After one hell of a long wait, the live-action Halo TV adaptation finally arrived earlier this year, and the response has been…mixed. And now Marcus Lehto, co-creator of the videogame series that started all, has shared his own thoughts on the adaptation, saying that while he doesn’t “hate” it, he was ultimately “confused by many of the choices that were made”.
Paramount+’s Halo adaptation finally launched for US audiences this March – a mere nine years after it was originally announced – and while changes were expected (fans were forewarned that the TV show takes place in the so-called Silver Timeline, separate from the core Halo canon), the end result has certainly proven divisive.
While it was Master Chief’s amusing loss of inhibitions that drew the most headlines over the series’ run – just episodes after he’d stunned audiences by showing his face for the first time, he’d got his bum out, then ended the series having sex in front of his mum – there’s been plenty of criticism around the show’s writing, inconsistent tone, uneven plotting, and pacing.
