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Halo Season 2: Episode 1 & 2 Review
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Episode 1 / Sanctuary: A deadly evacuation mission signals a shift in Master Chief's war with the Covenant; on Reach, a new regime takes the reins at FLEETCOM; John senses a looming threat close to home.
Episode 2 / Sword: John pushes Silver Team to its limit as he searches for missing Spartans; Kai worries about John's stability; Kwan finds the Rubble is a far more dangerous place in Soren's absence; Halsey seeks the identity of her captor.
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Episode Introduction
00:00:00
Speaker
All right, everyone.
00:00:02
Speaker
Welcome back to Matt Goes to the Movies.
00:00:05
Speaker
We are here to reconnect and talk about Halo, the second season.
Reflecting on Season 1 Disappointments
00:00:14
Speaker
Now, Rob, you...
00:00:18
Speaker
You know, you were with me for season one and minus maybe I think one episode, if I remember correctly, where we were just like, holy shit, they might have turned the corner.
00:00:31
Speaker
This is wow.
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This is really good.
00:00:35
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That was a very, very disappointing season for us.
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Yeah.
00:00:41
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Season 2, they promised they listened to the fans.
00:00:44
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They are going to be a little bit darker.
Halo's Cultural Impact
00:00:48
Speaker
We've got two episodes that dropped for Season 2.
00:00:53
Speaker
I'm curious to see what you think about it.
00:00:57
Speaker
You know, I would like to dive in, too, because some of the things I said was... And we mentioned this, so it's not a huge thing that we have to do, but... Again, this used to be one of... It's certainly not there anymore, but this was one of the most beloved gaming franchises in history.
00:01:16
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That single-handedly saved a console at one point.
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And...
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It's interesting in all forms of media where Halo is in this day and age, especially being old enough to remember what Halo was.
Personal Halo Experiences
00:01:35
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Yeah, as I've said before, Halo represents a very special place in my nerd heart.
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I've spent many, many, many hours both in single and multiplayer on this.
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Speaker
I've sought out alternate media for Halo.
00:01:50
Speaker
I've read some of the novels, which many of them are actually quite good.
00:01:54
Speaker
Uh, so, you know, I, I'm into this franchise.
00:01:57
Speaker
I am, I'm definitely 100% into this franchise.
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I've played every version of the games that they've released, even Spartan assault.
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I've done halo wars one and two multiple times.
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Speaker
I've played through the campaigns and split screen co-op multiple times.
00:02:13
Speaker
Um, you know, this is something I've shared with my son.
00:02:15
Speaker
Uh, he and I have played through, um,
00:02:18
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Every game, actually, we haven't gotten all the way through Infinite on co-op, but that was something that we did kind of during the shutdown as we started with Halo 1 split screen co-op.
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And it's something that we've done together.
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It's one of the first franchises other than the Lego games that he and I have done together or my kids and I really have played together.
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So Halo definitely is important to me.
00:02:40
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It's something that I care about very deeply, maybe too much.
00:02:44
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And you're right, that first season, there were some moments where we really felt like we got true Halo level action.
00:02:50
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And then there was a lot of the rest of it that just absolutely left.
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are scratching our heads.
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And it's, it's, it was very bizarre.
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Some of the choices that were made.
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So, you know, now we're two
Season 2 Initial Impressions
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years away from that.
00:03:02
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We went all of last year with nothing and it took them two more years to be able to get this.
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And I gotta be honest, like I had to go back and, and like re-listen to some of our breakdowns to even really remember what was going on with this show and
00:03:17
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when last we saw it and I felt like I didn't remember most of it.
00:03:21
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I, I, I remembered feeling like there were moments where I was like, Oh my God, this was great.
00:03:26
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And, but mostly moments I'm, I was just like, what were they thinking with this?
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Like, did they, did they even play the games at all?
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And we know that largely they didn't.
00:03:37
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So when, when this starts and we get this great action to start the whole thing,
00:03:43
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But at the same time, I'm kind of going like, OK, what just happened?
00:03:48
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Like, have they just skipped a lot and they're not going to necessarily go back?
00:03:53
Speaker
Like, how much of this are they retconning and just sort of moving forward with almost a new show?
Master Chief's Portrayal
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It was it was some interesting choices.
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But overall, I got to admit, I was excited that this was coming back because I just had a feeling that
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that this was going to be better and we were going to get more of what we want.
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Speaker
And is that the case?
00:04:14
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Well, let's find out.
00:04:17
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Yeah.
00:04:18
Speaker
I, I think those are all really good points and, you know, we're going to do both episodes here in this review.
00:04:29
Speaker
And, you know, Rob, for me, I just, I have to say that overall, I,
00:04:38
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even though there's some, some retconning and there seems to be a clear choice to steer away from some of the things that I think upset a lot of fans in season one.
00:04:51
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Um, for me, there still seems to be a real disconnect.
00:04:57
Speaker
Um, I do not think that master chief has gotten any better.
Storytelling Concerns in Season 2
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Schreiber, again, I always hate to say anything about actors, but this guy in these first two episodes, especially because we have to see his face so much, and I know he did a pretty, which I would say good interview about why he feels it's necessary and why people kind of need to let that go.
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This guy just doesn't do it for me, and it's...
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Very apparent in season two in these two episodes that his acting range for me just is not there.
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And I thought he did a really great job in season one in the one episode.
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I thought I was like, wow, like, okay, this is, this is much better, but it's, it's right back.
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Speaker
And it feels like,
00:05:55
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It feels like a lot overall of more of the same from this season so far for me for the first two episodes.
00:06:03
Speaker
I really had the feeling that I did with season one once I got through the end of this.
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Speaker
And yes, there's a tighter focus, it feels.
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And I think we get a pretty...
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Speaker
I feel like we got a pretty cool payoff here when they mentioned reach.
00:06:24
Speaker
Well, we're going towards a pretty good payoff for people that know about this series, but ultimately I just feel more of the same from season one.
00:06:35
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That's my quick take.
00:06:36
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And obviously we'll dive a little deeper, but I couldn't help, but feel a sense of deja vu after I was done with both episodes.
00:06:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:06:45
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In a lot of ways, you know, the Master Chief represents and for for video games, it's a lot of it's a lot of like power fantasies.
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Speaker
You know, you play as a powerful character who has all these powerful abilities and things like that.
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And the Master Chief is this revered warrior in the game series, even when we first meet him in the original game.
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Speaker
you know, he's thought of as like, oh my God, that's him.
00:07:08
Speaker
You know, he's like, he's like a combination warrior and rock star and war hero kind of like all rolled into one.
