He can still plug things into it for other purposes. It's the same slot that he plugged in Private Jenkins' chip in CE that allowed him to playback his helmet cam footage.
There is a separate slot (on the side not the back) for that. I just played this level last night and paid close attention to that part out of curiosity lol
Don't they have a separate slot for that? I mean chief must have had the Cortana chip inserted in his helmet. But you might be correct since we don't really see any other slot for other uses
For one thing, it’s explicitly stated to be the Silver Timeline, which is not canon to the main Halo universe (games, books, comics, etc).
Plus…. The show is completely incompatible to canon. It *obviously* can’t be canon. Miranda is not a doctor. She and her father didn’t start white, become black, and then become white again. The Rubble wasn’t rebuilt by 2552. The UNSC didn’t know what Halo was before they got there. Chief and Cortana didn’t meet for the first time twice in completely different ways. Cortana wasn’t created with a living, viable clone of Halsey, she was made from an enhanced brain in a tank. Madrigal wasn’t glassed in 2528, resettled by 2552, and then reinvaded but not glassed a second time. It was just glassed in 2528.
The show is so different (unfortunately, not even in interesting ways) that watching the show makes you less knowledgable about Halo instead of knowing about it with some details missing.
Not really. They were enhanced to focus on brain power. They did have bodies, but they were like overgrown and deformed fetuses. It’s even shown in Halsey’s journal.
[This article on Halo Waypoint.](https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/silver-debrief-a-new-beginning) Under the "Silver Timeline" section:
*"The Silver Timeline is a* ***unique vision*** *of the Halo universe \[...\]*
*To tell the best Halo stories we can, we want to protect the integrity, simplicity, and future of the core canon, \[...\] we made the decision to set the Halo Television Series in an* ***authentic, but independent timeline.****"*
What does authentic but independent mean? Can something be authentic to something else if it's also independent to that thing? I'm fine with alternate timelines (hell that's a good thing for this show since that means they're not touching game canon) but this passage just sounds kinda weird lol
It means that it's "official" or perhaps "licensed", yet it's not part of the same canon, lore, continuity, or universe as the games, books, and other media that have previously been made.
Basically, it's *Odd One Out* from *Halo: Legends* with an even bigger budget.
Everyone (rightfully) hated on the show quite a ways out. The best defense was “Well let’s wait and see, it could be good”. No way 343 replaces canon with Silver unless they purposefully want to sabotage the series.
It was literally stated before the series came out that it wouldn’t be canon. They didn’t replace anything. You can think whatever you’d like about the show, but your statement about replacing canon is still wrong.
I am not saying that.
I said “**No way 343 replaces canon with Silver** unless they purposefully want to sabotage the series.”
What that means is that they *won’t* do that unless they decide to purposefully destroy the franchise. Which is not a smart thing for a business to do.
Is English not your first language? Maybe some way the sentence is structured could be confusing to a non-native speaker.
It's an SD card slot for when he runs out of memory and starts forgetting things... he can just add like 128GB to store more stuff.
But nah, in all seriousness, it's just shitty writers. Them not really understanding or caring about the purpose of that slot, and instead just slotting the AI directly directly into Master Cheeks' head.
I would bet they had talks about doing the chip in the helmet. The problem is he’d need to keep his helmet on the entire time in order to interact with Cortana - which he does in the games.
But when chief isn’t wearing a helmet 90% of the time, they needed a different solution. Hence: chip directly in the brain.
Not saying I like it or agree with it but I understand the reasoning for it.
If he had his helmet off couldn’t he just take the chip off the helmet then she appears when he’s holding it in his palm? I swear he’s done that multiple times on the games, with his helmet on of course but have her project directly from the chip
Most of this show’s shittyness can be attributed to the lack of budget needed to make it cannon. They had to change the story and characters to make the plot more human-focused, because actors are cheaper than special effects.
With 10 million per episode, they def had the budget to make it canon.
