Halo TV Series Cancelled After 2 Seasons - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 November 2024 / 4,317 Views
The Halo TV series has been cancelled after two seasons, according to Variety.
The first season of the TV series debuted on Paramount+ in 2022 with the second season airing earlier this year.
"Paramount+ can confirm that Halo will not move forward with a third season on the service," said the streaming service.
"We are extremely proud of this ambitious series and would like to thank our partners at Xbox, 343 Industries and Amblin Television, along with showrunner and executive producer David Wiener, his fellow executive producers, the entire cast led by Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief and the amazing crew for all their outstanding work. We wish everyone the best going forward."
343 Industries added, "We deeply appreciate the millions of fans who propelled the Halo series to be a global success and we remain committed to broadening the ‘Halo’ universe in different ways in the future. We are grateful to Amblin and Paramount for their partnership in bringing our expansive sci-fi universe to viewers around the world."
Xbox, Amblin TV, and 343 Industries are going to try to shop the TV series to other outlets, according to a source who spoke with Variety.
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Surprised it made it to a second season if I'm being honest. They spent to much time arguing with fans and trying to do their own thing instead of listening and making adjustments.
Eh, I heard it wasn't that good anyway.
Not surprised, all they had to do was follow the Bungie games
I've watched a little bit of it. It isn't terrible, but not great either. There's so much stuff out there to watch these days. You really have to have a pretty damn good show for it to run for more than a few seasons, unless it is very cheap to produce. I don't think Halo is super cheap to produce, and it's just mediocre. So this is to be expected.
I think Paramount are doing a full reworking of their platform to prepare themselves for an impending sale of the platform, so cost cutting is front and center.
Either way... StarTrek and Halo were the only draw-cards for me... And both don't seem to be happening now.
That... And Halo isn't the leading franchise it used to be, 343i has struggled to hit the same high as Halo 1/2/3/Reach.
I mean the show was not bad per say but it was definitely not great either. This cancellation makes a lot of sense.
I love Halo; would have been amazing to get a nice show about it but it is what it is.
My main issue with the show (and again it was not super bad imo) was 1) showing Masterchief’s face (and esp. so early anyway) and two I do not think that not being canon was a better choice for the show like they pretend they had too. The story was meh
Good, it was crap xonpared to the games
Good, it was awful
"Lets do a insert series here series but hire only people that do not like the games, refuses to play it and wants to being their own view to the universe while adapting it to modern audiences, in the end not even resembling the source material. Also lets somehow blame the hardcore fans if it fails."
Series Fails
-insert pikachu face
"Goddam hardcore fans!"
This show was like +10 years too late. This franchise is dying.
I was watching the series.... I hate when they do this, atleast find a semi suitable way to end it.... dont just let it die, with the story up in the air.
Expected by a shame, I didn't mind the series, was interesting to see another take of the IP.
It was actually getting good though. Even besides the Paramount situation right now surprised it's cancelled whether for that or other factors. They aren't going to make it possible without Paramount either I doubt it?
I love how people just go 'IT HAS TO BE LIKE THE SOURCE I EXPERIENCED'. I get the mystery of chief, I haven't read the books but have all the games and getting around to Halo Wars 2 now. Can I not just go it has moments. I don't roll with 100% good or bad/absolute or terrible logic. It's why I question even bothering to comment when VGChartz comment sections (even if sometimes I do say something dumb) are as bad as Reddit.
I don't ACCEPT everything they do in the adaptation. I didn't care about who was what, I got over the Keyes/Johnson combination it looked because reasons they did that, the Chief helmet thing and more. I was just thinking based on the article not the actual moments of the show when commenting this in the moment. People and being on the game, sigh. Sometimes it takes a few days to think about.
What 3 seasons the cast want more money (as far as heard of how streaming services and other such stuff that's a thing, I don't know what to believe really there),
I like ODST even for the multiple paths and the mood.
Paramount is struggle or didn't want to go further with it, the ratings weren't good enough for them or the production team/Microsoft went eh why bother.
I mean it's a weird adaptation but I was coming to like it and separate it from the games but still speculate on what would happen. Whelp whens the Gears TV show then I guess? Nah I can do without that actually.
