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For the whole 'Chief not taking off his suit' is for a multitude of points. One, the armor is very comfortable for him to wear it, like HE was made to wear it. Two, the suit can take care of many bodily functions, like waste. Plus, Spartans usually put the suit on in sterile environments. Third, there is a line in the Fall of Reach book and movie where the Spartans were claimed they had their helmets as one of theirs was about to die protecting a nuke set to destroy a Covenant ship. Saying that the helmet is not needing goes back to the whole 'helmet problem,' which the Mandalorian dealt with it perfectly.
@@TemplinInstitute Aw, c'cmon, the stargate one makes sense! That's the kawoosh zone! The gate might activate without warning and disintegrate anything directly on front of it!
One point I think you missed was the asphyxiation via the Condor's life support even working on Master Chief in the first place. It was demonstrated in several of the games now that he can go into full vacuum, even yeeting himself out an airlock during a space battle at one point and surviving planetary reentry, and be just fine, indefinitely. Why does he give a shit if the Condor's life support is turned off while he has his armor?
Actually the suit can sort of keep someone alive in vacuum for about a month or so in its extended life support mode (see halo infinite opening scene) EDIT: Infinite was 6 months
Hilariously, Ma5s can have their electronic interfaces removed to reveal the integrated iron sights on the weapons. So these AK has no damn excuse. :'D
Yeah this, they mark out the Woosh area. The ones in the hallway that mark out the edges on the bulkheads/security shutters/whatever though, they're pretty pointless.
@@Stukov961 No, they're telling you "don't stand in this doorway or put anything here, because it WILL get squished when these remotely operated multiton doors are closed". And it's a Kawoosh.
The other Hazard stripes might pre-date the stargate having been installed. That room was once a ballistic missile test chamber. Although old equipment was removed they have chosen to leave the old floor markings. Depending on when they were painted and what was surfaced overtop, they may need civilian contractors to be removed. That means money and security clearance. Even without the Stargate on site, the paperwork for that must be a nightmare.
@@TemplinInstitute lol it really is shocking how poorly this is made, even the very attempt at a new timeline when unlike the most recent star trek movies they haven’t actually used any time travel/timeline splitting device that makes it necessary means they just wanted artistic freedom and were being lazy. I think a lot of people might think a lot of the points your making are very small and insignificant that they are almost petty but if anyone ever points this out then I would say they don’t understand really good story telling, the kinds of things your pointing out is really important to hold bad writers and set designers to to account and calling this stuff out helps future writers to learn how to not make these poor decisions as this kind of thing can collapse the world building pretty instantly. Excellent video my friend.
Yeah but thats not actually an action series or presented realistically. Also, forgetting about the OG Halo Movie, Forward Unto Dawn? Its actually pretty decent.
I think it is worth noting in regards to the sub-sub-unit criticism that in the original timeline Spartans teams *aren't* permanent. They re-use the names Blue, Red, Green, etc, but the exact composition and size of each of those teams varies depending on the mission parameters. The only consistent placement is that Blue Team is usually the designation given to whatever unit John is personally leading.
Yeah, while the rosters changed, it usually ended up being: Blue - John Red - Frederick Green - Kurt So then using Silver Team instead of Blue Team just feels really dumb lmao.
@@No-XIV-Xion And even that isn't necessarily set in stone. For example Linda has sometimes been given command of Green. Then there is the whole Spirit of Fire Red Team situation.
@@OniLink147 yep. It's more a trend then set in ston, but Blue has always been John's team and I don't think that ever was changed. I actually forgot about Spirit of Fire hah.
And not to mention, Spartans aren't really treated as *soldiers* by the UNSC. They're treated more like you would treat heavy cavalry, tanks, or special operatives - as the situation demands.
I never realized it was a space elevator I just thought it was a communication tower or something. WHAT THE HELL IS A SPACE ELEVATOR DOING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE?!
So, I have to give slight push back on the sub-sub unit but. Special operations teams, especially highly elite ones (Navy SEALs, Green Beret Delta teams, Marsoc ETc) generally operate in small groups called teams which are permanent, typically have names and will normally have symbol/patches etc. Now, most of these teams are considerably bigger than a Spartan team, typically somewhere between 12ish, but since Spartans are literally elite super soldiers I can see them operating in smaller groups. Especially since most we see are roughly Squad sized.
@TemplinInstitute So some of this I learned while training to be an army officer, a lot of Cadre who trained me were SF guys. The rest I picked up from history books written about SF and it's history. I know Wikipedia isn't the most reputable source but if you search "United States Army Special Forces" it has a pretty good break down for it and references to some of those books. Basically US Army SF is broken down into companies and those companies are broken down into six Operational Detachments-A, some times called A-Teams. These are 12 man Teams each given a unique number. There are also C and B teams which are just support for the A teams. SEALs have a similar system though their's is odd I'm that the larger structures are also labeled as a Team, like SEAL Team 3, 6 etc. And then theses Teams are broken down into smaller groups that include support personal and the actual operational Teams which are pretty fixed. I'll admit I'm not wicked familiar with MARSOC but I've heard they're organized in a similar manner.
The SAS has Squadrons (65 men) that subdivide into 4 troops of 16 men, with each 16men formation specializing on a particular type of operations (air, boat, vehicle and mountain). 16 men are 4 fireteams and i guess each fireteam is kinda fixed. Having 4 super Spec Ops be their own thing is not crazy as Spartans pretty much fill more than one role (they dont have medics or demo specialists as far i have seen)
I was looking for a comment like this. It reflects how the structure of the original Spartan teams was brought up in the books. "The Fall of Reach" was the first book in the series, and it broke down how John (Spartan 117) formed his 30-odd soldiers into teams. They had various specializations and sizes, but they usually only consisted of a handful of soldiers in order to allow them to spread out across human space. My main point is that these teams should not be compared to general infantry tactics. These are future special forces. Blue Team, in the novels, was the Master Chief's team, and it consisted of 4 to 6 members. Any more would have been concentrating a VERY limited resource into too small of a space and would have hindered the program. Silver Team actually kind of stays in line with the literature on this one. They are a scalpel, meant for surgical precision. Not a greatsword meant for pitched battles.
What especially annoyed me about the first Halo Episode was how they never extensively explained the Covenants Expansive Logistic Systems. I mean how the hell can they invade One Planet without running out of Logistics? Are they stupid?
@@salvagedude625 The US military has one of the most complex and well established logistics operations in the world. If there is one thing the US military does excitingly well, it's logistics
@@salvagedude625 They should do what the Banished do and scavenge enemy weapons and start mining operations wherever they land. Now those guys take logistics seriously!
