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@Spacewizard54321

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear your doing better also loved the poem at 24:16

@nathaniellazo5912

Жыл бұрын

Omg, got to the hazards poem absolutely perfect!!

@WolfeSaber9933

Жыл бұрын

For the whole 'Chief not taking off his suit' is for a multitude of points. One, the armor is very comfortable for him to wear it, like HE was made to wear it. Two, the suit can take care of many bodily functions, like waste. Plus, Spartans usually put the suit on in sterile environments. Third, there is a line in the Fall of Reach book and movie where the Spartans were claimed they had their helmets as one of theirs was about to die protecting a nuke set to destroy a Covenant ship. Saying that the helmet is not needing goes back to the whole 'helmet problem,' which the Mandalorian dealt with it perfectly.

@DRKTROOPER15

Жыл бұрын

@@WolfeSaber9933 also Spartans feel uncomfortable with their helmets off

@WolfeSaber9933

Жыл бұрын

@@DRKTROOPER15 Relates to how Chief liked his suit when the helmet was put on for the first time.

They took Master Chief's virginity How am I supposed to relate to him now??

@firephoenix7788

Жыл бұрын

Well, crap.

@oluwatosinopawoye5695

Жыл бұрын

Ahh, the holy 69 likes

@T-h-a-t_G-u-y

Жыл бұрын

It’s noncannon

@lukecarroll9823

Жыл бұрын

Spartan 2's were pretty much asexual after the cocktail of steroids and biological enhancements.

@jakespacepiratee3740

Жыл бұрын

@@lukecarroll9823 No they werent. One even became a Mother.

That hazard stripe poem was glorious.... But it still only counts as one!

@TemplinInstitute

Жыл бұрын

I have been staring at the comments section waiting for someone to mention this.

@mynt253

Жыл бұрын

I refreshed just to see whether I would need to mention it. It was indeed absolutely glorious. Hazardous to my bad mood.

@Gamer-xy9rf

Жыл бұрын

​@@TemplinInstitute How come you still didn't get a Nobel prize for this?

@Crazael

Жыл бұрын

My headcanon is the hazard stripes on the tank are there because the tank crew thought it was funny.

@dunmermage

Жыл бұрын

@@TemplinInstitute Aw, c'cmon, the stargate one makes sense! That's the kawoosh zone! The gate might activate without warning and disintegrate anything directly on front of it!

You know it's bad when the scriptwriters fully admit to intentionally NOT playing any of the Halo games before working on the script.

@redenginner

Жыл бұрын

Or read the books set during the war,which used the games as their foundation.

@DRKTROOPER15

Жыл бұрын

@@mitchellgurney4390finally a based take on the writers strike

@balabanasireti

Жыл бұрын

​@@mitchellgurney4390 Meh

@balabanasireti

Жыл бұрын

​@@DRKTROOPER15 Nah. Also, imagikne still saying based 🤓

@DRKTROOPER15

Жыл бұрын

@@balabanasireti imagine shilling for writers that ruined nearly every show that could’ve been amazing recently

We actually have a good Halo themed series. It's called Red vs Blue.

@sparky6855

Жыл бұрын

One of the best series ever made

@jakespacepiratee3740

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but thats not actually an action series or presented realistically. Also, forgetting about the OG Halo Movie, Forward Unto Dawn? Its actually pretty decent.

@nbewarwe

Жыл бұрын

Shame it was canceled after season 13. It seemed like it had a lot more potential after that.

@message2294

Жыл бұрын

Nightfall and the trailers for halo 3 & 4 we're also brilliant in my opinion. This was a stupid attempt at Halo but spawned the mastercheeks meme.

@DetectiveLance

Жыл бұрын

Had. We HAD a good series.

I love how they call the Halo TV Shows continuity "The Silver Timeline" so I've started calling the Canon Games continuity, *"The Golden Timeline"*

I like how most of the militia doesn’t have any kind sights on their rifles.

@alanjiang9057

Жыл бұрын

Keymod ARs still kicking around on some far flung colony

@timedraven117

Жыл бұрын

Hilariously, Ma5s can have their electronic interfaces removed to reveal the integrated iron sights on the weapons. So these AK has no damn excuse. :'D

@yoloman3607

Жыл бұрын

Even worse, the random rags on their guns cover their ironsights.

