Halo Episode 5 Review

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Paramount’s Halo series has been more than a little hit or miss over the course of its first four episodes. It’s been more miss than hit as the series has been trying to set up the chess pieces and make sure that everyone watching the show knows exactly who all the characters are. In fact, the show has been surprisingly action free for a series that is based on the Halo video game where players are shooting or punching nearly every second of the game.

This week, there was a little bit more action, but in the long run, there was still a lot of buildup and not nearly enough payoff. Having said that, there’s something to be said for holding off on the real action, where Master Chief is fighting against The Covenant for as long as possible. It makes the payoff that much sweeter. Still, even when the episode did finally deliver the action, there just didn’t seem to be enough of it. It arrived out of nowhere and then seemed to be gone in a flash.

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That in and of itself isn’t even that bad. One of the things that Halo has done right off the bat is really demonstrating just how completely outmanned the UNSC is when it comes to going toe-to-toe with The Covenant. When they do attack, the aliens appear to be pretty heavily outnumbered. However, the blitzkrieg style with which they attack and the fact that they are bigger, tougher and have stronger weapons allows them to mow through the regular troops like a hot knife through butter. It’s also a decent reminder of Halo Episode 1, where just a handful of aliens were able to take out an entire town’s worth of people in about 10 minutes.

One of the reasons why the action felt so “blink and miss it” is because ​​It’s a short episode.