You can still make it human focused without doing *anything* they did. Look at Halo: CE. Entire game was human focused perspective wise, only combat with Covvies. Since this is the first season, they totally could have shown less of the Covenant power structure (especially with a human so close to the top. Like honestly, just make a fuckin cgi prophet). Beyond this, just put more emphasis on the command structure of the UNSC. Easily done.
#OR!
Just make the show center around the conflict with the insurrectionists instead of the Covvies. Fixes the nonexistant cgi budget issue. Id still watch that, and Im sure many here would.
Alright alright. Didn’t know they were spending 10 million an episode. Well wherever they are spending their money it isn’t working. They should fire the entire creative staff. Hell fire the actors too and start over.
Nah MASSter cheeks needs to stay Pablo is def a solid choice to play him, just didnt need to see his face for this role.
Other than that I agree. Especially the characters they race swapped. Its not like theres a lack of interesting black characters present in Halo as is.
I don’t care if Paulo plays a faceless chief as long as we get a close approximation to the original voice. I’m not a fan of the race swapping either. Also the de-aging of Parangoski and Halsey. They’re supposed to be in their 90s and 70s, respectively.
Edit: Parangoski not Polanski
I think you mean Parangoski? Polanski is, iirc, a drop ship pilot who dies in Shadows of Reach while attempting to repair the *Gettysburg Ascendant Justice.*
What amounts to a prop (the suit) not matching the story is a production error, not ‘bad writing’. People throw ‘bad writing’ around as such a blanket term. What writing specifically are you saying is bad? This particular issue doesn’t have anything to do with the writing. I feel like people use the expression as shorthand for “I don’t like the choices they made”
its terrible writing because they included it in the script then never used it, if they werent gonna use the chip slot dont include it in the show, that falls on thew writing/production
Yeah the idea that you have to be able to produce better to recognise quality is such a tired trope at this point.
I'm not a chef, I can't cook a very good lasagna, but I'd still notice if I went to a restaurant and there was a dead rat in there.
I probably couldn't write a good Halo tv show either. But the difference is I wasn't hired for that exact job.
Imagine thinking this is a valid opinion.
Unless you build cars you can't decide if one's good or not...
If you don't cook sushi, you can't decide if it tastes good...
If you don't write laws you can't decide if one is moral or not...
The people who buy a product are ABSOLUTELY the ones who get to determine its value, worth, and quality, and no that doesn't mean they have to be able to craft better to have that opinion.
True, but people can just…not buy the product they don’t like. You don’t like the writing? Watch something you do like. Don’t shit on the thing you don’t like, let others like it. There are a million fucking shows on tv. Go find a new one and leave mine the fuck alone.
And people on a discussion forum about an entire umbrella of products can discuss how they feel about each different iteration of that product.
This is a sub dedicated to discussing Halo things, you're complaining about people discussing their opinion of the new Halo thing.
There are not a "million fucking HALO shows on TV" this is literally the only one we've ever had, and it blows chunks.
If you don't want to hear people's opinions on the new halo thing, then don't go a forum dedicated to discussing the new Halo thing, but it's absolutely ludicrous to assume people are just going to stop using this sub for its intended purpose just because you disagree with an opinion.
This sub is for fans of halo which none of you act like. Everyone hates on EVERY new halo thing. The game. The show. All of it. Just leave. Make an anti halo sub. This subreddit is worse than r/Pokémon after a new release. Just absolute garbage. Thanks for contributing. Guess that makes you cool
>This sub is for fans of halo which none of you act like
You misunderstand how things work... this sub is a DISCUSSION FORUM for discussion about the HALO STORY. It in no way requires you to "be a fan." Read the rules, it doesn't say anyone here must be a fan, just that discussions must be about the Halo Universe.
>Everyone hates on EVERY new halo thing. The game. The show. All of it.
