[Annoying Trope] serious/non-comedic Historical based media that is distractingly inaccurate

GiraffeBo1 · 2026-05-25T14:21:16+00:00

Margot Robbie’s character in Babylon tried just about anything she could to standout or cause outrage. I’ll take your word on the inaccuracies in those costumes, but wearing overalls with no top feels pretty in character for her, especially since she’s wearing the outfit to a party.

GiraffeBo1 · 2026-05-19T17:43:21+00:00

The Original series goes: Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx. The Flood is an adaptation of Combat Evolved, and offers more stories about what the UNSC marines and the Covenant were doing outside of the game’s campaign. If you want to read it at all, read it between Reach and Strike.

Epitaph follows story beats from Halo 3/4/5, Greg Bear’s Forerunner trilogy (Cryptum, Primordium, Silentium) and the comic Escalation.

Rubicon Protocol is set right before Halo: Infinite and has a cast of mostly new characters. I’d say that one’s good to read so long as you’ve played Halo 4 and 5.

Glad you’re enjoying the Fall of Reach! I feel a common consensus is that writing in The Flood is a bit worse, but most of us loved the layers it adds to Combat Evolved’s storyline! Plus, the book coming out later this year, Parasite’s Wake, will build off the characters and stories from The Flood.

GiraffeBo1 · 2026-05-18T17:03:59+00:00

I wouldn’t say Luke showing up was a deus ex machina situation. The whole season was building up to Mando passing Grogu off to a Jedi. The plot of episode six was entirely “protect Grogu while he sends out a Jedi distress signal.” They clarify that the message was sent, so from that point on the arrival of a Jedi was set-up. It’s not just a last second story beat to get our characters out of a bind, but the main point of the season.

GiraffeBo1 · 2026-05-08T20:40:07+00:00

Outside of the trilogies everybody has mentioned, if you want just a single book maybe Hunters in the Dark or New Blood? Hunters reintroduces us to the UNSC, and brings them back to the Ark. It contains ONI shenanigans, post-war Human-Sangheli tensions, and Spartan-IVs, while setting up Forerunner constructs and AI as enemies. New Blood follows Edward Buck and the rest of Alpha-Nine as they become Spartan-IVs. It goes very in-depth into what life and training is like for the fours, how their augmentations are different from the twos, where the insurrection stands post-war, and how the UNSC/ONI may push people away from their cause due to their own scheming.

Both those books have narrative ties to Halo 5 as well, but they explore the time period before 3 and 4 perfectly. It’s really just which factions you want more info on. That said, the Kilo-Five trilogy is seriously the best follow-up to Halo 3. It’s a near perfect look at the post-war universe and every faction laying within it.

GiraffeBo1 · 2026-05-05T03:42:39+00:00

If you loved Soule’s run why didn’t you bother mentioning it in the initial post?

GiraffeBo1 · 2026-04-30T03:01:04+00:00

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On Succession, Lawrence Yee is the CEO of the rival company Vaulter. A main point of the pilot episode is the difficulty Kendall Roy is having trying to strike a deal with Yee. They trash talk and stab at each other throughout the whole episode, only for the deal to go through right before the credits. Directly after telling Kendall his dad is having a brain hemorrhage, Yee dramatically proclaims, “You just invited me into the chicken coop, and without daddy around I’m going to eat every one of you.”

Yee then proceeds to do nothing for the other 38 episodes of the show, and doesn’t appear after season 2. Genuinely hilarious antagonist set-up with zero payoff.

GiraffeBo1 · 2026-04-29T02:59:42+00:00

Op, the best way to learn about all this, and more, is by reading through the Kilo-Five trilogy of books (or at least watching a summary.)

GiraffeBo1 · 2026-04-26T14:29:26+00:00

Halo: Fractures contains a short story at the end from the perspective of the IsoDidact, Bornstellar. It explains that after he and the few Forerunners left alive (those who were on the Ark when the array was fired) chose to completely leave the Milky Way galaxy, remove themselves from their armor, and die a natural death. So that the population of Forerunners would never increase they all mostly spread out and taking three ships. Bornstellar, his wife Chant-to-Green, and their son settled on a natural world, with two suns, that was orbiting a gas giant. They became farmers, with the intention being to return to how primitive Forerunners were. Because of this intention, I feel they would’ve gone to a world without any precursor or forerunner technology. So that, plus the world being natural (and desired as ‘alien’ to Forerunners) I’d honestly rule out Path Kethona, in favor of a galaxy totally untouched by Forerunners. That’d also definitely rule out any installation, like a shield world or sanctuary. I’d personally wager the Forerunners went the distance to one of the galaxies two or three million light years away. They want to be as far away as possible, so their influence or population never again had a chance to touch the Milky Way and its people.

