The one thing we all agree on about the Halo TV series is that we all have thoughts

polygon.com:

At E3 2013 Steven Spielberg announced he and Microsoft were planning to adapt Halo into a TV show. Nine games, nine years, a network switch, and plethora of memes later, and Halo is finally premiering. The Paramount Plus show debuted two episodes at SXSW on Monday ahead of its broader streaming premiere on March 24.

From the beginning, the talent involved has resisted calling it an exact adaptation, preferring instead to think of it as a world built off the framework of the Halo games: an interstellar war between the religious aliens known as the Covenant and the human United Nations Space Command. In the middle of all that is Spartan soldier Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) and insurrectionist Kwan Ha (Yerin Ha), who both find themselves at odds with the war waging around them.

With just two episodes screened to critics it’s hard to know just what Halo hopes to be at this point, particularly as the franchise is undergoing its own self-assessment. But there are certainly plenty of threads to pull at in the first two outings of the show. For instance:

Halo is like an adaptation of a video game series as handled by someone who played a few levels of it once in college. Or maybe he just watched his friend play, he can’t quite remember. There’s definitely a guy in recognizable green armor, and he definitely fights some aliens, but beyond that it’s a bit of a blur. There’s some kind of relic, it may or may not have something to do with a ring world, which might also be a weapon. It’s really hard to say.

This is a show for people who have, at best, a passing familiarity with the games. There’s little to no actual explanation of who or what is going on, so you better know the Master Chief and the Covenant. But it’s also not a