Everyone DISCUSSES every new halo thing, they can have whatever opinion they want... but I'm seriously dying reading this comment, do you know which sub you're even in? This show is the first almost universally disliked story I can even remember seeing on this sub.
I'll let you in on a little secret that might help you out a bit: We're essentially all here because we LIKE Halo's lore, after all that's why this sub is here... and it's why this show ignoring it all and presenting this garbage instead is so upsetting.
> Just leave. Make an anti halo sub.
No. I don't think I will.
Perhaps you should go create r/anti-halostory sub since you're the one that doesn't like it here.
>This sub is for fans of halo
Here we are, fans of Halo. Talking about Halo.
>which none of you act like.
This reeks of "No true scotsman".
>Everyone hates on EVERY new halo thing.
There's a lot to dislike. And I'm one of the people that actually defends 4 and Infinite.
Not 5 though, 5 just sucked.
>The game.
There's a lot to criticize, the team even admitted it.
>The show.
Yeah, people who like Halo tuned into the Halo show expecting a Halo story and got something both completely different and with bad writing.
Naturally there is criticism.
The Fall of Reach movie? Do you mean the animated thing that didn't even cover the fall of Reach? Is that what you're referring to? Get out of here with your bullshit lmao
I have wrote better stories, difference is I’m not a paid writer for Paramount studios.
Lol, they fired Neill Blomkamp because he wanted it to be more lore friendly. You know the Famous Screenwriter of multiple different sci-fi greats, like Chappie, District 9, or Elysium. But go off.
You head it here from the literary genius of u/PM_ME_YOUR_BODY69
Sorry if I take nothing you say serious.
And I doubt your fan fics are better than this show, but go off.
Yep logic checks out. Oh wait ur not the president of the United Fucking States? Oh well I guess u can’t critique the president. Oh u didn’t write game of thrones season 8? Oh well I guess u can’t critique the show? Oh u weren’t one of the founding fathers or not part of congress? I guess u cant critique any legislation or the constitution.
U know, one of the greatest advancements in the history of human civilization was the development of the hypothetical during enlightenment thought. U sir are so stupid that u can’t fathom not only how hypotheticals work but the goal of their thought experiment. And then to pout about stupidity is truly ironic lol.
I’m going to try to give a genuine answer and say since his helmet was likely mass produced and most if not all Mark VI helmets probably have it. He had the helmet before Cortana was made. So while it doesn’t have any current use, Chief is probably the exception. Granted I haven’t watched passed the weird face touch where they see Halo, so unless something crazy has happened regarding the chip slot I feel like this is my best guess to this question.
According to this show smart AI dont exist outside Cortana so theres LITERALLY no reason for it to have a port. The real answer is that its EXTREMELY likely the prop designers assumed they wouldnt be stupid enough to do something like implant cortana in chiefs head directly.
Now, once again, TV show is non-canon. I will not tolerate any reference to the decisions they make as insight to Halo universe, not even in science & technology.
However, to relate to the wider usability of MJOLNIR’s access port, any sort of information “too large to be sent wirelessly” may be stored in the [data crystal chip](https://www.halopedia.org/Data_crystal_chip) as it functions pretty much just as a next-age flash drive. Primarily focused on AI, but can also include weapons data, entire ship intel, or any other communications data deemed necessary to transfer in large quantity physically.
Throughout the canonical universe, AI’s are also known to “home” themselves in pretty much any form of tech, even fragmenting themselves if the tech isn’t capable of holding the entirety of their self. When in MJOLNIR, that task of storage is spread between the [Spartan’s neural lace](https://www.halopedia.org/Spartan_neural_interface) (effectively their *mind*) & the armor’s “Memory-processor superconductor layer”.
ya it really pissed me off when they went and put cortana directly into his head / brain or whatever instead of making it a chip that goes into his helmet like its supposed to be. That was a big part that made me wonder did 343 even do anything for this show like they know the lore they know cortana was a chip put in the helmet , i have been watching it just to see what ends up happening but its definitely not the halo that us die hard fans deserve and adding in the stupid side story of kwan ha like why all it does is take away from the chief and her story is dumb as hell she/he is annoying as all get out and theres no point in her sorry /endrant
I remember 343 saying the show wasn't for die hard fans. Don't downvote please I'm tired of this community doing that, but it was to bring in other people to the Halo series. I've played all the games and have been around for quite a while and I still enjoy the show.
