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HOTFIX: HALO has action now! · WASD and Beyond

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Optics. It's a hot face.
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What is up everybody? Welcome back to the episode The
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wasd and Beyond. Hotfix as always, I'm your host.
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Nick with me is Evan, nothing's changed.
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It's been a minute. We don't hotfix that.
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I mean I wouldn't see nothing's changed see if you can spot it.
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Evan Q 2 Q, tilt your head to the side which side left to
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right. Don't matter.
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No man. Like look other ways.
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You said tilt, this is tilting, this is will turn.
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Okay? Why?
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Matt look I meant look. You're not let us know in the
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comments. What you spot.
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I don't think. I don't think I look pretty
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normal. You look like Evan, that's for
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sure. You're digging it.
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You're really full of yourself today, really digging that.
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I feel so cool. It looks like you got like a
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mandrake on the top of your head.
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I did it exactly like this, is you your start your so thrilled?
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I can tell. I'm so happy just to get another
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big Swig of that beer, buddy. I'm having a beer not drinking
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while you were just. You are I think the saying?
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No, I'm not. I literally don't have one.
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You did earpiece shit anyways, so the past couple weeks there
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hasn't been that much news for us to be even doing a hotfix, so
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we've been kind of taking a slow with it.
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This week, the big episode with David Craddock author of long
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live Mortal Kombat and the director of FPS documentary is
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coming out on Friday video and audio, so get stoked for that.
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It's been a long time in the making for this interview to
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come. We're incredibly proud of this.
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We're incredibly excited for you guys to hear it.
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David was nothing less than amazing to talk to these awesome
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guy support. All the things that he's working
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on and doing this, specially long live Mortal Kombat and FPS
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documentary, which majority of the interview was, Brody, and
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myself talking to him about that movie.
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So, that comes out this Friday, until then, you got this hotfix,
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whichever to myself or to be talking about Halo, episode 4
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and 5. Yes, So let's go into what
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happened in episode 4 and then we will tell you guys how we
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felt about it and then we'll go into 5 because 5 is where things
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start to really picked up significantly ramp up.
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Its what the show has been kneading and it's what the show
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has been drastically missing, I would say.
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So, I would say, let's let's start this up for the oven.
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What happens in episode 4. So in episode 4, KY 1 to
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Originally had seen an episode 3, Adan Master Chief taking out
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his emotional suppressor pellet out of the small of his back.
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So she does that and clearly you can kind of tell she handles it
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a bit differently. Which I think is another
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Testament as to why Chief is Chief, because he kind of take
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out, but he can still do his job pretty well.
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She can do her job, well, too, but she's very, she's different
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the clearly because of it. She also helps Miranda Keys
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analyze, the magical artifact, and kind.
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They discover together that they've been trying to translate
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the elites language. The saying Hayley Language by
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there by themselves even though they haven't been using the spa,
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Those who have arguably the most time, what are you laughing at?
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What I do because exactly what you were just saying, like the
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sparkle like, oh yeah. We know.
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Yes language leaves Diesel. And we've not spelled, we've
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spent more time with her than anybody else has and you know,
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realistically because they obviously probably listen to
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them when they're trying to Ambush all that kind of stuff,
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so and all that stuff. So obviously documented through
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their helmets and whatnot, video and audio.
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So, They do that, they look at the footage from the mission on
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magical as well as the the UNSC Corvette.
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That's I think that happens in episode 3, that the Mackay takes
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over there. But yeah, I don't know how you
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say her name. They discovered that the
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artifact, the chief, and the other Spartans, found relates to
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a sacred ring that the Covenant call Halo.
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So who big crazy stuff there Halo and Halo.
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I don't think so. No man, it's nothing.
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Got nothing to do so different franchise.
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Another girl's Sauron and Quan go and find her Kwan's father's
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former like allies. But due to like what happened
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since episode one, they both fear the Covenant and so because
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of that they trust Venture grass who you see in the first episode
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because he's backed by the UNSC now like they're together.
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Um, so they don't help her. Sauron ship is discovered and
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confiscated and basically just torn apart for its Just a
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salvaged. Quan finds her aunt who asked
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for help but an agent of graphs, like, crew, like Special Forces
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type person kills her aunt, almost kills Quan.
