After months of waiting it’s finally on our screens and the second season of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Halo TV show has made just as much of an impact as the first one, and not in the way you would hope un🧔fortunately. It had a less-than-stellar reception in its first few episodes before a return to the bizarre writing of the first season with some more retconning of established Halo lore.

B꧂ut before getting into any of that yourself by watching the show, it’s worth catching up on where things were left off in the first season. Although, it is worth noting that a lot of what happened in the first season, minus one or two things here and there, doesn’t particularly carry over. So to catch you up, here’s what you need to know before watching season two of the Halo show.

Season One Recap

Whether it's been a long time since you last saw the show or if you just wisely decided to skip it all and are just stopping by out of morbid curiosity, it’s worth catching up on how season one went down. But don’t worry, you didn’t miss much as there was a lot of build-up over pretty much nothing, plenty of questionable decision-making moments, and liberal amounts of character assassinations all around.

All in all, it was a rough time for Halo fans that were expecting something substantial as instead we got fanfiction. But enough griping, here&ওrsquo;s how everyone was left off at the end of the first season of the Halo TV show.

Master Chief

To set things up, our version of ‘John’ is introduced at first as his typical super soldier self, minus a personality as he tears through Covenant Elites with ease. Then the writing drives the plot right off a cliff and we quickly see 🍌how much this version of Chief isn’t the ‘John’ we all know.

What follows is a story of ‘John’ finding out his past, how he was abducted for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Spartan program and him generally turning against the UNSC and Halsey. All whilst also taking out his Emotional Inhibitor Pellet which lets him be a very angry and emotionally unstable boy, to everyone's detriment.

The show's version of ‘John’ has him spend a sensual night with Makee, a Covenant Spy, put the entirety of humanity at risk by stealing a Forerunner artifact, and also almost go rogue. By the season finale ‘John’ is supposed to be unconscious and controlled entirely by Cortana, but he takes a Brutes Grav Hammer straight to the chest before snapping his spine ꦦalmost in half on a rock face.

So either he was supposed to be dead and the show wrote itself into a corner, or there was supposed to be more about Cortana controlling Chief, or we’re supposed to assume that once he&🐼rsquo;s inside the armor, ‘John’ is just unkillable.

It’s less Mjolnir A🌞rmour, and more Plot Armour.

Kwan

Everyone's favorite character from the first season, Kwan, is back once again in season two. Whilst she doesn’t sideline the story as much as she did the first time around, we still get a lot of jumping back to her side-plot with Soren and an odd payoff to Kwan's ancestry Spirit Quest from the first season.

For those not aware, Kwan's Father was killed when 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Covenant attacked and before that he had led a rebellion against the planet's corrupt Politician. But with the rebellion failed and her Father dead, Kwan's entire arc is about rekindling the fires of rebellion. Which she doesn't really do.

Kwan in the first season spends her time on a Spirit Quest and angrily shouting at people for not rebelling against the UNSC. Even though the Covenant has now shown up and there are now much bigger stakes, but🌸 because Kwan’s Father died she still has a grudge.

Kwan mostly gets some vengeance against her nemesis played by the talented and sadly always-underused Burn Gorman. But then all her efforts are rendered null and void as her planet gets ruined offscreen between seasons. Kwans is now on the run from Slavers in Soren's asteroid hideaway.

This then kicks off her underwhelming side story with Soren and his family for the rest of season two.

Soren

Not a lot of characters make it through the Halo show without some sort of character damage, but because Soren is an original creation of the showrunners, there’s no background to break. But what we do get is mostly Soren trying to figure out his place in the universe, a little doubt in his current role and some palling around with Kwan on Madrigal to help overthrow the planet's corrupt politicians.

It all culminates with Soren leaving Kwan whilst heading back to his Asteroid Field hideaway with his wife, son and cadre of criminals. However, in season two that metaphorical table gets flipped and Soren is once again on the run with jus👍t his trust revolver and shattered powღer armor to help him. Kwans also there, unfortunately.

Halsey

Halsey is an iconic and deeply impactful character to the Halo lore outside and inside of the games, yet the show side-lines her to vague villain status. Halsey still longs for the evolution of mankind, but this time ☂around it’s an obsession that is more detrimental🍃 than helpful.

Halsey wants to find the ring before the Covenant and throuဣghout the first season she aids &lsꦗquo;John’ in getting more information on its whereabouts.

However, that’s after he threatened her with a lethal dose of radiation. Moving on, after trying to stage a coup against the UNSC with members of Silver Team who are inexplicably loyal to her, Halsey flees into the wilds of Reach.

The next time we see her she’s being arrested by the UNSC before being interred in a hologram-enshrouded prison by the high-ranking member of ONI known as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Ackerson. With her tenure as a prisoner involving daily visitation from flash clones of her new Warden's dead sister.

Something that only serves to irritate and frustrate Halsey whilst also distancing the audience further from caring about this particular character in any way. It’s something that also removes any emotional impact at her fate in the finale as you simply don’t care about her welfare because of her portrayal as a monster up until that point.

The girl in question died after her body rejected augmentations during the Spartan program's early days. We’ve never met or heard about her before now, it’s just delivered💞 as a thing𝄹 that happened offscreen decades ago.

Warning: Potential spoilers fo🐼r Season Two of the Halo TV show below

Things Worth Knowing Before Starting Season Two

Now that everyone is all caught up on our characters and where they left off, it’s worth knowing a few things about what awaits you in the second season. If you’re looking for answers to your questions from the first time around, or are still holding out hope that Chief would keep his helmet on for more than five minutes, ⛎you’re going to be let down.

