Reviews

This episode proved once and for all that the writers are daft, plain and simple.

You see John 117 (AKA Master Chief) was a wimp and pretty much useless for the previous episodes because he's a man, that's all. At the end of this episode when Cortana takes over (mind you, this never happens in the comics and/or games) he is faster, more accurate, deadlier, more durable AND of course doesn't speak nor take his helmet off.... So, that's it, that's why John was useless up until this point.... Amazing writing....

I don't know which is worse really, the fact that most people who rate this dumpster fire highly are PR people, bots and women who like the lead (because anything with a good looking lead is good enough for them) or that the writers are clearly high on something?

For 20 or so years we grew up with John, 117, AKA Master Chief.... A hardcore military person who was augmented at a very young age to simply be the best, and he was the best.....He hardly ever talked, he was respected by all (even the Covenant), was defeated by just 1 enemy in the entire saga (and that was temporary) and never, ever took his helmet off in front of us...... Now take a look at this Master Chief.... A guy who is not shaved, is a punching bag for a good amount of the series, is belittled by the doctor (he was never the best line), almost never wears his armor any longer (let alone his helmet), speaks all the time, makes jokes AND even has SEX with a girl he just met 2 days ago.... And i will not go into the bad CGI, the weapons we have now and are still present there, the annoying Kwan and 100 more plot holes.

Good stuff right? After all of the above it's clear that people who rate this with more than 2 have no clue what they are watching.

An entire episode with basically no master chief in it. I did call it from episode 1 that Kwan Ha was the main character and now i am proven right. An angry, spoiled, annoying and useless kid somehow has what her General father did not (his words in this episode) and can now even use an UNSC rifle, yes, the same rifle master chief uses which is a certain bet weighs more than she could possibly lift (at least to use it properly). She also commands Sorren and is smarter than him I for one will be glad to see Paramount+ get erased soon, such shows have nothing to offer.

Gotta love how marketing people start reviewing the latest episode just minutes after it airs, it's like they know what will happen right?

Anyways i don't blame the PR agency in charge of Paramount+, they get paid for positive results after all.

So what about this episode? Read my 2 other reviews and just look at Cortana, enough said. I honestly stoped watching after 10 minutes since we never saw a living Cortana. Turns out there is a hologram next, it hologram but there is one.

Unfortunately it keeps getting worse and so from 2 stars i now give it 1 :(

Leaving out all the marketing and bot reviews leaving 8+ stars for this disaster of a series (seriously, some are copy-paste titles and reviews so IMDB should be doing a better job filtering these out) the reality is that Paramount+ thought nothing about fans of Halo. Rumour has it that they had numerous scripts that followed the lore of the games and comics but turned all of them down. Why? I have no idea.

I wouldn't care if they had done a Better job but they clearly haven't. Master Chief in episode 2 is non-stop talking, has his helmet off 90% of the time and even removes his Armor at some point. By the way this has never happened in the games, his armor can't be taken off by him, we clearly see him walking into the same machines the rest of his team does in Episode 1 to remove his it or to equip it. Voila however, he now does it on his own (like it's Pyjamas or something). I am not going into having AK47's in the future and things like that, these are small details compared to everything else.

I mean Master Chief aside they race switched Keys and Miranda, they race switched the admiral in charge of the facility, they switched Miranda from a bad@ss marine/pilot to an engineer, they added an "EVIL" White woman working with the Covenant (again, nothing similar in the games or comics) and the cherry on top was switching Reth from an Elite to a Human. Now i don't know what an alternate timeline would have to do with changing all of these, does that mean Kirk should be Asian in Star Trek now?

We live in Woke times, or more accurately this is what's going on in the USA right now and the rest of the world is paying for it with poor movies and series across the board. Luckily we still have older series and movies to rewatch, i guess that's something (ah, we also have Anime, still not taken over by wokeness).

When the series started off with a teenage girl named Kwan i knew something was off. Halo has always been 80% about the Master Chief and 20% about the other Spartans and UNSC so it doesn't take a nuclear scientist to see where this is headed.

Unfortunately however Paramount+ didn't stop there. They straight up replaced 2 iconic Caucasian characters like Keys and Miranda with black people. Yes, i know the current situation in the states but Halo is not a US only thing so they should have clearly thought of that.

Still swapping characters was not the worst of it, we now have a Master Chief who talks like there's no ending in sight, who makes jokes, takes off his helmet (because somehow years and years of him never doing that changed after talking to a rebel girl for 5 minutes) and even has facial hair. All of these are nothing like the Master Chief we've known from the games and comics.

There are also some other details people didn't like including the Fat Covenant Elites, weapon effectiveness when used by the insurrectionists and the Spartans and some of the CGI but the worst are the above mentioned.