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I think and yell Soren saves her Soren kills, a whole bunch of
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her men, but does not kill her, they escaped and had for a
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Spaceport that's 230 miles in the opposite direction or
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something like that. And then it kind of cuts are it
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cuts to a redness to with Chief Z Cortana and that weird guy
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that's like Halls. He's Lackey, he gets even he
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just gets in the way in episode 5 and I'm like, yeah, he's
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weird. You just someone kill him.
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Yeah, he's a danger to himself and others just fucking kill
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this guy, right? So they go to his old home,
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John's old home, they find drawings that he had as a kid of
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different Forerunner artifacts Cortana uses like almost some
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sort of holographic thing that she can do where she prayed to
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his home as he knew it as a kid kind of though because he does
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point out irregularities or or from placement for things like
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he says that there was a table somewhere else so he clearly
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remembers. Once he sees these things, he
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remember things were he wasn't like that, completely wiped his
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memories and I think that's what's scaring Halsey, which it
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clearly comes to a head at the end of the episode, John
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obviously. I was exactly where the location
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of the second artifact is the even when he was a kid.
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But then he also notices another memory from his childhood of
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Halsey visiting him. While his parents were still a
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lot, which up to this point, he had figured that she found him
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when they had died, but she found them or she found him.
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While her parents are, his parents were still, you know,
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kicking it, playing a game with him of like, tossing, a coin and
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testing this luck. If it'll be heads or tails, and
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he's right naturally, which is a nice homage to The Fall Of Reach
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book because that book John is flipping a coin and I forget it
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might be. Halsey I'm not sure I've read
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the book since I was like in sixth grade.
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But yeah, he's like flipping a coin and he's guessing constant
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and he's getting his favorite show.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Like something special about John and then not.
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Yeah. And then it ends with John
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taking Halsey and obviously her Lackey and Cortana to the
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location of the same Forerunner artifact, which is kind of like
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a big pillar in the ground. So yeah, that's All of episode
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5, obviously little bits and pieces here and there I think in
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episode 4 KY 1 to 5 after you she removes her pellet puts gun
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grease in your hair to kind of paint.
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It red looks terrible by the way, and everybody points that
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out and she knows that too. She knows that that I think she
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mentions that in five where she goes, you think that I thought
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that looked good. So kind of just doing it.
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She's clearly very clearly not used to being able to have them
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bones and stuff like that where it is when John took his out
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very much. Touch this cautious optimism.
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Like really like just cautious understanding like when he goes
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and he sees the dog and he listens to the music and you
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know you sees the couple on the train like all this stuff be
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very much just observes does not want to get involved whereas Kai
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does not have that kind of self-control.
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She's very much about like going to be a part of the group where
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I want to be like I want to do this.
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I want to do that. Let me help.
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Let me do this. And it's like, when she's told
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orders, if she thinks that she has a better idea thing, she's
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very much restraining against that she does not.
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Want to listen which we see more of in five.
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So yeah I liked it I liked I liked that it was just more
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world-building and just kind of getting further but I definitely
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I didn't feel it didn't feel slow but I felt like it was
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moving somewhere. Good that's kind of how I was.
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Yeah so I'm right there with you.
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I didn't hate it, right? A lot of the show so far, I have
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disliked and I've been very vocal about my dislike for this.
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Beats the shit dude. Well my problem is In the
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morning on Friday. Like, do you see it stupid
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bullshit? No, I didn't like, but I
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promised us. It's got eight episodes 99 and
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the majority of the episodes thus far.
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Has been World building which is cool but it is.
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It leaves very, very slow Halo. Right?
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This episode does a lot of cool things especially with Kai.
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I do like that she removed her pellet for those cool.
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Yeah, I like her really starting to identify herself.
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The gun Greece was a cool little symbol of her like I am now
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myself, I am. Who liked that a lot?
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I'm Kai, right? Yes.
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Kind of understanding who she is.
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Yeah. I like that a lot.
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I don't think we needed more. Or nudity in like this guy's
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just well it's just weird, right?
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Like I mean it's a Paramount show, I mean they can do that,
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right? They're not held in.
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Well, it like the last three episodes there's been just just
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butts a lot of. But yeah.
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I mean like Ventures. But like the dude, the scrawny
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little weird guy who's like, almost like.
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Oh my God. Baron harkonnen.
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Like, Dune, but it's like a skinny hard Conan.
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Just look at his little fucking water.
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He's in visual has a little skinny guy, but I'm like, why?
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Dude? Like Lisa, yeah, that's that's
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Burn Gorman. He's a an actor who has been in
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Dark Knight Rises wasn't game of through a lot of things, right?
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He's in the man in the High Castle.