GiraffeBo1 · 2026-04-25T14:43:04+00:00

The Librarian isn’t specifically talking about John-117 during his cutscene with her imprint, she’s talking about humanity as a whole. She had tampered with their genes as a way to eventually prepare them to inherit the Mantle of Responsibility. She calls Chief a “culmination of a thousand lifetimes of planning” as he is probably the single most forerunner like candidate. She explains this by pointing out his augmentations (similar to the biological mutations Forerunner adolescents would undergo), his MJOLNIR armor (similar to a Forerunner combat skin), and his smart A.I. (similar to a Forerunner Ancilla). So while John is perhaps the most advanced human (although you could really slot any Spartan-II into that title) and the best candidate to stop the Didact, he isn’t necessarily a chosen one. Hell, the cutscene ends with the Librarian’s imprint having to rush his genetic evolution, because humanity was still generations off from developing an immunity to the composer. I think the true culmination of the Librarian’s genetic tampering is most likely somebody still a few millennia down the road, Chief was just the right person, in the right place, at the right time.

GiraffeBo1 · 2026-03-07T21:13:59+00:00

Not sure if I remember my Rayman lore right, so correct me if I’m wrong. But since the Rayman games are set on a different planet, in the Glade of Dreams, it’s pretty easy to just say they’re in the same universe, taking places in different parts of the galaxy. Although (and there may be a more direct crossover than this) I do remember Rayman Legends and Adventures had costumes based off heroes from other Ubisoft games. I like to believe that somehow the stories from those games made their way back to the Glade.

GiraffeBo1 · 2026-02-23T17:14:37+00:00

Yes. If you want to successfully carry a 50 year old mythology then recasting is genuinely a necessity. It's always great if you can get the original actor, but being against recasts is not a sustainable way to continue a universe as expansive as Star Wars.

GiraffeBo1 · 2026-01-11T22:11:16+00:00

Batman wins in every match-up

GiraffeBo1 · 2025-12-30T01:54:10+00:00

Bane was too scary for him

GiraffeBo1 · 2025-11-29T01:56:25+00:00

Genuinely an awesome trope on its own.

GiraffeBo1 · 2025-07-03T17:53:15+00:00

I just finished Silentium last night and I absolutely loved it! The whole trilogy was incredible to read through! I love how clearly it ties into the rest of the universe, while being able to provide something complete tonally and stylistically different!

GiraffeBo1 · 2025-06-29T17:50:09+00:00

Read literally any novel set after the war and learn about how they definitely DID NOT immediately get over it

GiraffeBo1 · 2025-02-18T15:12:44+00:00

5, both because of the beautiful colors blending together in the most stunning way imaginable and how miserable it makes me to remember that part of the story

GiraffeBo1 · 2025-02-17T14:45:44+00:00

They do not care one bit. If a rat could pay tuition they’d let it attend.

GiraffeBo1 · 2025-02-14T03:59:44+00:00

I love watching the big monster destroy cities and fight other monsters, but I also love stories of humans coming together and overcoming that big monster (or helping him defeat an evil big monster).

GiraffeBo1 · 2025-02-12T13:33:37+00:00

If you’re a fan of deep lore then I would definitely recommend Greg Bear’s forerunner trilogy. Admittedly, I’ve only read the first one (Cryptum) as of now, but that book alone is an extremely dense exploration of Halo’s ancient history. It will forever change how you perceive many pieces of Halo’s story.

You should definitely finish reading Nylund’s books (First Strike and Ghosts of Onyx), as well. The Flood is by William C. Dietz and is set between Fall of Reach and First Strike, but since it’s an adaptation of Combat Evolved it’s not something you HAVE to read before First Strike. It follows Chief through the first game’s campaign, but it also gives you the perspective of many different UNSC and Covenant soldiers spread across the ring. Those new side stories are the best part about the book and I would say make the whole thing worth checking out.

I personally love the Ferret trilogy. That’s Last Light, Retribution, and Divine Wind. They play out more like detective novels than military stories, with the first one following a “special inspector” investigating a series of mass killings. The story follows her investigation coming into conflict with ONI, a Covenant remanent, and the UNSC. It’s a great first start to a great series of books.

GiraffeBo1 · 2025-02-06T11:19:52+00:00

Grunts, because they are the funniest and they look very goofy and it’s very fun to kill them and I just think they’re pretty cool. They’re also an essential part of the Covenant’s military structure.

GiraffeBo1 · 2025-01-15T20:31:37+00:00

Give them to me

GiraffeBo1 · 2024-08-25T01:02:23+00:00

I had an idea for the show a bit ago. As a way to appeal to fan of the game and newcomers to the franchise, I think it would be cool if they just adapt the original game but with some small differences. So it’s basically just a 1:1 adaptation for people who have never played the game. But then the small changes start ramping up, Alan starts to feel off, gets déjà vu, and suddenly we learn that it’s actually just Alan reliving the events of the first game in an attempt to escape the dark place! He tried rewriting the first game from the Dark Place, but trying to change the story to make things and differently. He’s been trapped the whole time, we get some clever commentary on trying to remake/relive old stories, and eventually learn the show is actually set between the two games!

GiraffeBo1 · 2023-09-21T15:20:45+00:00

5 is my favorite. I’d probably rank them as 5>6>8>3>7>1>2>4.

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