@argokarrus2731

Жыл бұрын

It's hilarious because UNSC ARs don't either!

@brianstabile165

Жыл бұрын

@@argokarrus2731 they do, and they probably can use redots

One point I think you missed was the asphyxiation via the Condor's life support even working on Master Chief in the first place. It was demonstrated in several of the games now that he can go into full vacuum, even yeeting himself out an airlock during a space battle at one point and surviving planetary reentry, and be just fine, indefinitely. Why does he give a shit if the Condor's life support is turned off while he has his armor?

@TemplinInstitute

Жыл бұрын

god damn it, that is a solid as hell point.

@jbz4788

Жыл бұрын

I mean I imagine that the armour does have a time limit on its internal life support which is probably far less than the ships

@charlesedwards2348

Жыл бұрын

I believe they altered his suits atmosphere setting as well

@charlesedwards2348

Жыл бұрын

Actually the suit can sort of keep someone alive in vacuum for about a month or so in its extended life support mode (see halo infinite opening scene) EDIT: Infinite was 6 months

@R1PP3R_93

Жыл бұрын

@@charlesedwards2348 Chief was out floating for 6 months, not just one

I also liked that the PVC strip curtains only stop above head height and just immediately become useless as soon as we zoom out 🤦‍♂️

@TemplinInstitute

Жыл бұрын

I only noticed that when reviewing this video, and I was positive I had to be seeing things.

@scotsronaut1531

Жыл бұрын

@@TemplinInstitute lol it really is shocking how poorly this is made, even the very attempt at a new timeline when unlike the most recent star trek movies they haven’t actually used any time travel/timeline splitting device that makes it necessary means they just wanted artistic freedom and were being lazy. I think a lot of people might think a lot of the points your making are very small and insignificant that they are almost petty but if anyone ever points this out then I would say they don’t understand really good story telling, the kinds of things your pointing out is really important to hold bad writers and set designers to to account and calling this stuff out helps future writers to learn how to not make these poor decisions as this kind of thing can collapse the world building pretty instantly. Excellent video my friend.

I'm pretty sure that Silver Team taking the phantom back to UNSC space is technically illegal under the Cole Protocol.

@jonomano3992

Жыл бұрын

Extremely.

@juliandixon19

Жыл бұрын

Punishment is death. If my Cole.P.T.C knowledge is up to date.

@mrkiscool3

9 ай бұрын

I literally screamed at the TV when they said they were taking it back.

@Wildgamer2205

3 ай бұрын

it is

I never realized it was a space elevator I just thought it was a communication tower or something. WHAT THE HELL IS A SPACE ELEVATOR DOING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE?!

@Wildgamer2205

3 ай бұрын

the Rebels might of taken it over whilst it was under construction. I don't know this garbage fire is extremely confusing

I think the hazard strips in the stargate room are legitimate since they mark off the area that the expanding event horizon could take your head off.

@Stukov961

Жыл бұрын

Yeah this, they mark out the Woosh area. The ones in the hallway that mark out the edges on the bulkheads/security shutters/whatever though, they're pretty pointless.

@westrim

Жыл бұрын

@@Stukov961 No, they're telling you "don't stand in this doorway or put anything here, because it WILL get squished when these remotely operated multiton doors are closed". And it's a Kawoosh.

@anarchopupgirl

Жыл бұрын

@@Stukov961 my dude a hydraulic bulkhead door is a Crush Hazard Zone. It gets stripes.

@Brakiros

Жыл бұрын

@@Stukov961 They're not, these are hydraulic pressure doors which will crush and slash through just about anything.

@benhobson3084

Жыл бұрын

The other Hazard stripes might pre-date the stargate having been installed. That room was once a ballistic missile test chamber. Although old equipment was removed they have chosen to leave the old floor markings. Depending on when they were painted and what was surfaced overtop, they may need civilian contractors to be removed. That means money and security clearance. Even without the Stargate on site, the paperwork for that must be a nightmare.

The Halo TV series was a crime against humanity.

@chheinrich8486

Жыл бұрын

Only one in a long line of adaptations like rings of power or netflix the witcher🤢🤮

@orcaman1353

Жыл бұрын

They should have kept working on improving paw patrol and bringing it back to its roots instead of this. Ok I haven’t watch it, people just want paw patrol back to the way it was.

@WaltonSauce

Жыл бұрын

Nay, it was Heresy!