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Yeah he's a very good villain. Also very I don't know the right
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way to say this is noticeable. You don't forget that face like
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oh cause I'm a bad guy. I've only seen him in Dark
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Knight Rises really. I mean I watch Game of Thrones
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but I knew who I like I recognize that he's in there now
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but could show me any TV show with that guy and I'd be like
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yeah I know that is what I've seen like he's just got a very
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recognizable face. Also his he's a nephew of a man
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named Bartley Gorman. Who's considered King of the
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gypsies has nothing to do with the episode but I thought that
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was interesting. Great gypsies in this episode.
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It was fine. Right?
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Like cool. You're cool.
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Yeah, there they are. What they are.
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Okay. I would say the episode is fine.
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It did. What it needed to do.
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I think, right? Yeah.
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No. Yeah.
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Like the Gypsy Community is going to come after us.
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They came after Tom Segura. Good Times sideways.
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Yeah. If there come after him, they'll
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come after us. Yes, their Petty like that
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though, dude. Yeah, no, I mean, I agree,
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though, like I I am personally a big fan of world-building.
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I'm a big fan of shows that I fucking Watch The Wire dude, I'm
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cool with it. She being a slow as it's got to
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be to get to a point, right? I'm not even seriously sitting
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in my opinion. Huh Sopranos a slow in my
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opinion. Oh it's completely sold it.
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Well, I would say, I would disagree on that and one aspect
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which is that there are just some of The Sopranos that don't
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need to be there. Like Pine Barrens know that
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setups that has nothing to do with anything but I prefer it
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remains such a good. We're going to do an episode
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just on the Pine Barrens. Yeah, but like there are certain
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episodes of the show that don't really have to exist or certain,
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maybe not even certain parts, but just see these.
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Whereas I feel something like the wire definitely needs, every
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little bit that it gives and for this I would say that it's it's
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slow in the way that like it wants to really tell you a story
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and I think that that has a problem or I think you'll have a
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problem with it rather because they know what Halo is and they
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expect more action. They expect more shit going on.
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I agree. And it's like, I understand that
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but I'm also of the opinion that if I were to sit here and watch
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if we had been like right now we're on a pisode five about to
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be on six this week. If it had just been like the
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past five episodes just been Chief going to a different
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planet and just being told here's your mission and kicking
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ass and then figuring stuff out at the end of the episode that
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would get boring to would also be of that.
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If anywhere, I'd say it's worse, I'd be like, dude, I mean, like
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it's just the same shit. Like, if I wanted to do this, I
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just go by infinite, right? Like I would just write, go do
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it myself. But like I like, It's World
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building but it's not it's It All Leads somewhere, right?
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And I think they're doing a very good job of that because it's
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like they they don't know what the Rings are.
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Whereas it's like the beginning of the first Halo and you land
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on one. So like for this, it's like both
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of them. The Covenant know what it means
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in terms of a religious aspect of what it can do, but they've
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not found it yet. Whereas humans at judging by
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this at that at that episode. In this current, this new one,
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they're just starting to understand that something like
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this exists and they Still don't know what it is, even they don't
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know that it's a weapon. So like I'm hoping personally I
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hope that they find like the ring within like hopefully this
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is owed, but that's going to be harder to do.
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We'll talk about that. Why, because we'll talk why
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like, for that, it because of five, but like I'm hoping they
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find it between the end of 6. And the, like, towards the end
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of seven. That way, we kind of have 89,
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which kind of wraps it up nicely, I would really hate
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Although I think it's already been given a another series
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they've already been given a second season but I would really
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hate if they did that. Where the like number nine is
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them finding the ring and then it ends.
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And then like they got cancel the show.
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I'd be really bummed out because it's like, you guys are so much
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more you can do so. So that's kind of it.
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But I liked for, I thought it was good.
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I liked the world-building still.
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Yeah, definitely not a lot of action.
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I mean, there was a little bit between source and Kwan.
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But like, don't really care about that other than Sauron,
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really. I still don't have a lot of
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feelings for quad and nothing to do with who plays her.
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It's just I really don't see what her point is.
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She still feels like a berry misplace character and I'm sure
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at the end of the season it's going to be like, by the way,
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Quan is super special and I'm gonna go, I don't care because I
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did haven't cared since we met her.
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Well, we haven't seen that she's special other than I mean as far
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as like including five I cannot say exactly what it is yet.
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But like, by the way, spoiler, we're spoiling the episodes.
