Halo's Ring Reveal Means Season 2 Will Require One Big Change
For Halo season 2, Paramount+ will need to make one big — and expensive — change. There have been attempts to create a live-action Halo movie or TV series since 2005, but the dream has finally become a reality. The adventures of the Master Chief have been brought to life on the Paramount+ streaming platform, and Paramount has already renewed Halofor a second season.
Paramount+'s Halo TV series doesn't just draw inspiration from the games, though; it's surprised viewers by lifting concepts from a wider universe of tie-in novels and comics too. It's likely this is partly a way of saving on CGI, because a focus on Insurrectionist stories means there haven't been too many expensive battles with CGI Covenant aliens. This probably also helps explain another dramatic change, with the TV series introducing a Covenant spy named Makee, a so-called "Blessed One" who serves as the Master Chief's opposite number among the Covenant as one of the few people who can activate Forerunner artifacts with a touch.
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Halo season 2 will need to abandon their approach of avoiding the Covenant. By now it's clear that Halo season 1 serves as something of a prologue, establishing the context for the conflict between the Master Chief and the alien Covenant and leading them to the Halo Rings themselves. This means Halo season 2 will be the main event, with the Master Chief and the Covenant battling for control of the Sacred Ring — and the fate of the entire galaxy at stake. Halo's sparse Spartan-Covenant combat scenes have been a delight in season 1, but the conflict between these two forces must lie at the heart of season 2. No doubt Makee will remain a force to be reckoned with as a human
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