@user-ct1us8ex1d

Жыл бұрын

I didn't even know about TV series

@AgreeableSmile

Жыл бұрын

@@user-ct1us8ex1d Good

I had forgotten this series existed. I had just totally emptied it out of my mind.

@isoid

Жыл бұрын

Same, I saw this video and got hit with a wave of PTSD from memories I had since repressed lol

@Jayjay-qe6um

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately they renewed the series for a second season.

@poenpotzu2865

Жыл бұрын

​@@Jayjay-qe6um what!?

@derrikl12

Жыл бұрын

That's funny, I had not remembered the show as well. It was quite forgettable.

@erichunsaker4969

Жыл бұрын

​@@poenpotzu2865 343 Industries has a cruel sense of humor

I think it is worth noting in regards to the sub-sub-unit criticism that in the original timeline Spartans teams *aren't* permanent. They re-use the names Blue, Red, Green, etc, but the exact composition and size of each of those teams varies depending on the mission parameters. The only consistent placement is that Blue Team is usually the designation given to whatever unit John is personally leading.

@no.xivxion4352

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, while the rosters changed, it usually ended up being: Blue - John Red - Frederick Green - Kurt So then using Silver Team instead of Blue Team just feels really dumb lmao.

@OniLink147

Жыл бұрын

@@no.xivxion4352 And even that isn't necessarily set in stone. For example Linda has sometimes been given command of Green. Then there is the whole Spirit of Fire Red Team situation.

@no.xivxion4352

Жыл бұрын

@@OniLink147 yep. It's more a trend then set in ston, but Blue has always been John's team and I don't think that ever was changed. I actually forgot about Spirit of Fire hah.

@Oznerock

Жыл бұрын

And not to mention, Spartans aren't really treated as *soldiers* by the UNSC. They're treated more like you would treat heavy cavalry, tanks, or special operatives - as the situation demands.

@infinitespace2520

Жыл бұрын

@@no.xivxion4352 John led Red team once, I think it was mentioned in a book

Im honestly shocked it was *only* 59 things

@specs.weedle

Жыл бұрын

this is just the first episode there’s more nitpicking later on

@hawkeye5955

Жыл бұрын

"But wait! There's more!"

Hold on, are they extracting heavy WATER in a literal desert? Did the writers thought it was space oil or something?

@hangebza6625

Жыл бұрын

Isn't this a problem for allmost any common but bad scifi author? How many scifi material has aliens come to earth for water. Or gold. Instead of claiming the richness of the asteroid belt and other planets they go straight to earth. Or them wanting to get biological informstion from humanity. Meaning they stat to capture and vivisecting thousands of humans, instead if downloading research papers from the internet and taking a few tissue samples for other experiments. Sadly such things are very common in scifi....

@camp002

Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't be surprised

@k.a.p.x3642

Жыл бұрын

Even star trek does that

@TomTasker

Жыл бұрын

i would say there's an aquifer, and thats where the water is coming from.....buuuttttt i wouldn't be surprised if they were implying that they had harvested all the water (to give the rebels a good reason)

@Xalerdane

Жыл бұрын

@@TomTasker Except you can’t drink heavy water, it would kill you.

The Stargate stripes actually did have a purpose, when the gate is first activated it does that blast thing so the stripes are used to let people know the splash zone.

9:47 That's definitely an issue of the costume and prop department. The weapons used by the Spartans are absurdly oversized, even for them. Master Cheeks just couldn't hold it any other way.

@Ampersand38

9 ай бұрын

I thought it was a resource extraction rig

@wasdwazd

9 ай бұрын

@@Ampersand38 Did you reply to the wrong comment?

@Ampersand38

9 ай бұрын

@@wasdwazd indeed, was re: space elevator

That hazard stripes poem was a 10 out of 10

30:00 Yeah, even in just normal wet labs food and drink are explicitly NOT allowed.

What especially annoyed me about the first Halo Episode was how they never extensively explained the Covenants Expansive Logistic Systems. I mean how the hell can they invade One Planet without running out of Logistics? Are they stupid?

@salvagedude625

Жыл бұрын

operates on the US principle of "fly stuff in and call it a day"

@AngelsCreed-jo5fp

Жыл бұрын

Invade?