The Stargate stripes actually did have a purpose, when the gate is first activated it does that blast thing so the stripes are used to let people know the splash zone.
9:47 That's definitely an issue of the costume and prop department. The weapons used by the Spartans are absurdly oversized, even for them. Master Cheeks just couldn't hold it any other way.
This show upset me on a deeply personal level. I usually go to the defense of things people lambast as being horrible and highlight the redeeming qualities of those things, but I literally cannot with this. It felt like someone took a wonderful franchise, stripped off everything that made it interesting, and shoved it through a processing tube to turn it into some generic, shit-colored goop.
I agree and the writers had clear disdain for the IP and chiefs character. The last episode was literally the writers telling the fans that the chief we like is a brain dead machine since he doesn’t act like our chief at all until Cortana overrides his brain and takes over his body. Like that was a clear middle finger.
@@ambrosianapier7545 Honestly? I'm more upset at the BUTCHERY of Halsey's character. Halsey is absolutely morally grey, but the one thing that ties every last piece of information about Halsey together is that she loves-*LOVES*-her Spartans. She would never, under any circumstances, do what she did in the show. That's a disgusting betrayal of her character.
17:02 A slight counter point, while reach is a major population center, there is still a lot of hostile wildlife hanging about. Maybe the UNSC just decided to throw concrete at the problem since it would be cheaper in the long run than bullets. When you have entire planets dedicated to quarrying, cant imagine concrete is anything but a labor cost.
36:20 Actually, the protocol that the Admiral ordered was full “Soren Protocol” it’s basically a protocol in the event that a Spartan is compromised and maybe going Rogue. Named after the only Spartan at the time that went rogue and AWOL, Soren-066.
Isn't this a problem for allmost any common but bad scifi author? How many scifi material has aliens come to earth for water. Or gold. Instead of claiming the richness of the asteroid belt and other planets they go straight to earth. Or them wanting to get biological informstion from humanity. Meaning they stat to capture and vivisecting thousands of humans, instead if downloading research papers from the internet and taking a few tissue samples for other experiments. Sadly such things are very common in scifi....
i would say there's an aquifer, and thats where the water is coming from.....buuuttttt i wouldn't be surprised if they were implying that they had harvested all the water (to give the rebels a good reason)
Well this is a long episode. Ironically the most intriguing part was to learn that misplaced hazard lines are such a deep sore spot for Marc. Generally though, I agree with most of these annoyances pointed. Given the open-ended way Season 1 ended, there is a *small* possibility that Season 2 could be salvage via in-universe soft-retconning. An interesting start to this pilot week.
Another thing about the first fight is that theres only elites. Which is... really weird because typical covenant strategy is throwing grunts and other lesser species at the enemy. Theres no way they would throw 20 elite at just a bunch of civilians.
Also, you could make it a lot cheaper(expense the showrunners CONSTANTLY whine about) by having extras dressed as grunts, because grunts are the size of humans.
Yep you covered a bunch of the problems I had with the show and then some. I’m in the military so a lot of those things in the show did bother me. I also loved the musical number in the middle there
Feel like the only TV that has ever factored the notion that space is actually pretty big into its writing is The Expanse (with an honourable mention to Firefly)
I find it very telling about the "silver timeline" UNSC that their adherence to any sort of protocol, operational procedure, and internal secrecy and security seem like an absolute joke compared to my workplace, and I'm working in tech support for industrial appliances...
I’m gonna need a poem for every extreme gripe about a specific cliche in fiction going forward if “Things That Annoy Me In…” gets greenlit as the ongoing series. XD
The hazard stripes are only correctly placed in one location in the whole of the collective human sci-fi universes: in the shoulder of an Iron Warrior. If you see it, you're in danger
And it's also noteworthy that they basically aren't hazard stripes. They're Iron Warrior heraldry which also resembles modern hazard striping. The Emperor's Spears shoulder pads aren't an innacurate location for the Barbados flag after all, it's just a strikingly similar symbol.
23:10 Not to mention the only reason a Condon can have a slipspace drive is due to the integration of forerunner tech post war. But as we see later in this horrid show, Silver timeline UNSC slipspace drives are the size of subcompact car engines.
No, the Condor Dropship could carry a Slipspace drive before the end of the war and before Forerunner exploitation, Pelicans weren't able to be fitted with a slipspace drive
They should have kept working on improving paw patrol and bringing it back to its roots instead of this. Ok I haven’t watch it, people just want paw patrol back to the way it was.
ok but those Stargate hazard stripes during the poem actually all make sense. Stand in that box when the gate turns on? Get your head chopped off. And the only other ones are on a very heavy sliding door which would also happily chop you up if it was closing (given that its goal is to secure the facility from potential enemy incursions, I don't think that it would open back up if it sensed it was being blocked like an elevator door)
standing in that box when the gate activates should actually be fine - I think there's hazard stripes there because if you're stood there you're gonna be in the way of the Airmen that are taking aim at the gate whenever they get an offworld activation, blocking their line of fire.
To address your comment on Master Chief talking directly to Halsey in the original timeline, it did happen quite a bit. Halsey was the head of the Spartan Program, but the number of people directly interacting with the Spartans throught their raising and training was very limited. Halsey fell into a quasi-maternal role for the kids, and it was established she was one of the very few people the Spartans could speak to more candidly, see George in Halo Reach.
I love during your hazard stripe rant you show the SGC gate room, the one place where those hazard stripes can be justified: One set is located under heavy blast doors that you really want to stay clear off. And the other is located in a area where rovers, drones and other equipment are staged, occasionally has missiles fired from it, is a likely location to be hit by gun fire, and is also right below the giant cloud of instant vaporization from a stabilizing wormhole.
The SGC warning markings make a bit of sense, since they mark out roughly where the "Kawoosh" happens, and it's bad times if someone is standing in that area when the gate turns on.
I think he said he needs his helmet because that’s where his neural interface, in the back of his skull, connects to his suit. When he takes the helmet off the suit can’t move, so he has to move all 1,000 pounds of it by himself.
12:07 Technically SPARTAN-II teams were temporary and changed composition based on mission needs, while there were still more than a handful of SPARTAN-IIs, team names were just used to signify which group of Spartans were on which objective (eg: Blue Team would be the primary force, Red Team would be the secondary one and when requiring enough Spartans, Green Team would be the tertiary one). The only exceptions were special ops based Spartans like Grey and Black teams or washouts that couldn't be deployed alongside the general Spartan population like Red or (presumably) Omega teams from Halo Wars.
I think the preface that basically says not all criticism and things that annoy one are worth more than a passing thought. This seems like it could be a good, casual series.
