Halo Episode 9 Review

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The season finale of Halo is finally here and unfortunately, the first slate of installments went out with a bit of a whimper instead of a bang. That's not to say that the latest episode of Halo didn't offer up plenty of action. It can certainly be argued that it had more action than any of the episodes that came before it. In fact, it started off that action right from the very beginning. However, on the whole, it seems as if perhaps the writers knew where they wanted to go with the ninth episode of the season but couldn't really figure out a way to get there. Even more disconcerting is that it appears as though the show ran out of budget about halfway through the episode and had to resort to some truly disconcertingly inferior special effects in order to finish off the season.

Where this episode of Halo really went off the rails is when it started to betray everything it had set up in the first eight episodes. While there are plenty of shows where a character might look and act a certain way only to be shown to be someone else entirely. Done right, the program can even show that this is the after effect of some real character growth. However, in the season finale of Halo, it appears that quite a few switches were just flipped that allowed certain characters to just go against everything the series had shown them to be. That could even be somewhat excusable if it were one person. But it seems as if five or six different people just suddenly realized they were actually someone else entirely all of a sudden. It made for a less than believable story while also making the episodes that were actually good because they were setting up the chessboard, simply not as good.

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