@SuperThest

Жыл бұрын

@@salvagedude625 The US military has one of the most complex and well established logistics operations in the world. If there is one thing the US military does excitingly well, it's logistics

@charlesedwards2348

Жыл бұрын

I wasn't so much of an invasion as so much as a raid.

@jakespacepiratee3740

Жыл бұрын

@@salvagedude625 They should do what the Banished do and scavenge enemy weapons and start mining operations wherever they land. Now those guys take logistics seriously!

So, I have to give slight push back on the sub-sub unit but. Special operations teams, especially highly elite ones (Navy SEALs, Green Beret Delta teams, Marsoc ETc) generally operate in small groups called teams which are permanent, typically have names and will normally have symbol/patches etc. Now, most of these teams are considerably bigger than a Spartan team, typically somewhere between 12ish, but since Spartans are literally elite super soldiers I can see them operating in smaller groups. Especially since most we see are roughly Squad sized.

@TemplinInstitute

Жыл бұрын

interesting! do you have any kind of source for that? I'd love to read more on the subject.

@jakemarzano2298

Жыл бұрын

​@TemplinInstitute So some of this I learned while training to be an army officer, a lot of Cadre who trained me were SF guys. The rest I picked up from history books written about SF and it's history. I know Wikipedia isn't the most reputable source but if you search "United States Army Special Forces" it has a pretty good break down for it and references to some of those books. Basically US Army SF is broken down into companies and those companies are broken down into six Operational Detachments-A, some times called A-Teams. These are 12 man Teams each given a unique number. There are also C and B teams which are just support for the A teams. SEALs have a similar system though their's is odd I'm that the larger structures are also labeled as a Team, like SEAL Team 3, 6 etc. And then theses Teams are broken down into smaller groups that include support personal and the actual operational Teams which are pretty fixed. I'll admit I'm not wicked familiar with MARSOC but I've heard they're organized in a similar manner.

@nahuelleandroarroyo

Жыл бұрын

The SAS has Squadrons (65 men) that subdivide into 4 troops of 16 men, with each 16men formation specializing on a particular type of operations (air, boat, vehicle and mountain). 16 men are 4 fireteams and i guess each fireteam is kinda fixed. Having 4 super Spec Ops be their own thing is not crazy as Spartans pretty much fill more than one role (they dont have medics or demo specialists as far i have seen)

@JoeSmith-xp5ll

Жыл бұрын

​@@nahuelleandroarroyo They're all trained in demolitions. Grace-093 was their resident expert.

@andrewupshall5506

Жыл бұрын

I was looking for a comment like this. It reflects how the structure of the original Spartan teams was brought up in the books. "The Fall of Reach" was the first book in the series, and it broke down how John (Spartan 117) formed his 30-odd soldiers into teams. They had various specializations and sizes, but they usually only consisted of a handful of soldiers in order to allow them to spread out across human space. My main point is that these teams should not be compared to general infantry tactics. These are future special forces. Blue Team, in the novels, was the Master Chief's team, and it consisted of 4 to 6 members. Any more would have been concentrating a VERY limited resource into too small of a space and would have hindered the program. Silver Team actually kind of stays in line with the literature on this one. They are a scalpel, meant for surgical precision. Not a greatsword meant for pitched battles.

36:20 Actually, the protocol that the Admiral ordered was full “Soren Protocol” it’s basically a protocol in the event that a Spartan is compromised and maybe going Rogue. Named after the only Spartan at the time that went rogue and AWOL, Soren-066.

@AlteredNova04

Жыл бұрын

I still want to know if there's a half Soren Protocol or three quarters Soren Protocol lol

This show upset me on a deeply personal level. I usually go to the defense of things people lambast as being horrible and highlight the redeeming qualities of those things, but I literally cannot with this. It felt like someone took a wonderful franchise, stripped off everything that made it interesting, and shoved it through a processing tube to turn it into some generic, shit-colored goop.

@jakespacepiratee3740

Жыл бұрын

I can do it with this, but not by much. Episode 1 and 5 had good action scenes, and thats about it.

@ambrosianapier7545

Жыл бұрын

I agree and the writers had clear disdain for the IP and chiefs character. The last episode was literally the writers telling the fans that the chief we like is a brain dead machine since he doesn’t act like our chief at all until Cortana overrides his brain and takes over his body. Like that was a clear middle finger.

