Emergence

She bores me to death.

Her story thread is moronic, pointless and she behaves like a suicidal idiot who doesn't know war, I don't know what kind of value she thinks she can add to the ''resistance".

Nicely executed episode, after episode 2's filler that was understandably necessary to introduce some storylines and characters.

I'll be brief, this is looking very good.

Is it the games story ? No And that's what i like about it.

It has the same core lore, some obvious changes for adaptation but the different timeline actually makes it interesting to see what will happen and where the story will go.

I grew up with the games, so i'd rather have games/novels/live actions and previous movies be something, and this be it's own thing that quite honestly looks like it will tur out to be a very nice series.

If only people could stop moaning and give it a chance...

The only thing i'd change in future is the no helmet/no armor thing but it's quite logical that even spartans take the gear off when they are back to base, so ... yeah maybe what is depicted is the actual normal.

Not quite sure what all the hate about the show is, but honestly I quite like the direction the shows heading at the moment and how this episode dives deeper into John's character, his inner conflicts and showing more of a "personality" to him.

I enjoyed this episode a lot actually. I'm still not a huge fan of Chief being out of his armor so often and I'm not sold on Makee yet either, but I really liked Chief and Cortana's relationship and I'm much more interested in where the story is going.

Hopefully the rest of the show can maintain this level of quality.

A much stronger episode, the plot is now developing in interesting and entertaining ways. The dialogue is significantly superior to episode 2 (albeit from a low base), especially the fragrant Natascha McElhone who was sub-par last time. Charlie Murphy is fabulous as Makee and is given something to get her teeth into which is salient in moving the plot forward. Excellent to see more of the everyday life Master Chief does not have, framing his origins and relationship to the artefact.

On the downside, a full third of the episode is burnt on brain-swap mumbo jumbo, though it is hilarious to make an imaginary/AI woman and it can talk the back legs off a donkey!

Overall, the most absorbing and enjoyable episode to-date.