Lol. My expectations were pretty much rock bottom but man oh man its even worse then I expected. My sister and I are huge halo nerds and we're going to hate-watch and riff the shit out of this monstrosity. Edit: Sidenote I wonder if this trailer will finally kill the slowed down popsong cliche once and for all?
Yeah I thought the whole point was that humans were anathema to the covenant religion. I feel like if humans could have joined a lot more would have opted for that instead of getting glassed.
Its not that they're an anathema to the religion per say. Humans were chosen by the Forerunners thousands of years ago to inherit the mantle of responsibility after they passed (hence: "reclaimer") and the hierarchs of the covenant (Truth, Mercy, and Regret) knew that within the covenant hierarchal structure this would automatically by default make Human beings the new leadership caste (especially since Forerunner tech automatically activates around them).
....that would be...not well liked by entrenched power structures....so they covered it up and tried to exterminate humans before the truth could come out.
Edit: to be clear though: yeah, a human being serving as a sort of missionary or servant to the hierarchs on what I assume is high charity is about a big a nonstarter as you'll find within the lore.
Yeah, that's what I liked so much about the covenant as villains. They don't have some grand plan to wipe out or enslave humanity, they're just extremely corrupt and petty.
Plus the whole thing where they really needed a human to activate the Halo. Which means every time they tried it was necessarily with Master Chief nearby (because they had to capture MC's allies). Like this they can just take her without anyone even knowing.