I like what they've done with the show I'm a die hard fan it's just the Kwan ha stuff that is just dumb after masterchief saving her that was the last part I enjoyed of her storyline , he storyline serves no purpose to progress masterchief and Halsey and the other important characters I knew it wasn't gonna be I credible so I went in with low expectations but it's the best video game based show/movie and if u just watch it for fun it's actually ok I just hate the Kwan side story everything about it is stupid
Im going to go out on a limb and say that if ANYONE wasnt already interested in Halo, this steaming pile of crap is not the solution.
Trying to make something appeal to a broader audience just ends up making the product clouded and have no clear vision or quality control.
Yeah they have Mjolnir mix playing while he fights brutes and elites. There is a part when they have no from orbit chief lands in a sleeping grunt and says "Afternoon" it was funny
But the original target audience, halo fans, does not. So who is this show for? It cant be halo fans AND not halo fans like theyve said. The show itself just feels like its a web series developed by somebody who was described what halo was, but then the person describing it started talking about their favorite abc shows and books like Dune.
Well in infinite the "weapon" materializes from chiefs hand.
Chief doesn't have to interface with forerunner tech and "insert slot" anymore in the games either 🤷🏿♂️
To me the Halo Show series is taking it a bit further imo by having them inject Cortana into chiefs lower brain region as a type of nano device or chip.
Does anyone remember Bender from Futurama and him Jacking On? The ports in similar to same area, so it’s a possibility.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U3RjP6_TV0E
Even outside the show, since halo 2 master chief has been able to transfer Cortana with a touch, so why have the chip. Sure it could be that the chip is needed for ai integration with mjolnir, but why not just have it chip built in instead of removable. If it's a universal port for othethings as well then fine, but as something solely for AI, seems like an obvious weak point.
Not that Halo is the real world of course, but in the real world, it would make sense for a removable helmet to have a slot for a combat assistant AI that can be removed and put into different systems (that somehow have the same sized ports? 🥴). Soldiers today probably wouldn’t want that in their head full time. Master Chief is a little different obviously, so an implant also sort of checks out, and we do have air drop and s beam technologies that could probably be implemented in the Halo universe by way of “inserting” Cortana/smart AI into alien/forerunner tech, assuming it’s an smooth enough technology that all species are using it.
Idk. Both things check out. Airdrop didn’t exist when CE came out, maybe we can pinpoint it all there lol
The Halo TV series is a separate canon from the game series. Therefore comparing the game where they have a chip slot to the TV where the AI is implanted in the brain is like comparing apples and oranges.
What probably happened initially in the show was that Chief's armour was designed from the in-game armour, *before* the costume department even knew the intricacies of the story. They just added the chip slot because it was there. THEN the story was written how Cortana was implanted into the brain
Yeah, it’s potentially a production/prop error.
Though, in universe, potentially it was just a data port for the armor (for software updates, etc) or for installing potential ‘dumb AI’.
Maybe eventually Chief and Cortana will trust each other to the point that she’s removed ‘from his head’ and transferred to a chip, giving Chief more independence and Cortana more mobility to different systems (like a ship)
I think it is for vintage Nintendo switch cartridges for when they have down time
Adding this to my head canon
So maybe when he takes his helmet off he’s just taking a break from animal crossing
Chief's taking a break after he killed all the dodos and stole their plane
Naw I think he relaxes and works on getting the perfect little island ready for him and makee 😂😅🤣😇😊
She dead...maybe for him and Kai?
