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When does Master Chief fire the reverse pistol.
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I'll find the show more believable when I see him backpack reload.
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Feb 13, 2024 19:37
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RBA Starblade posted:It's Halo, she just respawned ten seconds later Depends on what skulls they have equipped.
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Feb 13, 2024 20:02
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First two episodes of season 2 look promising. I'm a bit of a rube in that I was able to look past a lot of the warts from season one and find enough of it compelling. Honestly I was surprised season 2 got greenlit given how down the reception for season 1 was. Things I liked: The show is still anti-fascist, though jury's out as to if it's as anti-war as season 1. CGI got a bump out of the basement tier that season 1 had. The cold open action sequence was snappy, fast, and brutal while still letting you appreciate the choreography that went into it. I hope to not get anything like that s1 finale sequence's Xbox graphics again. Also, I haven't noticed any obvious "static wide shots of people standing and talking against rear projection" which season one was plagued with. I'm not expecting this show to ever get near The Expanse in terms of quality. But hey, for a pulpy milSciFi with imitation expanse sprinkles it's still got my attention. Kate Kennedy and Pablo Schreiber are definitely fun to watch, at least.
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Feb 13, 2024 20:02
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Season 2 was greenlit before Season 1 even started airing. It's the new thing they do now with their tentpole streaming shows. I think the idea is to build up hype. "Oh this show must be a really big deal, it's such a success it's got a second season already, I think I'll watch it after all!" Despite getting an automatic season 2, these types of shows seem just as likely to be cancelled without a S3 as anything else.
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Feb 13, 2024 21:40
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Back in the day that was just the first season and all 17-23 episodes would run in a row, with an occasional split winter break
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Feb 13, 2024 22:08
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Professor Beetus posted:Back in the day that was just the first season and all 17-23 episodes would run in a row, with an occasional split winter break I prefer today's format since there was way too many filler episodes of stuffs.
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Feb 13, 2024 22:44
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I was a fan of filler episodes. It let them do crazy stuff.
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Feb 13, 2024 22:50
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counterfeitsaint posted:Season 2 was greenlit before Season 1 even started airing. It's the new thing they do now with their tentpole streaming shows. I think the idea is to build up hype. "Oh this show must be a really big deal, it's such a success it's got a second season already, I think I'll watch it after all!" Rings of Power got 5 seasons off the bat l o l
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Feb 13, 2024 22:52
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The filler episodes are what let shows breath and build your characters up. Trying to picture something like DS9 condensed to 9 episodes each season, you'd miss out on so many character moments, so many things that made them rounded people and not a stereotype moving the plot along that you have to get through. I miss a lot of filler episodes for episodic shows. A 22 episode season of Trek SNW, or the orville or whatever kind of thing, is really missed. I know its not feasible in the modern day to do huge seasons, and something like Halo should be more mini-series like, to get to the point and tell the story, not have "on this weeks HALO... 'John, we got a problem! Its the admiral's birthday and we gotta try to throw him a suprise party!" (which frankly makes season 1 all the more baffling). I think a big problem with modern prestige TV is when, ok you've got 8 episodes or whatever for your big story, but then they write it with rambling episodes that don't move the plot along or do anything as if it was a 24 episode show. Season 1 of Halo suffered from that badly.
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Feb 14, 2024 04:09
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I'm glad this show got a second season. It's certainly no masterpiece, but it's interesting enough and is doing some fun things with the concept. I feel like it has a lot going against it, what with story concepts that really don't translate all that well to a tv show, a pretty loud toxic fanbase who hate anything different and the legacy of the 20 years of development hell that Halo movie went through. Curious to see how this season goes and if they're able to shake the negative reputation that the first one has. Regardless of how well it's received, I expect a Season 3 is probably unlikely, what with Paramount imploding.
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Feb 14, 2024 11:10
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Tom Guycot posted:I think a big problem with modern prestige TV is when, ok you've got 8 episodes or whatever for your big story, but then they write it with rambling episodes that don't move the plot along or do anything as if it was a 24 episode show. Season 1 of Halo suffered from that badly. I think a lot of this is born out of production realities. You can only afford so many high quality sets/actors/costumes/CGI assets per season, so you have to meander about in/with those you can afford.
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Feb 14, 2024 12:15
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MiddleOne posted:Isn't the girl just a hologram of some limited AI? I really hope we're not going down the clone pipeline because that tends to get tiring real fast and the way Halo handles AI:s is basically clones anyway. Halsey specifically calls her a clone. Also, why would a hologram have a blood nose?
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Feb 14, 2024 12:34
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Flash clones only last a short time after waking up, a matter of hours. We saw Halsey use one as a decoy to get away last season, and we were told that all the spartan kids were replaced with flash clones as well. Nu-Halsey keeps sending in flash clone copies of the same girl to "attend" to Halsey, who keeps trying to interrogate them asap before they fall over dead. She's not actively trying to hurt or kill the clones, she knows they just have minutes left to live by the time they get to her. I'd guessing its some kind of psy-op, it must be annoying to have to start the questioning process over at the beginning each time, and I wouldn't be surprised if they girl was someone Hasley knows/knew for extra hosed-up-ness, that seems like the kind of thing ONI would do.
