Anyone else watch the series yet? I just started and the art style is terrible. Admittedly I am an animation snob and I think this series would have benefited greatly from from traditional animation. The inclusion of Jorge was a nice touch though.
The animation was fine. I wish it was longer though
The problem with the Fall of Reach is that it directly contradicts the events of HALO: Reach. In TFoR, the Covenant invasion lasts a day or two before they’ve won. In HR it lasts for about a month. Until some way is found to reconcile both stories to have the canon make sense and work without substantially altering either story, it’s going to be in this weird limbo place.
As far as the art style goes, whoever decided to give things that take place before the human-covenant war the Halo 4 art style should be fired. It looks absurd and goes against the book, especially when the series even lacks internal consistency with its art style. The company they chose certainly made some cool videos for the Halo 4 terminals, but their animation is sloppy and the painterly look doesn’t work. It should have either been a traditional animation project or sourced to BLUR.
343 should’ve used this series to clear up as many of the contradictions as possible. All I saw was verifying Jorge was a spartan II which was a very minor thing really and open the door to a larger class of Spartan IIs by changing the number of dead after augmentation but not establishing the number of graduates. This series was a waste of time for anyone that has even cursory knowledge of the Spartan II program.
needs to be longer
I really enjoyed it. Having Halo 4 Elites, version of the BR that wasn’t created then etc. doesn’t really ruin it for me. In my opinion it’s just nitpicking.
It honestly made more problems than it cleared up. My friend and I found more enjoyment correcting their mistakes in it than the actual series. The fight scene on the Atlas… how could they mess up so bad? They made John nothing but a bully in the series, and that really sucks.
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> It honestly made more problems than it cleared up. My friend and I found more enjoyment correcting their mistakes in it than the actual series. The fight scene on the Atlas… how could they mess up so bad? They made John nothing but a bully in the series, and that really sucks.
Yeah, that really bothered me. I was screaming at my TV when John jumped on the ODST and started beating him.
Well that company animates like that. They did the same thing with the terminals in Halo: CEA, Halo 2A, and Halo 4.
I liked it but it was short.
I would be interested to see them do some of the other books.
Overall I enjoyed it. The art style while a bit choppy was not to bad, did not really hurt my viewing experience.
I was disappointed with certain things that contradicted the book. With the coin if I remember correctly John catches the coin as it is falling and calls it correctly, much cooler than repeating the same test. Blue Team in training was just John, Kelly, and Sam originally; Fred and Linda may have been added later or for certain exercises but they were not mentioned directly as part of Blue Team in training. The line about highest rank possible being Master Chief is 1. wrong, Fred was made a lieutenant in Ghosts of Onyx 2. really just pandering to the games. It seems 343 really wants to push customized MJOLNIR but in the books the Mark IV and V all look the same and are not numbered on the chest. This was a nice touch because it gave Halsey a little more character depth when she could tell the Spartans apart in their armor.
It gave Blue Team more characterization and development than ‘Halo 5’ did, so there’s something at least.
I have only started watching it, not got the entire time to get through it but it does appear to be short which suits me if I can fit it in.
I noticed a comment about development of the Blue team in Halo 5 and all I can say is.
I completely agree, I was excited about Blue Team being in it but I was disheartened by the lack of development for them. Here is to hopefully more in Halo 6?
Wasn’t impressed really thought it was gonna be longer than 3 episodes. Maybe they should cut a deal with Netflix and let them do a animated series.
Regarding the inconsistencies, we have to take into account that each act is narrated from a specific in-universe perspective, so there may be a bit of “unreliable narrator” at play.
All in all, I kinda missed Sigma Octanus IV and the actual fall of Reach in the series.
Gotta agree, the style of animation was ugly. What has happened to traditional 2D hand drawn animation?
And yes, way too short. It should have covered most of the book, not a fraction of it. It was nice to see and hear Fred, Kelly, and Linda in action. That was one of my biggest problems with H5. A total lack of characterization for them. In the game they felt hollow and arbitrary.
Loved it, it only proved that TFoR could have made for an amazing big screen movie with the right budget and acting chops. My only real non-nitpicky issue is that it ends halfway into the story. You’d expect that a series called “The Fall of Reach” would deal with the actual fall of Reach, but it just doesn’t get that far. I was also hoping to see the Keys Loop which the comics sinnfully skipped, and a better adaption of the ODST scene than what we actually got.
I was slightly disappointed for several reasons. While I like the artwork, 343I could have stuck a little closer to the novel/comics. I also feel it needed more “Reach”, as I thought it would at least touch on some of the Spartan III’s & the actual battle & eventual loss of the colony.
The art style used for the short little vignettes in Halo 4 was nice. To use it in a much longer story that requires ACTUAL animation was a joke. The characters look and move like cardboard cutouts. I couldn’t even finish it, just too painful to watch things try and move and just… it was awful.
And wow, 343 must really hate Nylund’s writing. Albeit most of the changes they made were minor, they were also unnecessary. There was no real reason to change what the changed. Now that I think about it, it was probably done because of the constraints of the “animation” and what the artists were capable of. I wouldn’t recommend this series to anyone. Read the books. You’ll have spent your time better.
I enjoyed viewing and comparing the novel with the film version, but I was quite surprised when it ended. Why call it “Fall of Reach” when we never see Reach fall. The ending felt abrupt and out of nowhere. Animation I thought was fine, could have been better, but I had a hard time listening to the younger Chief voice. Comparing Steve with every other voice actor in the animation is tough. He does not sound like any of them.