00:07:15
Speaker
And they kind of treat him very much the same way in this.
00:07:19
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It feels like they're, they're trying to pitch kind of a propaganda machine in this too.
00:07:24
Speaker
Like, like that's definitely at work.
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at times.
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Speaker
And we see that in season one, season one.
00:07:29
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And we definitely see it in episode one here.
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And, and they definitely build up the master chief as like, you know, this, this super important figure, everybody knows who he is and everybody worships the ground he walks on.
00:07:41
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except for in the second episode when he goes to these people's houses and they have no clue who he is.
00:07:46
Speaker
But to your point around just the portrayal of the character, he doesn't come across as this all-conquering, inspiring world-beater through his own actions and words.
00:08:03
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We have that opinion and impression of him.
00:08:06
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Because of what others say about him, not through what we actually see ourselves.
00:08:11
Speaker
Separate from a couple of battle scenes where he does do some work, he definitely does damage when we get him in a battle scene.
00:08:18
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But outside of that, it's not like he just walks around and we feel that aura, that this person is powerful, this person...
00:08:27
Speaker
is a savior and is going to lead us out of this dark time and, and conquer our enemy.
00:08:33
Speaker
We don't necessarily feel that in the portrayal of the character.
00:08:38
Speaker
Yeah, I don't, I don't disagree with any of that, but also one of the things that I, I really didn't like, because again, in, you know, in the games, again, master chief, you know, Spartan one, one seven, man,
00:08:57
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he is, he's needed for this fight.
00:09:03
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He's, he's the one that can stop the covenant.
00:09:07
Speaker
And once you find out like, you know, more about where that halo series was going, it's even more clear that like, Oh man, like you, you need this guy.
00:09:19
Speaker
Um, but, um,
00:09:25
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Eckerson, there's a line where he says, yes, we need
Adaptation Critiques
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Master Chief.
00:09:32
Speaker
And I'm paraphrasing, so I'm not quoting directly, but he says, you know, he's just a guy in a suit.
00:09:40
Speaker
And it's like, no, he's not.
00:09:42
Speaker
Like, no, that's not Master Chief.
00:09:45
Speaker
That's not what viewers are led to believe.
00:09:48
Speaker
And again, there's just, there's parts of this season, like I said, deja vu, where it's like,
00:09:53
Speaker
To me, again, okay, who is this for?
00:09:58
Speaker
What are we supposed to do with this show?
00:10:05
Speaker
I don't feel like they make Master Chief a big deal.
00:10:10
Speaker
I just... I never liked Master Chief because he had facial expressions.
00:10:18
Speaker
I never liked Master Chief because...
00:10:21
Speaker
He's, you know, actor-wise, he's got a 0% body fat.
00:10:27
Speaker
Like, I just don't understand what they're doing.
00:10:32
Speaker
I was severely left disappointed.
00:10:37
Speaker
And I saw reviews that were like, oh, they made the decision not to do video game stuff.
00:10:41
Speaker
And it's like, hmm.
00:10:45
Speaker
Again, if you're doing it in the right way, I don't need you to pander to me.
00:10:50
Speaker
But again, what the hell are you making?
00:10:53
Speaker
It's the exact thing with Marvel and what they've been doing where you see all of these people talking about, nope, I never read the comics.
00:11:03
Speaker
Nope, I never did this.
00:11:05
Speaker
Nope, I didn't bother to touch it.
00:11:07
Speaker
And I just go, why?
00:11:11
Speaker
You're walking away from a formula that was proven to work and...
00:11:18
Speaker
In a way, to me, you're just shitting on everything that's supposed to exist.
00:11:26
Speaker
It feels like the show spends more time trying to keep Master Chief out of combat and keep him out of action and minimize his importance, minimize his impact.
00:11:38
Speaker
They overtly say the dialogue says, oh, you're so important to the war effort.
00:11:42
Speaker
And yet they keep trying to keep him out of it.
00:11:45
Speaker
And it's not like that's not really interesting to me.
00:11:49
Speaker
I don't I'm not like really into that.
00:11:52
Speaker
I don't understand it.
00:11:53
Speaker
I don't understand what the benefit is.
00:11:55
Speaker
And there's a couple of times where...
00:11:58
Speaker
I feel like the Office of Naval Intelligence and all of the people that are involved in that, it feels like there's conflict just for the sake of conflict.
00:12:07
Speaker
Because when you stop and ask a few questions about, well, why is this?
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Speaker
You don't really have a great answer.
00:12:14
Speaker
This guy and his team are clearly the most powerful war machine that they have.
00:12:20
Speaker
You just kind of point them at the problem and the problem tends to go away, usually in a hail of gunfire and grenades.
00:12:28
Speaker
And yet it seems like for whatever reason, and if they want to explore a plot line where they're actually afraid of the Spartans, like what will happen if they decide that they're more suited to rule?
00:12:39
Speaker
Like if that was the plot line, first of all, I think that would be dumb, but you would almost kind of make sense.
00:12:46
Speaker
But outside of that, like if that's not what they're doing, then I have no idea why they keep trying to keep these guys out of combat, keep them from performing, try to make them second guess themselves, try to do everything that prevents them from saving humanity.
00:13:01
Speaker
There's so many people that don't act in their own best interests.
00:13:05
Speaker
And really, when we start looking at this first episode, you know, we get that opening scene where they're sent to sanctuary and they
00:13:12
Speaker
they're being asked to evacuate people who don't want to be evacuated.
00:13:16
Speaker
So like, I don't know why they get all bent out of shape.
00:13:18
Speaker
Like, you know, listen, if you want to be turned into glass and pink mist, but I guess go ahead.
00:13:23
Speaker
Like, I'm not going to, I'm not going to force you if you're not interested in that.
00:13:27
Speaker
And, and that, you know, kind of that shamanistic figure, like she just kind of leads a couple of her disciples and they just walk right into the liquid glass as it's coming down towards the beginning
Plot and Character Decisions
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of the episode.
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Speaker
And I'm like, I don't like that.
00:13:42
Speaker
It's supposed to be like, I guess, some kind of noble religious sacrifice, maybe, but it doesn't work for me because it doesn't make sense.
00:13:49
Speaker
Like, what did she accomplish with that?
00:13:52
Speaker
Like, yeah, she says, like, we were here.
00:13:55
Speaker
You moved us from our planet 42 years ago.
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Speaker
Like she has that line.
00:13:59
Speaker
I remember because I watched the opening twice and and she said something about, you know, when your planet needs you and you leave.