@perrycarters3113

Жыл бұрын

@@ambrosianapier7545 Honestly? I'm more upset at the BUTCHERY of Halsey's character. Halsey is absolutely morally grey, but the one thing that ties every last piece of information about Halsey together is that she loves-*LOVES*-her Spartans. She would never, under any circumstances, do what she did in the show. That's a disgusting betrayal of her character.

17:02 A slight counter point, while reach is a major population center, there is still a lot of hostile wildlife hanging about. Maybe the UNSC just decided to throw concrete at the problem since it would be cheaper in the long run than bullets. When you have entire planets dedicated to quarrying, cant imagine concrete is anything but a labor cost.

Another thing about the first fight is that theres only elites. Which is... really weird because typical covenant strategy is throwing grunts and other lesser species at the enemy. Theres no way they would throw 20 elite at just a bunch of civilians.

@SuperODST1

2 ай бұрын

Also, you could make it a lot cheaper(expense the showrunners CONSTANTLY whine about) by having extras dressed as grunts, because grunts are the size of humans.

The hazard stripe rant instantly made me want an investigation into the Iron Warriors legion!

Feel like the only TV that has ever factored the notion that space is actually pretty big into its writing is The Expanse (with an honourable mention to Firefly)

Your hazard stripe limericks were truly enlightening.

@TomTasker

Жыл бұрын

yes i want it in a youtube short!

Not only is deuterium not at all uncommon, you can make it from hydrogen; *literally the most common element in the universe*, pretty trivially.

I find it very telling about the "silver timeline" UNSC that their adherence to any sort of protocol, operational procedure, and internal secrecy and security seem like an absolute joke compared to my workplace, and I'm working in tech support for industrial appliances...

The hazard stripes are only correctly placed in one location in the whole of the collective human sci-fi universes: in the shoulder of an Iron Warrior. If you see it, you're in danger

@reganator5000

Жыл бұрын

And it's also noteworthy that they basically aren't hazard stripes. They're Iron Warrior heraldry which also resembles modern hazard striping. The Emperor's Spears shoulder pads aren't an innacurate location for the Barbados flag after all, it's just a strikingly similar symbol.

When he's firing the gatling gun at 10:57 the ammo belt isn't feeding. Its completely stationary just dragging behind chief.

I’m gonna need a poem for every extreme gripe about a specific cliche in fiction going forward if “Things That Annoy Me In…” gets greenlit as the ongoing series. XD

Well this is a long episode. Ironically the most intriguing part was to learn that misplaced hazard lines are such a deep sore spot for Marc. Generally though, I agree with most of these annoyances pointed. Given the open-ended way Season 1 ended, there is a *small* possibility that Season 2 could be salvage via in-universe soft-retconning. An interesting start to this pilot week.

Only 59? I would've guessed on triple digits.

@gorvarhadgarson5227

Жыл бұрын

117 of them?

Loved the casual cinemasins roast

@TemplinInstitute

Жыл бұрын

why whatever do you mean?

@jakespacepiratee3740

Жыл бұрын

"Scene does not contain an Ex Mechina Lap Dance *Wheezy Smoker Laugh"*

@santymartin7383

Жыл бұрын

Minute?

@Jaydee-wd7wr

Жыл бұрын

@@santymartin7383My guy it’s within the first 4 minutes of the video, watch it before heading into the comments. 3:02.

@hawkeye5955

Жыл бұрын

​@@jakespacepiratee3740 : *ding*

ok but those Stargate hazard stripes during the poem actually all make sense. Stand in that box when the gate turns on? Get your head chopped off. And the only other ones are on a very heavy sliding door which would also happily chop you up if it was closing (given that its goal is to secure the facility from potential enemy incursions, I don't think that it would open back up if it sensed it was being blocked like an elevator door)

@fanta9377

Жыл бұрын

standing in that box when the gate activates should actually be fine - I think there's hazard stripes there because if you're stood there you're gonna be in the way of the Airmen that are taking aim at the gate whenever they get an offworld activation, blocking their line of fire.

The Hazard Stripe Poem is great

To address your comment on Master Chief talking directly to Halsey in the original timeline, it did happen quite a bit. Halsey was the head of the Spartan Program, but the number of people directly interacting with the Spartans throught their raising and training was very limited. Halsey fell into a quasi-maternal role for the kids, and it was established she was one of the very few people the Spartans could speak to more candidly, see George in Halo Reach.

