How the 'Halo' TV series misunderstands the video game's fans
by Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times
Mar 24, 2022
4 minutes
Ask Master Chief a difficult question, and the super-solider lead of "Halo" often has an answer at the ready: "I don't know." From early on in the Paramount+ series, adapted from the sci-fi-inspired video game space fantasy, the scientifically enhanced human doesn't know much.
This is a video game trope.
Master Chief's fuzzy memory is a common conceit in games, one so cliched it's stunning that it still happens. Opening an adventure with a hero who has somehow had his recollections wiped is a narrative shortcut to do away with the disconnect between player and character: Why would we be instructing
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