The live-action "Halo" series has been canceled at Paramount+, Variety has learned.
  • Blaster MEnglish
    48•5 months ago

    If they hadn’t slapped HALO on the show and made it its own IP, it would have worked better, but no, let’s continue the habit of having people that don’t know / despise a particular IP make a show about said IP.

  • @[email protected]Ελληνικά
    40•5 months ago

    Imagine spending the money to get movie/tv rights for this franchise… And then doing that with it. WTF

    • @[email protected]
      9•5 months ago

      It legitimately boggles the mind how out of sync the owners of the Halo IP are with its fans. 343 and Microsoft have had over a decade to figure it out and it’s been a shitshow every time.

      Halo 4 was okay, nothing really groundbreaking

      Halo CE Anniversary was just Halo 1 with a texture pack

      Halo 5 doesn’t interest me at all, it straight up doesn’t feel like a Halo game

      MCC was completely broken at launch, and while it’s good today it’s just the original Bungie games with some hacks to get them working on modern PCs

      Halo Infinite’s development was a shit show and it seems they’ve forgotten about the campaign cliffhanger as well as a bunch of unanswered questions

      And then they put out this TV show with just weird writing even outside the context of the Halo universe. I used to buy Xbox solely because of Halo, but now the franchise just feels like it’s dead in the water.

  • Bahnd Rollard
    33•5 months ago

    Shocking…

    Few people in my circle even knew it was a show, those that did just called the main character John Halo, the master cheeks (because they thought it was a good idea to have him take off his “helmet” when trying to portray an almost silent protagonist).

  • ThePowerOfGeekEnglish
    13•5 months ago

    Not a surprise. I didn’t mind the show (I didn’t play the games so I didn’t go into it with any preconceived expectations, and it was a fun enough ‘switch brain off and enjoy’ sci-fi story). But it got so much flack from fans (rightly or wrongly - I’m not making any judgement there), the plot was a bit meandering, and they had sort of boxed themselves in by the end of season two. And it clearly cost a lot. So an imminent death was expected.

    • SSTF
      4•5 months ago

      I didn’t play the games

      And that’s the rub. If this show had been called ‘Space War’ and had no connection to Halo, you’d have been equally happy. A decent number of Halo fans probably would have enjoyed the ‘Space War’ show.

      Connecting something to an existing fictional universe creates expectations in the fans that are supposedly being appealed to. This show diverged so hard from the source material that right from the beginning the creators unambiguously called it an alternate timeline (the “Delta timeline”) as a get-out-jail free card from criticism. Except that doing that just validates all the worries by fans that the people making the show don’t care about the franchise.

      • ThePowerOfGeekEnglish
        3•5 months ago

        That is a legitimately excellent point. Yes, if they were going to diverge that much then they should have made it its own thing instead of trying to cash in on an existing franchise.

  • Rhaedas
    11•5 months ago

    The opening episode and scenes were great. That’s all I have to say about it.

    • @[email protected]
      5•5 months ago

      Sounds like the butchery MTV did with Shannara years ago. Whoever came up with the intro knew the books. Whoever ran the show was given a cliffnotes of book two out of twenty nine by an assistant while getting their butthole waxed.

  • Rentlar
    11•5 months ago

    This show was more visible on Torrent sites than conventional advertising for me.