Halo Episode 4 Review
The newest episode of Halo is the best episode of the season so far, despite the fact that the series still has a severe lack of action. Instead of any kind of fighting breaking out between the Covenant and the Spartans the episode focused mostly on the journey of the Spartans and the turmoil that continued on Madrigal. Most of all, the episode focused on filling out what the Spartans are and where they came from. It also humanized those super soldiers and showed just how bad their lives really have been as the UNSC worked to dehumanize them at all costs.
The show opens much the same way that Halo Episode 3 kicked off, showing the young Spartans when they were still in training. Once again it showed that when these people were kids, they were not anywhere near as loyal as they appear to be now. John, in particular, is struggling to come to terms with having to do everything that Dr. Halsey tells him to do. There is also a bit of a foreshadowing for later in the episode when the young John confronts Halsey about why he and the rest of the children are there.
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The episode then flashes forward to Halo’s present where John, Halsey, her assistant, and Cortana are all traveling to his former homeworld in order to solve the mystery of the artifacts and find what might be a second one. It is of course, more than a little interesting that the planet they journey to appears to be completely uninhabited despite the fact that it appears to be able to support life without much of a problem. There have been mentions of the planet and what happened in previous episodes. Of course, the show has also already explained that Halsey is not a reliable narrator when it comes to things
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