I was not expecting the rap about cautions signs, but I definitely won’t place them in the wrong place in any of my sci-fi now. That was a pleasant surprise lol
I only just got around to playing the Bungie era games last summer but have been a massive lore nerd and fan of the Halo universe for 8 - 10 years ish. From the few clips I saw when the series released it seemed obvious to me that if I went and watched it I would still be let down even without personal experience from playing the games. If a season 2 ever comes I genuinely hope there is something worthy enough to usher in a new wave of Halo based entertainment in every form of media. Kind of like what The Mandalorian did for SW after much of the fanbase where disappointed with the newest trilogy and such
17:30 to be fair to the show. the covenant has shown in the past it dosnt mind flying dropship swarms down on cities to take them. orbital bombardment aside those walls make it do you have to move troops in through designated choke points or perform air assaults both can be made very costly on the attacker if the defender is prepared for them
I recall in a comic from around when Halo 3 was released where it was shown that the populace was aware of the Covenant but where kept in dark how dire the war was for humanity. I remember even back then thinkin that was BS because by the time that comic took place the UNSC lost Reach and most of its other major colonies kind of hard to hide that.
This video has helped me figure out a key underlying problem with this show. A setting designed for a grand scale space war epic governed by the institutional logic of a 20+ episode weekly TV show about a small business or local police station.
A part of the use of small Spartan teams is due to the fact they aren’t just a frontline battle force, they work where needed in recon, assassination, sabotage, and naval situations. These varying roles would benefit greatly from a group with deep knowledge and experience with each other, making keeping them together effective, and the small size allows for an appropriate use of force without large consolidation, in most situations 3-6 Spartans will be enough for their objectives, and if they need more it’s easier to bring another small fireteam in than pull a large group that is needed elsewhere to you just for that amount of soldiers
That whole TV series was just painful to watch as a Halo fan. I was honestly happy to live forgetting it existed and now I have to relive the first episode again haha. Still your commentary makes it worth it. And there's so much in this show that doesn't make logical sense, and it's worse because even if you know NOTHING about Halo, there's even more than is plain unbelievable without considering the abuse of the source material.
While I clicked on this video thinking it would mainly be about plot holes & pointless character drama, I gotta admit, the explanations on things like squad communications & military command structures & administrative jurisdiction were Fascinating! The focus on the nitty-gritty details that help day-to-day military operations function efficiently made this a perfect complement to your broader-scope/strategic-level explanations for interstellar militaries, and now I want to see you apply this kind of analysis to a show/film that does things correctly! 🤩
38:25 as far as images of Johns face go thats approximately consistent with the shot of his eyes in Halo 4 albeit in that scene he was much paler because of all the time he'd spent without sunlight. Thematically I can certainly see his taking off his helmet as to display his humanity to an enemy in order to deescalate a situation, displaying his surprisingly diplomatic nature. Indeed this is a running theme with his character in much of the halo expanded universe, that his spartan brainwashing and all the other cruelty he's been subjected to to make him a killing machine and tool of oppression for the outer colonies is frequently in conflict with his more merciful and protective disposition. However if this is just the first episode I would prefer they had left such a momentous occasion till a later point since that would build a bit of curiosity as to what he looked like in the first time viewer as well as the long time halo fan.
While Dr. Halsey had a strong motherly connection to all the Spartan II's, to the best of my knowledge she never actually was able to talk to them very much, if at all after they entered active service. In the books there's some mentions of her from what I remember where she hears bits and pieces of classified information from people she knows personally but is never shown talking to them to the degree shown in the show.
One of the most egregious things about this show is its total and complete contempt for the Covenant. I get that in the Silver timeline, the human-covenant war is more of a secondary border skirmish than total war of genocidal annihilation (at least as presented) but they show goes out of its way to trivialize, nerf, and strip away all of the interesting things about the covenant, and it's really quite jarring to see how different they are portrayed especially in fight scenes. In even the games, elites are almost always your biggest threat. They'll hijack vehicles and turn their weapons on you, flank and use cover, deploy active camouflage, rush you with energy swords when you reload, and will kill the player very quickly in close range. In novels, this is further backed up. In the show, even though they steamroll the innies initially...nothing about them is right. They're hulking brutes instead of sleek and taught-muscled. They use no tactics and grunt like animals instead of speaking more recognizable sangheli, and their armor is muted and matte compared to the glossy, iconic look in game. Yes, just because it's different doesn't mean its worse, but in this case, it really seems like they went over the elites and changed everything to be as generic and uninspired as possible. They turned the elites from a vicious and intelligent foe to generic alien bad guys that would not be out of place in any generic sci fi movie or TV show who are just there to get gunned down by our heroes. This is also a massive thematic diversion as the elites were the central cause of the covenant schism, and their culture and story was so prevalent in the original games. Just a massive downgrade across the board.
Lol the hazard stripe rant is something I never considered. In hindsight I liked that about Gundam model kits, they would be decals in higher grade kits and their placement made sense because it'd be near exhaust ports where a small squishy human wouldn't want to be if a rocket engine was about to emit fire.
At 32:22 You raise a really interesting point. I imagine its similar to how modern day people often struggle to live without constant stimulation from their phone or devices. After experience life in the helmet, it could be just as simple as Spartans finding the "real world" too dull or unengaging.
It's probably too late to get my input heard but this video is incredible. I'd love to get more of these. There's so much film/media criticism out there from the perspective of "arts critique" so it's actually very fun to get this kind of analysis that's focused on world building and providing actual research about the topics in the show
What I hate about the chief removing his helmet is that he does it in the very first episode, and he just looks like a regular handsome gun mcshooty guy instead of the pale, bald guy who wears armor all the time like how the books describe him. Its literally just a different character. But I guess instead of showing the effects the war and his armor has on him they needed to make him conventionally attractive so he could have a sex scene with the female arbiter.
I agree with the bit about Chief feeling naked without his helmet. The Blind skull in the games removes your Radar, and just that is enough to throw you off. I’d imagine Chief has more than just his radar and ammo counter on the screen, too, but we don’t see it in the games for whatever reason.
We need a separate video for the hazard strips poem alone. Also, I feel that we've already proven that we don't need characters to show their faces for the audience to connect with them. Movies like Dred, shows like The Mandalorian, and heck even the Halo games this show was based on had us connect to characters whose faces were barely, if at all, seen. Of course the problem with that is the writing needs to hold up the character so that's out for this show.
The rampant hazard stripe is kinda like when games/movies/series have big red bottoms on yellow front and black back chassis that aren't Emergency stops. ESPECIALLY when it's set on earth in a time period where it is flat-out illegal and negligence to use that combi for anything to have that combination without being an emergency stop with catch release.
