ocnav87

8 stars is insane. I've watched the first two seasons, and while they are enjoyable enough for just something to slap on a screen, these are not smart stories. Significant events are only allowed to happen due to characters making stupid decisions - perhaps not stupid for you or I, but stupid for a Navy Special Warfare Combatant or an intelligence agent to make, for example. This is what I think the problem is with how we rate shows - we see these characters end up in difficult situations with us thinking it's reasonable the chatacters are in this situation because that's how we would have behaved. But these characters are highly trained and experienced, yet are still making dumb decisions.

We need to raise our standards - go back and watch Tom Clancy's movie adaptions from 10+ years back.

Sick and tired of movies and shows which just cram in the same cliche nonsense - an evil military, the soldier who has a moral epiphany and goes rouge, the young idealist (almost always a woman) who verbally check mates people far more experienced on their morals, the mysterious object which does something plot convenient when touched, the scientist with questionable morals who's work is threatened by her employers, the overtly forced equality, oh and the exposition dumps which purely make up for a lack of imagination to world build any other way.

Even from a non Halo fan perspective, this show is trash. I mean it's fine (in that some colors flash on a thing called a screen) if you turn your mind off, but how many more of these sorts of shows and movies are we going to allow? Nonsense like this deserves no more than 5 stars (out of 10) as anything above that let's Hollywood and others know that trash like this is acceptable enough to make a financially decent return on, so they can just keep making trash like this.

But what's even worse about this Halo show, is the story in the games (at least the original trilogy - Halo 1, 2 & 3) is far more mature with none of the cliches mentioned above. Not only that, but it is a story which has a huge following, so all that had to be done was please the fans and the show would have been a success, instead of this nonsense which takes a dump on fans and serves the non-fans with yet another average and cliche ridden sci-fi story.

Could have included more information but I haven't watched a documentary that I couldn't say that about.