Halo

I tried this show when it was released and remember it being terrible. Since it is on Netflix I decided to give it another shot.

For those that have not played the game, the game is an FPS where you play the Master Chief who is a “spartan”. Spartans are super warriors who primarily fight an alien race called “The Covenant”.

This time around I made it to S1E8 before I pulled the plug. Good lord this show is just terrible. The whole thing is just clumsy palace politics involving characters that the show hasn’t done anything to make the audience give a shit about. Honestly if I had not played any of the games I would have no idea who any of the characters are. The show didn’t give me any reason to care about of the characters.

As absurd as it sounds, the only character that was at all interesting was Kai-125, one of the Spartans, and most of that revolved around her not being a Spartan. The Spartans are why I am watching the show.

There is a storyline that involves a character from “Halo Universe Tattooine” that was just so plodding and pointless. By E5 I was fast forwarding through it. There is also a story that is adjacent to that character about a once was Spartan turned pirate that is also plodding and pointless and I started fast forwarding past it as well.

Then there is everything to with John 117 (The Master Chief and primary Spartan) and holy shit everything to do with him is also so plodding and pointless. The character spends most of the show with his helmet off, probably because he cant see out the fucking thing, staring at things with a concerned, stern look on his face.