11:08 Another thing to add onto this is master chef's weapon (M5AD) shoots the same caliber as the ak rifles, yet the ak's will consistently ricochet the covenant's armor (As shown in the next scene) yet when the chef shoots it's almost an instant kill or at the very least very very effective.
I'm not a gun person, but I'm pretty sure the caliber of a gun is not the main thing, or at least not the only thing that affects its range or stopping power. Rifling matters, as does the concentration and quality of gunpowder. And as the fellow above me pointed out, the halo AR is some kind of futuristic supergun while these militia are using what are, at best, a hypothetical future kalashnikov they probably stole off the back of a truck. AKs are fine in the modern era, but there's only so far you can push a rifle design.
No the m5 does NOT shoot the same round as the ak47. The m5 fires a 7.62x51mm round which is a full powered rifle round. The ak47 fires a 7.62x39mm round which is a intermediate round.
The only way you would have known about military units and speech. Is that you served or did your research!! I love it when someone puts extra effort in there work!
I am glad even the Templin Institute respects the perspective of Anton Ego, his final criticism of criticism itself permitting across all time and space.
Gotta agree with damn near everything you said. It might be possible that the AK rifles the insurrectionists were using are super, super cheap/easy to get. But still pretty much agree with you there. And on a side note: during your awesome rant on hazard stripes, I argue that they make sense in the gate room. They caution you stay clear of gate lest you be vaporized when it actives.
Pelican and condor dropships, were retrofitted with slipspace drive post war the first was the 'UNSC Tart Cart' a pelican dropship that was attached to Kilo 5. before the end of the war the smallest ships to mount a slipspace drive was a gladius class corvette
Watching this I now realise your first statement about the burden of knowledge. You’ve researched so much about how militaries work that you can see the glaring errors everywhere. And I got to admit you pointing them out is pretty funny and entertaining ^^. Alas, now that you have given us part of your knowledge we too will see more errors everywhere xD I wish more reviews were like this where annoyances are based upon logic and research instead of the reviewer finding something stupid or they being unwilling to think further on why something would be like that (such as the helmet addiction idea, which zi thought was brilliant).
To my knowledge, Condors do have slip space drives. The one Noble 5 detonates is bigger than a Pelican but it isn't massively bigger and is able to fit on the back of it. Condors are bigger than Pelicans so its feasible that one could fit. Plus the pilot in Halo Infinite says he wants to scavenge Condors for slip space drives.
Was not ready for the hazard stripe poem. Love it. The analysis of military protocols in a clearly not-researched military drama makes for easy pickings.
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Glad to hear your doing better also loved the poem at 24:16
Omg, got to the hazards poem absolutely perfect!!
For the whole 'Chief not taking off his suit' is for a multitude of points. One, the armor is very comfortable for him to wear it, like HE was made to wear it. Two, the suit can take care of many bodily functions, like waste. Plus, Spartans usually put the suit on in sterile environments.
Third, there is a line in the Fall of Reach book and movie where the Spartans were claimed they had their helmets as one of theirs was about to die protecting a nuke set to destroy a Covenant ship.
Saying that the helmet is not needing goes back to the whole 'helmet problem,' which the Mandalorian dealt with it perfectly.
@@WolfeSaber9933 also Spartans feel uncomfortable with their helmets off
@@DRKTROOPER15 Relates to how Chief liked his suit when the helmet was put on for the first time.
That hazard stripe poem was glorious.... But it still only counts as one!
I have been staring at the comments section waiting for someone to mention this.
I refreshed just to see whether I would need to mention it. It was indeed absolutely glorious. Hazardous to my bad mood.
@@TemplinInstitute How come you still didn't get a Nobel prize for this?
My headcanon is the hazard stripes on the tank are there because the tank crew thought it was funny.
@@TemplinInstitute Aw, c'cmon, the stargate one makes sense! That's the kawoosh zone! The gate might activate without warning and disintegrate anything directly on front of it!
One point I think you missed was the asphyxiation via the Condor's life support even working on Master Chief in the first place. It was demonstrated in several of the games now that he can go into full vacuum, even yeeting himself out an airlock during a space battle at one point and surviving planetary reentry, and be just fine, indefinitely. Why does he give a shit if the Condor's life support is turned off while he has his armor?
god damn it, that is a solid as hell point.
I mean I imagine that the armour does have a time limit on its internal life support which is probably far less than the ships
I believe they altered his suits atmosphere setting as well
Actually the suit can sort of keep someone alive in vacuum for about a month or so in its extended life support mode (see halo infinite opening scene)
EDIT: Infinite was 6 months
@@charlesedwards2348 Chief was out floating for 6 months, not just one
I like how most of the militia doesn’t have any kind sights on their rifles.
Keymod ARs still kicking around on some far flung colony
Hilariously, Ma5s can have their electronic interfaces removed to reveal the integrated iron sights on the weapons. So these AK has no damn excuse. :'D
Even worse, the random rags on their guns cover their ironsights.
It's hilarious because UNSC ARs don't either!
@@argokarrus2731 they do, and they probably can use redots
I think the hazard strips in the stargate room are legitimate since they mark off the area that the expanding event horizon could take your head off.
Yeah this, they mark out the Woosh area. The ones in the hallway that mark out the edges on the bulkheads/security shutters/whatever though, they're pretty pointless.
@@Stukov961 No, they're telling you "don't stand in this doorway or put anything here, because it WILL get squished when these remotely operated multiton doors are closed".
And it's a Kawoosh.
@@Stukov961 my dude a hydraulic bulkhead door is a Crush Hazard Zone. It gets stripes.
@@Stukov961 They're not, these are hydraulic pressure doors which will crush and slash through just about anything.
The other Hazard stripes might pre-date the stargate having been installed. That room was once a ballistic missile test chamber. Although old equipment was removed they have chosen to leave the old floor markings. Depending on when they were painted and what was surfaced overtop, they may need civilian contractors to be removed. That means money and security clearance. Even without the Stargate on site, the paperwork for that must be a nightmare.
I had forgotten this series existed. I had just totally emptied it out of my mind.
Same, I saw this video and got hit with a wave of PTSD from memories I had since repressed lol
Unfortunately they renewed the series for a second season.
@@Jayjay-qe6um what!?
That's funny, I had not remembered the show as well. It was quite forgettable.
@@poenpotzu2865 343 Industries has a cruel sense of humor
I'm pretty sure that Silver Team taking the phantom back to UNSC space is technically illegal under the Cole Protocol.
Extremely.
