How The Halo TV Series Approaches Classic Tropes Of Military Sci-Fi

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The following article contains spoilers for the Halo television series.

The very popularity that made a Halo series possible was built back in the early 2000s when the first video game came out on the original Xbox. However, it’s arguable that interest in it was boosted by the fact that, at the time, television saw the rise of perhaps some of the most well-known series in the military sci-fi subgenre, namely Battlestar Galactica.

While Stargate SG-1 had been on the air for a while when Halo came out, it reached its prime around 2001. Master Chief then offered the quintessential FPS adventure, in which fans could live out a similar fantasy through the means of a much cooler interactive experience facing the Covenant aliens. A few years later, when Halo 2 was already one of the most hyped-up sequels in gaming, the franchise’s lore started to take form thanks to the published novels. It’s through a combination of all of these that Paramount Plus’ new show has accomplished the ancient goal of making live action Halo.

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Like many legendary sci-fi series, Halo relies on a magnificent hero, in this case, an enhanced human super soldier that's designed to basically trample any opposition he comes up against. Through years of training, John-117 was fine-tuned to carry out the UNSC’s war against the Covenant. He is the representation of the almighty space marine, like many others of his video game buddies, such as Doom Slayer.

Master Chief fits the bill of not being a high-ranking officer, but merely a soldier meant to carry out the will of superiors. However, as part of the process to make Halo more appealing to a wider audience, TV’s Master Chief is his most emotional incarnation so