So the ONLY reason I bought the overpriced Limited edition of Halo 5: Guardians was to obtain the Fall of Reach animated series. Unfortunately, it was not made clear to anyone that this wasn’t actually a full adaptation of the novel of the same name, and doesn’t even feature the titular battle for Reach. So I shelled out a bunch of extra money for an INCOMPLETE PRODUCT. Had the advertising indicated that the series wasn’t complete I wouldn’t have bothered with the limited edition.
What is 343’s plan to rectify this? What good is half of a story? Are they going to finish it? I definitely feel like fans were mislead, and this simply isn’t acceptable.
i have only watched the first episode so far. to try and fit the first few chapters of the book into 30 mins of show time. it’s pretty damn good so far. maybe they will release more episodes?
Finally got a chance to sit and watch Halo: Fall of Reach. Being an avid Halo fan since CE in 2001. I have read about half the books, watched Nightfall, Legends and FOD whilst playing every game to death. I consider Halo:FOR to be great rendition. I loved the book and true it wasn’t entirely faithful but none the less the lovely high quality animation was great and the brutal elements of the book was included.Highlights
- recruitment process - training and augmentation - suiting up for the first - Covenant ship assaultIt has set up people who haven’t experienced Blue team and really delves into the rational and character of John.Overall an impressive piece of work, sure the -Yoink!- purists will complain because they can but for me I would gladly watch every book being adapted to animation series. Ghost of Onyx springs to mind.
The OP is trolling for sake of it , clearly he and I watched two different things
WTF? “The OP is trolling for sake of it , clearly he and I watched two different things”? What an inexplicable leap of what wouldn’t pass for logic anywhere. I am in no way, shape, or form “trolling”. Let’s try to reserve the use of labels like that for situations that merit it. Unless what you watched featured the titular battle for Reach (Y’know, the part where Reach fell, thus validating the name of the book/animated series), then we didn’t watch “two different things”. This has nothing to do with being a “purist”, this has to do with them skipping the very battle the series is named for.
I don’t have a problem with what IS included, it’s what’s conspicuously absent that I’m objecting to. You can’t con people into thinking they’re getting a complete adaptation of a novel and then skip the last third of the story. Instead of hilariously accusing me of trolling, maybe you need to re-read the novel, because you’re giving them a pass on leaving out a pretty significant part of the story. Calling this the “Fall of Reach” and not telling the part of the story where REACH FALLS is contradictory at best, and more than a little deceptive. I bought this set for an adaptation of one of my favourite novels, not PART of one of my favourite novels. That would be like turning First Strike into an animated series and leaving out everything about the Spartan’s assault on Unyielding Hierophant.
More than anything I was curious to see how they attempted to align the events of TFOR with those of Halo: Reach, since as it stands there are direct contradictions. Seeing Jorge-052 as a recruit was a nice touch, and it gave me hope that they’d play with the timing enough to make TFOR and Halo: Reach canonically compatible, but the end of the series is a hard stop with no conclusion, & no battle for Reach.
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> i have only watched the first episode so far. to try and fit the first few chapters of the book into 30 mins of show time. it’s pretty damn good so far. maybe they will release more episodes?
Yeah, I should certainly hope so. I enjoyed what’s there, but I wouldn’t have bothered with it if I knew they didn’t finish it. They certainly didn’t make that clear to anyone ahead of time.
I’ve been honestly disappointed by the 3 part series, due tot he fact that it ends when the Spartans get their Mjolnir armor, and the destruction of the first Covenant ship. It never even touched on the “FALL” of the colony world Reach, how it happened, or anything else. If anything, this was all the preamble to the fall of reach. I’m really pissed right now on a few facts…
- Only 3 episodes
- The story is seriosuly flawed compared to the novel, in several aspects.
- It never shows the actual FALL of Reach
- No mention of the Pillar of Autumn
- No mention of the Sigma Octanus system incursion, or the attack on Cote de Azur
- No mention of any of the events after Sigma Octanus
The novel has so much more to it. It’s super disappointing.
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