After the atrocious Resident Evil live-action movies, no amount of bastardization surprises me anymore. These shows are not meant for fans of the games.
1 Like
But if it is a retelling, then it bores the fans who did play the games. It might be new to the old fans, but most of us who have seen it aren’t as interested. Its the same reason most of the novel fans skip over The Flood. The few extra details aren’t worth a novelization of Halo CE.
Sure you might like it, but they are trying to cast a wide net of new and old fans. So a new story is the best course of action. It puts both new and old fans on the same level.
Maybe, but the new story doesn’t seem like it will be good from what the trailer showed.
I’d be okay with a what-if version of the story, but the trailer showed the story straying way too far with its use of currently modern technology, a human leading in the Covenant, Master Chief having to find Halo, etc.
1 Like
they’ve now started to run it as a YT ad I had it pop up during another video that i was listening to, they say master chief like 18 times god it was so cringe
2 Likes
Eh, I have to disagree with you here.
The Mandalorian has established that you can take a species from deep lore/not the main characters and make a very lucrative and successful spin off. Jango Fett was the last time we really saw a Mandalorian and that was like, what, 2005? People still recognized the basics of it, and it was obviously star wars.
ODSTs would arguably be similarly recognizable. Halo doesn’t have as big of an audience, but people who had played Halo games would recognize ODSTs instantly, just like people who have watched Star Wars recognized the Mandalorian armor.
There are so many untold stories in the Human-Covenant war. Between 2525 and 2552 there are 27 years of practically untold content, with very minimal restrictions. We know that generally the war was being fought then, we know the names of certain battles and locations, but there is nothing to stop the writers from writing in new colonies, battles, campaigns. It would really take a pretty minimal effort to refrain from mixing up canon with the few events we know of (like the Battle of Arcadia in Halo Wars.)
I mean there are obvious issues with props, including 500 year old AK rifles and Chevy Tahoes. There are glowing issues with the writing, and even more obvious issues with the art style (holy crap, they actually used Phil Collins “Coming in the Air Tonight.”
I really think the comparison to Mandalorian is quite apt. The series started out with minimal recognizable figures, no force or lightsabers, none of the original characters, and yet it has done amazingly well. People underestimate how far you can go on just good writing. Make a giant and terrible mess like this and you’ll have a high profile failure. Make something truly well written and designed, and it may take a moment to get recognition, but it will pull in much more audience in the long run.
2 Likes
Would I have preferred it to be canon and expand on what we already have? Sure. But it being its own canon is pretty par for the course as far as adaptations go.
Marvel, DC, Harry Potter, Witcher, Game of Thrones, The Expanse, and countless others are all their own canon separate from the source material.
Now this doesn’t mean everything they change will be good. I’m sure a lot of people will prefer the original series of events. But it being its own timeline doesn’t inherently make it bad and it’s certainly not an unheard of decision as far as film/tv adaptations go.
I was going to subscribe to Paramount+ just for this show, but if it’s not going to be canon, or at least the same timeline then Im just not that interested. They have so much to work with that is canon so I don’t really understand this decision.
This is somewhat of a good problem, but what if this show is just amazing? Now we have Halo that we don’t ever get to play, OR they will have separate timelines for the games? I don’t make games, shows, or write stories but this seems like a bad idea in the long run.
1 Like