Watching Episode 1 of Halo right now, first scene is pretty funny, some old Scottish man scaring the shit out of an uppity Mulato with stories about fighting Spartans. Production quality so far isn't bad, not as good as The Mandalorian or The Expanse, but it does its job.

The main female protagonist is one of the ugliest Asians I have ever seen, don't even think Raul could fap to this.

Covenant just started blasting a bunch of stupid teenagers to pieces with lasers, based.

The wasteland punk outfits and kits these rebels are wearing are actually pretty cool looking, very neto aesthetic.

The Elites don't look that bad up close or when they are slowly moving, its when they speed up or are viewed from afar that they start to look like Xbox 360 CG cutscene characters.

I think I figured out why the Elites look so weird, they were rendered in a different frame rate than the show was shot in, so they look slightly out of place and janky.

They keep doing these fucking shots from inside the Spartan's helmet meant to look like the video games, but the HUD isn't the right color and the weapon position just makes it look like a DOOM or Quake mod, they really need to stop this.

This has the aesthetic of those 3D model pornos you see on DeviantArt or some shit, just horrid, they really should have spent some more money and used prosthetics and suits like they do in The Mandalorian.

The Spartan Suits look pretty good though, these are actual physical effects and there was clearly a lot of effort put into them, the movement is kind of janky but that is understandable since these look really uncomfortable.

Nooo they killed funny Scottish man those bastards.

Master Chief's voice actor really is horrible, I wondered why they didn't just have the VA from the games do it but then I saw screenshots of Chief without his helmet on and now I understand.

WHERE IS THAT DMR'S SCOPE?!

The guy playing Chief is Liev Schrieber's half-brother and is jewish

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He also sounds conspicuously like the main character from The Mandalorian.

For context on why I give a shit, Halo was the first "M Rated" game series I was allowed to play, my Dad and I would play split screen coop while my Mom was out doing errands, it created a lot of fond memories for me bonding with my Dad, this is essentially like watching a dog get repeatedly stabbed.

What's worse is that I can tell from the sets, costumes, etc that even if the writers didn't give a shit about the source material, there were absolutely people on the staff who did.

OKAY WAIT A SECOND, THEY BLACKWASHED CAPTAIN KEYES BUT LEFT SERGEANT JOHNSON OUT ENTIRELY, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

The main villain isn't the Prophets or the Gravemind, a Promethian, or even the Arbiter, it's just some Blond haired White woman who is on High Charity, which is strange for a human to be there given that Reach hasn't even fallen yet.

Master Chief is also wearing his Halo 3 armor despite being at a point in the Timeline where he should be wearing his original armor from CE.