Hollywood did Hollywood things and ruined the adaptation.

            • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
              1•4 months ago

              Halo 3

              Charge up a plasma pistol (to provide illumination) then find a way to back up a other players camera into your face visor.

  • @RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
    64•4 months ago

    343 has so massively blundered with Halo. They didn’t deserve to keep it after what they did with Halo 5. Halo 4 I can forgive, since it was their first solo game. Not Halo 5. That garbage was so awful, it made Call of Duty look like Halo.

    343 should have been dissolved a long time ago, honestly. Halos best game of the 343 era wasn’t even made by 343. Thats embarrassing.

  • ShadowCatOP
    44•4 months ago

    Thank fuck, hopefully if they do try another tv series or even a movie, they make it in the canon timeline and you know, actually good

    • @Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
      29•4 months ago

      I feel like non-canon CAN work, but with the main character being the Chief and not acting very Chief-like, it was doomed to fail from the start. Other Spartans could work. I mean, they made a new one for Dead or Alive, FFS.

      • Omega
        10•4 months ago

        ODST and Reach are 2 of my favorites and they are basically removed from Chief almost entirely.

      • @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
        5•4 months ago

        They also ruined Soren.

        Soren is an established character in the Halo universe and he’s a tragic hero. His fatal flaw is emotional immaturity. He can’t handle his anger and he loses everyone he loves as a result, eventually being easily manipulated by an insurrectionist into going AWOL. Also, he can’t wear MJOLNIR because of his deformities and this is a defining fact for him because it meant he could never be a Spartan. It’s why he’s so angry.

        So naturally in the show they made him a suave and emotionally intelligent pirate captain who loves his wife and son and who wears MJOLNIR armour that he stole when he decided not to be a Spartan.

    • @NightOwl@lemmy.one
      13•4 months ago

      I wish there would be more Edgerunners type releases where it’s a companion piece rather than a direct adaptation which allows for way more creative freedom and less burden of being compared.

    • @MajorHavoc@programming.dev
      7•4 months ago

      Yeah.

      I’m not usually a stickler for canon, but it hurt extra with Halo, because Halo just has so little (compared to much older franchises like Doctor Who, Star Trek or Star Wars) canon to begin with.

      It’s not like they needed to prune things or get a fresh start. There’s so much un-told story in the Halo Universe. It felt so pointless to needlessly mess with what little established canon we have.

      • @Zahille7@lemmy.world
        2•4 months ago

        I said it on the old Halo subreddit and got disagreed with almost unanimously, but this is exactly how I feel. Except about how little lore, because there’s actually a lot when you take into account the books, comics, and short stories.

        But the whole “fractures” thing they introduced with Infinite and the alternate armors coming from alternate timelines was just unnecessary. We don’t need different timelines or a “Halo multiverse.”

        • @MajorHavoc@programming.dev
          2•4 months ago

          We don’t need different timelines or a “Halo multiverse.”

          Agreed. I think having alternate timelines or worse, dimension hopping, detracts from Halo’s roots in real war, where actions have devastating consequences.

        • @MajorHavoc@programming.dev
          2•4 months ago

          Except about how little lore, because there’s actually a lot when you take into account the books, comics, and short stories.

          Yeah. I don’t mean to belittle how much lore Halo does have! I’ve enjoyed a great deal of it.

          I just mean to say that, as a younger franchise, Halo isn’t at a Star Wars or Marvel Comics level of ludicrously weighed down by lore. So I feel like the first show could have done a lot more to navigate within established lore.

  • @M500@lemmy.ml
    3•4 months ago

    I was a big halo fan growing up. And I couldn’t get past the opening scene. It was pretty bad.

    Makes me wonder how the zelda series would do. These two are basically silent protagonists. I don’t see how they can be adapted to something other than a game.

  • @Raiderkev@lemmy.world
    2•4 months ago

    Still haven’t bothered watching season 2. I begrudgingly watched season 1 despite it pissing me off at every turn. The decision to not base it on canon was terrible. Chief is probably the easiest character to write for, and they just completely botched him. Having a human covenant spy also was dumb. Also whoever ran props can get fucked for literally giving AKs to the rebel group in 1 of the episodes and not in universe guns. I knew season 2 had been out a few months and couldn’t bring myself to watch it. I might get bored and give it a go at some point, but I can’t imagine it’ll be any better.