Season two is another great example of wasted potential on the part of the showrunners and no huge fan bait like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Flood coming in for season three is enough to turn this ship around from those big rocks its dead set on𒈔 colliding with.

Smart decisions go out the window, iconic characters are unceremoniously cast away and throughout it all, Pablo Schreiber still refuses to put that Spartan helmet on, or even his suit.

If you’ve made it this far and have your expectations low enough that you could do with a laugh or at least a heads up for what to expect and how bad it gets, then here are a few minimal to mild spoilers for the second season of Halo.

Drastically Lower Your Expectations

The first thing worth pulling out from the mire is the premise of seeing Reach get turned into a giant ball of plasma-fused glass ♋and whilst it does happen, it comes across a lot more subdued and localized than how it was shown elsewhere.

The prime example that always referenced as a great showcase of the fall of Reach is Halo: Reach, and rightly so. In the Halo show we mostly follow John's perspective in short, sharp streetfights with snappy shaky cam making it all look indistinguishable. To the point it’s clear that everyone is on a set they can barely move around on.

The Violence Is Toned Down

Whilst the first season of Halo has its fair share of problems, one feather in its corroded cap is that at least it got the violence and gore right. Plasma bolts turned people into seared fleshy stumps whilst Needlers viscerally exploded so🐻meone into pink mist.

Fast forward to season two and we’ve got someone tanking a Needler round to the heart with a small fist-sized hole being the only sign. Granted he was a Spartan, but without armor, skin is still skin. We also have not one but three characters blow themselves up.

But we get the classic last second cutaway or fireball from a distance, a small complaint sure but it makeꦯs everything feel that bit more pantomime and ‘safe&🎀rsquo;.

We do get some scenes of the Covenant ‘Glassing’ a planet, but it’s shot from a distance and they don’t hold on it long. So you d𒊎on’t get much perspectivꦍe or impact from it.

It’s most notable towards the end of the second season when we see some ‘Spartan V’s’ have a lethal laser tag match with the Covenant. But instead of being blasted apart, everyone 🐻just falls ovꦜer because it’s sleepy time for Spartans.

Why that’s worth nit picking is that these are just regular people, no augments, wearing what looks like ODST armor with a Spartan full visor helm. They’re not bigger and taller like Chief who could take a laser blast toไ the chest,🦄 turn, and evaporate the cheeky blighter that tried to take him down.

These are just regular Joes strapped up with combat gear and given a pat on the back. The basic physics of that much mass in an energy ball hitting them at speed should easily shear off some limbs, turn them into a Jackson Pollock painting, or at least ragdoll them across the room.

But instead, they just fall down.

We do get some very, very mild body horror with The Flood but a lot of it is quick cᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚuts or in the dark to hide the choppy cg.

The Helmet Comes Off Again

The biggest criticism that the first season of the Halo show had, other than the inaccuracies, was that our main man in power armor couldn’t keep his helmet on for more than a few minutes at a time. To the point where he goes almost entire episodes without wearing it before plonking it on his head within the last few minutes or eve�♔�n seconds.

In season two it’s worse.

In a move that almost feels like it’s out of spite, the showrunners have Master Chief, a.k.a ‘Mister Jimmy Rings’, go half the season without not only his helmet but his armor too. Throughout the entire destruction of Reach ‘John’ is running around like a generic action hero, punching Covenant and barely reg♏istering any emotiꩲon on his face.

We have an entire breakdown of every time Master Chief takes off his helmet in season two of Halo.

Kwans Home Planet

A minor note but something worth mentioning for the dozens that are still holding up a candle for Kwan, seems her home planet has suffered from a visit by the Dark God of Writers known as Retconnicus. As the second season plays out, it turns out Kwan's home planet was glassed by the Covenant.

Madrigal gets all the build-up in the world for season one, but it's now deleted from the timeline. Like a lot of things from season one, like Master Chief being apparently totally fine six months after having Cortana removed from his cerebellum,🦄 it’s something that we don’t find out anything about other than that.

We’re just told to accept that this is how things are and the plot moves on regardless.

Throw Your Lore Books Out The Window

In season two of the Halo show you’re in for essentially the plot of Halo: Reach and the opening of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Halo: Combat Evolved smushed into a few episodes and fumbled 🔯as much as you 💟would expect. Lore wise they’re still forging their own path.

For example, if you were looking forward to seeing Jacob Keyes covered in Flood Fungus, you may be disappointed. Also, The Flood now operates like the Cordyceps Virus from The Last of Us and also a little like John Carpenter's The Thing’. We’ve already mentioned the changes to Spartan V’s, and the UNSC goes a little propaganda and power armor mad.

Not that they weren’t questionable to begin with since they did repress people, but it's doubled down with season two. Onyx Base also makes an appearance, kind of, and we do get a version of The Arbiter, but he’🌼s underused, manipulated, and killed off in an ill fitting manner by the end.

The Endings A Cliffhanger

Speaking of the end of the second season, it’s clear that the showrunners are desperate for people to come back. How are we so sure of this?

Because the story sets itself up as a big dramatic cliffhanger, puts story central characters in ‘Plot Comas’, and drops a random scene from a third season that hasn’t even been filmed yet right at the end to entice us to come back. All of that factored together shows how little faith there is for a retained audience and how big of a proverbial key jangle that has to be used to bring people back.

For those that are curious or just don’t want to go through the whole season, Chief is shown very briefly talking to 343 Guilty Spark in🐎side the Halo Ring with half his helmet smashed in.

There’s a reference to a darkness below a.k.a The Flood or a Grave Mind and a stare at the camera by Pablo Schrieber that they thought looked grim and foreboding. But just comes across as pleading for everyone to come back for season three.