Punishment is death. If my Cole.P.T.C knowledge is up to date.
I literally screamed at the TV when they said they were taking it back.
it is
I also liked that the PVC strip curtains only stop above head height and just immediately become useless as soon as we zoom out 🤦♂️
I only noticed that when reviewing this video, and I was positive I had to be seeing things.
@@TemplinInstitute lol it really is shocking how poorly this is made, even the very attempt at a new timeline when unlike the most recent star trek movies they haven’t actually used any time travel/timeline splitting device that makes it necessary means they just wanted artistic freedom and were being lazy.
I think a lot of people might think a lot of the points your making are very small and insignificant that they are almost petty but if anyone ever points this out then I would say they don’t understand really good story telling, the kinds of things your pointing out is really important to hold bad writers and set designers to to account and calling this stuff out helps future writers to learn how to not make these poor decisions as this kind of thing can collapse the world building pretty instantly.
Excellent video my friend.
We actually have a good Halo themed series.
It's called Red vs Blue.
One of the best series ever made
Yeah but thats not actually an action series or presented realistically. Also, forgetting about the OG Halo Movie, Forward Unto Dawn? Its actually pretty decent.
Shame it was canceled after season 13. It seemed like it had a lot more potential after that.
Nightfall and the trailers for halo 3 & 4 we're also brilliant in my opinion. This was a stupid attempt at Halo but spawned the mastercheeks meme.
Had. We HAD a good series.
I think it is worth noting in regards to the sub-sub-unit criticism that in the original timeline Spartans teams *aren't* permanent. They re-use the names Blue, Red, Green, etc, but the exact composition and size of each of those teams varies depending on the mission parameters. The only consistent placement is that Blue Team is usually the designation given to whatever unit John is personally leading.
Yeah, while the rosters changed, it usually ended up being:
Blue - John
Red - Frederick
Green - Kurt
So then using Silver Team instead of Blue Team just feels really dumb lmao.
@@No-XIV-Xion And even that isn't necessarily set in stone. For example Linda has sometimes been given command of Green. Then there is the whole Spirit of Fire Red Team situation.
@@OniLink147 yep. It's more a trend then set in ston, but Blue has always been John's team and I don't think that ever was changed. I actually forgot about Spirit of Fire hah.
And not to mention, Spartans aren't really treated as *soldiers* by the UNSC. They're treated more like you would treat heavy cavalry, tanks, or special operatives - as the situation demands.
@@No-XIV-Xion John led Red team once, I think it was mentioned in a book
I never realized it was a space elevator I just thought it was a communication tower or something. WHAT THE HELL IS A SPACE ELEVATOR DOING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE?!
the Rebels might of taken it over whilst it was under construction. I don't know this garbage fire is extremely confusing
So, I have to give slight push back on the sub-sub unit but. Special operations teams, especially highly elite ones (Navy SEALs, Green Beret Delta teams, Marsoc ETc) generally operate in small groups called teams which are permanent, typically have names and will normally have symbol/patches etc.
Now, most of these teams are considerably bigger than a Spartan team, typically somewhere between 12ish, but since Spartans are literally elite super soldiers I can see them operating in smaller groups. Especially since most we see are roughly Squad sized.
interesting! do you have any kind of source for that? I'd love to read more on the subject.
@TemplinInstitute So some of this I learned while training to be an army officer, a lot of Cadre who trained me were SF guys. The rest I picked up from history books written about SF and it's history.
I know Wikipedia isn't the most reputable source but if you search "United States Army Special Forces" it has a pretty good break down for it and references to some of those books.
Basically US Army SF is broken down into companies and those companies are broken down into six Operational Detachments-A, some times called A-Teams. These are 12 man Teams each given a unique number. There are also C and B teams which are just support for the A teams.
SEALs have a similar system though their's is odd I'm that the larger structures are also labeled as a Team, like SEAL Team 3, 6 etc. And then theses Teams are broken down into smaller groups that include support personal and the actual operational Teams which are pretty fixed.
I'll admit I'm not wicked familiar with MARSOC but I've heard they're organized in a similar manner.
The SAS has Squadrons (65 men) that subdivide into 4 troops of 16 men, with each 16men formation specializing on a particular type of operations (air, boat, vehicle and mountain). 16 men are 4 fireteams and i guess each fireteam is kinda fixed.
Having 4 super Spec Ops be their own thing is not crazy as Spartans pretty much fill more than one role (they dont have medics or demo specialists as far i have seen)
@@nahuelleandroarroyo They're all trained in demolitions. Grace-093 was their resident expert.
I was looking for a comment like this. It reflects how the structure of the original Spartan teams was brought up in the books. "The Fall of Reach" was the first book in the series, and it broke down how John (Spartan 117) formed his 30-odd soldiers into teams. They had various specializations and sizes, but they usually only consisted of a handful of soldiers in order to allow them to spread out across human space.
My main point is that these teams should not be compared to general infantry tactics. These are future special forces. Blue Team, in the novels, was the Master Chief's team, and it consisted of 4 to 6 members. Any more would have been concentrating a VERY limited resource into too small of a space and would have hindered the program. Silver Team actually kind of stays in line with the literature on this one. They are a scalpel, meant for surgical precision. Not a greatsword meant for pitched battles.
What especially annoyed me about the first Halo Episode was how they never extensively explained the Covenants Expansive Logistic Systems. I mean how the hell can they invade One Planet without running out of Logistics? Are they stupid?
operates on the US principle of "fly stuff in and call it a day"
Invade?
@@salvagedude625 The US military has one of the most complex and well established logistics operations in the world. If there is one thing the US military does excitingly well, it's logistics
I wasn't so much of an invasion as so much as a raid.
@@salvagedude625 They should do what the Banished do and scavenge enemy weapons and start mining operations wherever they land. Now those guys take logistics seriously!
The Stargate stripes actually did have a purpose, when the gate is first activated it does that blast thing so the stripes are used to let people know the splash zone.
9:47 That's definitely an issue of the costume and prop department. The weapons used by the Spartans are absurdly oversized, even for them. Master Cheeks just couldn't hold it any other way.
I thought it was a resource extraction rig
@@Ampersand38 Did you reply to the wrong comment?
@@wasdwazd indeed, was re: space elevator
This show upset me on a deeply personal level.
I usually go to the defense of things people lambast as being horrible and highlight the redeeming qualities of those things, but I literally cannot with this.
It felt like someone took a wonderful franchise, stripped off everything that made it interesting, and shoved it through a processing tube to turn it into some generic, shit-colored goop.
I can do it with this, but not by much. Episode 1 and 5 had good action scenes, and thats about it.
