Hey everyone! I made this post where we can discuss the 4th episode of the TV series. The episode premiered at 12am PST/3am EST. Enjoy and let’s discuss!
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The screenwriter probably thought that jackals with shields were units in close combat. 
In addition, the battle scene is good, and the special effects are also wonderful.
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Apparently that came from a comic. I know it isn’tin the games, but the concept of jackals using a QCQ melee weapon with their shield kinda makes sense.
It looked awesome in the show at least 
I wonder if that brute was the show’s Tartarus?? He pulled the artifact to himself with his hammer just like Tartarus! And in the games he’s the one who was regularly sent on those retrieval missions
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If only every other episode felt like this.
The good:
- UNSC vs Covenant!
- Decent balance of narrative - action
- Characters that have felt kind of dry together actually mesh this episode
*Mackee or however her name is spelled meets chief, helping tie disparate plot threads together - Covenant species actually on screen
The Bad:
- Tired of funding talk
- After one episode of having a point, Kwon’s back to being irrelevant time filler
- Cinematography feels really weak, some parts of the big battle look extremely fake. That said, I’d rather be complaining about this rather than the show boring the hell out of me.
I think it’d actually have been more interesting if Mackee working for the covenant was a surprise. Like just have her introduced this episode and then discover she’s actually working for the villain. Her scenes with the covie have generally been bland and budget consuming so far, and the player base already has a hard time believing humans would work with the covenant anyway that it’d make a perfect surprise.
What they do and don’t tell us is very weird in this show.
I wish it was, though if it is i wish they’d put in the barest effort to look like him. I think introducing some of the characters earlier than ‘halo 2’ could be fun.
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Jackals had their own melee weapon, a sword made from the same crystal as the explosive projectiles from the Needler. THAT would have been interesting to see.
But the Energy Swords are a weapon that’s specifically culturally tied to the sangheilli, who have strict rules about which members of their own species are allowed to use them. Never under any circumstances would they tolerate the Kig-Yar using them.
It bugs me that nearly every aspect of the show completely ignores the specifics of the Halo lore, having characters doing things for the sake of the story that the characters from the canon Halo universe would never have done.
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Soon as i saw that i thought. Interesting. Imagine in gameplay if a skirmishers did that with their speed. They could die quicker but if a small team game at you you’d be in a pickle.
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That hammer tho. Everything from it’s design to it’s gravity effect are elegantly simple. This is how they should have always been. Might be my favorite of the franchise, tbh.
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In the silver timeline, the Kig-Yar are given the respect they deserve.
Canon means nothing here as it is an alternative timeline so you will see characters do things that maybe they would not in the video game timeline.
Don’t give them any ideas. Last thing we need is to have to fight off a pack of those things with energy swords on Legendary.
It’s not an issue of the Kig-Yar getting respect, deserved or otherwise. The energy sword is specifically a Sangheilli weapon tied to traditions of their people that predate the covenant. Kig-Yar should not be using them. It’s would be like having a movie set in the Middle Ages in Europe, in which the Irish people are running around with Katanas.
There are a countless number of ways they could have told the types of stories they want to tell without disrespecting the source material. The Halo universe is big and diverse enough, but the show-runners didn’t want to bother to respect it.
“Silver timeline” just mean “non-canon”, because apart from it and the joke episode, “Odd One Out”, the whole of Halo’s lore across the games, movies, comics, and novels are all within the same continuity.
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Sounds fun. We shall call it the emerald timeline.
The brute with the hammer is Atriox himself.
I’m really looking forward to what’s new in Episode 7.
My friends and I bet that the screenwriter is definitely a genius, and the plot of the next few episodes will break new heights.
The love story between John and human traitor is so exciting.
From the initial anger to the present fun, I have a new understanding of tolerance.
To express the importance of tolerance by trampling on halo is probably the screenwriter’s good intentions.
I prefer they create a new character rather than adaptate those from the games. Silver team is good because they are totally new and impossible to be compared with some real characters
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