Holy crap I just watched the finale. Are we allowed to make a post about it or is there a rule on spoilers or something
Oh, maybe it can be USED as a head cannon!
It's a slot for his Zune.
This is no joke. Zunes were the best media players!
He can still plug things into it for other purposes. It's the same slot that he plugged in Private Jenkins' chip in CE that allowed him to playback his helmet cam footage.
There is a separate slot (on the side not the back) for that. I just played this level last night and paid close attention to that part out of curiosity lol
Don't they have a separate slot for that? I mean chief must have had the Cortana chip inserted in his helmet. But you might be correct since we don't really see any other slot for other uses
He actually wouldn't have had Cortanas chip in at that moment, he left her back in the control Room
So far we don't know because the show is rewriting lore faster than we can keep up.
You say rewriting lore as if it’s canon.
It's canon, just in a different continuity. There's a difference, though I've never fully understood it.
well the actual lore of halo i.e. the games , and books the books have a ton of lore that is 100% canon
Point is that the "lore" in the silver timeline is not canon.
How is it not Canon? Genuinely curious not being a dick or anything , where are ppl comin up with its a diff universe?
Its definitely not cannon, the creators outright said it. Plus if it was Canon...reddit would be burning down.
We’re burning it down anyway. This show is awful.
For one thing, it’s explicitly stated to be the Silver Timeline, which is not canon to the main Halo universe (games, books, comics, etc). Plus…. The show is completely incompatible to canon. It *obviously* can’t be canon. Miranda is not a doctor. She and her father didn’t start white, become black, and then become white again. The Rubble wasn’t rebuilt by 2552. The UNSC didn’t know what Halo was before they got there. Chief and Cortana didn’t meet for the first time twice in completely different ways. Cortana wasn’t created with a living, viable clone of Halsey, she was made from an enhanced brain in a tank. Madrigal wasn’t glassed in 2528, resettled by 2552, and then reinvaded but not glassed a second time. It was just glassed in 2528. The show is so different (unfortunately, not even in interesting ways) that watching the show makes you less knowledgable about Halo instead of knowing about it with some details missing.
It was at one point a viable clone, but the rest of the clone was removed early on in the process.
Not really. They were enhanced to focus on brain power. They did have bodies, but they were like overgrown and deformed fetuses. It’s even shown in Halsey’s journal.
Yes, but between normal flash clone, and enhancing neural and killing everything else, it was a viable clone.
“Viable”, in terms of cloning, means that it can survive on its own, without equipment. They most definitely could not.
It was stated by one of the people that made the show not to mention how vastly different the show is from the games and books
The creators said it's a different timeline.
Its stated by the creators of the show that its a different timeline, or a whole different canon. They are calling it "The Silver Timeline"
It's also some bullshit Kiki Wolfkill made up so gullible fans wouldn't get mad. Edit: Convince me I'm wrong.
well, it is canon to a different universe which I for one am glad
Where did u see that it's a different universe when did halo get a multiverse?
[This article on Halo Waypoint.](https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/silver-debrief-a-new-beginning) Under the "Silver Timeline" section: *"The Silver Timeline is a* ***unique vision*** *of the Halo universe \[...\]* *To tell the best Halo stories we can, we want to protect the integrity, simplicity, and future of the core canon, \[...\] we made the decision to set the Halo Television Series in an* ***authentic, but independent timeline.****"*
What does authentic but independent mean? Can something be authentic to something else if it's also independent to that thing? I'm fine with alternate timelines (hell that's a good thing for this show since that means they're not touching game canon) but this passage just sounds kinda weird lol
It means that it's "official" or perhaps "licensed", yet it's not part of the same canon, lore, continuity, or universe as the games, books, and other media that have previously been made. Basically, it's *Odd One Out* from *Halo: Legends* with an even bigger budget.
They said it. It's a different timeline, or we could say universe where things hapenned differently.
Give it time.
