Ok I just watched the official trailer and…I hate it. It’s rewriting the whole Halo Canon. And on top of that it’s changing everything we know about Chief. The Elites look DISGUSTING. The Jackals are Halo 4 design. They REPLACED BLUE TEAM. Like I said I hate this. A wasted opportunity if you ask me. This BETTER NOT be Canon.
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It’s not canon intentionally. It’s a different timeline. This is outlined in the silver debrief article.
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Then why create it? Paramount definitely wanted to get in on the new “Halo craze”.
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Because its been a project in the making for more than 10 years. With multiple scraps and redos. Plus if you think Paramount was the initial start of this series, Showtime was the original start. Maybe do some research before posting?
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THE SILVER TIMELINE
This brings us neatly to the main topic of our first Silver blog, the ‘Silver Timeline’ itself.
‘Silver’ is the name of the central Spartan fireteam, and, of course, a nod to the ‘silver screen’ too – naturally, the name stuck. The Silver Timeline is a unique vision of the Halo universe that contains and embraces many key elements of the core canon that has spanned the last two decades, but with relevant contextual and narrative details that diverge in ways appropriate (and necessary) to the storytelling opportunities presented by the TV medium and our collaboration with creative partners.
To tell the best Halo stories we can, we want to protect the integrity, simplicity, and future of the core canon, but also not be limited by it when faced with the realities of a new medium and the process of production. As a result, we made the decision to set the Halo television series in an authentic, but independent timeline.
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The Master Chief story is like an old superhero origin now. We’ve seen the origin story every which way, we’ve had the games, the books, the films, the games remastered.
I’m okay with having a separate canon for a few reasons and that’s because it means a new story can be told with unexpected twists and turns. Hopefully it’s gripping and if it sucks then oh well, just throw it on the enormous pile of poorly adapted video game series/movies.
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Think of it lime The Walking Dead comic vs TV show. You’ll get similar overall story’s, with some character story shuffling, and general randomization of which characters fill out which story beats. And each one will kinda be able to stand on it’s own storyline essentially
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To be fair to Paramount, 343 are struggling to remember their own storylines. This show has been in production for years and during that time I can’t think how many times 343 have dropped story threads or u-turned on stories 
I think creating their own continuity is probably the best move.
If the show ends up being bad it does nothing to hurt the existing canon.
If the show ends up being good then we get to see new stories that we don’t already know all of the details of.
Plus just because it has it’s own continuity doesn’t mean they can’t use things from the books or games if they want to, it just means they don’t have to be constrained by them.
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I don’t know why but I don’t like the idea of a different time line. I don’t like it one bit.
I’ll get over it though, I’m sure.
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Also not a big fan of the whole alternate timeline thing. I don’t even think a live action show makes sense for content involving Spartans. Live action halo seemed just right in the Landfall shorts, same with WE ARE ODST.
I just don’t understand why they can’t just work with the canon closely. There is SO much that could be made into a TV show… why make up more crap and call it an alternate timeline?
You will never get a proper crossover. The amount of information a person can get from a video game or a book makes it very difficult to shape it into a tv show or movie that accurately captures the source. There will always be points of views and extra information left out. This is why there are separate sources to enjoy the things you find interesting.
Look at The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, etc… all of these shows, at some point, had to diverge from the canon on purpose to keep their story integrity while also trying not to affect the core canon too much.
Just give it a shot and see how the show plays out.
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Frankly, when you want a Halo project to get a whole new audience (like TV), you can’t have it be called Halo without, you know, Halo. otherwise the title has nothing to do with the story. Next to the franchise being called Halo, the mascot is the Master Chief. You don’t have chief, you’ll confuse the audience. This isn’t just spin-off territory like the books, or ODST, or Wars. This is meant to be Halo for someone else.
The show isn’t canon, but even if it was then that inhernetly limits what you can do. You put in the the insurrectionist era, then alot of the magic is gone. No aliens or forerunners then this show might as well be any other show where humans fight. You put it in the Human-Covenant war you are limited to what happens event-wise. Everything will always lead to another book, comic, or game. If you just re-tell the games, then there’s no reason to watch. You set it post-war, not only will the Halo 4 and 5 haters bail, but frankly most people would anyway because barely anything happens.
But if you seperated from canon, then you can use what is already there and do something else. I already like how they set up the plot. The humans find out about a weapon called Halo, and they need to find it before the Covenant. Already you have the title’s namesake right at the center. Chief has an objective. And it is different enough from the games so we aren’t retreading ground.
I don’t like that they replaced Blue Team, but if they can write a reason and maybe bring in Blue Team at some point that would be cool. But I’m not going to hate it because of that.
The Elites look the same as the ones from H2:A to me. I didn’t catch the Jackal, but if they are keeping it for the whole series, then I’m okay. I didn’t like the sudden change in H4, but again. Non-canon.
Rubber cortana and cringy covie woman. Now those, I’m extremely scared of.
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Asking myself the same thing. Slap in the dang face.
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Blue team is effectively whatever spartans are teamed up with chief at the time. It didn’t really become the Kelly/Linda/Fred show until after the fall of reach.
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It’s about Master Chief trying to start a phil collins cover band
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The TV show is about some giant space hula-hoop.
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Surely there are laws against this?
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Which means: In ways we can produce cheaper because why would we want to invest the money/resources to making it as high quality as it could potentially be
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ONE WOULD THINK SO
Surely nobody being paid as much as the people making this trailer would genuinely think that song was right for that content? lol
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It just looks really corny and the suits don’t look all that great tbh. No Steve downes? You’re not selling this super well.
Also, very tired of all the live action Halo stuff trying to make this franchise seem so somber and gritty. It’s about kicking alien -Yoink!- and saving the galaxy while listening to sick guitar solos. If that ain’t baked in, then it ain’t Halo.
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