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I mean, I figured that just put that in the title of the
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episode. Yeah.
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But like, If she is special, they have not given us any
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allusion to that whatsoever like I should care at that at this
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point. We're still just, we're kind of
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just following her because we are like, not really like
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nothing she's done effects Chief directly or the UNSC directly
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not yet anyway and personally everything that she's been doing
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up to this point has been pretty much like she doesn't have an
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army and she's very misguided. I'd say like she's got this fire
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in her of like just give me 50 people like Do it.
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It's like you do fucking can't like you can in.
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Yeah you can't and you can't right there comes a point where
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you just you're going to lose. So I'm curious to see how that
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goes and what really happens with that but I really it's
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feels like whatever they're going to do to kind of bring
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that closer to Chief and like that storyline really feels like
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it's going to be shoehorned in. I really don't see as of right
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now. A natural way where it's going
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to one side. I just don't but yeah that's
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episode 4. I liked it.
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Nick didn't ya. Yeah, it's fine.
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That is own little personal things with it.
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Let's get on to 5 because 5 we both really liked.
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Yes, I thought 5 has been the best episode of the series thus
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far obviously with what happens in five the lead up to it.
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So what happens in episode five of them?
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So this is rating from Wikipedia, this is exactly like,
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just what is described as it's very, I'm not basic but tells
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the premise quite well. So on Madrigal Soren handcuffed
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squandered, their bike, while he goes to find a way of the
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planet. But Quan freeze herself and
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knocks, or an unconscious and then takes his gun and his car,
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which is hilarious. Also like, really Quan knocking
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out Sauron. All right.
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Yeah, that wasn't, that was so energized to suspend your
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belief. Speaking of that really love
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this car, he's got that goes down his whole arm.
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That's like completely open really weird and like was
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looking but But looks pretty bad.
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I like this guy's seen some practical effect was sweet.
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I like that a lot. Yeah, I don't I don't he hasn't
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describe what? That something tells me that
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feels like it's an energy sword or something.
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Like yeah, I wouldn't know what it couldn't.
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I can't imagine to be a knife. It looks way too big right also?
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It's actually like still open. So like if energy Shields are
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like lightsabers, you know, cauterizes that cauterize.
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Yeah I was gonna say, if that's what it is, that would totally
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make sense, but I feel like that.
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So it have to be the blade though like Edge because I
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cannot Imagine it would probably just go through it, but anyway,
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yeah, she's she tracks him down, you know, knocks him out takes
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his gun in his, in his vehicle. Then it cuts to a Readiness to
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the UNSC has a full platoon or Battalion there.
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Now, they're trying to secure that artifact and take it back
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to reach, but they can't break it out while they're testing.
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It. It doesn't nothing specifically
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leads into this. But the weird creepy guy that's
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like, all these Lackey is like right next to it.
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And all of a sudden, it really is really loud.
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Oh boom that basically defens everybody except for Chief and I
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think the other Spartans that guy could have been jerking off
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on the fucking artifact, he would have been.
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I feel like he would have been to but because of that boom, it
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alerts Mackay. And the Covenant it was
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searching for it on magical. So now they know where it's at,
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John continues to question. What has passed has been what
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his life really is? And because of how much you want
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to know, he goes and touches the artifact and has memories of
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Halsey and only troops kidnapping him, or I think about
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the flash clone of himself also like, very nearly dies, because
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of just touching it. And because of how mad he is, he
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tries to attack Halsey, but which I thought was really
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stupid the way he attacked her. I'm not gonna lie.
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Like I jump punching thing was, like, really, but since
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cortana's inside him, basically, she's able to just shut down his
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eye with a narrow bridge, which is cool.
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But at the same time, like, don't really like that.
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John wakes up contemplates. You know what he now?
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Knows and as he's doing that, a Corvette from the Covenant
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arrives and launches an attack on the mission using both
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banshees as well as Elites grunts jackals everything that
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we've kind of been waiting for separates.
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Only one Bridge shows up in that motherfucker is huge.
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If that's the told they're gonna say, who doesnít.
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I'm cool with it. Big boy dude, he's massive.
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Um mr. Fucking junkie to they are in
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the jackals. The jackals look pretty good.
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Yeah but like they're doing good for the sense of scale because
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Chief is around 7 feet tall and Elites are bigger than him by
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I'd say at least a couple feet so they're around nine or ten
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feet not to say if that's like the brute then, is it.
