Foreword:
The IP "Halo" originated from video games, and its status in science fiction video games is no less important than "Star Wars" in the field of science fiction movies. As Microsoft's early trump card IP, Master Chief, the protagonist of the "Halo" series in the console field, is one of the iconic characters of Microsoft's Xbox console and one of the assets that allows Microsoft's Xbox to compete with Sony's PS. Master Chief is to XBOX what Mario is to Nintendo.
In the field of FPS games, "Halo" is one of the few ruthless players that can compete with the "Call of Duty" series in terms of sales and influence. It can even be said that maybe the national game in the United States is "Call of Duty", but the national game character in the United States must be Master Chief.
The first season of the American TV series "Halo" has a total of nine episodes. It is said that the investment exceeds 90 million US dollars, and the investment for one episode exceeds 10 million US dollars. With the anticipation of tens of millions of players (the sales data of the "Halo" game has indeed exceeded 10 million), the show will be released in 2022. After watching it, Xiao Qianqi could only say, "Any carbon-based creature that has played games should not make a TV series like this." If you want to bring this matter to China, it's like getting the film and television rights to "The Three-Body Problem", and then you end up making "Shanghai Fortress". Oh no, you end up making "The Promise"!
Officially complaining about the American TV series "Halo"!
The entire show has gone off the rails since the first episode. It tells the story of the Covenant attacking the human rebel camp, and then the Master Chief leading the Spartan Silver Team to save the day. So far (2022), there has never been a Spartan in the game. The name "Da Yin Team" was made up by the film itself. From here on, various bugs began to appear. First of all, except for the Master Chief, all the Spartans and the Covenant Elite armor had a cheap leather feel. Later, there was a scene where the Master Chief stabbed the Elite with a steel pipe. I put my gun away and use a steel pipe to fight, why don't I play the role of Jackie Chan in the interstellar?
Yes, that's right. There was a gun, but a steel pipe was used, and it was stabbed through. As a gamer, I was dumbfounded when I saw this scene, because in the game setting, the armor of the elite is the same as that of the human Spartan, with an energy shield. To be precise, the shield of the human Spartan armor is copied from the Covenant elite armor. . In the game, human projectile weapons do relatively high damage to pure flesh, and the Covenant's plasma weapons do relatively high damage to shields. It is outrageous that the Master Chief stabbed the elite with a steel pipe.
What’s even more outrageous is that from the first “Halo” game in 2001, until “Halo: Infinite” in 2021, players around the world have never seen the Master Chief’s face for a full 20 years. In the first episode of the first season of the American drama "Halo", Master Chief, he directly took off his helmet to show his face, and there was almost no exaggeration. He just took it off as he asked. You must know that in the game, even if you enter the cryosleep chamber, you will not take off your helmet. What is even more outrageous is that Captain Keyes and his daughter have become black.
The most outrageous thing is that at the end of the first episode, the Master Chief escaped with the rebel daughter, hijacked a Pelican and flew away in front of all the UNSC soldiers. The Master Chief in the game is a super soldier who puts his mission first. He can complete the mission unswervingly in the face of the Zerg that can devour a planet. At the end of the first episode of the TV series, the Virgin Mary bursts out across the screen. If the Master Chief in the game is the daughter of a rebel leader, does she deserve the Master Chief’s mercy? She doesn't deserve it!
Starting from the second episode, the Master Chief no longer wears a helmet. What’s even more outrageous is that Cortana (the Master Chief’s exclusive artificial intelligence) was materialized, and then the Covenant actually adopted a human child and raised it, and finally… Let this person come to the human side to be a second or fifth son. Moreover, this adopted human child talked to the prophet in a casual way, and even had a scene where he yelled at the prophet. Even the kamikaze martyrs in the game would not dare to talk to the prophet like this. And he also named this character the Lord Buddha.
Then a lunatic in the rebel camp told the Master Chief about the power of the belt, and I went numb. In the game, the purpose of the ring is the Forerunner civilization that created the ring. The artificial intelligence placed on the ring told the Master Chief and Cortana that everyone who became a madman here knows it, but the human army commander does not know it. The sergeant Chang found the sacred object in the rebel camp and brought it back to the UNSC base.
