Episode 6 shall now be known as “Women of Halo”. Every single person of some importance, except the Master Chief, is now a woman. It gets a bit much seeing so many women in military roles. I know they had female marines in the Halo games/books, but not to this extent. That is not all, almost every character that drives the plot forward is now a woman. For a game that started as a man’s fantasy of a heroic soldier, has now been totally subverted. Congrats modernity.
As usual, the show just meanders on, but to be fair, stuff is happening. Unfortunately, it’s not very interesting. I still don’t get what the problem with ONI and UNSC are. In this episode, it came out in the open that the director of ONI knew about the attack on Reach. However, it was never explained why he didn’t warn the people on Reach. I get the impression that he wants to defeat the aliens, I just don’t get how sacrificing Reach, and the Master Chief and his team help with this.
The director wants a new batch of Spartans, but what is baffling here is how they are trained. The recruits are just normal soldiers/humans, and you can tell because one of them is the survivor that the Master Chief rescued a couple of episodes ago. That is not how this works, at all. You don’t become a Spartan by training in a fancy simulator! It takes years, massive gene manipulations, and plenty of surgeries and drugs. What the hell is going on here?
I know the producers of this show don’t care much about being lore accurate, but they have already established in the show itself how it works to become a Spartan. It’s one of the themes, for crying out loud, considering all the whining and PTSD-infected outbursts by the original Spartan team. Oh well, there isn’t much more to tell, except that the Master Chief is now in a personal war with ONI and the UNSC, which eventually led him to the sacred artifact. From what I can tell, this will lead the show to one of the Halo rings. He can sense “stuff”, you know, and that will probably reveal its location. Other than that, I’m not sure why people do what they do. The whole thing feels like a weird retelling of Halo through a skitzo AI.
Thanks for reading.
/Thomas
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