Paramount's Halo TV Show Props Issue

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A lot of people have been pointing out the strange choices in Props used in the production so far. Such as people finding a Chevy truck in the background of a scene and plenty of people fighting with AK-47s that somehow have been in use since 1947 to the 2550s.

My question is why not have the production use other props?

For the Chevy Tahoe, they could have stripped its frame down and added on pieces to make it resemble the Spade truck from Halo Reach (the trucks that the farmers of mission 1 had that Noble Team used to get around the map)

And as for the weapons props… why not use SRU-Precision’s weapon conversion kits? Other movies with sci-fi settings use them. So why not use a few from this 3D-printing company to make your props a bit more believable in the setting? Some links to provide images to what I am referring to -

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/sru-ak-series

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/m14-bullpup-kit

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/classic-advanced-design-series

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/p320-m17-pdw-kit

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/sru-ar-series

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/m93r-series

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/hi-capa-series

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/mk23-series

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/sru-glock-series

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/kc02-advanced-kit

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/sru-scar-series

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/vsr10-snp-advanced-kit

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/m11-bullpup-kit

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/ghk-g5-bullpup

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/cnc-slide

Heck, SR Union can even provide the extras with prop-armor that actually looks like it fits into Halo’s design norms (save for the helmets it would seem.)

  • https://www.sru-precision.com/sru-tactical-helmet

Thoughts anyone?

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I was blown away by the lazy choices they made with props (not to mention writing…)

You’re right, it seems like they really phoned in the props… I have no clue why they thought that would fly, there’s absolutely no logical reason for them to be there. I have very low expectations after seeing that.

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I actually watched some of it last night and holy hell the props were bad. The minigun was bad, the cars were bad… costumes were bad…

I was startled by how little effort they put into making it feel like Halo… particularly I noticed that the DMR just didn’t sound or fire at all like a DMR.

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in one shot in Ep1 the belt feed to the Chain gun on a warthog is just a rubber tread from a bobcat or something like that

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lol they made the DMR fully auto XD

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They painted the Plasma Pistol in after effects, but they forgot to paint it in the final shot before it is tossed to the ground.

  • https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TEhlXMKxdLE/hqdefault.jpg
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While the show has plenty of issues, the DMR, along with most other precision weapons in halo, is canonically capable of full-auto fire. The weapon even has a fire selector on it.

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Dude Jin and all the other Innies had all their outfits ripped straight from Tatooine and Jakku, no kidding.

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