2.5 Razors

• Title: Halo – Unbound
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Master Chief’s (Pablo Schreiber) life on the run comes to a quick end. In “Unbound,” Master Chief takes Kwan (Yerin Ha) to an old friend (Bokeem Woodbine) who escaped from the UNSC to live in an asteroid field. Leaving Kwan their at the end of the episode and returning to Dr. Halsey (Natascha McElhone) with only minimal more information about the artifact, Chief ends up back where he started except now he’s a prisoner who the UNSC cannot trust. Ending the character’s self discovery without much self discovery feels like a wasted opportunity leaving his future in doubt and abandoning Kwan’s story altogether.

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• Title: Halo – Contact
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I’ll be honest, my only real connection with the first-person shooter video game series the new TV-series is based on comes from the popular multi-player mode where I tried my best not to get shot in the back of the head by players who put in far more hours to the game than I ever would. The larger story about super-elite military soldiers versus invading aliens wasn’t really applicable to those scenarios. The series takes the basic mythology of the game and expands on it by adding a layer of class divide all too familiar to fans of dystopian science fiction. The opening episode is really only notable for recreating the look of the video game hero along with its high special effects and high body count of the various Covenant aliens Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) and the others of Silver Team will put down.

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