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Feb 14, 2024 13:00
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Saw a teaser for tonight - lol Chief was wrong, no Covenant on Reach
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Feb 14, 2024 23:57
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Thom12255 posted:Saw a teaser for tonight - lol Chief was wrong, no Covenant on Reach Ugghhh better not be this
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Feb 15, 2024 03:28
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But in the last episode, we saw them attack Sword Base. As far as I know, that's on reach.
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Feb 15, 2024 04:11
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If only Chief had a trusting, functional relationship with some kind of AI system who could see everything he sees. Wouldn't that make everything simpler.
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Feb 15, 2024 04:11
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drat, they aren’t wasting any time with the Fall of Reach, huh?
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Feb 15, 2024 08:34
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Goddamn, first scene's so loving dark. edit: still can't bring myself to give a poo poo about Kwan Ha and Soren's wife and child. After all the mystical bullshit and Burn Gorman bullyman from season 1, then the planet being glassed and all of that not meaning a goddamn thing, they could have had Kwan die in the Covenant attack and all it would have changed would have been more time watching the entertaining part of the show. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Feb 15, 2024 |
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Feb 15, 2024 12:31
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I do wonder if somebody insisted that they need "a human element" which did not include all the, y'know, humans in the military.
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Feb 15, 2024 13:13
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Dawgstar posted:I do wonder if somebody insisted that they need "a human element" which did not include all the, y'know, humans in the military. I understand the motivation to show characters who exist outside the UNSC, but Kwan's character is wrapped up in some four-quadrant marketing nonsense that doesn't help things. The actress sells her fights really well this season, and I'm assuming based on the knife tapping that she's connecting to whatever is going on with that noise or impulse or whatever that seems buried in the Covenant signal. Jessica Hyde, on the other hand, I don't get. Great actress, but the character doesn't seem to have any strengths. She can't fight, she can't negotiate, she lies for absolute poo poo. She's got some resilience, but she also spent her entire arc this season steadily failing to succeed at everything she attempted. She and Soren's relationship seems mostly like a narrative conceit to pull Kwan into Halsey's orbit. Which could pay off pretty well, given Halsey's scientific predilections.
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Feb 15, 2024 13:23
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Dawgstar posted:I do wonder if somebody insisted that they need "a human element" which did not include all the, y'know, humans in the military. If you involve the military that much you start having to deal with things like, "If the military thinks Master Chief is such an absolute war beast death machine Who Gets The Job Done, how come everybody display like zilch loyalty to him? You telling me he hasn't got some favours and poo poo built up? Bullshit!"
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Feb 15, 2024 13:31
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Every single person in this show is so completely incompetent and disregarding of the existential threat that I am fairly sure we are meant to be rooting for the Covenant
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Feb 15, 2024 16:05
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Oh yeah, anybody know the reason who so many British and Irish people are in this show?
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Feb 15, 2024 16:28
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Monica Bellucci posted:Oh yeah, anybody know the reason who so many British and Irish people are in this show? Because they weren't able to cast transdimensional being Chips Dubbo as the resident Space Australian
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Feb 15, 2024 16:39
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Monica Bellucci posted:Oh yeah, anybody know the reason who so many British and Irish people are in this show? Reach is a colony
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Feb 15, 2024 16:45
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Ratjaculation posted:Reach is a colony Technically Reach was colonized by Hungarians
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Feb 15, 2024 17:33
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So I guess Ackerson hates Halsey because she kidnapped his sister?
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Thom12255 posted:So I guess Ackerson hates Halsey because she kidnapped his sister? Kidnapped, traumatised him and his family with a flash clone replacement and them experimented on the original sister unto death. I suspect he resents the entire ONI endeavor given that he clearly knew about this for years and would have been... discouraged from telling his family.
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Feb 15, 2024 19:00
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Thom12255 posted:Saw a teaser for tonight - lol Chief was wrong, no Covenant on Reach It's going to be a fakeout as the 4th episode is named Reach. if you recall the game Halo: Reach was not an exploration of how Reach is covenant free and a great place to live
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Feb 15, 2024 20:06
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Kwan is a much better character than in the first season. Less talk, more assassinating.
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Feb 15, 2024 20:24
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riz is making real friends and I'm happy for her.
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boo boo bear posted:riz is making real friends and I'm happy for her. I sure hope it goes well for her and they have a long, fulfilling friendship that lasts many years to come!
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Feb 16, 2024 02:51
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This episode.... was good?
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I've been out of the loop about this show until starting it last night. I assume we'll be seeing Spartan-IIIs later this season? Hope they go into how hosed up they are due to their origins.
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Feb 16, 2024 03:22
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SpartanIvy posted:This episode.... was good? Last minute of the episode had me all  legit stoked for next week!
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Feb 16, 2024 04:32
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“I know what I saw!” Chief is infinitely more compelling than video game Chief.
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Feb 16, 2024 05:21
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Marsupial Ape posted:“I know what I saw!” Chief is infinitely more compelling than video game Chief. Gravemind holding up two Chiefs: Game Chief and Show Chief. "This one is machine and nerve and has its mind concluded." "This one is but flesh and cheeks and is the more deluded."
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Marsupial Ape posted:“I know what I saw!” Chief is infinitely more compelling than video game Chief. video game Chief was initially envisioned as the faceless cypher for the player so yeah this season is more interesting and less WTF but we're only on episode 3. Lol that they humanized Ackerson
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