The first season of Halo’s TV adaptation was typically attention-grabbing, but additionally form of a multitude. With a brand new timeline to work with, the present took some sharp divergences, let’s say, and issues resulted in such a means you weren’t absolutely certain how we had been going to make it to Halo: Combat Evolved.
In case you forgot how issues ended, every thing had largely damaged unhealthy for the people: Halsey (Natasha McElhonne) escaped the UNSC and left Reach after making an attempt to place the Spartans beneath her sole command, and Master Chief let Cortana (Jen Taylor) take management of his physique in a struggle in opposition to the Covenant. The finale resulted in such a means that it implied we’d get Chief as his stoic self extra consistent with the video games. But the fallout of that call must wait, as a result of it seems just like the season’s large occasion shall be none apart from the Fall of Reach.
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First launched as a 2001 novel by Eric Nylund that served as Chief’s origin story, the titular disaster sees the Covenant contact down on one of many UNSC’s largest strongholds and lay waste to the planet. Bungie later tailored the Fall of Reach into the 2010 sport Halo Reach, which led straight into the occasions of Halo: Combat Evolved. (It was additionally the studio’s final time touching the sequence earlier than transferring on to Destiny and letting 343 Industries take the reigns of the franchise.) It seems just like the season shall be taking related floor so far as Reach’s finish resulting in the primary sport, however there’ll absolutely be some tweaks and additions that make issues memorable in their very own means.
Halo returns to Paramount+ with new episodes on February 8, 2024. If you are feeling the necessity to refresh your reminiscence on what occurred, Paramount’s put out the entire first season on YouTube free of charge, which you’ll watch right here.
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