I agree and the writers had clear disdain for the IP and chiefs character.
The last episode was literally the writers telling the fans that the chief we like is a brain dead machine since he doesn’t act like our chief at all until Cortana overrides his brain and takes over his body. Like that was a clear middle finger.
@@ambrosianapier7545 Honestly? I'm more upset at the BUTCHERY of Halsey's character.
Halsey is absolutely morally grey, but the one thing that ties every last piece of information about Halsey together is that she loves-*LOVES*-her Spartans.
She would never, under any circumstances, do what she did in the show. That's a disgusting betrayal of her character.
30:00 Yeah, even in just normal wet labs food and drink are explicitly NOT allowed.
17:02 A slight counter point, while reach is a major population center, there is still a lot of hostile wildlife hanging about. Maybe the UNSC just decided to throw concrete at the problem since it would be cheaper in the long run than bullets. When you have entire planets dedicated to quarrying, cant imagine concrete is anything but a labor cost.
36:20 Actually, the protocol that the Admiral ordered was full “Soren Protocol” it’s basically a protocol in the event that a Spartan is compromised and maybe going Rogue. Named after the only Spartan at the time that went rogue and AWOL, Soren-066.
I still want to know if there's a half Soren Protocol or three quarters Soren Protocol lol
You know it's bad when the scriptwriters fully admit to intentionally NOT playing any of the Halo games before working on the script.
Or read the books set during the war,which used the games as their foundation.
@@mitchellgurney4390finally a based take on the writers strike
@@mitchellgurney4390 Meh
@@DRKTROOPER15 Nah.
Also, imagikne still saying based 🤓
@@balabanasireti imagine shilling for writers that ruined nearly every show that could’ve been amazing recently
Hold on, are they extracting heavy WATER in a literal desert? Did the writers thought it was space oil or something?
Isn't this a problem for allmost any common but bad scifi author?
How many scifi material has aliens come to earth for water. Or gold. Instead of claiming the richness of the asteroid belt and other planets they go straight to earth.
Or them wanting to get biological informstion from humanity. Meaning they stat to capture and vivisecting thousands of humans, instead if downloading research papers from the internet and taking a few tissue samples for other experiments.
Sadly such things are very common in scifi....
Wouldn't be surprised
Even star trek does that
i would say there's an aquifer, and thats where the water is coming from.....buuuttttt i wouldn't be surprised if they were implying that they had harvested all the water (to give the rebels a good reason)
@@TomTasker Except you can’t drink heavy water, it would kill you.
Im honestly shocked it was *only* 59 things
this is just the first episode
there’s more nitpicking later on
"But wait! There's more!"
That hazard stripes poem was a 10 out of 10
Well this is a long episode. Ironically the most intriguing part was to learn that misplaced hazard lines are such a deep sore spot for Marc. Generally though, I agree with most of these annoyances pointed. Given the open-ended way Season 1 ended, there is a *small* possibility that Season 2 could be salvage via in-universe soft-retconning.
An interesting start to this pilot week.
Another thing about the first fight is that theres only elites. Which is... really weird because typical covenant strategy is throwing grunts and other lesser species at the enemy. Theres no way they would throw 20 elite at just a bunch of civilians.
Also, you could make it a lot cheaper(expense the showrunners CONSTANTLY whine about) by having extras dressed as grunts, because grunts are the size of humans.
The hazard stripe rant instantly made me want an investigation into the Iron Warriors legion!
Yep you covered a bunch of the problems I had with the show and then some. I’m in the military so a lot of those things in the show did bother me. I also loved the musical number in the middle there
Feel like the only TV that has ever factored the notion that space is actually pretty big into its writing is The Expanse (with an honourable mention to Firefly)
I find it very telling about the "silver timeline" UNSC that their adherence to any sort of protocol, operational procedure, and internal secrecy and security seem like an absolute joke compared to my workplace, and I'm working in tech support for industrial appliances...
Not only is deuterium not at all uncommon, you can make it from hydrogen; *literally the most common element in the universe*, pretty trivially.
When he's firing the gatling gun at 10:57 the ammo belt isn't feeding. Its completely stationary just dragging behind chief.
Your hazard stripe limericks were truly enlightening.
yes i want it in a youtube short!
I’m gonna need a poem for every extreme gripe about a specific cliche in fiction going forward if “Things That Annoy Me In…” gets greenlit as the ongoing series. XD
The hazard stripes are only correctly placed in one location in the whole of the collective human sci-fi universes: in the shoulder of an Iron Warrior. If you see it, you're in danger
And it's also noteworthy that they basically aren't hazard stripes. They're Iron Warrior heraldry which also resembles modern hazard striping. The Emperor's Spears shoulder pads aren't an innacurate location for the Barbados flag after all, it's just a strikingly similar symbol.
23:10 Not to mention the only reason a Condon can have a slipspace drive is due to the integration of forerunner tech post war. But as we see later in this horrid show, Silver timeline UNSC slipspace drives are the size of subcompact car engines.
No, the Condor Dropship could carry a Slipspace drive before the end of the war and before Forerunner exploitation, Pelicans weren't able to be fitted with a slipspace drive
The Halo TV series was a crime against humanity.
Only one in a long line of adaptations like rings of power or netflix the witcher🤢🤮
They should have kept working on improving paw patrol and bringing it back to its roots instead of this. Ok I haven’t watch it, people just want paw patrol back to the way it was.
Nay, it was Heresy!
I didn't even know about TV series
@@АртурКим-з4г Good
Starting it off with the HalOOF series, this is gonna be good
ok but those Stargate hazard stripes during the poem actually all make sense. Stand in that box when the gate turns on? Get your head chopped off. And the only other ones are on a very heavy sliding door which would also happily chop you up if it was closing (given that its goal is to secure the facility from potential enemy incursions, I don't think that it would open back up if it sensed it was being blocked like an elevator door)
standing in that box when the gate activates should actually be fine - I think there's hazard stripes there because if you're stood there you're gonna be in the way of the Airmen that are taking aim at the gate whenever they get an offworld activation, blocking their line of fire.
To address your comment on Master Chief talking directly to Halsey in the original timeline, it did happen quite a bit. Halsey was the head of the Spartan Program, but the number of people directly interacting with the Spartans throught their raising and training was very limited. Halsey fell into a quasi-maternal role for the kids, and it was established she was one of the very few people the Spartans could speak to more candidly, see George in Halo Reach.
Denis Velnuve was the only one who could have captured the scale, theme, and writing of the Halo games. Big missed opportunity.
never seen "Neill Blomkamp" spelled that way before.
