The live-action "Halo" series has been canceled at Paramount+, Variety has learned.
    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      211·
      4 months ago

      They made a second season?

      Did anybody finish the first episode?

      • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
        181·
        4 months ago

        I watched season 1 until the sex scene and closed the tab.

        I watched all of season 2. They obviously did a course correct but were left being dragged down by the events of season 1.

        If they had kept his damn helmet on, done creative ways to mask his face, and kept the story about John’s early days up to Harvest, they would have done great. The fucked up so hard trying to make him into anything but a quippy alien murdering machine and I hate them for it.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
    43·
    4 months ago

    343 has so massively blundered with Halo. They didn’t deserve to keep it after what they did with Halo 5. Halo 4 I can forgive, since it was their first solo game. Not Halo 5. That garbage was so awful, it made Call of Duty look like Halo.

    343 should have been dissolved a long time ago, honestly. Halos best game of the 343 era wasn’t even made by 343. Thats embarrassing.

  • ShadowCat@lemmy.worldOP
    38·
    4 months ago

    Thank fuck, hopefully if they do try another tv series or even a movie, they make it in the canon timeline and you know, actually good

    • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
      24·
      4 months ago

      I feel like non-canon CAN work, but with the main character being the Chief and not acting very Chief-like, it was doomed to fail from the start. Other Spartans could work. I mean, they made a new one for Dead or Alive, FFS.

      • Omega@lemmy.world
        7·
        4 months ago

        ODST and Reach are 2 of my favorites and they are basically removed from Chief almost entirely.

      • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
        1·
        4 months ago

        They also ruined Soren.

        Soren is an established character in the Halo universe and he’s a tragic hero. His fatal flaw is emotional immaturity. He can’t handle his anger and he loses everyone he loves as a result, eventually being easily manipulated by an insurrectionist into going AWOL. Also, he can’t wear MJOLNIR because of his deformities and this is a defining fact for him because it meant he could never be a Spartan. It’s why he’s so angry.

        So naturally in the show they made him a suave and emotionally intelligent pirate captain who loves his wife and son and who wears MJOLNIR armour that he stole when he decided not to be a Spartan.

    • NightOwl@lemmy.one
      8·
      4 months ago

      I wish there would be more Edgerunners type releases where it’s a companion piece rather than a direct adaptation which allows for way more creative freedom and less burden of being compared.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
      5·
      3 months ago

      Yeah.

      I’m not usually a stickler for canon, but it hurt extra with Halo, because Halo just has so little (compared to much older franchises like Doctor Who, Star Trek or Star Wars) canon to begin with.

      It’s not like they needed to prune things or get a fresh start. There’s so much un-told story in the Halo Universe. It felt so pointless to needlessly mess with what little established canon we have.

  • big_slap@lemmy.world
    18·
    4 months ago

    it was a disaster from episode one. whose bright idea was it to sign off on showing his face???

  • M500@lemmy.ml
    1·
    4 months ago

    I was a big halo fan growing up. And I couldn’t get past the opening scene. It was pretty bad.

    Makes me wonder how the zelda series would do. These two are basically silent protagonists. I don’t see how they can be adapted to something other than a game.

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 months ago

    Guess they can’t finish anything, for what its worth I would have watched it to see where it went.