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Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons (www.retbit.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 162 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (18 children)

The minute the show runners said that they did not play or care about the game before a single episode even aired, I knew it was going to suck balls.

If you don't know or even care about the source material: you shouldn't have the rights to make anything about it.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The quote from the showrunner, according to the article:

“We didn’t look at the game. We didn’t talk about the game. We talked about the characters and the world. So I never felt limited by it being a game.”

Looks like they should have looked at the game a little more closely.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"Limited by it being a game" is such a condescending thing to say. Just shows that these people look down on video games in general and most likely have little respect for the people who these games mean a lot to. I mean, that shows in this TV show, just based on the short bits I've seen. The Chief acts like a Stallone or a Tom Cruise stand-in, instead of a stoic warrior.

I can't wait for an Elder Scrolls show helmed by these showrunners, the Witcher showrunners, and Alex Kurtzman

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

limited by being an interactive medium where the average narrative length is dozens of hours.

We need the unlimited story telling freedom enabled by passively watching disjoint chunks of ad-riddled content

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Tbf, I bet Todd Howard would die before letting anyone else make an Elder Scrolls show. Especially with the success of the Fallout show.

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