This thread is earnest, and hillarious to the outside observer.

“Live” is the loanword the Japanese use to refer to a concert performance. “Love Live!” is the overall franchise name, “School Idol Festival” is, I think, a subfranchise of the franchise (think Persona for Shin Megami Tensei) and the “Miracle Live” is, I believe, the sequel subtitle.

No, it’s worse because the Covenant has absorbed multiple races before encountering humanity. It originally started out as only the Prophets and Elites. The Grunts, Brutes, Bugs, and Hunters all were absorbed afterwards (the Jackals are paid mercenaries). Without “Humans are an existential threat to the religion that…

The main issue is that the end results just aren’t particularly convincing. They feel very stilted and unnatural. Also, I’m not looking forward to having to actually speak or type out all of my dialogue choices. That’s going to get old real quick.

The very end of Halo 4. But they don’t show his face. Only his irises, IF you beat it on the highest difficulty

No, that’s even MORE stupid, considering that humans being able to fire the rings contradicts the Covenant worship of the Forerunners, and is the entire reason the Prophets of Truth, Mercy and Regret started killing humanity in the first place

The moment he took his helmet off for the first time is when they lost the point of Master Chief.  

It took them this long to gouged consumers but yet Capcom has mastered the game with every Street Fighter series since 4, they’ve released in addition of nickel and diming with game modes, color palette, costumes, stage selection, dlc characters, and terrible crossovers costumes and aesthetics.

the Halo franchise is 20+ years old at this point. There is a wealth of material building on the Master Chief as a character outside the context of the games, and his humanity or lack thereof is a key component in his story. Wolfkill and the chuds running the show just have no desire to appeal to fans of the franchise…

I knew they took some liberties with the material, but “Covenant-sympathizing human”? Seriously?

This is *exactly* what they should have done. What’s even more frustrating is this was already proven to be a workable concept with “Forward Unto Dawn”. Let Master Chief interact with the main human characters frequently and often but always remain a larger than life sort of detached looming presence.  He’s like Roby…

When that scene came up I was like well that’s one way to stick it to the Covenant

the suit jacks off Master Chief 

I think it shows a lack of life experience to think that the only or even best way to humanize someone and show interpersonal connection is through sex. No camaraderie in a hard situation (like, an alien war)? No mutual admiration of rivals? No bonding over shared experiences?

Right? If I’m hired to produce a tv show based on one of the most successful game franchises of all time, I’d be playing every game, reading all the novels, and understanding the source material deeply. I’d have watched the remember reach videos, listened to Hunt the Truth, etc.

Wolfkill has never understood the Halo franchise and her career appears to be a complete commitment to ruining it. The fact that she is still involved with the franchise at any level is an embarrassment.

Then maybe the show shouldn’t focus on Master Chief but the people around him and the grander mission and politics.

It's pretty stupid and seems like something added in just to pander to whatever target audience they think they want to attract

It does seem like it’d be a bit of a slog to get the G/O offices to print it out, then fly 10 hours to New York to pick it up, 10 hours home again.

You know, I knew the boarding pass thing was lame as I wrote it. The truth is, the only thing I ever use a printer for is printing out cryptic crosswords.