Halo TV Show's [SPOILER] Scene Felt Exactly Like This Part From Halo 2

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This article contains spoilers for Halo episode 5.

Halo's Brute scene felt exactly like a fan-favorite moment in Halo 2. The Paramount+ Halo TV series hasn't exactly been what viewers expected. Rather than cleaving closely to the video games, it has instead drawn inspiration from the wider canon established in tie-in novels and comics. It's also been decidedly short of action; rather surprising for a TV series inspired by a first-person shooter.

All that changed in Halo episode 5, when the alien Covenant successfully tracked a Forerunner artifact to the Master Chief's homeworld of Eridanus II. The Covenant dropped into orbit around the world, swiftly destroying the UNSC's air support and then pressing the advantage on the ground. Soon the Master Chief and his allies were locked in combat against waves of Grunts and Jackals, and they barely survived the encounter—especially when the Covenant sent reinforcements.

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With the Forerunner artifact located, the Covenant sent a single Brute to capture it, armed with a Gravity Hammer. There was a certain degree of contemptuous ease in the Brute's retrieval of the larger so-called "Keystone," as he swatted the Master Chief aside as though the famed super-soldier was just a fly. It was reminiscent of a key cutscene in Halo 2, where the Brute leader Tartarus displayed the same kind of attitude when he took possession of the Oracle, before departing in a gravity lift. The Brute in Halo episode 5 even leaves in exactly the same way.

The Halo TV series has had something of a mixed reception, in large part because of its different tone and style from the source material. Halo episode 5 was a step towards something a little