Starting it off with the HalOOF series, this is gonna be good

23:10 Not to mention the only reason a Condon can have a slipspace drive is due to the integration of forerunner tech post war. But as we see later in this horrid show, Silver timeline UNSC slipspace drives are the size of subcompact car engines.

@mrsaltyauthor5992

Жыл бұрын

No, the Condor Dropship could carry a Slipspace drive before the end of the war and before Forerunner exploitation, Pelicans weren't able to be fitted with a slipspace drive

Yep you covered a bunch of the problems I had with the show and then some. I’m in the military so a lot of those things in the show did bother me. I also loved the musical number in the middle there

Marc's Passive-aggressive attitude is on full display here and i love it

Denis Velnuve was the only one who could have captured the scale, theme, and writing of the Halo games. Big missed opportunity.

@TemplinInstitute

Жыл бұрын

never seen "Neill Blomkamp" spelled that way before.

@TheGreatGonzales777

Жыл бұрын

@@TemplinInstitute His would have been too gritty I feel…

@Scorch052

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatGonzales777 gritty is what makes Halo imo

@TheGreatGonzales777

Жыл бұрын

@@Scorch052 Obviously don’t understand Halo.

@EGRJ

Жыл бұрын

I think Blomkamp had a good shot at it.

I think he said he needs his helmet because that’s where his neural interface, in the back of his skull, connects to his suit. When he takes the helmet off the suit can’t move, so he has to move all 1,000 pounds of it by himself.

The SGC warning markings make a bit of sense, since they mark out roughly where the "Kawoosh" happens, and it's bad times if someone is standing in that area when the gate turns on.

I love during your hazard stripe rant you show the SGC gate room, the one place where those hazard stripes can be justified: One set is located under heavy blast doors that you really want to stay clear off. And the other is located in a area where rovers, drones and other equipment are staged, occasionally has missiles fired from it, is a likely location to be hit by gun fire, and is also right below the giant cloud of instant vaporization from a stabilizing wormhole.

I think the preface that basically says not all criticism and things that annoy one are worth more than a passing thought. This seems like it could be a good, casual series.

12:07 Technically SPARTAN-II teams were temporary and changed composition based on mission needs, while there were still more than a handful of SPARTAN-IIs, team names were just used to signify which group of Spartans were on which objective (eg: Blue Team would be the primary force, Red Team would be the secondary one and when requiring enough Spartans, Green Team would be the tertiary one). The only exceptions were special ops based Spartans like Grey and Black teams or washouts that couldn't be deployed alongside the general Spartan population like Red or (presumably) Omega teams from Halo Wars.

I was not expecting the rap about cautions signs, but I definitely won’t place them in the wrong place in any of my sci-fi now. That was a pleasant surprise lol

I've developed PTSD of this series

Family run small business was exactly what the UNSC felt like to me as well lol (albeit a disfunctional one); thanks for putting it into words.

17:30 to be fair to the show. the covenant has shown in the past it dosnt mind flying dropship swarms down on cities to take them. orbital bombardment aside those walls make it do you have to move troops in through designated choke points or perform air assaults both can be made very costly on the attacker if the defender is prepared for them

The rant on the hazard stripes was....just....beautiful!

24:04 That hazard stripe rhyme was absolutely hilarious and great!

I loved the song and I loved the interjections from slightly less past Mark

24:10 holy shoot, but that on Spotify now

Things that annoyed me in Halo Season 1: Everything

I recall in a comic from around when Halo 3 was released where it was shown that the populace was aware of the Covenant but where kept in dark how dire the war was for humanity. I remember even back then thinkin that was BS because by the time that comic took place the UNSC lost Reach and most of its other major colonies kind of hard to hide that.

I feel like most of this is explained by "we have found the incompetent timeline".

Only 59 things?

@TemplinInstitute

Жыл бұрын

I worked my fingers to the bone, what do you want from me!

@santymartin7383

Жыл бұрын

​@@TemplinInstitute69?

This video has helped me figure out a key underlying problem with this show. A setting designed for a grand scale space war epic governed by the institutional logic of a 20+ episode weekly TV show about a small business or local police station.

I like the idea of this series, but talking about something as universally panned as the Halo TV Series seems like going after low hanging fruit.

@TemplinInstitute

Жыл бұрын

easiest way to make juice

@somerandomguy009

Жыл бұрын

Fair enough.