00:14:06
Speaker
It was something kind of dumb.
00:14:08
Speaker
It's like, well, that's not even your real home planet.
00:14:10
Speaker
Your home planet was a place you already left.
00:14:11
Speaker
This is like your this is like your second house.
00:14:14
Speaker
Right.
00:14:14
Speaker
And you're not going to survive.
00:14:16
Speaker
You're not doing anything by staying there.
00:14:18
Speaker
Yeah.
00:14:18
Speaker
What did your death actually bring around?
00:14:20
Speaker
And listen, if they've got a different set of religious beliefs, okay, I guess, whatever.
00:14:26
Speaker
They don't really have time to go into their whole theology.
00:14:30
Speaker
Maybe they believe that's the most pious thing you can do is walk right into a blast of covenant energy coming down, turning everything into glass and sacrificing yourself as somehow noble.
00:14:42
Speaker
But I don't know.
00:14:45
Speaker
It just seemed kind of dumb.
00:14:47
Speaker
It didn't really work for me.
00:14:49
Speaker
Yeah, it didn't really work for me.
00:14:51
Speaker
I also didn't, you know, and again, it's like, that's part of the opening.
00:14:57
Speaker
Like, that's how this season opens.
00:14:59
Speaker
And the, you know, what does she say to Master Chief?
00:15:02
Speaker
Find your... Something about find your soul or find, yeah.
00:15:07
Speaker
Yeah, and it's just like, oh my God.
00:15:10
Speaker
I've seen your death in it soon or whatever.
00:15:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:15:12
Speaker
And they keep trying to make the UNSC...
00:15:19
Speaker
Every character they show that's affiliated with the UNSC, they try to make as absolutely unlikable as possible.
00:15:25
Speaker
And that really doesn't work for me.
00:15:30
Speaker
That to me, I think is really ineffective about this series so far.
00:15:34
Speaker
We saw it in season one.
00:15:35
Speaker
We're already seeing it in season two.
00:15:38
Speaker
And you think about like on your journey through the games with these characters, like, you know, some of them like, you know, you don't really get a like other than Sergeant Johnson, like you don't really get to know.
00:15:49
Speaker
And Captain Keys, you don't really get to know that many of them really well.
00:15:54
Speaker
A couple of them here and there.
00:15:55
Speaker
Mostly they're just like nameless space Marines that sometimes shoot the turret on the warthog for you.
00:16:03
Speaker
Or sometimes like you can steal their sniper rifle when you need it in that situation.
00:16:06
Speaker
That's really what they're there for.
00:16:08
Speaker
But generally you like them, you root for them.
00:16:11
Speaker
And when, you know, the, the guy in your passenger seat gets taken out by a needler, you're like, Oh, bummer.
00:16:15
Speaker
You know, he, he was kind of fun.
00:16:17
Speaker
Oh, well, you know, and then you move on the game, but like,
00:16:20
Speaker
if any of these UNSC guys get taken out, like you go, Oh, well, like you don't know anything about it.
00:16:26
Speaker
They're they've just been made so unlikable and it's really not effective.
00:16:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:16:33
Speaker
I, I don't think it's effective.
00:16:36
Speaker
I will say that I do think one of the new characters I do think Eccerson is pretty effective.
00:16:46
Speaker
I actually liked him.
00:16:50
Speaker
could not stand the scenes with Dr. How do you pronounce her name again?
00:16:55
Speaker
Haseley Halsey Halsey.
00:16:58
Speaker
Um, I actually really didn't like her stuff at all.
00:17:02
Speaker
Um, I wasn't a fan of it.
00:17:05
Speaker
I do think Eckerson, uh, his character brought something.
00:17:09
Speaker
There is a Rob, you'll laugh, but based on what we see at the end of episode two, um,
00:17:17
Speaker
There's a little bit too much The Last Jedi in this Halo show for me with... Why does it seem like you're hiding the plan from everybody that should need to frickin' know it?
00:17:34
Speaker
Yep.
00:17:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:17:35
Speaker
Like, why?
00:17:37
Speaker
It is... It is such a weird trope in movies and shows, but...
00:17:46
Speaker
oh, I did it to protect you, or you wouldn't want the burden of knowing, or like...
00:17:53
Speaker
If I'm correct, it is clear.
00:17:56
Speaker
And let me know if this is how you understood it.
00:17:58
Speaker
Maybe I shouldn't even be asking this question.
00:18:00
Speaker
Maybe they spelled it out more obviously than I'm thinking.
00:18:02
Speaker
But he's clearly running scenarios because he knows the covenant is glassing planets on how to actually win.
00:18:12
Speaker
So why are you keeping that from people?
00:18:15
Speaker
Why is that a secret?
00:18:17
Speaker
Why is it not a full-scale evacuation?
00:18:19
Speaker
Why have you not thrown every Spartan you have...
00:18:23
Speaker
at trying to stop it.
00:18:25
Speaker
Right.
00:18:26
Speaker
I don't understand why he's keeping these things from people like the Spartans.
00:18:34
Speaker
It just doesn't make sense.
00:18:36
Speaker
What is the reason you're doing that?
00:18:40
Speaker
And this is where I was also confused is what difference does it really make to Oni, whether or not the covenant were there on sanctuary?
00:18:47
Speaker
What benefit do they get from denying that they were there right now?
00:18:51
Speaker
It really feels like it's just a plot device to create conflict between John and this new guy who, as soon as I saw him in episode one, I was already suspicious of this dude because the actor that plays him never gets to be like,
00:19:04
Speaker
a cool guy.
00:19:05
Speaker
He's never like the trustworthy guy.
00:19:08
Speaker
Um, he was in this show, I think, Oh God, it's some, there's like a hundred million vampire shows on Netflix and he's in like two of them.
00:19:15
Speaker
One's a spinoff of the other that my wife watches.
00:19:17
Speaker
And he was a kind of a scumbag in both.
00:19:20
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Um, and he, he's a great actor by the way.
Character Trust Issues
00:19:22
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He's great at that sort of character, but as soon as I saw him, I already knew that he was a scumbag as soon as I saw him just cause he's kind of typecast as that.
00:19:30
Speaker
Um, Joseph Morgan, he, um,
00:19:33
Speaker
Vampire Diaries.
00:19:34
Speaker
And then obviously the originals.
00:19:37
Speaker
Yep.
00:19:37
Speaker
Those are the two.
00:19:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:19:39
Speaker
She watched every, she's watched that whole series like three times through and I've like been in the room when it's been on and not my thing necessarily, but like if it's your thing, cool, happy for you.