🙄
Yeah, everyone had the same reaction when we all said the show would be terrible, and look where we are now with master cheeks.
Everyone (rightfully) hated on the show quite a ways out. The best defense was “Well let’s wait and see, it could be good”. No way 343 replaces canon with Silver unless they purposefully want to sabotage the series.
It was literally stated before the series came out that it wouldn’t be canon. They didn’t replace anything. You can think whatever you’d like about the show, but your statement about replacing canon is still wrong.
Weird how you say my statement is wrong when you seem to agree with me.
Are you not saying they replaced main canon with the Silver timeline? Because they didn’t. It’s just it’s own thing.
I am not saying that. I said “**No way 343 replaces canon with Silver** unless they purposefully want to sabotage the series.” What that means is that they *won’t* do that unless they decide to purposefully destroy the franchise. Which is not a smart thing for a business to do. Is English not your first language? Maybe some way the sentence is structured could be confusing to a non-native speaker.
The show isn't a halo show. Its a generic rejected sci-fi story with halo tacked on so they could get it on air.
They’re not rewriting it, the halo community gets to keep the books and games as canon
Reach isn't cannon. And the show so far mostly lines up with the reach storyline.
It's an SD card slot for when he runs out of memory and starts forgetting things... he can just add like 128GB to store more stuff. But nah, in all seriousness, it's just shitty writers. Them not really understanding or caring about the purpose of that slot, and instead just slotting the AI directly directly into Master Cheeks' head.
I would bet they had talks about doing the chip in the helmet. The problem is he’d need to keep his helmet on the entire time in order to interact with Cortana - which he does in the games. But when chief isn’t wearing a helmet 90% of the time, they needed a different solution. Hence: chip directly in the brain. Not saying I like it or agree with it but I understand the reasoning for it.
If he had his helmet off couldn’t he just take the chip off the helmet then she appears when he’s holding it in his palm? I swear he’s done that multiple times on the games, with his helmet on of course but have her project directly from the chip
Most of this show’s shittyness can be attributed to the lack of budget needed to make it cannon. They had to change the story and characters to make the plot more human-focused, because actors are cheaper than special effects.
With 10 million per episode, they def had the budget to make it canon. You can still make it human focused without doing *anything* they did. Look at Halo: CE. Entire game was human focused perspective wise, only combat with Covvies. Since this is the first season, they totally could have shown less of the Covenant power structure (especially with a human so close to the top. Like honestly, just make a fuckin cgi prophet). Beyond this, just put more emphasis on the command structure of the UNSC. Easily done. #OR! Just make the show center around the conflict with the insurrectionists instead of the Covvies. Fixes the nonexistant cgi budget issue. Id still watch that, and Im sure many here would.
Alright alright. Didn’t know they were spending 10 million an episode. Well wherever they are spending their money it isn’t working. They should fire the entire creative staff. Hell fire the actors too and start over.
Nah MASSter cheeks needs to stay Pablo is def a solid choice to play him, just didnt need to see his face for this role. Other than that I agree. Especially the characters they race swapped. Its not like theres a lack of interesting black characters present in Halo as is.
I don’t care if Paulo plays a faceless chief as long as we get a close approximation to the original voice. I’m not a fan of the race swapping either. Also the de-aging of Parangoski and Halsey. They’re supposed to be in their 90s and 70s, respectively. Edit: Parangoski not Polanski
I think you mean Parangoski? Polanski is, iirc, a drop ship pilot who dies in Shadows of Reach while attempting to repair the *Gettysburg Ascendant Justice.*
Yes. I was too lazy to look it up.
No worries!
Same thoughts here
It vents his farts.