@we4zier98

Жыл бұрын

But without this video we wouldn’t have the Hazard Strip Poem! 😢

@Xalerdane

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes you just need to vent bile, even if someone else already did it first.

I only just got around to playing the Bungie era games last summer but have been a massive lore nerd and fan of the Halo universe for 8 - 10 years ish. From the few clips I saw when the series released it seemed obvious to me that if I went and watched it I would still be let down even without personal experience from playing the games. If a season 2 ever comes I genuinely hope there is something worthy enough to usher in a new wave of Halo based entertainment in every form of media. Kind of like what The Mandalorian did for SW after much of the fanbase where disappointed with the newest trilogy and such

That bit about hazard stripes killed me. 😂 Rewatched it a couple of times.

One of the most egregious things about this show is its total and complete contempt for the Covenant. I get that in the Silver timeline, the human-covenant war is more of a secondary border skirmish than total war of genocidal annihilation (at least as presented) but they show goes out of its way to trivialize, nerf, and strip away all of the interesting things about the covenant, and it's really quite jarring to see how different they are portrayed especially in fight scenes. In even the games, elites are almost always your biggest threat. They'll hijack vehicles and turn their weapons on you, flank and use cover, deploy active camouflage, rush you with energy swords when you reload, and will kill the player very quickly in close range. In novels, this is further backed up. In the show, even though they steamroll the innies initially...nothing about them is right. They're hulking brutes instead of sleek and taught-muscled. They use no tactics and grunt like animals instead of speaking more recognizable sangheli, and their armor is muted and matte compared to the glossy, iconic look in game. Yes, just because it's different doesn't mean its worse, but in this case, it really seems like they went over the elites and changed everything to be as generic and uninspired as possible. They turned the elites from a vicious and intelligent foe to generic alien bad guys that would not be out of place in any generic sci fi movie or TV show who are just there to get gunned down by our heroes. This is also a massive thematic diversion as the elites were the central cause of the covenant schism, and their culture and story was so prevalent in the original games. Just a massive downgrade across the board.

A part of the use of small Spartan teams is due to the fact they aren’t just a frontline battle force, they work where needed in recon, assassination, sabotage, and naval situations. These varying roles would benefit greatly from a group with deep knowledge and experience with each other, making keeping them together effective, and the small size allows for an appropriate use of force without large consolidation, in most situations 3-6 Spartans will be enough for their objectives, and if they need more it’s easier to bring another small fireteam in than pull a large group that is needed elsewhere to you just for that amount of soldiers

The UNSC in this "show" is one of the most incompetent fictional militaries I have ever seen

38:25 as far as images of Johns face go thats approximately consistent with the shot of his eyes in Halo 4 albeit in that scene he was much paler because of all the time he'd spent without sunlight. Thematically I can certainly see his taking off his helmet as to display his humanity to an enemy in order to deescalate a situation, displaying his surprisingly diplomatic nature. Indeed this is a running theme with his character in much of the halo expanded universe, that his spartan brainwashing and all the other cruelty he's been subjected to to make him a killing machine and tool of oppression for the outer colonies is frequently in conflict with his more merciful and protective disposition. However if this is just the first episode I would prefer they had left such a momentous occasion till a later point since that would build a bit of curiosity as to what he looked like in the first time viewer as well as the long time halo fan.

Well thankfully one can just watch Forward Unto Dawn again, and dream

While Dr. Halsey had a strong motherly connection to all the Spartan II's, to the best of my knowledge she never actually was able to talk to them very much, if at all after they entered active service. In the books there's some mentions of her from what I remember where she hears bits and pieces of classified information from people she knows personally but is never shown talking to them to the degree shown in the show.

"I'm a man of passion, after all. With..." Gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth? "... strong emotions and strong opinion..." Ah.

THat poem was GLORIOUS!!! :'D

It's probably too late to get my input heard but this video is incredible. I'd love to get more of these. There's so much film/media criticism out there from the perspective of "arts critique" so it's actually very fun to get this kind of analysis that's focused on world building and providing actual research about the topics in the show

What I hate about the chief removing his helmet is that he does it in the very first episode, and he just looks like a regular handsome gun mcshooty guy instead of the pale, bald guy who wears armor all the time like how the books describe him. Its literally just a different character. But I guess instead of showing the effects the war and his armor has on him they needed to make him conventionally attractive so he could have a sex scene with the female arbiter.

