One scene shows that Admiral Parangosky is willing to kill Master Chief because he didn't kill an unarmed woman exactly when he was told to do it. That's a definite failing and one that it feels like it could have been solved by putting a few lines of dialogue into this particular episode.Īnother important part of Halo's plot is any sort of explanation as to why USNC leadership is as cutthroat and apparently evil as it is. Those who did have at least some explanation. Just how and why is still a mystery to people who didn't watch those trailers. They are built to follow orders and not really think for themselves. The Spartans don't really think for themselves. However, the series loses some points by explaining things in a trailer that it didn't explain in the first episode. The show also does a very good job of establishing that the USNC and the Spartans as its point of the spear are so feared by the insurgents. There are some familiar sounds during the firefight as well for those who have long loved the video game. It's also a fun nod to the video game, especially when the POV changes to first person in the middle of combat. The show does get points for at least showing how Master Chief and the rest of Silver Team are able to take more damage than the people who were wiped out rather quickly. It seems to be that this particular plot point in Halois one of those things where the audience is just supposed to take at face value. They certainly show off just how easily they kill the unkillable, but it's not as though they're doing it with their bare hands. It's clear that the show needs to show just how good a fighting force Team Silver is compared to everyone else. One of the Spartans is apparently able to take aliens down with pistols that shouldn't be any more useful than the machine guns the Madrigalians tried to use. Then, when four Spartans arrive on the scene, they seem to be able to kill the same impervious aliens with just one or two shots. So it's a bit jarring when an entire outpost of people open fire on the alien attackers with heavy weapons and do no damage at all because of some sort of personal force fields. However, that's neither well known nor even really alluded to in the television series. Those who know the video games well know that the Spartans have special weapons that are built to go up against The Covenant. It's clear that Paramount Plus wants to make sure that the Halo TV series and the Halo video games can be tied together and stand alone. They also happen to be the only people that can apparently do any damage at all to the alien forces that ravage the outpost known as Madrigal. The Silver Team is a group of four Spartans which are UNSC's unbeatable super-human assault force that are the point of the spear in the war against the colonies. To Halo's credit, the show didn't take too long to introduce either The Covenant, or the Spartans' Silver Team and its Master Chief. RELATED: Halo Infinite Fans Aren't Happy About Lack of TV Show Crossover Content Super Soldiers Unfortunately, it's the introduction of The Covenant that gives the series its first real bumps in the road where audiences are going to need to suspend their disbelief in order to enjoy the plot so far. That's despite the fact that at least one of the higher-ups appears to be at least partly human. At this point in Halo, it's not known just what Covenant forces want but it's pretty clear they have very little regard for human life. Into that war comes an alien army known as The Covenant. There is the United Nations Space Command or UNSC which is the major earth military force that is fighting a war with insurgents on colonies that want to be free. In that regard, the premiere episode does a fairly good job of laying everything out. The first episode does what any first episode of any series needs to do, which is to set the world and set the story. It's going to take at least another episode considering that most of the divergence from the video game franchise came near the end of the premiere. Whether or not that's going to work in the long run isn't known yet. With the brand-new Halo series which has already been renewed for Season 2, it appears that there are going to be some twists and turns that deviate strongly from the game on which the series is based. The long-awaited Halo television series is now officially here and the first episode is available to watch on Paramount Plus.
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