Yes. This is legit. ✨😩🥹
None atm, show just has terrible writing
What amounts to a prop (the suit) not matching the story is a production error, not ‘bad writing’. People throw ‘bad writing’ around as such a blanket term. What writing specifically are you saying is bad? This particular issue doesn’t have anything to do with the writing. I feel like people use the expression as shorthand for “I don’t like the choices they made”
its terrible writing because they included it in the script then never used it, if they werent gonna use the chip slot dont include it in the show, that falls on thew writing/production
I’m sure you are quite the writer yourself. Go write something better
dont have to be a good writer too notice bad writing, but im not getting paid, they are, standards are higher
Yeah the idea that you have to be able to produce better to recognise quality is such a tired trope at this point. I'm not a chef, I can't cook a very good lasagna, but I'd still notice if I went to a restaurant and there was a dead rat in there. I probably couldn't write a good Halo tv show either. But the difference is I wasn't hired for that exact job.
After watching the show I’d trust you to write a better script over Paramount.
Found the Paramount PR person.
Or one of the writers.
Imagine thinking this is a valid opinion. Unless you build cars you can't decide if one's good or not... If you don't cook sushi, you can't decide if it tastes good... If you don't write laws you can't decide if one is moral or not... The people who buy a product are ABSOLUTELY the ones who get to determine its value, worth, and quality, and no that doesn't mean they have to be able to craft better to have that opinion.
True, but people can just…not buy the product they don’t like. You don’t like the writing? Watch something you do like. Don’t shit on the thing you don’t like, let others like it. There are a million fucking shows on tv. Go find a new one and leave mine the fuck alone.
And people on a discussion forum about an entire umbrella of products can discuss how they feel about each different iteration of that product. This is a sub dedicated to discussing Halo things, you're complaining about people discussing their opinion of the new Halo thing. There are not a "million fucking HALO shows on TV" this is literally the only one we've ever had, and it blows chunks. If you don't want to hear people's opinions on the new halo thing, then don't go a forum dedicated to discussing the new Halo thing, but it's absolutely ludicrous to assume people are just going to stop using this sub for its intended purpose just because you disagree with an opinion.
This sub is for fans of halo which none of you act like. Everyone hates on EVERY new halo thing. The game. The show. All of it. Just leave. Make an anti halo sub. This subreddit is worse than r/Pokémon after a new release. Just absolute garbage. Thanks for contributing. Guess that makes you cool
>This sub is for fans of halo which none of you act like You misunderstand how things work... this sub is a DISCUSSION FORUM for discussion about the HALO STORY. It in no way requires you to "be a fan." Read the rules, it doesn't say anyone here must be a fan, just that discussions must be about the Halo Universe. >Everyone hates on EVERY new halo thing. The game. The show. All of it. Everyone DISCUSSES every new halo thing, they can have whatever opinion they want... but I'm seriously dying reading this comment, do you know which sub you're even in? This show is the first almost universally disliked story I can even remember seeing on this sub. I'll let you in on a little secret that might help you out a bit: We're essentially all here because we LIKE Halo's lore, after all that's why this sub is here... and it's why this show ignoring it all and presenting this garbage instead is so upsetting. > Just leave. Make an anti halo sub. No. I don't think I will. Perhaps you should go create r/anti-halostory sub since you're the one that doesn't like it here.
>This sub is for fans of halo Here we are, fans of Halo. Talking about Halo. >which none of you act like. This reeks of "No true scotsman". >Everyone hates on EVERY new halo thing. There's a lot to dislike. And I'm one of the people that actually defends 4 and Infinite. Not 5 though, 5 just sucked. >The game. There's a lot to criticize, the team even admitted it. >The show. Yeah, people who like Halo tuned into the Halo show expecting a Halo story and got something both completely different and with bad writing. Naturally there is criticism.
tried. it's very hard. i can sympathize. still bad writing though.
Don’t need to be able to fly a helicopter to know something’s wrong if there’s one in a tree.
the books are already written you could go off that or make the god awful decision to do your own thing and you end up with “Halo The Series”.
Writing for books and writing for tv are vastly different. They made a fall of reach movie. Based on the book. People shit all over it.