Did fans ruin it? Did the production ruin it by being too different? Even if it was in prequel stages and only just getting to Halo 1 or soon to be. Even if a lot of whatever happened in the show I still separated what the games had from the show anyway, treated it as it's own thing even if a lot of weird happens still.
I still watched both seasons regardless. I was curious how it would go.
I don't even watch much because so much of it just doesn't appeal to me really with some tv shows/movies, even stuff for my generation is garbage while those for older gens are fair I think even besides music/actor selling them either or just the concepts are probably good (not just in familiar IPs but even more original stuff), more playing retro games or niche modern games really these days.
The biggest issue I had with it as a big fan of Halo was... The revealing of Master Chief's face... But they then had to go a step further with nude scenes.
A big part of Chief's fundamental character was ironically his mystery in the video games.
It's okay to make deviations, but it completely undermines the decades of Chief's character development for a quick buck.
Story wise I didn't mind, other than that characterization niggle.
The thing with Chief's face - I've read previously when they talked about doing a Halo movie that having a main character whose face is hidden is nigh on impossible because its difficult for audiences to connect with the character when the face is hidden. Plus its much harder for the character's emotions to be conveyed and they are essentially relegated to being a supporting character.
In the games it works as the player essentially super-imposes themselves onto the Chief. In the mini-series Forward Unto Dawn (where Chief's face is hidden) he is indeed only a supporting character. For the show where they wanted Chief as the main character, I guess they couldn't avoid it.
You are right on so many aspects here. I wonder how much of it came down to the idea of actor contracts too, many times when we have a famously masked character suddenly portrayed on TV or film, they remove their mask/helmet because the actor needs their "screen time".
Marvel films became notorious for this, where actors would remove their mask, which for the most part is meant to protect them, not just hide their identity, in a certain critical moment which, for me, broke immersion.
To expand on my earleir point, I notice when I watch the Avenges movies, characters like Iron man and Spiderman often take their masks off in the middle of battle which it makes no sense. This may in part be due to your point about the big name actors needing screen time but equally I think its so the actors can be more expressive with their faces visible.
Conversely, I forgot about the Mandalorian. That show gets by perfectly well with Pedro Pascal almost never showing his face.
Honestly it wouldn't have been the end of the world if the Chief was just a side character in the series and the series concentrated more on Halsey who has a very tumultuous back story anyway... And less on the new characters like Kwan Ha and Makee who added literally nothing to the story arcs.
Chief isn't a character who historically is excessively verbal, Cortana always filled that role.
The nude Chief and the face reveal just did nothing for me or added anything to Chiefs character.
Did I hate the show? Absolutely not, I just don't consider it adding anything of value to the Halo universe,
I agree I do think it pushed the bar quite far no doubt. I agree it's speak when necessary not this 'act out of line'. Though Halo 4 he does question things and cares for Cortana but in the Bungie era yeah he spoke when necessary but still had character then 343 thinking, nah he is a self insert/slate and I'm like do you know your audience? As they clearly don't.
The helmet and seeing an actors face, yeah I don't like or care for that. I think the mystery was justified in the games. The voice is enough to go on. I like mystery of a character it was build up or a good tease sometimes. It adds to a character, it's like some people with a mystery it makes them more attract to think up things. Just spoiling it or breaking some things is distracting. I don't mind back of a character view either, I don't need to see all characters talking and their reactions whether animation or live action. Sure in animation it's cheap unless body movements but still.
I can tell with enough voices in some shows and go oh that's that character/actor. While in some I go oh it 'HAS to be they look the same/mannerisms, not their voice so it throws me off if they are twins or something and it HAS to be based around looks not actor voices or other details to suit the adaptations. But some viewers don't pay attention to those details either besides the contextually voice doesn't matter in them either.
But yeah the fan service, I mean, to me shower scenes for monologues/internal thoughts don't bother me really, it's an excuse but I can understand it as people do think in certain moments they can like that.
While others yeah not denying that. I've seen enough fan service anime/manga to go that has some purpose, the other doesn't in many scenes and just a distraction and pointless then has a purpose in the core of the story.
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