That whole TV series was just painful to watch as a Halo fan. I was honestly happy to live forgetting it existed and now I have to relive the first episode again haha. Still your commentary makes it worth it. And there's so much in this show that doesn't make logical sense, and it's worse because even if you know NOTHING about Halo, there's even more than is plain unbelievable without considering the abuse of the source material.

While I clicked on this video thinking it would mainly be about plot holes & pointless character drama, I gotta admit, the explanations on things like squad communications & military command structures & administrative jurisdiction were Fascinating! The focus on the nitty-gritty details that help day-to-day military operations function efficiently made this a perfect complement to your broader-scope/strategic-level explanations for interstellar militaries, and now I want to see you apply this kind of analysis to a show/film that does things correctly! 🤩

Yeah, I'm going to need a standalone release of your hazard stripe rant. It was awesome!

Loved this video. Should be required material for anyone writing a scifi show/film

The Halsey point makes more sense when you realize that 1 the Spartans were created to kill rebels, and 2 the Spartans call Halsey mom, because she abducted the children that were turned into the Spartans.

@michaelman957

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Only Jorge called her mom. And it might have just been thr standard Anglo 'Mum,' which is often just meant as 'ma'am'

@nicholasbrown668

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The Spartans dont view Halsey as their mom lmao, a lot of the Spartans outright despise or pity Halsey for what she did, the only time we hear a Spartan say anything near to "mom" is when Jorge says "Ma'am" in a Hungarian accent

@jamestownsend25

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@@michaelman957 Jorge did indeed address Halsey as “ma’am”

@dinkledord7026

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@existentialselkath1264

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I'm always shocked at the amount of people who don't know what ma'am means

At 32:22 You raise a really interesting point. I imagine its similar to how modern day people often struggle to live without constant stimulation from their phone or devices. After experience life in the helmet, it could be just as simple as Spartans finding the "real world" too dull or unengaging.

Love your content and yeah the halo show did a lot wrong lol.

Lol the hazard stripe rant is something I never considered. In hindsight I liked that about Gundam model kits, they would be decals in higher grade kits and their placement made sense because it'd be near exhaust ports where a small squishy human wouldn't want to be if a rocket engine was about to emit fire.

22:50 I might be wrong but I believe that the condor does have a slip space drive or a variant of it does, however your point still stands

@Beanie28

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And right after I posted this he figured it out, go figure

@TemplinInstitute

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😎

@hanzzel6086

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It does, but only Post-War variants due to reverse engineering of Forerunner/Covenant tech.

I agree with the bit about Chief feeling naked without his helmet. The Blind skull in the games removes your Radar, and just that is enough to throw you off. I’d imagine Chief has more than just his radar and ammo counter on the screen, too, but we don’t see it in the games for whatever reason.

I love this series ! I hope you'll do more tv shows analysis

The trump biden and minecraft combo was hilarious.

Fantastic poem in the middle of this rant, I love it.

You don't want to call any annoyances with the show a sin... we'll see if you still feel that way by the end of the season.

That hazard stripe rant was some good poetry.

The hazard poetry was just *CHEF'S KISS*

24:06 this was beautiful, thank you for spreading this truth

I'm glad the producers were accurate to the original games as not a single character uses a weapon sight (if they even have one)

100% on board with your analysis and even though I never watched any of this show, it went exactly as bad as I thought it would. Thanks for watching it so I dont have to!

Watching this I now realise your first statement about the burden of knowledge. You’ve researched so much about how militaries work that you can see the glaring errors everywhere. And I got to admit you pointing them out is pretty funny and entertaining ^^. Alas, now that you have given us part of your knowledge we too will see more errors everywhere xD I wish more reviews were like this where annoyances are based upon logic and research instead of the reviewer finding something stupid or they being unwilling to think further on why something would be like that (such as the helmet addiction idea, which zi thought was brilliant).

Please do the video on GOC the global occult coalition from the SCP foundation franchise

Was not ready for the hazard stripe poem. Love it. The analysis of military protocols in a clearly not-researched military drama makes for easy pickings.

Everyone: Dunking on the Halo series and paramount. Me: Is no one gonna talk about how M.A.R.C. is doomed to suffer to a fate of being constantly annoyed by the inevitable flaws found in si-fi media, never able to truly enjoy something? 1:28, if anyone's wondering.