The scenes with Halsey, Cortana and the Spartans look so family-friendly. It's like Halsey's mom left John's son under the supervision of Aunt Cortana, who allows him to do shit with mom's secret permission (who then pretends that she doesn't know anything about it). And he's also trying to make friends with the Chief's friends, and he's ashamed of it :D
The Kwang-Ha line is not interesting at all, unlike the line of John and other Spartans. I wonder how Kartana will shoot with Halsey, and what is her real reason for existence.
@kingforthesirens: Well, it's clear that Halsey knows more than he's saying. Even at the first recollection of John, when he still did not understand anything, it seemed to me that she knew a lot. No wonder, when they wanted to eliminate him, she gave the order to protect John, even if it was necessary to open fire on her own. And she also didn't know about the artifact. It even seems to me that, unlike the military, she knows more about him. I'm talking about John and the artifact at the same time.
@ivanshiskanov: of course she knows more, she is their creator in fact. Obviously there are some life hacks that we have yet to learn about. She is not the first such suspicious doctor, she is not the last :)
@Zy4: I don't know anything about the original, but after watching three episodes, I feel like someone is trying to pull an owl on the globe. It's like there's a plot that needs to be explained logically, there's fan stuff that needs to be inserted into the narrative. I mean, I don't see harmony yet.
John quickly pulled the plot blanket over himself. He's just like Jason Bourne, a war machine with memories from the past. But Cortana turned out to be too independent and intrusive for AI. Perhaps Halsey, in pursuit of her goals, specially programmed her in such a way to stir up the too restrained John.
@Sheckter: So she's not just an AI here, but a copy of the Halsey clone's brain. With his own judgments and, one might say, character. In addition, it was created to essentially control the Spartan, control him, and not assist him. And she is ordered to sit still and keep her head down. An interesting conflict is looming
I really like the graphics in this series, the visual, the special effects. Everything looks very cool. Occasionally, of course, strange-looking boats appear, but you try not to pay attention to this. Space is very beautiful. What about the plot?.. It looks quite interesting, but the plot is quite banal, I want some cool raft of twists or something. The actions of the characters are often very strange. For example, the scene with the supposedly surviving girl on an empty enemy ship. I remember in the first episode they took enemy ships for study, but decided to score on this hulk? But of course I'm already digging into this, in general, the series is very good, we will wait for new episodes.
@BigRage: Imagine the time of the Second World War. An American cruiser is sailing, and a Japanese one sails out to meet him, and there they are - don't shoot, we are Americans, now we will moor to you on a boat, and everything will be fine.
Am I the only one confused by Cortana's "holographic" implementation? That is, I understand that they have a future, technology has significantly advanced. But even so, Cortana looks pretty unrealistic. From where and how is her image projected? And anywhere in the room. She is immaterial, as she can create/broadcast sounds, so that she is heard by others besides the Master Chief...
@Malloony: Cortana's assistant is named after this particular character, if anything. Product placement, damn it... It's necessary to blurt out such a stupid thing.
I really like it, the series are swallowed in one breath. The scene with the killer tentacles is disgusting to the point 😄 The girl for the role of little Maki was chosen just perfectly. The drawing of aliens pleases)
And now, after so many years of service, John has finally had his head drilled... And the fact that according to ENT, he had a neuro-implant for the operation of the neuro-interface of the exoskeleton from the very beginning (as soon as the armor was made, in fact, the Spartans only became Spartans from that moment), as if it didn't matter. Well, Cortana was on the carrier in all the games. Like a glowing flash drive, and he was constantly sticking it into all sorts of Covenant connectors. And here it was just implanted in his head, how will he insert it where there are no wireless networks? And the fact that it glows anywhere... In the same games, it was visible only in the presence of projecting devices, strictly in the area of their operation. In general, it is not convincing - once. They scored on ENT -two again... But from an artistic point of view, it seems to be digestible. I still can't figure out if I like the series or not. Probably only after the end of the whole season will I be able to say.
Even if you try to look at it in isolation from the original, the crutches and illogicalities are still striking. It's interesting to watch Halsey's underhand games, she's still an intriguer, no worse than Avasarala from Expansion. In the future, John's interaction with Cortana promises to be intense, and hopefully interesting... If only the hologram did not start fighting hand-to-hand with the enemies in the battle scenes...
@walsnake: triggered) Do not compare Halsey with Avasarala, these are birds of completely different flight. Here, the aunt looks more like "Zoey Smith" from Lost in space. But the station manager is quite a copy of Avasarala, straight and squinting the same, and double bottoms.
@walsnake: Crisien from Expanse is a very strong-willed woman, sometimes impulsive, but certainly smart and unpredictable. A superbly crafted character and a cool incarnation of him in the series. And she is also the voice of Shal'Raan vas Tonbai in Mass Effect. There is little to say about Dr. Halsey and it is too early to judge, she is a scientist, not a politician.