00:19:49
Speaker
But I've, you know, just have overseen some of it and actually thought this, that he was, he was quite good.
00:19:55
Speaker
But as far as him in this show, yeah.
00:19:59
Speaker
What is the benefit of keeping that from people?
00:20:01
Speaker
Like it's not,
00:20:03
Speaker
If the planet gets glassed, he's not going to get a medal for it.
00:20:05
Speaker
He's not going to like be, be thrown the keys to a new Lamborghini and get a penthouse in Malibu.
00:20:11
Speaker
Like what, what is the advantage?
00:20:13
Speaker
Like, would you not, if you were, if you're in charge of helping maintain the survival of an entire species, your species, would
00:20:24
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and millions and millions of lives on that planet and, and others that would be affected by the loss of those assets at that planet, if it were to be glassed, why would you not be falling up on every lead?
00:20:37
Speaker
Why would you be trying to tell John?
00:20:38
Speaker
No, you don't.
00:20:39
Speaker
You totally didn't see all those elites on the other planet.
00:20:42
Speaker
Totally not a thing.
00:20:43
Speaker
My guy, like, why would you not be like, okay, let's, let's analyze all the Intel.
00:20:47
Speaker
Let's look at everything we could possibly look at.
00:20:49
Speaker
Let's try to decide what,
00:20:51
Speaker
where the biggest possible threat is.
00:20:53
Speaker
We're getting conflicting reports, whatever, but let's trust our man in the field who, who seems to be our best weapon and our most, you know, credible person.
00:21:02
Speaker
And I guess if you wanted to say, okay, maybe he's not credible because he had Cortana stuck in his head.
00:21:08
Speaker
That to me, I don't, I don't, I don't really see that.
00:21:11
Speaker
I don't know.
00:21:14
Speaker
No, I got attention.
00:21:16
Speaker
Like you said, it feels like manufactured tension for no reason.
00:21:20
Speaker
Yes.
00:21:21
Speaker
And it's a shame because there's there certainly is a lot that's happened since we left.
00:21:27
Speaker
We last saw the show.
00:21:28
Speaker
You know, I think they said about six months has transpired again for us.
00:21:31
Speaker
It's been two years since we've seen this.
00:21:32
Speaker
So, you know, which is crazy.
00:21:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:36
Speaker
It does not seem like that was two years ago, but that is.
00:21:40
Speaker
That is maybe one of the quickest two years ever.
00:21:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:44
Speaker
It's the last two years have been the longest 10 years of my life in some ways.
Production Design and Visuals
00:21:49
Speaker
But I will say this.
00:21:51
Speaker
I forgot how much I love the overall production design of this show.
00:21:55
Speaker
Like we've kind of dumped on some of the stupid plot points, but I do have a couple of things that I want to say in favor of this show so far.
00:22:02
Speaker
Man, the production design, the costumes, the overall look, the sets, like the weapons, the vehicles.
00:22:11
Speaker
Just flawless.
00:22:13
Speaker
Just absolutely fantastic.
00:22:15
Speaker
And it makes me wish that the overall show was better.
00:22:18
Speaker
And I do want to kind of talk about a couple of some of the action scenes that I think really work.
00:22:23
Speaker
The opening the opening action battle where, you know, chief has to take on multiple elites, I think is a phenomenal example of how to handle a fight scene where there's a single one man army versus multiple hostiles that you have to make it look good without making the enemy seem like they're just cannon fodder.
00:22:43
Speaker
Because those elites did seem like they were actually threatening and dangerous, and there's reason to worry that they could actually take out our hero.
00:22:52
Speaker
And it just makes our hero look that much more badass when the villains are actually dangerous.
00:22:59
Speaker
They seem like they have the ability to kill him.
00:23:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:04
Speaker
But when Master Chief takes him out, it's more than just wave after wave of Goombas that he just jumps on the heads of back and forth, back and forth, back and forth until, you know, the level's over.
00:23:13
Speaker
I really thought that was quite effective.
00:23:15
Speaker
And then the following shot, when we do see that first elite reveal his sword, you know, when the energy sword lights up and then you see all of the ones around it, that was a cool shot.
00:23:26
Speaker
And I was really into that opening action scene.
00:23:30
Speaker
Yeah, no, I do agree.
00:23:32
Speaker
The production value is top-notch.
00:23:34
Speaker
You can tell they spend money, by all means.
00:23:38
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:23:40
Speaker
That is absolutely no doubt.
00:23:42
Speaker
I did think the action was good.
00:23:44
Speaker
A little bit of... I thought there were a couple moments in those action scenes where there's a little bit of rough camera.
00:23:52
Speaker
It was the same thing as in Season 1.
00:23:54
Speaker
But I did think the action was well done when we got it.
00:23:58
Speaker
And yeah, that...
00:23:59
Speaker
that scene of all of those energy swords just lighting up, that was a very, very cool shot.
00:24:09
Speaker
Um, I enjoyed that a lot.
00:24:12
Speaker
And, you know, it's, again, it's a shame because I'm not saying that we need to have an hour's worth of what's an hour's worth of action.
00:24:25
Speaker
Um, um,
00:24:27
Speaker
But yeah, you said it earlier.
00:24:29
Speaker
It just seems like they're going out of their way to do everything they can to make it so that he's not in action.
00:24:43
Speaker
I mean, what?
00:24:43
Speaker
We got the scene where there's the training.
00:24:48
Speaker
But yeah, it's just, you know, how can we make him not Master Chief?
00:24:54
Speaker
Even the dinner table scene, I thought was really silly.
00:25:01
Speaker
Like, you're two grown adult males, and you're like, oh, she's never had a man over.
00:25:07
Speaker
I wonder if they're... Like, you're two adults.
00:25:10
Speaker
Like, what two adults are going to say that for what is... Basically their sister?
00:25:17
Speaker
I think so.
00:25:18
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:18
Speaker
That's, that's the vibe I
Character Motivations
00:25:20
Speaker
got.
00:25:20
Speaker
And it was, it was kind of, it was cringy.
00:25:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:23
Speaker
It was just weird.
00:25:25
Speaker
I just, I don't know.
00:25:27
Speaker
I like, even that did like the dinner scene.
00:25:29
Speaker
I was just like, was she signaling Morse code to him?
00:25:34
Speaker
Was that what that was?
00:25:36
Speaker
I think so.
00:25:37
Speaker
Yes.
00:25:38
Speaker
But that, that was never really like followed up all the way through on.
00:25:42
Speaker
No, no, it was.
