Onyx

Feelings...

Feelings, nothing more than feelings Trying to forget my feelings of love Teardrops rolling down on my face Trying to forget my feelings of love

Morris Albert song from 1975.

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I have mixed emotions about Halo the TV show. Like the set design and special effects, but it's following a tired script of strong women...and men dealing with their feelings. A role reversal. Halo tries too hard to represent many ethnicities...or is it just pandering to a worldwide audience? Gotta have a Korean character, an Indian character, strong African-Americans in positions of authority, a Latino character, quasi-LGBT character, etc...

The TV show (and casting) seems "too calculated" --- in a negative way.

This is the only present day TV show I watch, and someday I may just stop watching on a dime - so to speak. Coming in as a Stargate SG1/etc... series fan, Halo is overly melodramatic. Overly PC.

Tldr: badly written episode full of exposition that raises more questions, plot holes, and inconsistencies.

Why was Kwan allowed to just walk around during a stealth mission?

How did Perez suddenly become this super confident aggressive soldier? And be called a Spartan, really?

Why did Ackerson send Kai knowing John can turn her loyalty around?

Why did they just let John sit and start walking around after being beaten up?

Still never explained why Ackerson had to take the suits with him.

Are we going to see John in his suit ever again?

How do cave systems "change" in just 20 years?

Why wouldn't Kai simply trust John, someone she's fought alongside pretty much her entire life? Especially now that she doesn't have her chip and can think more for herself? What was the point of last seasons character development?

From an alright scify action first season and flowing the trail with similar story line during second season I felt this episode really was something special. It really raised the story line by answering a lot of questions but as well raised more new ones. I'm impressed and look forward to the rest of the season and is expecting a third season since it will be a lot of things left unless they do a disastrous lol ast episode but I doubt that after this episode. It is not common you see this story line quality in a second season after been alright storyline until now. But I doubt they can push it past a third season unless they start a new storyline.

...but it's becoming obvious that this is going to be another 'look at alle these strong female characters' type of series. Like Hollywood isn't already oversaturated with those kind of shows and movies. I mean just look at the cast of this show on the main page of this show. And looking at the successes of these type of shows and movies it's not a winning formula. Now even the wife of Soren has to be 'a strong female character'. Even Kai's squadron has more females than males on her team. Hell even Master Chief's squad consists of only females after they killed off Vannak. Al least last season there was more of a balance between female and male but this season has caught the Hollywood bug of 'strong female characters everywhere'. It's a formula for failure which we've seen over and over again.

Even I am starting to lose interest in this show. And that's a pity because it has the potential to be a great sci-fi action show.

We are 5 episodes in without seeing the chief wearing the armour. I can get over that as can we all it's clearly not the direction the show is taking.

This episode was a good story telling one and leaving us on a cliff hanger which makes me think the show has legs. But this all could have happened a long time ago. We haven't got close to halo 1 which it looks like that's where we are headed. That'll be the start of season 3.

Chief does a great job acting in this episode he's truely keeping it alive. Quan's storyline I still cannot understand why she's involved.

Bring on the pillar of autumn.