@Redopera: I judge Halsey by the novels. She was not painfully revealed and described in the game. But in the books, she gets quite a lot of attention. She is also very strong-willed, sometimes impulsive (when someone threatens the cause of her whole life - the Spartans; at such moments, she turns on her mom and it is better not to get up between her and the Spartans, she will not sacrifice anything to protect them from anyone), she thinks strategically so many moves forward that you just tremulously fuck up And since only she knows these plans, she is largely unpredictable. And one of the very few characters who is able to make difficult decisions is also her. That's why I saw the resemblance to Crisien. And politics in her work is also fucked up, it's just that she's not about real politics, but about internal squabbles between departments for a place in the sun.
It's an interesting way to show Cortana as a CGI model, and the visual team managed to bring her appearance as close as possible to a live actor, but at the same time not slide into an ominous valley. And a live actor would spoil the whole effect of the all-encompassing AI, which is here, there, and... everywhere. Like 👍🏼
The third episode is a little better than the total despondency of the first two, but it's still boring. I want to throw out the Kwan line entirely, I don't care what happens to it, it's a completely unnecessary artificial character. It's better with John, Halsey and Cortana, but it's very primitive so far (it's impossible not to compare with Expansion, how alive everything was there, and how strained it is here). It seems to me that the specific style of the game is not good for the series - it doesn't seem to have its own face, everything is emasculated artificially plastic. It doesn't go to everyone in games either, and the screen is generally empty due to the lack of cinematography. I like that Cortana is completely authentic due to the fact that the actress is the same as in the games, but her place of residence in John's head is questionable. It would be better if they did not rape ent, it is quite complicated without amateur activity.
@ShaMarinka: how will I notice offtop: it seems to me that with a Mass Effect movie/series, if it ever gets to the screens, there will be the same problem in terms of visual and style. It was normal for the 2007-2012 games, but it will be very difficult to transfer it to live action without the taste of cheapness and cosplay, creating a really real living space of this world.
Cortana is so cute ^_^ Her interaction with the Chief is much more touching than John 117's interaction with that Asian girl from the first series, who now generally looks in the plot like don't sew a Guilty Spark to the Installation 04.
I'm still screaming wildly from these trolleys on cables in the asteroid belt, it looks kind of completely absurd to be honest, even adjusted for fantastic assumptions.
The worm scene is gorgeous! To tell the truth, when I saw a fragment of this scene in the trailer, I thought it was a Flood, but these are Lekgolos, who in the original games still combined into quite dangerous Hunter enemies (Mgalekgolos). This is also one of the Covenant races.
Of course, I understand that according to the Lore component of the original "Halo" universe, there were also grates between KKON/OPZ and colonies, and experiments within the framework of the Spartan project were also not holy, but with each episode of the KKON/OPZ series it seems like some kind of wild dictatorship. In the previous episode, the defected Winscher shoots prisoners in cold blood, then in this episode children are beaten with batons. Of course, there are no ideal regimes and systems of government, but here it is as if they are deliberately demonizing the UNSC/OPZ, which inevitably begins to sympathize with the Covenant.
The Master Chief walks around the whole series as if he's put his pants on :) Really, what kind of gait is that? But the series is good, we look further.
The black man promised his friend to take care of the Mongol woman, and he took her to mandrigal. At the same time, he also left his family. In general, it is a very strange behavior.
Although it's a beautiful product, it's distilled.
What about the plot?.. It looks quite interesting, but the plot is quite banal, I want some cool raft of twists or something.
The actions of the characters are often very strange. For example, the scene with the supposedly surviving girl on an empty enemy ship.
I remember in the first episode they took enemy ships for study, but decided to score on this hulk?
But of course I'm already digging into this, in general, the series is very good, we will wait for new episodes.
the scene with worms is straight fire)
and Cortana is super)
The girl for the role of little Maki was chosen just perfectly.
The drawing of aliens pleases)
Her interaction with the Chief is much more touching than John 117's interaction with that Asian girl from the first series, who now generally looks in the plot like don't sew a Guilty Spark to the Installation 04.
I'm still screaming wildly from these trolleys on cables in the asteroid belt, it looks kind of completely absurd to be honest, even adjusted for fantastic assumptions.
The worm scene is gorgeous! To tell the truth, when I saw a fragment of this scene in the trailer, I thought it was a Flood, but these are Lekgolos, who in the original games still combined into quite dangerous Hunter enemies (Mgalekgolos). This is also one of the Covenant races.
Of course, I understand that according to the Lore component of the original "Halo" universe, there were also grates between KKON/OPZ and colonies, and experiments within the framework of the Spartan project were also not holy, but with each episode of the KKON/OPZ series it seems like some kind of wild dictatorship. In the previous episode, the defected Winscher shoots prisoners in cold blood, then in this episode children are beaten with batons. Of course, there are no ideal regimes and systems of government, but here it is as if they are deliberately demonizing the UNSC/OPZ, which inevitably begins to sympathize with the Covenant.
But the series is good, we look further.
sad, there hasn't been good fiction for a long time, and here they piled cliches, stamp on stamp (in the bad sense of the word).
I like it. And the graphics are great, and John is awesome!