00:25:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:45
Speaker
You know,
00:25:46
Speaker
Just whatever.
00:25:47
Speaker
Open-ended.
00:25:48
Speaker
I have a direct quote here.
00:25:51
Speaker
This is from my son who was watching the show with me.
00:25:53
Speaker
Why are people so dumb in this show?
00:25:56
Speaker
Yes.
00:25:57
Speaker
Oh my, oh my God.
00:25:59
Speaker
You know what?
00:26:01
Speaker
He's 11.
00:26:02
Speaker
He's 11 years old.
00:26:03
Speaker
And sometimes that's what you need.
00:26:05
Speaker
You need somebody who doesn't need to think about the grand scope of things and just breaks it down simplistically.
00:26:13
Speaker
And yes, that is perfect.
00:26:16
Speaker
Why are people dumb in this show?
00:26:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:20
Speaker
And he's right.
00:26:20
Speaker
I mean, we have that cult leader who's just marching all her Jonestown citizens into the molten rock.
00:26:25
Speaker
You know, Quan Ha in season one outright refuses, obviously needed help from an alien race with superior technology.
00:26:32
Speaker
Does the people in this world, oh, and our new head of ONI.
00:26:37
Speaker
Like the people in this world lack self-preservation skills.
00:26:41
Speaker
Like it's almost like evolution just kind of skipped that self-preservation gene for most of the people on this show that, that leads, you know, better genes that are designed to keep you alive, to get passed on from generation to generation.
Halo's Legacy and Future Hopes
00:26:55
Speaker
It kind of makes you wonder of like, at some point we just made things too easy and, and the smart people stopped breeding.
00:27:03
Speaker
Yeah, man, I just,
00:27:07
Speaker
I don't understand because I wish there was, I just wish there was more.
00:27:13
Speaker
I want this.
00:27:16
Speaker
I want this to be my show.
00:27:18
Speaker
Like I really do.
00:27:20
Speaker
Like we, we talked about the last of us.
00:27:22
Speaker
We've, you know, there's so many things we have talked about in the time that we have done this.
00:27:32
Speaker
And I've never really said this.
00:27:37
Speaker
But I wanted Halo to be the thing.
00:27:42
Speaker
I really did.
00:27:43
Speaker
Because again, I was there.
00:27:47
Speaker
I was at peak age when Halo was a thing.
00:27:52
Speaker
I was at peak opportunity when Halo 2 came out.
00:27:56
Speaker
I was working at GameStop for Christ's sakes.
00:28:00
Speaker
And remember the all-out goddamn crazy, we're doing a midnight release for a video game.
00:28:09
Speaker
I think that was the first midnight release I can ever remember happening.
00:28:13
Speaker
Yes, because people wanted it so bad.
00:28:18
Speaker
They could not wait to get their hands on the next chapter of Halo.
00:28:25
Speaker
And then with Halo 3, even like...
00:28:29
Speaker
Even with the ending in question to Halo 2, just, you know, because at the time, people were like, what the hell is that?
00:28:38
Speaker
How that ended was, sir, finishing this fight.
00:28:42
Speaker
But just everything that was Halo 2, dual wielding, breaking Benjamin, providing us fire your guns for one of the missions, like...
00:28:57
Speaker
I remember what it was like to be a Halo fan for one, two, and three and to a degree four as well.
00:29:04
Speaker
It didn't start really kind of taking a little bit of a dive until Halo guardians.
00:29:11
Speaker
Um,
00:29:12
Speaker
But I remember what it was like, and I remember the craziness of everything Halo.
00:29:19
Speaker
Red and Blue series.
00:29:21
Speaker
Oh, Red vs. Blue, yeah.
00:29:23
Speaker
Remember Mando Game Fuel?
00:29:25
Speaker
Yes.
00:29:26
Speaker
You know, being...
00:29:28
Speaker
serious, again, saving a console.
00:29:32
Speaker
We wouldn't have an Xbox Series X right now if it wasn't for Halo.
00:29:37
Speaker
You would not have Microsoft Game Pass if it wasn't for Halo.
00:29:42
Speaker
You would not have any of these things.
00:29:47
Speaker
And it's just, it might sound silly to people, but to see where it is, it's kind of sad.
00:29:58
Speaker
Yeah, I think I remember when we did our 2021 season 20.
00:30:06
Speaker
Yeah, it was either 21 or 22 year in review.
00:30:09
Speaker
One of my bold predictions was that Halo season two would be better.
00:30:13
Speaker
Assuming that we got it, you know, in the following year, I didn't realize it was going to take two years before it came back.
00:30:21
Speaker
Even that being said, I think I'm more optimistic about the rest of this season than I was at this same point two years ago.
00:30:32
Speaker
So we're two episodes in.
00:30:34
Speaker
Yes.
00:30:35
Speaker
And I think there's some things that...
00:30:39
Speaker
are leading me to believe we could head in the right direction.
00:30:42
Speaker
There's still a lot of time being spent on plots that I'm not particularly interested in, and I'm not sure where they're going with it.
00:30:50
Speaker
So the story of Halo is the story of predominantly the Master Chief, his relationship with the AI Cortana, and their fight to save the human race from
00:31:03
Speaker
you know, multiple threats covenant, you know, then they kind of have like the offshoot of the covenant.
00:31:07
Speaker
There's the banished, then there's the flood and there's all of these things trying to retain our species.
00:31:13
Speaker
But it's that, it's that, it's that relationship between master chief and Cortana as they're going along.
Season 2 Narrative Focus
00:31:19
Speaker
And yet we really haven't gotten a ton of that just yet.
00:31:22
Speaker
We got a little bit of it, but not a ton.
00:31:25
Speaker
So that's, that's really what we're here for is that,
00:31:28
Speaker
And they spent a lot of time on Soren and Quan Ha, which the less we say about her, the better.
00:31:34
Speaker
But hey, at least they made her get a haircut.
00:31:36
Speaker
All right, quick sidebar.
00:31:37
Speaker
So...
00:31:39
Speaker
Matt, I think we talked about this last summer, but it's a big, it's a thing that a lot of networks do, especially when you own a lot of IP that, you know, when you, when you have your own streaming service, you let everybody that is going to sign into that account, have their own like profile avatar picture for their thing.
00:31:55
Speaker
And it's one of the, it's like one of the properties you own.
00:31:58
Speaker
So like with Paramount, you can choose from Nickelodeon characters.
00:32:01
Speaker
You can choose from, from all kinds of stuff and you can choose characters from, from this show.
