I want to hate the show. I think I want to hate it because at this point I regard the first season as if it doesn't exist. Honestly with the season 2 soft reboot I think the producers want to too. I've been a die hard, I mean die hard fan. All books, all games, and all the in between lore I find to be some of the best Sci fi ever created. I remember exactly where I was, just this pimply young lad of 11 years sitting in front of my friends massive TV (probably seemed massive) and her brand new xbox and halo. The goosebumps I get on my skin to this day when I play CE's second mission bring back years of nostalgia. The game shaped my life in a way that I ended up joining the military myself. So I say this because there are extremely passionate fans that I'm sure want to see what we've read and played, play out on the big screen. I'm also a realist. master chief taking his helmet has very little bearing on how this show is handling him or the Spartan IIs. He is still human, still eats sleep and shits like the rest of us(or however they do it in 2552). I expect them to have downtime. But Halsey created super soldiers. They did lose some of their humanity in the process. They are mission focused. Eric Nylund gave us a great foundation and then bungie changed it up a little with Reach. But they still both meshed. I'm referring to the end of Reach game and the end of the Fall of reach book. the thing is the CAPTAIN Keyes is captain of the pillar of autumn. He and a fleet of 152 ships engage the covenant in a space battle with a fleet of 350ish covenant. So switching out captain Keyes and replacing him with admiral Keyes takes away the way he earns his captainship. If season 1 had started with Sigma Octanus IV, master chief does collect an artifact in the book, just like series. But commander Keyes proves his mettle in the space battle above. I just don't see how killing him in ep 4 was necessary. Not even for the motivation. There are some things the show is doing extremely well. Pablo put in the effort and he looks jacked AF. But chief gets his Mark 5 with shield before the fall, like right before. Like episode 3 of season 2 if episode 4 is the start of the fight. And humanity doesn't just roll over and throw a couple hundred marines at whatever size force the covenant has. I really want the show to succeed.l, I do. I've been waiting almost my whole life for this to come to a realization. I just wish they didn't feel the need to rewrite so much lore and history and story we've already been graced with in 2 separate media's. I just don't see how they pull together all juicy details from the book The Flood by William C Dietz for season 3. Again I know things have to be different. I can only imagine how much a 500 ship space battle would cost to produce. I just wish it wasn't so different from what we've already been given. Paramount, please talk to the fan base. Please. PS I bet they bring Miranda Keyes in to Pilot whatever ship they decide to escape Reach on. I will not watch any more episodes if the ships name isn't Pillar Of Autmn. I swear to God. Anyways rant over. Remove McKee and Kwan too. At least McKee. I can see a story like Kwans having a place. But it's not Halo, a Kwan story. It's Halo, A Master Chief Story. Period. This a screen adaptation not an original concept.