In the third episode, the Erwuzi Zunshi attacked a human interstellar cruiser, and during the attack, he released a bunch of meat-like tentacles lying on the ceiling. If you hadn't said that this whole scene was from the 25th generation of the Covenant, I would have thought it was a joke sent by the Zerg! Whether it's a game or an American TV series, Covenant technology is more advanced than humans. I don't know what the director thinks. A whole bunch of meat sticks came out and wiped out the crew. I don’t know if I thought I was watching some kind of "Alien" spin-off series.
The TV series says that these meat sticks are hunters. In the game, hunters are indeed made of worms, but they are usually heavy-fire players who gather together and put on armor and carry cannons. In the TV series, it is obvious that elites who are invisible can be shot to infiltrate. It is very common for elites to be invisible in games. But TV dramas don't have to create such disgusting scenes. It's really because the director has something in his head.
Then comes the Cortana part. In the game, Cortana is an artificial intelligence, similar to a 3.5-inch floppy disk inserted into the card slot of Master Chief's helmet. In the TV series, Cortana is a clone whose consciousness was extracted from her eyes and injected into the Master Chief's brain. Ah…then if Cortana enters the starship command system in the future, will the Master Chief have to insert his head into the command podium? The most outrageous thing is that there is a scene where Dr. Halsey's assistant secretly kissed the Cortana clone like a crazy person before the consciousness was extracted.
There really isn’t much to talk about in the fourth episode. In the fifth episode, the Master Chief saw a child with a so-called sacred object, and then he was very angry and wanted to punch Halsey to death. Yes, the Master Chief wanted to attack Dr. Halsey! He is the founder of the Spartan program in the setting, and the person who exists like Master Chief’s mother in the game. Cortana in the Master Chief's brain cut off the Master Chief's nervous system at this time, causing the Master Chief to faint.
After that, Erwuzi led a fleet to attack the human base, trying to snatch the sacred objects. Then a fierce battle broke out. The battle scene at the beginning was well done, with a large starship falling. But later there was a scene where the Master Chief rescued an injured teammate, resulting in the robbery of a sacred object. I'm paralyzed and the Spartan mission takes priority. This kind of stupid mistake appears again in the TV series.
The most outrageous thing is that when the Star Alliance sacred object was obtained, the World Honored One was actually thrown away? I was confused at the time, why? Force your way into the enemy's territory, right? Drop spies in front of them? According to the normal situation in the game, wouldn't the elite captain come over at this time and directly burn the planet into glass beads?
In the sixth episode, Master Chief used Halsey as bait and wanted to kill Halsey with a laboratory inactivation device to verify whether Cortana would control herself. Cortana did not control the Master Chief at the last moment, so the Master Chief opened the protective door and pulled Halsey out of the laboratory. The most amazing thing is that the twenty-five-year-old Master who was thrown in front of him actually penetrated into the human body, and the UNSC blamed Dr. Halsey for throwing the holy objects. Shouldn't the blame for throwing the holy objects lie entirely on the Master Chief and the escort team?
The seventh episode is all about the adventures of the rebel girl who was taken away by the Master Chief in the second episode. I am numb. What does this have to do with Halo?
Episode 8 is the ultimate blast for game fans. To put it simply, the Halo TV series production team simply chose not to be human in this episode!
In the game, the Master Chief and his artificial intelligence Cortana experienced the darkest time together, lived and died together, and finally developed a relationship that transcended their partners. Cortana once told Master Chief in the game, don't just promise girls things you can't keep. In reality, Microsoft's voice assistant is also called Cortana. If you type in the search bar, do you know Master Chief? There is a chance to trigger the easter egg, and Cortana will reply to you "I will love him as much as I love you."