00:32:07
Speaker
And somebody had to sit down and actually make an avatar profile for Quan Ha.
00:32:15
Speaker
Who's choosing this?
00:32:17
Speaker
Who's the person that chooses that as their profile picture for their sign in on Paramount Plus?
00:32:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:23
Speaker
I don't even think that actress's agent is choosing that for his sign in on Paramount Plus.
00:32:29
Speaker
No, no.
00:32:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:34
Speaker
yeah i will say i'm gonna backtrack a little um i do agree with you there are some things in the first two episodes um that make me more ambitious um
00:32:53
Speaker
For this season, then season one.
00:32:57
Speaker
I mean, he just says magical got glass.
00:33:00
Speaker
And I was thinking like, whoa, did they just eliminate that whole story just in one throwaway line?
00:33:06
Speaker
Hey, magical got glass.
00:33:07
Speaker
Okay, we're done with that, guys.
00:33:09
Speaker
It was like, sweet.
00:33:10
Speaker
I was actually really pumped about that.
00:33:12
Speaker
I was like, that's a bold move to completely write out a whole subplot just in one line.
00:33:18
Speaker
And then you find out somehow, you know, somehow Quan is alive.
00:33:24
Speaker
Yeah, right.
00:33:25
Speaker
Has returned.
00:33:27
Speaker
God.
00:33:29
Speaker
But yeah, there is there's definitely things that give me a hope that this will be that this will be better.
00:33:40
Speaker
I certainly am not ready to write this off.
00:33:45
Speaker
I'm I'm very uneasy about it.
00:33:49
Speaker
But I definitely do.
00:33:52
Speaker
I think I'm more convinced that this season can be redeemed than season one.
00:33:57
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:58
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:59
Speaker
I mean, maybe we do spend way too much time.
00:34:02
Speaker
We do spend too much time.
00:34:03
Speaker
we do spend too much time looking at this Soren plot line that I'm not particularly
Character Arcs and Action Scenes
00:34:07
Speaker
interested in.
00:34:07
Speaker
I don't find him right now to be a character that I have like a great feeling for.
00:34:13
Speaker
Like he's not so great of a, of a anti-hero that like, I'm, I'm excited to see what he's going to do, you know, like, like other rogues or scoundrels.
00:34:22
Speaker
Like he's, he's not that.
00:34:24
Speaker
So we're spending all this time on him.
00:34:26
Speaker
And I just, in my head, I'm thinking, how does this side plot tie into the main story?
00:34:32
Speaker
What is the point of this?
00:34:33
Speaker
How, how will Soren get in his, his family and his arc get folded back in with John and, and the Coven invasion?
00:34:43
Speaker
Like this is, this is this whole separate thing.
00:34:45
Speaker
And I don't see a way that that folds back in.
00:34:47
Speaker
And I don't see a reason why I care about it.
00:34:49
Speaker
It's to pay attention to it until it has time to do that.
00:34:54
Speaker
Yes, I absolutely agree with that.
00:35:02
Speaker
But we'll see.
00:35:04
Speaker
I mean, we shall see what happens.
00:35:10
Speaker
In the second episode, we get that really cool shot when the elite is wiping out the space Marines towards the end of it, you know, for whatever reason.
00:35:20
Speaker
And again, their tactics are garbage.
00:35:22
Speaker
There's this there's the squad leader sends the first group down and they get completely wiped out.
00:35:27
Speaker
It's like, well, yeah.
00:35:29
Speaker
Since that works so well the first time, you know what I'm going to try?
00:35:31
Speaker
I'm going to send everybody else to do the exact same thing that worked so brilliantly to begin with and sends them down while he just kind of stands there just shivering and cowering.
00:35:42
Speaker
But the moment we get the, you know, it's very, very dark and everything that just gets illuminated by the gunfire and the elite's energy sword.
00:35:50
Speaker
That was also a cool shot, and it kind of reminded me of a very similar shot they used in the Batman, where it's pretty dark, but it's only illuminated by the gunfire.
00:35:58
Speaker
It kind of gave me those vibes, and I sort of thought that was a cool shot.
00:36:02
Speaker
So I think we have...
00:36:05
Speaker
I think we have some moments where we can be like, OK, when when they put something together, it can actually be kind of cool.
00:36:12
Speaker
If you want hope, if you want hope that this is going to turn into something that you you're probably going to like.
00:36:19
Speaker
I've got I've got episode names for the rest of the season and.
00:36:24
Speaker
Episode three is called Visigrad.
00:36:27
Speaker
I don't know what that's going to mean.
00:36:31
Speaker
Episode four is called Reach.
00:36:33
Speaker
So I kind of think we can probably have some guesses.
00:36:37
Speaker
I think we have some guesses.
00:36:39
Speaker
Episode five, Elyria.
00:36:41
Speaker
Not really sure.
00:36:42
Speaker
Episode six is called Onyx.
00:36:44
Speaker
Now, what's interesting to me is that there was a novel called Ghosts of Onyx that was actually pretty good.
Anticipation and Speculations
00:36:52
Speaker
I read it a long time ago.
00:36:54
Speaker
So if they want to incorporate some of that storyline, that could be interesting.
00:37:00
Speaker
Episode seven is called Thermopylae, which that's that's clearly a reference to the the Greek Spartans and the Battle of Thermopylae.
00:37:10
Speaker
So that could that could be kind of cool.
00:37:12
Speaker
That's your penultimate episode.
00:37:14
Speaker
And then the eighth and final episode listed for this season is just simply called Halo.
00:37:20
Speaker
So in terms of a timeline.
00:37:23
Speaker
I think we can kind of have an idea of, of what might be coming down the pipe here.
00:37:31
Speaker
I feel like, I feel like we're going to, I feel like the end of this is going to be ultimately worth it.
00:37:37
Speaker
I'm cautiously optimistic.
00:37:39
Speaker
Maybe, maybe like unearned, maybe my optimism is unearned for this show, but maybe that's just the halo fan boy in me just wanting this to be good beyond,
00:37:53
Speaker
any existence of evidence that it will be.
00:37:59
Speaker
Maybe that's where that is.
00:38:00
Speaker
Maybe I'm to Lulu, but that's okay.
00:38:04
Speaker
Yeah, I mean...
00:38:06
Speaker
We know that we're going to see the actual, I mean, based on the trailers that we've seen for this, there is a incredible shot of one of the halo rings in space, which was just, I mean, even from the trailer, that, that shot was jaw dropping.
00:38:23
Speaker
Um, so like my mind goes to all the things that we could see, like, my God, like,
00:38:31
Speaker
we talked about the scene in the, in the fog of the plasma swords.
