Unbound

Pablo Schreiber gives a strong, commanding performance as John, the commander who holds the secret to the war with the Covenant and the future of the universe in this powerful and thought-provoking segment of Halo. I didn't expect a videogame-dramatization to hold such intensity and personal impact.

With Bokeem Woodbine and Yerin Ha offering solid emotional support, Pablo brings a personal element to a story dominated by the fabulous production design -a visceral depiction of a stark dystopia. Natascha McElhone's subtle element of evil plus a solid turn by the great Keir Dullea as the general ruling the UNSC forces.

It feels like they have hired not only people that don't know the Halo univers at all, but are entirely new to writing a show.

Not only was this boring to watch, it was almost painful at times.

And the worst thing it's not just the writing it's also the look of the show and the slaughter of all that good lore they could have used.

It's hard to tell in the show if the enemy is really well know or not at all know by the humans in this univers. Because on the on hand we get to see how they are totally a new thing for some, while others have been taken and released by them, and their attacks are well known and the sources of many technologies people use in their daily lives or have seen, but they are still being told to us through the writing as being something more of a myth ? Please pick a lane, what they hell are they, in Halo games it was pretty clear when where and how they where known and fitted in, here in two episodes it feels like they are telling two different things.

And again with the helmet off in a room with all the guns pointed at him, why just why. Not even being a supers soldier I can see that as a bad tactic, as all it takes is one nervous, badly trained or glory seeker to end it all.

We also see that not all super soldiers are all that super, they are not like the games larger than life, but also comes in what looks like 5.8 sizes, because reasons I guess. And whats up with him talking stereotypical like a black man, are they saying it's genetics or something. They should all talk and act more like machines at that point, that's all they have learned, unless they have given speciel lessons to some. Not to mention it feels so off that all the Spartans are not buzz cut, they are again more like machines here, why do the females have long hair, as it's not practical or easy to maintain inside a helmet, whats next hair extensions and died hair...... oh god it's going to be died hair isn't it, with the something along the lines of "I finally found myself".

This is really trash compared to all the short movies that have been around for years, "forward until dawn " is a freaking goldmine compared to this.

Should you buy acces to this or for this. Absolutely not, I wouldn't even say you should download it as it's waste of bandwidth.

Visually Halo is a masterpiece. The asteroid city is nothing I have seen before and the "rail / cable car" ride reminded me of the good old Indiana Jones. The story is building up, new characters are introduced. This time it is more talking than doing, and I am ok with it for one episode, and next week I expect some good SF combat again.

They are taking a waaaay too deep look into some of the characters life. The characters are getting really emotional , kind of bad acting. We don't care about all that. Show me master chief taking out aliens non stop. Bring on the action, less drama. If your going to do drama make it good, this gets too boring.

The scene of the chick taking off her clothes seemed weird, anyone else get a weird vibe ?

I kind of hate the storyline already.

Hope things get better moving forward.

I really enjoyed the world building this episode has. Its not giving you the action but I understand whats happpening in the universe and the motivations all around much better. Felt like it went 1-2 scenes too long but overall solid.