@@TemplinInstitute His would have been too gritty I feel…
@@TheGreatGonzales777 gritty is what makes Halo imo
@@Scorch052 Obviously don’t understand Halo.
I think Blomkamp had a good shot at it.
I love during your hazard stripe rant you show the SGC gate room, the one place where those hazard stripes can be justified:
One set is located under heavy blast doors that you really want to stay clear off.
And the other is located in a area where rovers, drones and other equipment are staged, occasionally has missiles fired from it, is a likely location to be hit by gun fire, and is also right below the giant cloud of instant vaporization from a stabilizing wormhole.
The SGC warning markings make a bit of sense, since they mark out roughly where the "Kawoosh" happens, and it's bad times if someone is standing in that area when the gate turns on.
Only 59? I would've guessed on triple digits.
117 of them?
Loved the casual cinemasins roast
why whatever do you mean?
"Scene does not contain an Ex Mechina Lap Dance *Wheezy Smoker Laugh"*
Minute?
@@santymartin7383My guy it’s within the first 4 minutes of the video, watch it before heading into the comments. 3:02.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 : *ding*
I think he said he needs his helmet because that’s where his neural interface, in the back of his skull, connects to his suit. When he takes the helmet off the suit can’t move, so he has to move all 1,000 pounds of it by himself.
12:07 Technically SPARTAN-II teams were temporary and changed composition based on mission needs, while there were still more than a handful of SPARTAN-IIs, team names were just used to signify which group of Spartans were on which objective (eg: Blue Team would be the primary force, Red Team would be the secondary one and when requiring enough Spartans, Green Team would be the tertiary one). The only exceptions were special ops based Spartans like Grey and Black teams or washouts that couldn't be deployed alongside the general Spartan population like Red or (presumably) Omega teams from Halo Wars.
Marc's Passive-aggressive attitude is on full display here and i love it
Family run small business was exactly what the UNSC felt like to me as well lol (albeit a disfunctional one); thanks for putting it into words.
I think the preface that basically says not all criticism and things that annoy one are worth more than a passing thought. This seems like it could be a good, casual series.
The Hazard Stripe Poem is great
I was not expecting the rap about cautions signs, but I definitely won’t place them in the wrong place in any of my sci-fi now. That was a pleasant surprise lol
I only just got around to playing the Bungie era games last summer but have been a massive lore nerd and fan of the Halo universe for 8 - 10 years ish. From the few clips I saw when the series released it seemed obvious to me that if I went and watched it I would still be let down even without personal experience from playing the games. If a season 2 ever comes I genuinely hope there is something worthy enough to usher in a new wave of Halo based entertainment in every form of media. Kind of like what The Mandalorian did for SW after much of the fanbase where disappointed with the newest trilogy and such
The rant on the hazard stripes was....just....beautiful!
17:30 to be fair to the show. the covenant has shown in the past it dosnt mind flying dropship swarms down on cities to take them. orbital bombardment aside those walls make it do you have to move troops in through designated choke points or perform air assaults both can be made very costly on the attacker if the defender is prepared for them
I loved the song and I loved the interjections from slightly less past Mark
I recall in a comic from around when Halo 3 was released where it was shown that the populace was aware of the Covenant but where kept in dark how dire the war was for humanity. I remember even back then thinkin that was BS because by the time that comic took place the UNSC lost Reach and most of its other major colonies kind of hard to hide that.
24:04 That hazard stripe rhyme was absolutely hilarious and great!
I've developed PTSD of this series
24:10 holy shoot, but that on Spotify now
Only 59 things?
I worked my fingers to the bone, what do you want from me!
@@TemplinInstitute69?
This video has helped me figure out a key underlying problem with this show. A setting designed for a grand scale space war epic governed by the institutional logic of a 20+ episode weekly TV show about a small business or local police station.
Things that annoyed me in Halo Season 1: Everything
A part of the use of small Spartan teams is due to the fact they aren’t just a frontline battle force, they work where needed in recon, assassination, sabotage, and naval situations. These varying roles would benefit greatly from a group with deep knowledge and experience with each other, making keeping them together effective, and the small size allows for an appropriate use of force without large consolidation, in most situations 3-6 Spartans will be enough for their objectives, and if they need more it’s easier to bring another small fireteam in than pull a large group that is needed elsewhere to you just for that amount of soldiers
"I'm a man of passion, after all. With..."
Gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth?
"... strong emotions and strong opinion..."
Ah.
That whole TV series was just painful to watch as a Halo fan. I was honestly happy to live forgetting it existed and now I have to relive the first episode again haha. Still your commentary makes it worth it. And there's so much in this show that doesn't make logical sense, and it's worse because even if you know NOTHING about Halo, there's even more than is plain unbelievable without considering the abuse of the source material.
While I clicked on this video thinking it would mainly be about plot holes & pointless character drama, I gotta admit, the explanations on things like squad communications & military command structures & administrative jurisdiction were Fascinating! The focus on the nitty-gritty details that help day-to-day military operations function efficiently made this a perfect complement to your broader-scope/strategic-level explanations for interstellar militaries, and now I want to see you apply this kind of analysis to a show/film that does things correctly! 🤩
38:25 as far as images of Johns face go thats approximately consistent with the shot of his eyes in Halo 4 albeit in that scene he was much paler because of all the time he'd spent without sunlight. Thematically I can certainly see his taking off his helmet as to display his humanity to an enemy in order to deescalate a situation, displaying his surprisingly diplomatic nature. Indeed this is a running theme with his character in much of the halo expanded universe, that his spartan brainwashing and all the other cruelty he's been subjected to to make him a killing machine and tool of oppression for the outer colonies is frequently in conflict with his more merciful and protective disposition. However if this is just the first episode I would prefer they had left such a momentous occasion till a later point since that would build a bit of curiosity as to what he looked like in the first time viewer as well as the long time halo fan.
While Dr. Halsey had a strong motherly connection to all the Spartan II's, to the best of my knowledge she never actually was able to talk to them very much, if at all after they entered active service. In the books there's some mentions of her from what I remember where she hears bits and pieces of classified information from people she knows personally but is never shown talking to them to the degree shown in the show.
