Why Is Halo's UNSC So Much Darker & Brutal In The TV Show?
WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Halo episode 3.
The Halo TV show's version of the UNSC is disturbingly dystopian. Gamers have waited a long time for a live-action adaptation of Halo, the first-person shooter franchise that launched in 2001. Paramount+'s Halo TV series has drawn on the wider lore established in novels and comics, telling a story in which humanity was already fractured when the Covenant arrived. Its portrayal of the UNSC is, however, darker than anything told before in the Halo franchise.
The very first episode portrayed the UNSC as deeply flawed, with the introduction of "Article 72" — an order that would allow the Master Chief to kill an unarmed civilian rather than risk political disruption. Halo episode 2 treated the Insurrectionist movement in a fairly sympathetic light, but episode 3 finally revealed exactly what so many people across the galaxy are rebelling against. A flashback revealed the backstory of Makee, the Covenant's Blessed One, a human who was rescued from the "UEG Tier 2 Waste Salvage Colony" of Oban. There, even children were forced to work, and were literally beaten to death by brutal guards if they didn't seem to be working hard enough. By the end of the episode, Halo was hinting Dr. Halsey — the unethical scientist responsible for the Spartan program — had conspired to kill a group of colonists in order to hide her work. The human society of Paramount+'s Halo TV series seems to increasingly appear as a galactic dystopia.
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This is certainly an unexpected narrative choice. In dramatic terms, it serves to isolate the Master Chief. He's the one hero in a world of darkness, struggling against the
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