00:38:37
Speaker
Imagine the kind of horror shot they could do with the first appearance of the flood.
00:38:43
Speaker
Imagine seeing grave mind for the first time.
00:38:47
Speaker
If they would do something like that, like there's so many cool things that they could do.
00:38:53
Speaker
And so many cool shots that they could do with this show.
00:38:57
Speaker
You know, you mentioned grave mind.
00:38:59
Speaker
That cave painting that Quan Ha was pointing to, did that look a little like Grave Mine to you, or am I on my own here?
00:39:06
Speaker
No, I think that as well.
00:39:10
Speaker
And maybe it's just an Easter egg to say we know and we'll never get it.
00:39:13
Speaker
But no, I definitely got that feeling.
00:39:16
Speaker
OK, I'm glad I'm not on an island on that because I was sort of like, is that what she's like?
00:39:20
Speaker
How would she know about that?
00:39:21
Speaker
But then there's some kind of like mystic thing with with that magical side plot that really just sucks about something that already sucks.
00:39:30
Speaker
So I don't know.
00:39:31
Speaker
I don't want this show to go supernatural when they go.
00:39:33
Speaker
Supernatural is when they really lose you.
00:39:38
Speaker
That might be one of my favorite lines ever.
00:39:41
Speaker
Something that sucks on top of something that already sucks.
00:39:47
Speaker
Oh my God.
00:39:49
Speaker
That's pretty good.
00:39:52
Speaker
You know, it's one of the last things I'll say because, you know, we ran into this problem with season one where they're just done because it's so much dialogue and there's so much
00:40:09
Speaker
I'm trying to not be incredibly rude, but because there's so much filler, there just doesn't feel like there's a lot to talk about with these episodes.
00:40:21
Speaker
And, you know, what's funny is...
Dr. Halsey's Storyline
00:40:24
Speaker
You sit there and I'll compare it to The Last of Us where The Last of Us, there's a ton of dialogue.
00:40:30
Speaker
I mean, for Christ's sakes, episode three, I believe it was, was an entire episode dedicated to finding out about a relationship between two males that was made for the TV show, for God's sakes.
00:40:43
Speaker
And that was one of the best episodes of the goddamn series.
00:40:46
Speaker
But it's because it was filled with meaningful dialogue.
00:40:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:51
Speaker
And real emotion, not woodenness.
00:40:53
Speaker
Yes.
00:40:54
Speaker
And real emotion.
00:40:55
Speaker
And, you know, it gets to a point where it's hard to say anything more about these two episodes because even though things happened, again, it feels like we're not getting anything for maybe two, three more episodes, but from this dialogue.
00:41:17
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:18
Speaker
And I think what will be interesting is, OK, so, you know, Dr. Halsey is clearly stuck in like an AI simulation of some kind, you know, some kind of.
00:41:29
Speaker
virtual reality prison, if you will.
00:41:31
Speaker
I wonder if they have Beat Saber in there.
00:41:33
Speaker
You know, I wouldn't talk to a Flash clone if I could just sit around and play Beat Saber all day.
00:41:37
Speaker
That's definitely what I would do.
00:41:39
Speaker
But, you know, she's scheming.
00:41:41
Speaker
She's trying to figure a way to get out.
00:41:43
Speaker
And I think when she eventually does, because, you know, Dr. Halsey, she's just a bad bitch.
00:41:50
Speaker
Like, she's going to figure it out at some point.
00:41:52
Speaker
Like, she's going to Frankenstein some of those clones in a way that's going to get her out.
00:41:57
Speaker
And I'm here for it and I can't wait for it to see what will happen when she gets let loose.
00:42:02
Speaker
And so we have that to kind of look forward to.
00:42:10
Speaker
There is kind of what I think might be a little bit more of a slower build.
00:42:16
Speaker
I'm still going to be excited Thursday night when the new episode comes out.
00:42:20
Speaker
I think I'm still going to be ready to go.
00:42:26
Speaker
I don't know.
00:42:26
Speaker
I, again, I think, I think the show just has an unearned amount of optimism for me.
00:42:33
Speaker
You know, they kind of reminded me that scene where she was stuck in the VR prison.
00:42:37
Speaker
It was almost a little bit like Edge of Tomorrow, where every time it resets, Tom Cruise's character got a little more information and a little more information.
00:42:45
Speaker
And it seemed like, you know, Halsey was playing it cool for a while.
00:42:48
Speaker
And then eventually she's like, OK, I need this information now.
00:42:51
Speaker
I've already gotten this far.
00:42:52
Speaker
OK, then just like send me the next Xerox copy of you and then I'll try to build on that.
00:42:56
Speaker
It kind of gave me those vibes.
00:42:59
Speaker
Yeah, it did.
00:43:00
Speaker
It did very much have an edge of tomorrow vibe to that.
00:43:03
Speaker
I am interested in that.
00:43:05
Speaker
Again, I wasn't really keen on her character, but I was, I was interested in the situation she's in.
00:43:12
Speaker
So yeah, no, again, I, how did she get there?
00:43:14
Speaker
Cause it seemed like she was free before.
00:43:16
Speaker
Yes, no, exactly.
00:43:18
Speaker
And it's like, it feels like they just use kind of this six months time jump to go.
00:43:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:23
Speaker
There's just things that we're not going to mention.
00:43:25
Speaker
And you just, you have to take it that these characters are in these spots.
00:43:30
Speaker
Yeah, just go with it.
00:43:31
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
00:43:33
Speaker
We realize we haven't earned the right to ask you to do it, but we're going to do it anyways.
00:43:40
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:43:40
Speaker
McKee's alive, too.
00:43:41
Speaker
Yeah, just go with it.
00:43:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:44
Speaker
So do you have any, yeah, just, just go with it.
00:43:47
Speaker
Do you have any final thoughts or do you want to put a rating on these two episodes?
00:43:53
Speaker
Let's, let's get some popcorn.
00:43:55
Speaker
All right.
00:43:56
Speaker
So we'll move into popcorn time.
00:43:58
Speaker
We're going to rate episodes one and two individually.
00:44:02
Speaker
And I'll go first for episode one.
00:44:05
Speaker
Honestly, I,
00:44:07
Speaker
This is a two and a half bucket rating for me.
00:44:11
Speaker
Wasn't a lot to keep myself, you know, right in the beginning, I was like, oh, okay.
00:44:18
Speaker
This seems like they definitely have made some adjustments.
00:44:21
Speaker
By the end of the episode, I was like, feels a little too season one for me.