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At least two like twice the size of Chief, in terms of height,
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he's a, he's big. Yeah, he was massive, um, which
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will be interesting because in the games, I mean, they're
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basically everything. Looks the same height to us in
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the game. Nobody really looks taller
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unless they're actually supposed to be are like they are.
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It's supposed to show that boss battle.
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Sense of scale. Yeah.
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So this will be interesting because in the game's you often
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fight brutes and Elites and ground, some jackals, all pretty
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much together all at the same time.
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So this looks like Different in that.
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Because of the sense of scale, Chief will very rarely see
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Bruce. I hope like I hope it.
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He's not, although it'll be cool for, you know, action sequence.
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If he's taking down a leads grounds jackals and brutes, you
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know, just to show his badassery and his sense of scale and what
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he can really do. But anyways, going back to the
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episode despite the efforts of both the UNSC and the silver
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team. A lot of UNSC Marines die Kai
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almost gets killed the Covenant. Take the artifact leave and as
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it The planet a drop pod drops down and he finds Mackey.
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Which, at this point, I would, honestly say if they just
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dropped a human off, I would probably just shoot her.
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I would have blown her head off. Like I don't think there's any
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point where I yeah, I can't imagine when it is this like
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that's a really weird thing to like leave.
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It is it makes sense it made no son.
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So I was like okay so now they're going to come and it's
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going to go for like an infiltration type thing but like
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that's so suspicious. You know it looks.
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Yeah. Like that was that was the part
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of the episode. I went.
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Okay. Okay, it cut off on the fucking
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Quan thing pretty fast. Yes I that was like.
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All right cool, she has a gun up to him.
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That's over with. All right.
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Cool. Let's go back to the fight.
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The fight itself is really good. Yeah.
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Yes, really interesting to watch Kai lose her nerve the way she
23:02
does. I got like real PTSD.
23:05
Yeah. Watching people die.
23:07
Just like shocked her. And then she was just getting
23:08
her ass beat. You know, watching cheap, just
23:12
go fuck it and be Chief and Savor was awesome.
23:16
That Jackal that Jackal just crawling with like that.
23:21
This Jackal is literally cut in half.
23:23
Its intestines are hanging. Yeah.
23:25
Oh, and it's just crawling across your screen and I was
23:28
like, that is cool like work. This is, I think Chief had a
23:31
couple Clips when he was killed on the ground.
23:33
So I thought that was pretty funny.
23:34
Thanks for the ride or whatever. Like yeah, thanks for the ride.
23:37
Yeah, I said that I liked when he jumped onto the banshee and
23:40
shot through the top of Magnum and then took control and then
23:44
not only that. But then slammed into the
23:45
Phantom with it, that was really cool.
23:48
The whole hijacking of the Banshee think it was really cool
23:51
to watch because like when you watch it it made me feel like do
23:55
like, how the game makes you feel doing it?
23:58
Yeah like kind of like the animation of Chief like trying
24:00
to rip the fucking top Port open and its third first through the
24:03
top. The right?
24:04
Like yeah. It's not a first like it would
24:06
have kind of ruined it. If it went to a first person
24:08
view of him trying to do it, it's like because that's never
24:11
you've Against it in the game. So right, it was pretty cool.
24:14
You had to watch him, do everything.
24:15
I did particularly like that. He slammed it right into the
24:18
Phantom and it blew up and kind of turn those sweet.
24:20
Just like, that really shows that this is Chief and this is
24:23
why he is Chief like this because he would do shit like
24:25
this. Like the other guys would
24:28
probably just in no disrespect to them but they probably use it
24:31
just to try and turn the fight by using its weapon for as Chief
24:34
is like fuck that. I'm just going to slam it into
24:37
the Phantom and just take out the whole thing and he's the
24:40
only one who's Nick. I think would have the idea to
24:43
do that. And then also the know-how of
24:45
how to live through that because realistically, you see him ride
24:48
that shit right into it. See, I wouldn't have expected
24:51
them to live. I mean, obviously, it's cheap.
24:52
I know he's going to live, but like, you wouldn't particularly
24:56
think that, I guess if it was anybody else, the coming or not
25:01
thing? I didn't like, but thing that
25:03
really shows again, how kind of why he needs that emotional
25:06
suppressor is because of how he gets when he sees Kaka almost
25:11
dying. Buying wheat.
25:12
It was cool as hell. And I think that also shows, why
25:15
needs that? Because he took way too much
25:18
time, Hurting mashing. Yeah, like like Ali just just
25:23
causing pain to it which is like I'm not trying to say like I
25:26
support the Covenant, I would rather just kill them humanely.
