Halo TV series producer on tough creative decisions, fan feedback, and the franchise’s "open" future

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It’s fair to say the Halo TV series suffered through some growing pains upon its US release. From consternation over Cortana’s look to Master Chief taking off his helmet, the early discourse was dominated by controversy over a handful of creative decisions – instead of what the show did right.

Now, on the eve of the video game adaptation’s UK streaming debut on Paramount Plus, 343 Industries and Halo series producer Kiki Wolfkill says the creative team is "looking at all the feedback, good and bad" ahead of production starting up on the second season.

"We’re still getting feedback. It’s interesting to me to see characters that are resonating or not," Wolfkill tells GamesRadar+ over Zoom.

"I will say, philosophically, [we are] absolutely looking at all of the feedback, good and bad, from each episode. And those are the things that will carry forward as learnings into season two, just like all of the learnings we had on season one [that] we get through the course of production, we’ll carry those forward. We will look at everything."

Perhaps with an eye to social media backlash and message boards, Wolfkill adds, "We do sort of read everything on season one and we’ll think about how we shape that moving forward."

The fans, then, will likely have a say in how the Halo series moves forward. It was one decision in pre-production, however, that was expected to caused a considerable amount of debate behind-the-scenes – and it’s not the one you’re thinking of.

"One of the big shifts that we did for the very mainstream – and by that, I mean people who may have just played the games and not read the books – was bringing in the timeline of the Insurrection up against the Covenant War," Wolfkill says of the two events that, in