In the authentic Halo recreation, Captain Keyes bravely leads what forces he has left after the Autumn crash lands on the ring, combating the Covenant alongside his Marines and Master Chief. Later, he’s additionally the one who (unintentionally) discovers the Flood, the parasitic alien lifeforms the Halo rings had been truly constructed to include. While Keyes is contaminated by the parasite, turning him right into a grotesque mass of flesh, he refuses to offer into the Flood’s psychological manipulation and reveal info that might enable them to get off the ring. Keyes withstanding this torture buys Master Chief and Cortana sufficient time to cease the Flood by blowing up the Autumn’s reactors and destroying the ring. It’s additionally the neural implant inside Keyes’ head that enables the heroes to destroy the ring in the first place.
In different phrases, Keyes’ function in the recreation model of what’s presumably to return on the present is a crucial one. One could possibly be an optimist and assume that the TV sequence has determined to excise Keyes from these occasions as a result of it’s landed on a contemporary, surprising, and maybe extra thrilling option to inform this explicit story. But that’s probably not been true of any of its deviations to date…
The Halo TV sequence exists on the Silver Timeline, an alternate universe the place the staff at Paramount is free to inform the story of Halo in any method it sees match with out clashing with the video games individuals love. So far, that’s meant deep dives into the UNSC’s struggle crimes and the darkish origins of ONI’s Spartan program, an admirable try and broaden the lore of the video games and usher in materials from the books however that sadly slowed the present right down to a crawl in its first season. It’s additionally meant attending to know Insurrectionists like Soren (Bokeen Woodbine) and Kwan (Yerin Ha), the individuals Spartans had been initially created to oppress, however these characters have at the better of occasions felt like diversions earlier than getting again to the Master Chief scenes — which actually aren’t nice, both.
No, I’m not mad that John-117 walks round and not using a helmet or that typically he strips his armor off to fuck. Fair sufficient, let handsome Pablo (*2*) act, guys. But the present’s Master Chief has largely felt like he’s on an everlasting timeout, barely seen with an assault rifle in his hand or elbowing Grunts in the face. While the video games strike the proper stability between hinting at the unhappy, broody man behind the helmet and the killing machine who eats Elites for breakfast, the present has zoomed method in on the former, giving us a Spartan who’s extra liable to mope round an ONI facility and ask to see the supervisor than cease the Covenant from wiping out all sentient life in the galaxy.
It all begs the query: who precisely was this present created for? The sequence has so typically ignored what makes the video games so beloved for what looks like arbitrary causes that it’s laborious to imagine they’ve made it for Halo followers in any respect.
Then once more, maybe the Fall of Reach, and the dying of Admiral Keyes, is supposed to be the get up name Chief (and the present) must lastly kick issues into gear and end the combat. It’s simply too unhealthy one among the authentic recreation’s most vital character gained’t be round to see it by means of.
