It’s time for my weekly dose of sleeping aid. However, I didn’t fall asleep during the show this time, but if the suffering lasted any longer I would surely have. So, what happened in this episode? Well, nothing. Master Chief and crew managed to flee Reach. Soren’s girlfriend somehow succeeds in bypassing the ship blockade of the planet and finds them in the ruins of Reach. Before that, one of the Spartans (the female one) almost suicide by “rescuing” a corpse. I guess the drugs the Spartans are on screws with their sense of survival instincts.
This crazed Spartan somehow survives against all odds. The area she returned to, to do the so-called rescuing was already overrun by the aliens. She does get shot though while running back towards the ship carrying the corpse all heroic-like, predictably. This eventually leads to her giving up the fight. It’s nice that you can pick and choose like that. Man, Halsey really screwed up the super-soldier mentality here when she indoctrinated them. They are all surprisingly weak-minded for being the best of the best when it comes to humanity’s fighting force. The Master Chief works in the same way mentally. When all this occurred he was knocked out and wounded, a very heroic depiction of Master Chief, for sure. All they do is whine, and it comes off a bit much coming from so-called super soldiers that are bred to kill.
Fallout planet
When they make it out to space, they travel to a backwater planet where everything is flat, cold, and grey. Apparently, this planet traffics kids, but it’s not made clear if this is illegal or not. The rest of the episode is about Soren and his wife searching for their own kid who went missing in this weird wasteland. It’s a pointless and boring sidequest suddenly taking up the majority of the episode. Everything is just so weird in this show like it’s some kind of fever dream going by how people talk to each other and how they live and make a living for that matter. It’s a bizarre nightmare of random scenes that make the human interaction on display seem more alien than the actual aliens.
The story hardly progresses further, it’s just a bunch of people whining and acting bizarrely. One of the major plot points is that Master Chief and his Spartan team were abandoned by the navy/high command. I don’t get why at all. Sure, there was a bit of friction, but why would you dump one of your better assets in the war to die just like that? High command keeps one of the Spartan chicks though, the one that left Master Chief in an earlier episode, and she is some kind of commander now over a bunch of paintball-looking dudes. This means that high command values the Spartans, but not the Master Chief or his team for some reason. Okay then.
Oh and yeah, Halsey told Master Chief that he is space Jesus or something of that kind. He has a direct connection, or link to the past – the forerunners. Not sure what this will lead to, but it sounds like he will be the CHOSEN ONE to save the universe – more so than just being a damn fine soldier. We can’t have now, can we? Well, now we wait for the next sleeping pill!
Thanks for reading.
/Thomas
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