25:28
No I mean, like fuckin do what you got to do but like if he had
25:31
that suppressor on I think he would have or in him he would
25:35
have just shot. Killed it and moved yet because
25:37
he knows the mission but I will not lie.
25:42
Pretty freaking badass dude. Like it's mandible was like
25:46
hanging off. Yeah.
25:47
Curb Stomps it at the end, just herb.
25:49
Thump, we talked about that. That's pretty cool that final
25:53
Crush like he he knows the fight is our with this thing is done.
25:57
He just just a split second just curb Stomps and you see it.
26:02
Yeah. You get to watch it whole thing
26:04
looking like and the only reason, the only reason they
26:07
were able to get away with it is because it's CGI in Aliens.
26:10
Yeah. Why they were able?
26:11
Oh yeah. They couldn't have been able to
26:12
it any other way. No.
26:14
No. It was cool.
26:15
That was real. I really dug that that was a
26:17
really nice like Cool. This is the tone now.
26:21
Yeah. That's the tone now.
26:23
Yeah, that's the precedent. You've set just like, okay,
26:26
you're watching like a Liverpool match?
26:28
Yeah, ref ain't Callin. Shoves.
26:31
Yes. The tone you're setting.
26:33
Yeah. And then you start to change it
26:35
up. You're going to be filled even
26:36
differently. Yeah, I'm gonna be like what the
26:38
fuck's happening here, right? This is really starting to ramp
26:41
up. I can really see a lot more
26:42
action on its way, which is what I'm hoping for with some big
26:47
climactic ending soon. It's really looking good.
26:51
I think I'm unsure because I'm one part of me is trying to
26:56
speak for myself, right? Another part of me is trying to
27:00
go. You have been a fan of the
27:02
series since you were a kid speak up with the rest of the
27:05
fucking people in the background going.
27:06
I'm never going to like it which it's conflicting to me, right?
27:09
Because I don't want to be like that and I find myself getting
27:12
trapped in the sphere of, I'm disliking, the show, simply
27:17
because it's not what I wanted to.
27:19
And I'm trying to pull, but at least I'm honest, right?
27:21
Like a lot of people aren't being honest about that.
27:23
No, I think they're trying to pull myself out of that and go.
27:26
No, give this a shot. I can see that though.
27:30
The people involved may not know the source material because
27:34
they've admitted. Yeah, it seems like there is
27:38
some love in here. Well, I think there is, I got a
27:43
little bit, I got a little bit. I can talk about that again.
27:46
Yes, from Wikipedia, so On this is a couple like four years ago,
27:51
June 28th, 2018 showtimes, given a 10 episode series order, Kyle
27:55
kill until sometime. Yeah, show time it was rather
27:58
good man. Showtime.
27:59
Oh what the fuck? I'll kill him was set to be show
28:01
writer, are showrunner writer and executive producer.
28:04
While Rupert, Wyatt was attached, as a director, and
28:06
executive producer on August 12th.
28:08
It was announced that Master Chief would be the main lead of
28:10
the series in the series would tell a new story from the video
28:12
games while respecting their cannon.
28:13
At the same time on December, 3rd?
28:16
Y it stepped down as director an EP due to scheduling conflicts
28:19
Conflicts, he was replaced by Auto Bathurst in February 19.
28:23
When it was reported, that bathrooms would be directing the
28:25
pilot along with several other episodes.
28:28
And then it was revealed that the episode count had decreased
28:30
from 10 and 9 in 2019, Steven Kane March of 2019.
28:34
Specifically Steven Kane was added as Co showrunner alongside
28:37
Killin and now February 24th. 2021 series was moved from show
28:41
time to Paramount plus Showtime president Gary Levine said that
28:45
the show was an outlier for the company, man.
28:47
And as a big broad tent pole show Which is true because
28:50
Showtime does things like billions and stuff like that,
28:52
which is very much not big broad show.
28:56
Yeah, it was a better fit on Paramount service on June 25th.
29:00
2021, it was worth at both Canaan killer will be exiting
29:03
the showrunners following the completion of Susan.