I sure hope next episodes are better but again with what's happening in the USA right now i seriously doubt it.

When Arnold came on Facebook and told everyone that Dark Fate would be a direct sequel to Judgement Day people were thrilled, not me however. I love both T1 and T2 but from T3 the saga died for me so even though i was hoping i was dead wrong i just couldn't believe that in our day and age a studio could make something that could even resemble the first 2 movies.

Unfortunately however, i wasn't wrong. You see i could "ignore" the fact that we live in PC (Political Correct) times and that's why instead of a Kyle we now have a Grace (and a strong one at that who only beats white men left and right - she's also made it clear in interviews that she's against white men) and instead of a John (who we were all led to believe that he would be back - and not for 5 seconds) we now have a Daniela but the movie was bad, in general.

Take the actress who plays Daniela for example, she's one of the worst actresses i've seen in the last 2 decades (she even laughs during the first chase scene - happens for like a milisecond but it's clear), i don't know if she's young or not but the actor who played John in T2 was also young BUT HE COULD ACT.

And then we have Arnold who not only dated women, drove fast cars (those pictures were probably Arnold's real life ones), grew a conscience and even had a family but also acts like a regular human, sells drapes (yes, drapes) and even pets a dog with his legs crossed.

Fight scenes are also bad, we have an piss-poor excuse of a Terminator (looking at you Rev-9) who is not only not scary at all but gets his @ss handed to him by both Grace (an augmented human) even though she says in the movie "you don't fight an Rev-9, you run".

I guess in a PC led era this is just about the best Terminator movie a Hollywood studio can make, still that means it can't begin to compare to the first 2 and perhaps not even the third one or Salvation.

PS: Only 1 star to counter all the marketing people and Mckenzie fans out there rating this extremely high.

Remember the Lara Croft we used to have in games back in the mid-90's and until 2010? Remember the Tomb Raider movies with Angelina Jolie? Well THIS has NOTHING to do with them. In this movie Lara is a whining little girl who gets her @ss handed over to her more times than i could possibly count in this movie. A girl that even starts crying, yes you heard that one right. But that's not the really bad thing about this movie, Vikander's acting is. Crying at one moment, 1 second later trying to play it a bad@ss and 1 second after that again getting beaten up by someone. She got an Oscar and that tells me just how low the Oscars have reached in recent years. Scenario is not much better either, they tried to make this a lot like the game (solving puzzles) but due to her less than good acting and the bad scenario it just seems that she already has all the answers ready without even thinking for a moment.

The ONLY reason i am giving this a 5 is because in the end she gets the dual guns we've known her to use (well ok she used desert eagles back in the day but those would be way too large for her i guess) so she MAY become a bad@ss in later movies. Not this one however.

Much like several other movies and anime of its time Ginga Eiyu Densetsu (The Legend Of The Galactic Heroes) has its roots in WWII and pretty much compares the AXIS to the Allies. Of course after a while it matters not because no matter how one tries to "like" the Alliance thanks to Reinhard Von Lohengramm and his righteous rule and all the "wrong doings" in the Alliance you can't help but to favor the Galactic Empire instead. As others have pointed out although pretty much everything revolves around Reinhard the supporting cast is also part of the reason i've watched the entire series and movies at least twice. Of course in order to develop the characters sufficiently this anime spans to several movies and 110 episodes in total something which at least by todays standards is very rare (which is also why the 2018 version - Die Neue These - has compressed the first 20 episodes into 5). Unfortunately i didn't like 2 things with this anime, first that the various formations in space are far from what could ever happen (sure it's space but logic applies i imagine even there) and 2nd that after everything Reinhard managed to accomplish in the end his life was taken by an desease which could not be cured. Still one of the best anime ever released if you're into action/strategy ones (just be warned that you will be sad at some points more specifically when the two main support characters make their premature exit).

I had high hopes for The Last Jedi but they were short lived.....Just like The Force Awakens this shares many things with The Empire Strikes Back......Unfortunately unlike The Empire Strikes Back this is more of a Comedy than an action flick.....I am still trying to "explain" the first 20 minutes of the movie in my head.....Where to start, from the X-Wing going against the Dreadnought alone (when there are obviously more fighters in the fleet) and the entire "joke" on the Admiral or the one X-Wing against like 20 T-Fighters and canons on the dreadnought and that none of the other Star Destroyers provided cover against the incoming bombers? And don't let me get started on the hole "kicking" the rail so the trigger device drops and suddently from facing upwards that girl conveniently faces downwards so that she can grab it? And lets not forget Luke throwing away his light saber like if it was a rock. The rest of the movie is not much better either. I guess Disney aims to make Star Wars for 10 year olds but that means they are losing us fans in the process which is sad to say the least.