What was told in the eighth episode was that the fifth son dropped by the Covenant did not receive any interrogation, but went to the park with the Master Chief, and finally went to Wushan together to have fun, and in front of Cortana. The Master Chief portrayed in the TV series is no longer a super soldier who prioritizes tasks, but a smart guy who attacks Dr. Halsey and falls in love with a female spy after only knowing each other for a few days!
In the end, this young man was put to sleep by the Master Chief, and he actually started to help humans. Yes, the World Honored One betrayed the Covenant. At the same time, the UNSC executives wanted to remove Halsey's authority on Reach, and Halsey directly called the Spartan team to betray the UNSC; then Halsey told Cortana that he wanted her to replace the Master Chief's consciousness, and the science fiction drama completely Lost his soul and seized his body? As a result, Cortana chose to betray Halsey! Then two Spartans beat the Master Chief violently, and the UNSC executives deciphered a Covenant signal and realized that the World Honored One thrown in front of them was the Second Five! Could the plot of this episode be written by carbon-based organisms?
In Episode 9, the Lord stole another holy object and brought it back to the Star Alliance. Halsey's plan was revealed and he was captured. The result was that Halsey's clone was captured. The Master Chief and Cortana relied on the information previously provided by the Lord. Discovering the Covenant's pilgrimage site, Master Chief and Team Silver set out to retrieve the sacred object. During the process of retrieving the sacred object, the Master Chief was killed. Because the Master Chief would enter a dream state when he came into contact with the sacred object, he volunteered to die and let Cortana's consciousness take over his body and finally regained the sacred object. This is the plot of the first season of the American TV series "Halo" content.
Little Aircraft Carrier's personal evaluation of the American TV series "Halo"
Whether you are a gamer or not, don’t go see it, don’t go see it, don’t go see it! (Say important things three times). Because if you are a gamer, this show will completely shatter your worldview with its bizarre adaptation. If you are not a gamer, this show will make you misunderstand "Halo", just like a book with "The Three-Body Problem" on the cover, but the text inside is "The Domineering President Falls in Love with Me."
The "Halo" series simply tells the story of mankind, faced with technology far superior to its own Covenant Alliance, and had no choice but to launch the Spartan Project to create a series of super soldiers represented by Master Chief. During the bloody battle with the Covenant, the Master Chief and his artificial intelligence Cortana gradually discovered the Ring, the Flood (Zerg), the Forerunners and more, and then gradually understood that they had a greater mission than defeating the Covenant.
"Halo" originated from the game, and there are also very successful novels in the derivative works. The novels do not deliberately deviate from the settings of the game itself. TV dramas could have been successful if they were filmed according to the game, but in the end they had to mess up. To write Halsey as a villain, the character design of Master Chief was directly modified, and the setting of Cortana was modified. The standard ring belt did not even appear, and she had to wear a halo skin.
Originally, the "Halo" series is a game work that praises human beings' bravery and fearlessness in the face of powerful enemies. It praises the perseverance of human nature in the face of crisis. At the beginning of "Halo: Infinite", the pilot said to the Master Chief: "You only have one gun and one bullet, they have a fleet", and the Master Chief replied: "That's enough!".
In American TV dramas, the Master Chief is always at odds with those above him, being amiable to his enemies, but striking hard at his own people! You will even see the Spartan cowering in fear on the battlefield, you will even see the Master Chief who failed in the delivery mission and still fell in love with the female spy, and you will even see the Spartan soldier using an uncharged gravity hammer." The Jiralhanae that beats its back. After watching the entire TV series, you will find that the person who best restores the game is actually the most trashy soldier of the Covenant, Gollum.
It is impossible for any carbon-based creature who has played games to film a TV series like this. At this time, some people must say that games are games and TV series are TV series. Why should TV series be the same as games? So since you like originality so much and like to make up your own stories, why would you want to use the IP of "Halo"? You can just write a brand new science fiction work by yourself. Why do you have to use the "Halo" skin to not only disgust "Halo" game players, but also mislead non-player audiences?
The American film and television industry is really weird right now. They are using one so-called "correctness" to destroy one of their classic characters and works one after another. "Halo" isn't the first, and it won't be the last.