29:05
One killing had left prior to the start of production due to
29:08
him. Feeling like he wasn't able to
29:09
fulfill the duties of showrunner with Kane, taking the reins as
29:12
lead, showrunner until post-production work had been
29:14
completed. However, should the should get
29:16
picked up for a second season. Kane would not return. 20, 22
29:20
January 2020. To it was revealed by executive
29:22
producer, Justin Falvey that the show has potential to last
29:25
multiple seasons and that David winner was being Ida showrunner
29:29
for a potential season 2 with Kane, staying on board as a
29:32
consultant on February 15th ahead of its Premiere Paramount
29:35
plus renewed, the series for a second season with wine or set
29:38
of showrunner, ins and executive producer.
29:41
I'll look him up real quick. Okay?
29:44
So there's a lot that could happen positively from a sec.
29:48
I think. Think this is going to be a
29:51
story of growing pains, I think. Yep, I can see that.
29:56
So this is actually not anything.
30:00
I'm giving I'm getting two different people here.
30:03
How there's a lot of that's liners that that's what I'm
30:05
seeing here. I think this is going to be a
30:07
growing pains type thing where we pop into season two and it's
30:10
going to be this completely I can see a lot of overall
30:15
happening not to detour or take away from the prior season, but
30:20
I'm talking look scale CGI practical effects.
30:25
I'm talking like a big boost in production here.
30:28
I'm thinking. Yeah, I mean I think that it's
30:30
just, it's one of those things where it's yeah, it's going to
30:32
be it's tough because you got to get this right for the fans.
30:36
Sure yet. But I think that in terms of
30:38
fan, you just have to get the lower right.
30:42
I really couldn't care less about.
30:44
Like, what story you tell? As long as it fits into The
30:47
Narrative of like the series, like what if you're low is?
30:51
Yeah, if you will, if you, I mean, if you take it as like,
30:54
you know, say you develop different series and it set way
30:58
into the future, or not way into the future.
30:59
But like enough for chief of still Chief, and that's like
31:02
what we know and it's like they know about the halo rings, but
31:04
they don't really care about them.
31:06
It's like, that's not like the point, like so that's missing
31:09
the mark, right? But, it's really, yeah, but You
31:12
make it like, this is in lore, like where everything is, as it
31:15
should be. Like the same people were bad.
31:17
People are bad. People like if, for instance,
31:19
you turn the Arbiter into something that, you know, Chief
31:21
has to kill. That's obviously not what
31:23
happens. So, that would be kind of the
31:26
point where it's like for fans. That's where I'd say drop off
31:29
but, you know, for fans as well. It's like, well, if the show is
31:31
more talky talky than shooty, shooty, that's not really.
31:34
I'd say doing a disservice to fans, I think that's just a TV
31:38
show is different than a game. I think they're trying to bring
31:40
people into Who may not know what Halo and that's the harder
31:43
challenge is that we notice they're trying to do and most
31:46
people don't know this shit like my dad knows nothing about the
31:49
story. Other than that, Chief is a big
31:50
cool badass with an AI. Who is naked?
31:55
He's never played. Yeah.
31:56
I mean am I wrong like no. Come on people.
32:00
No. So like you got to get people
32:03
like Dad to it and if you were to just again have it be mostly
32:08
action. Most people like my dad probably
32:10
wouldn't care because it'd be like, well, let's play the game
32:12
or I'll just I'll you know I'll watch somebody else play it on
32:15
Twitter or YouTube or whatever. Right.
32:18
So that like that's part of they gotta get people into it.
32:21
You got to get people that are invested in the story.
32:23
And I think the way to do that is to A show that Chief was
32:26
taken from his parents and they know he's special.
32:30
But that's the question because he's special and because he
32:33
could be Humanity's greatest weapon, does that mean that you
32:35
have the right to take that child and turn him into that
32:40
weapon? And then not only that but then
32:41
violate has Again by injecting him with a super intelligent AI
32:47
that has never been used before. Like zactly.
32:50
Those are the questions I think that they're trying to bring in
32:52
which honestly are not part of Halo.
32:54
Like you typically don't ask those things when you're playing
32:56
the game, but I think they're good questions to have in your
33:00
head while you're watching it and go like okay.
33:03
No, it's not right for things to happen but Chief is Chief and
33:08
understands that nothing can be done about these things anymore.
33:11
But he understands that he's got this place in the world.
33:14
Now, he has to do what he's been trying to do.
33:19
What he was always what he was born to do.
33:21
That's the thing. He was always born to do this,
33:24
but it's the method in which he ends up doing it.
33:27
Is the question. Is that quiet?
33:28
Is that okay? Is that morally?
