For example, one of my favorite video game movies to date is Sonic the Hedgehog, which admittedly did have to roll back their utterly horrifying design, but after they did so delivered a great, fun film that was full of heart and laughs while also still being true to the series elements that spawned it. I have no “demand” that video game adaptations in film or shows be one-to-one with their counterparts. However, I am also an author, and no stranger to the rule that yes, you do need to make some concessions when adapting things from one medium to another. I put a ton of time into Halo 5, put my thoughts on Halo Inifinite right here on the site, and so yes, I’ve been a fan of the series for a long time. Halo came out when I was in high school, and I thoroughly enjoyed it in college and to date still have the Master Chief Collection installed on my PC. Yes, I grew up playing video games (parents attempts otherwise notwithstanding). I’ll be open up front: This show is a mess.Īctually, let me start with something before that, simply to stave off CBS’s most common current defense, which has been ‘people just don’t like it because they’re desperate fanboys who can’t handle something not being 100% faithful to the original.’ Now, with Paramount+’s (already a real fount of originality there) new Halo series, I must once again note that my theory seems more accurate than ever. While there have been success stories they’ve both been few and far between as well as confined to the last few years (and often outside of Hollywood’s clutching grasp), leading to … Well, let’s just say I’ve had theorieson how Hollywood has managed to take again and again something that seems like a sure bet and screw it up in a way that seems too inept to be anything but deliberate. Particularly when it comes to adapting properties from the medium of video games. Hollywood has a long, and shall we say, storied reputation when it comes to adaptive works. Nylund wrote both the "military" and the "science" into Halo's military science fiction genre.Or, how I got my site canceled by CBS (that, if you’ve not heard, is a jab at CBS issuing takedown demands at Youtube reviews for their new show that were, shall we say, less than glowing). Other authors have treated Halo as some Mass Effect or Star Wars space opera where the "military" has been downplayed or poorly depicted and the "science" is space magic. I'd go as far to say the fleet action are my favorite parts of the Halo Canon and more interesting than the rather vanilla spartan supersoldier stuff. The only reason something like Halo Fleet Battles Spoiler Warning was even possible was because of The Fall of Reach and The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. He did also the fleet battles, something that couldn't be explored by Bungie due to the nature of FPS and knocked it out of the ballpark. Even 343i has been guilty about just hand waving these technical things. He actually sat down and had a long think about the technology level of the UNSC and wrote around that like the (fictional) science behind mjolnir, slipspace, interstellar communication, zero gravity combat, nuclear weapons, the only other author who did universe building like that was Joe Staten in Contact Harvest. He lent a certain military legitimacy to the universe that Traviss could not - despite her apparently having a military background.
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