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.

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 will be a quick one, as nothing much happened in the episode. To be fair though, the sacking of Reach is shown, so we get a few action scenes this time around. However, everything around the fighting is retarded as usual.

Boy, can it get worse? Probably. At least in this episode, they acknowledge that Master Chief is just a grunt, and should not have any kind of special knowledge, or privilege from Fleetcom. Like all soldiers, he should follow orders, and do what he is told. However, as seen, John can’t just help himself. He gets hunches of bad things, and his PTSD from fighting aliens seems to be all too much for him to function properly as a tool of doom. So he steals planes and makes up fake missions for his team…