33:30
Ethical? No, it's not realistically, but
33:35
It Manatee and he understands that it helps humanity.
33:37
And then he becomes, I'd say not okay with it but he accepts it
33:41
and goes nothing about it now but I can do what I can do.
33:47
Like I can I can stop the Covenant so like that's kind of
33:50
it but yeah I'm really liking it.
33:52
I loved episode 5. I like for I'd like to all I'd
33:54
like the whole series so far. I think that some of its a bit
33:57
slower'. I think that some of it doesn't
33:58
make a lot of sense, especially with the quantum, Sauron story a
34:01
lot of but don't know why. I don't like either.
34:03
Yeah, I don't know what's With that lot of button the show.
34:06
I don't know why we got. We got Chief, but we got Chi,
34:08
but we got Mackey but it's a bit odd.
34:11
I'm back on board. Yeah, there's a lot, there's a
34:13
lot of but Yeah, I like it. I think it's all good.
34:19
Like I think they've done a great job.
34:20
There are certainly some questionable things.
34:22
Like again, like the quantum thing, but then also, like,
34:25
dropping Mackey off at the end. After you just completely wiped
34:27
out. A whole bunch of UNSC doesn't
34:29
really make a lot of sense, because a lot of people aren't
34:32
Edge. So she's going to be taken
34:33
prisoner, they're not going to be like, oh no, you need help.
34:36
And I mean, if they don't go there.
34:38
Yeah. I mean, if they do that for
34:40
episode 6 and she's like, giving a cup of coffee and they're
34:43
like, yeah, no, no, we'll get you to safety.
34:46
Will get you. Family or whatever, right?
34:48
Like she's got a show, she's got a one stick into this whole
34:51
thing of being a part of the UNSC or she's got info and she's
34:54
gotten close enough to the artifact, which again, doesn't
34:56
make sense. I think she's now solely there
34:58
to get the other artifact and to killed.
35:00
Yeah, those are her only two goals because I got the second
35:03
one. So her only goal now is to get
35:04
that first one and then do that and that could go away.
35:07
Yeah. Yeah.
35:08
So either way, I would be kind of upset though if the end of
35:11
the series or the end of this season ended with, like, some
35:14
big battle between her and chief because of my chief is like,
35:19
She's a bullet away from Death, dude.
35:21
Well, I don't know about that though because I she's got that
35:24
little, you know, finger Pricks, energy, sword thing, who knows
35:27
what else she's got. That was the stupidest ever
35:29
seen? I like.
35:30
Okay, but anyways, we're going to wrap this up.
35:32
I'm back on board with the show. I'm back on board after episode
35:35
5. I'm hopeful episode 6 comes out
35:38
this Thursday. I'm incredibly excited to watch
35:42
it. It's called fumbling in the
35:44
dark, I believe. So this is, could be pretty
35:47
interesting. Oh wait.
35:48
So you think the end is that what you said?
35:50
The episode is? Yes.
35:52
Colin bumbling. In the dark on Wikipedia, it
35:55
says it's called Salat. They have all the names here on
36:01
Wikipedia. They have Solace inheritance
36:03
Allegiance and trans and it's although those could be just
36:05
production names. Yeah, they're probably
36:07
production team looking at the episode guide via all of them,
36:12
have been one word, all of them. It was contact Unbound,
36:16
emergence homecoming, Reckoning Solace inheritance.
36:21
Okay, it is called solid so I don't know why on Google.
36:25
It's saying it's called fumbling in the dark was it for something
36:28
else, maybe like the web series it's just in the episode guide
36:31
series episode. So whatever comes out on
36:36
Thursday. Yes.
36:38
So we'll see how that is. You can expect episode 6 and 7
36:42
to be packaged nice and neat into a hotfix unless Unless it's
36:48
huge. Unless yeah, this is huge.
36:50
And then I'd say if they're smaller episodes are like there.
36:53
I think 77 is good. I'd say we probably do a
36:56
separate episode 48 and then obviously just leading up into
36:59
the finale. Yeah, sure.
37:00
Yeah, I'd say that works best. Because yeah, we're going to
37:02
want to talk, I think about 9 because 9 episode 94 this or
37:06
like, you know, adding that in we're going to have a we're
37:09
going to talk about whole thing not just that episode.
37:13
Also, along with that, just to wrap this up, fumbling in the
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37:18
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37:21
Bandicoot what where's Mike? Where's my crash series vehicle,
37:24
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Enjoy doing hotfixes. So it's been kind of a bummer,
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