00:44:26
Speaker
So this first episode, I gave two and a half.
00:44:30
Speaker
Okay.
00:44:32
Speaker
I don't disagree with that.
00:44:34
Speaker
I'm going to say I actually gave it a three and a half.
00:44:37
Speaker
Part of that is just based on, I started to watch this on my lunch break the other day.
00:44:43
Speaker
And because I just was, I wasn't sure when we were going to get to do the reviews.
00:44:47
Speaker
It was, and I got to about the first 20 minutes when all the action was happening.
00:44:52
Speaker
The good part of the episode was happening.
00:44:55
Speaker
And then I was like, nah, this is getting too good.
00:44:56
Speaker
I'm going to wait till I go home tonight and I'm going to watch it with my son.
00:44:59
Speaker
Um, cause I know he'll want to be into this.
00:45:01
Speaker
So I actually rewatched that opening twice.
Comparative Reception of Seasons
00:45:03
Speaker
And I think maybe I'm influenced by just the cool parts of this that I saw twice that I kind of forgot, you know, I sort of minimize the parts that sort of suck.
00:45:11
Speaker
So I'm going to go three and a half.
00:45:13
Speaker
I, I reserve the right to change my mind later, but for now it's a three and a half.
00:45:18
Speaker
Yeah, no, I mean, I, I probably could have given it an extra, but, um, you know, moving on to episode two, um,
00:45:27
Speaker
a little bit more here to keep me actually interested.
00:45:30
Speaker
I, I didn't hate any of these episodes.
00:45:33
Speaker
Um, but I would say that I don't think it's, I liked it a little bit more, so to speak, but I can't give it a fuller rating than episode one.
00:45:47
Speaker
Um, so I actually give episode two, a two and a half as well.
00:45:51
Speaker
Um,
00:45:52
Speaker
I just, again, by the end of it, I had too much of season one vibes from the first two episodes of that season.
00:46:00
Speaker
So another two and a half rating for me.
00:46:04
Speaker
I'm going to go three.
00:46:05
Speaker
I didn't have as much to initially grab me.
00:46:08
Speaker
I had just kind of a little too much talking without me really being emotionally interested in what they were talking about.
00:46:16
Speaker
So, yeah, it's going to going to three.
00:46:20
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, that's... I'd have to go back and re-look.
00:46:25
Speaker
I'm wondering what we gave the first two episodes of Season 1.
00:46:30
Speaker
I'd be interested to go back and check that out.
00:46:32
Speaker
I think we liked Episode 1, but Episode 2, I think, is when he walked around without his helmet on the whole time on that pirate asteroid, and we were just like, what the hell is even that?
00:46:43
Speaker
Right, yes, no, I think that's right.
00:46:45
Speaker
And then I think Episode 3 was another one where...
00:46:49
Speaker
I think that was like, I think episode three was maybe one of like the lowest rated ones we did for the entire season.
00:46:55
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:56
Speaker
I think I gave you a one.
00:46:58
Speaker
That's around the time I told you to stop taking my ideas.
00:47:01
Speaker
Yes.
00:47:03
Speaker
So again, interesting, cautiously optimistic for what will come from this.
00:47:13
Speaker
Hopefully,
00:47:16
Speaker
we are not disappointed.
00:47:19
Speaker
I certainly know, you know, before we close up that if you go on and, and read other reviews, it certainly is getting, you know,
00:47:30
Speaker
I think, more positive word than season one did in the early going.
00:47:36
Speaker
I've seen a bunch of articles that say it's learned from its mistakes in season one and it's a better show so far.
00:47:43
Speaker
I also know that IGN got to review the first four episodes, and I didn't read anything for spoilers, but I think they gave the first four a 7 out of 10 overall, which is not a bad score, so I'll be interested to...
00:47:59
Speaker
to see the next two.
00:48:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:02
Speaker
I think it's one of those things.
00:48:04
Speaker
Media has gotten so fractured because of how many streaming services are out there, how many people are having to produce exclusive content, the ease at which you can just sit down.
00:48:17
Speaker
And if you wanted to watch an entire season of a show over a long weekend, you have the ability to do it.
00:48:23
Speaker
So it,
00:48:24
Speaker
You know, there's really not a lot of that show that everybody's watching.
00:48:30
Speaker
You know, I think The Last of Us was a show that everybody was watching.
00:48:34
Speaker
I think season one and part of season two of Mandalorian was a show everybody was watching.
00:48:40
Speaker
Game of Thrones was a show that everybody was watching.
00:48:44
Speaker
You know, Breaking Bad was a show everybody was watching.
00:48:48
Speaker
I don't know how many of those we're going to continue to get, you know, and I realize that Mandalorian and last of us came out not that long ago, but those really feel like more lightning in a bottle and less the way that things are.
00:49:03
Speaker
I just think that.
00:49:04
Speaker
You're going to continue to see things go a little more niche, you know, like, and this might be one of them.
00:49:09
Speaker
If you're really into the, if you're really into this IP, you'll be into it.
00:49:14
Speaker
If you like just general sci-fi, you might really be into it.
00:49:18
Speaker
This isn't going to be the one that converts people that, that sci-fi and video game adaptions aren't their bag.
00:49:25
Speaker
You know, people aren't going to be watching this that, that aren't already invested in this genre.
Podcast Closing Remarks
00:49:32
Speaker
Yeah, no, those are all very, very good points.
00:49:36
Speaker
So, again, excited to see where this journey goes.
00:49:41
Speaker
Looking forward to coming back weekly and reviewing this and see where it takes us.
00:49:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:50
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00:49:58
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00:50:17
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00:50:21
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00:50:22
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00:50:23
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00:50:24
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00:50:25
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00:50:33
Speaker
I know that there's been a lot of major media announcements.
00:50:36
Speaker
You know, Taylor's got a new album coming out.
00:50:38
Speaker
Beyonce's got a new album coming out.
00:50:40
Speaker
But Matt and Rob back on the air talking nerdy stuff.
00:50:43
Speaker
Clearly the single biggest announcement in all
00:50:46
Speaker
of media and pop culture right now.
00:50:48
Speaker
So I know that you, the listener are super excited and, uh, and we are excited to be talking to you and each other again, uh, with, with some frequency.
00:50:58
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely.
00:50:59
Speaker
Look forward to getting back into a consistent schedule.
00:51:03
Speaker
So that'll do it for this episode of Matt Goes to the Movies.
00:51:08
Speaker
Thank you very much for joining us, and we will see you very soon for the next episode of Halo Season 2.