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?
Halo is Microsoft's signature FPS franchise, worth hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars. I guarantee you that they will be making Halo media content for the next twenty years, easy.
The showrunners are being told to churn out content as fast as their overworked team of content lemmings can crank. This ain't Francis Ford Coppola spending three years, doing two major reshoots, and going 10x over budget to make Apocolypse Now. This is five different guys getting hired and fired in rapid succession to deliver the modern day equivalent of Xena Warrior Princess to a streaming platform that's still finding its legs in the middle of the pandemic.
The showrunners aren't being paid to care. They're being paid to deliver the slop.
When they do two more seasons at half cost, they'll be even worse. And when they reboot the franchise in 2026 just in time for the next game release, it'll be as a shitty CGI cartoon produced by the lowest bidder available in some Sri Lanken refugee resettlement camp.