THat poem was GLORIOUS!!! :'D
One of the most egregious things about this show is its total and complete contempt for the Covenant. I get that in the Silver timeline, the human-covenant war is more of a secondary border skirmish than total war of genocidal annihilation (at least as presented) but they show goes out of its way to trivialize, nerf, and strip away all of the interesting things about the covenant, and it's really quite jarring to see how different they are portrayed especially in fight scenes. In even the games, elites are almost always your biggest threat. They'll hijack vehicles and turn their weapons on you, flank and use cover, deploy active camouflage, rush you with energy swords when you reload, and will kill the player very quickly in close range. In novels, this is further backed up. In the show, even though they steamroll the innies initially...nothing about them is right. They're hulking brutes instead of sleek and taught-muscled. They use no tactics and grunt like animals instead of speaking more recognizable sangheli, and their armor is muted and matte compared to the glossy, iconic look in game. Yes, just because it's different doesn't mean its worse, but in this case, it really seems like they went over the elites and changed everything to be as generic and uninspired as possible. They turned the elites from a vicious and intelligent foe to generic alien bad guys that would not be out of place in any generic sci fi movie or TV show who are just there to get gunned down by our heroes. This is also a massive thematic diversion as the elites were the central cause of the covenant schism, and their culture and story was so prevalent in the original games. Just a massive downgrade across the board.
The hazard poetry was just *CHEF'S KISS*
Well thankfully one can just watch Forward Unto Dawn again, and dream
I feel like most of this is explained by "we have found the incompetent timeline".
That bit about hazard stripes killed me. 😂
Rewatched it a couple of times.
I like the idea of this series, but talking about something as universally panned as the Halo TV Series seems like going after low hanging fruit.
easiest way to make juice
Fair enough.
But without this video we wouldn’t have the Hazard Strip Poem! 😢
Sometimes you just need to vent bile, even if someone else already did it first.
That hazard stripe rant was some good poetry.
I'm glad the producers were accurate to the original games as not a single character uses a weapon sight (if they even have one)
Please do the video on GOC the global occult coalition from the SCP foundation franchise
Lol the hazard stripe rant is something I never considered. In hindsight I liked that about Gundam model kits, they would be decals in higher grade kits and their placement made sense because it'd be near exhaust ports where a small squishy human wouldn't want to be if a rocket engine was about to emit fire.
At 32:22 You raise a really interesting point. I imagine its similar to how modern day people often struggle to live without constant stimulation from their phone or devices. After experience life in the helmet, it could be just as simple as Spartans finding the "real world" too dull or unengaging.
Love your content and yeah the halo show did a lot wrong lol.
That hazard stripe poem was fucking beautiful
It's probably too late to get my input heard but this video is incredible. I'd love to get more of these. There's so much film/media criticism out there from the perspective of "arts critique" so it's actually very fun to get this kind of analysis that's focused on world building and providing actual research about the topics in the show
What I hate about the chief removing his helmet is that he does it in the very first episode, and he just looks like a regular handsome gun mcshooty guy instead of the pale, bald guy who wears armor all the time like how the books describe him. Its literally just a different character. But I guess instead of showing the effects the war and his armor has on him they needed to make him conventionally attractive so he could have a sex scene with the female arbiter.
I agree with the bit about Chief feeling naked without his helmet. The Blind skull in the games removes your Radar, and just that is enough to throw you off. I’d imagine Chief has more than just his radar and ammo counter on the screen, too, but we don’t see it in the games for whatever reason.
We need a separate video for the hazard strips poem alone.
Also, I feel that we've already proven that we don't need characters to show their faces for the audience to connect with them. Movies like Dred, shows like The Mandalorian, and heck even the Halo games this show was based on had us connect to characters whose faces were barely, if at all, seen.
Of course the problem with that is the writing needs to hold up the character so that's out for this show.
Yeah, I'm going to need a standalone release of your hazard stripe rant. It was awesome!
The rampant hazard stripe is kinda like when games/movies/series have big red bottoms on yellow front and black back chassis that aren't Emergency stops. ESPECIALLY when it's set on earth in a time period where it is flat-out illegal and negligence to use that combi for anything to have that combination without being an emergency stop with catch release.
11:08
Another thing to add onto this is master chef's weapon (M5AD) shoots the same caliber as the ak rifles, yet the ak's will consistently ricochet the covenant's armor (As shown in the next scene) yet when the chef shoots it's almost an instant kill or at the very least very very effective.
To be fair, the classic Halo AR basically is a hybrid firearm coil gun...
I'm not a gun person, but I'm pretty sure the caliber of a gun is not the main thing, or at least not the only thing that affects its range or stopping power. Rifling matters, as does the concentration and quality of gunpowder. And as the fellow above me pointed out, the halo AR is some kind of futuristic supergun while these militia are using what are, at best, a hypothetical future kalashnikov they probably stole off the back of a truck. AKs are fine in the modern era, but there's only so far you can push a rifle design.
No the m5 does NOT shoot the same round as the ak47. The m5 fires a 7.62x51mm round which is a full powered rifle round. The ak47 fires a 7.62x39mm round which is a intermediate round.
The only way you would have known about military units and speech. Is that you served or did your research!! I love it when someone puts extra effort in there work!
I am glad even the Templin Institute respects the perspective of Anton Ego, his final criticism of criticism itself permitting across all time and space.
Gotta agree with damn near everything you said.
It might be possible that the AK rifles the insurrectionists were using are super, super cheap/easy to get. But still pretty much agree with you there.
And on a side note: during your awesome rant on hazard stripes, I argue that they make sense in the gate room. They caution you stay clear of gate lest you be vaporized when it actives.
The hazard stripe poem was just Fing amazing
24:06 this was beautiful, thank you for spreading this truth
Pelican and condor dropships, were retrofitted with slipspace drive post war the first was the 'UNSC Tart Cart' a pelican dropship that was attached to Kilo 5. before the end of the war the smallest ships to mount a slipspace drive was a gladius class corvette
Watching this I now realise your first statement about the burden of knowledge. You’ve researched so much about how militaries work that you can see the glaring errors everywhere. And I got to admit you pointing them out is pretty funny and entertaining ^^. Alas, now that you have given us part of your knowledge we too will see more errors everywhere xD I wish more reviews were like this where annoyances are based upon logic and research instead of the reviewer finding something stupid or they being unwilling to think further on why something would be like that (such as the helmet addiction idea, which zi thought was brilliant).
To my knowledge, Condors do have slip space drives. The one Noble 5 detonates is bigger than a Pelican but it isn't massively bigger and is able to fit on the back of it. Condors are bigger than Pelicans so its feasible that one could fit. Plus the pilot in Halo Infinite says he wants to scavenge Condors for slip space drives.
22:50 I might be wrong but I believe that the condor does have a slip space drive or a variant of it does, however your point still stands
And right after I posted this he figured it out, go figure
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It does, but only Post-War variants due to reverse engineering of Forerunner/Covenant tech.
Loved this video. Should be required material for anyone writing a scifi show/film
Was not ready for the hazard stripe poem. Love it. The analysis of military protocols in a clearly not-researched military drama makes for easy pickings.