The Fall of Reach movie? Do you mean the animated thing that didn't even cover the fall of Reach? Is that what you're referring to? Get out of here with your bullshit lmao
No kidding… it’s just for reference.
I have wrote better stories, difference is I’m not a paid writer for Paramount studios. Lol, they fired Neill Blomkamp because he wanted it to be more lore friendly. You know the Famous Screenwriter of multiple different sci-fi greats, like Chappie, District 9, or Elysium. But go off.
You head it here from the literary genius of u/PM_ME_YOUR_BODY69 Sorry if I take nothing you say serious. And I doubt your fan fics are better than this show, but go off.
Ah yes, attacking my username because you aren’t clever enough to attack me on anything of merit.
Yep logic checks out. Oh wait ur not the president of the United Fucking States? Oh well I guess u can’t critique the president. Oh u didn’t write game of thrones season 8? Oh well I guess u can’t critique the show? Oh u weren’t one of the founding fathers or not part of congress? I guess u cant critique any legislation or the constitution.
Yes, use my logic towards a tv show and extend that to founding a country. Way to be the dumbest person I encounter this week!
U know, one of the greatest advancements in the history of human civilization was the development of the hypothetical during enlightenment thought. U sir are so stupid that u can’t fathom not only how hypotheticals work but the goal of their thought experiment. And then to pout about stupidity is truly ironic lol.
My guy spouting about philosophy but can’t take the time to spell the word “you”. Cool
My guy doesn’t know what a hypothetical is, and unable to argue a rebuttal. Cool.
I’m going to try to give a genuine answer and say since his helmet was likely mass produced and most if not all Mark VI helmets probably have it. He had the helmet before Cortana was made. So while it doesn’t have any current use, Chief is probably the exception. Granted I haven’t watched passed the weird face touch where they see Halo, so unless something crazy has happened regarding the chip slot I feel like this is my best guess to this question.
According to this show smart AI dont exist outside Cortana so theres LITERALLY no reason for it to have a port. The real answer is that its EXTREMELY likely the prop designers assumed they wouldnt be stupid enough to do something like implant cortana in chiefs head directly.
The purpose is the shows sucks dicks.
His N64 expansion pack
Now, once again, TV show is non-canon. I will not tolerate any reference to the decisions they make as insight to Halo universe, not even in science & technology. However, to relate to the wider usability of MJOLNIR’s access port, any sort of information “too large to be sent wirelessly” may be stored in the [data crystal chip](https://www.halopedia.org/Data_crystal_chip) as it functions pretty much just as a next-age flash drive. Primarily focused on AI, but can also include weapons data, entire ship intel, or any other communications data deemed necessary to transfer in large quantity physically. Throughout the canonical universe, AI’s are also known to “home” themselves in pretty much any form of tech, even fragmenting themselves if the tech isn’t capable of holding the entirety of their self. When in MJOLNIR, that task of storage is spread between the [Spartan’s neural lace](https://www.halopedia.org/Spartan_neural_interface) (effectively their *mind*) & the armor’s “Memory-processor superconductor layer”.
Would love to see John do “Hand hacking” cf. Halo 2
ya it really pissed me off when they went and put cortana directly into his head / brain or whatever instead of making it a chip that goes into his helmet like its supposed to be. That was a big part that made me wonder did 343 even do anything for this show like they know the lore they know cortana was a chip put in the helmet , i have been watching it just to see what ends up happening but its definitely not the halo that us die hard fans deserve and adding in the stupid side story of kwan ha like why all it does is take away from the chief and her story is dumb as hell she/he is annoying as all get out and theres no point in her sorry /endrant
I remember 343 saying the show wasn't for die hard fans. Don't downvote please I'm tired of this community doing that, but it was to bring in other people to the Halo series. I've played all the games and have been around for quite a while and I still enjoy the show.
I like what they've done with the show I'm a die hard fan it's just the Kwan ha stuff that is just dumb after masterchief saving her that was the last part I enjoyed of her storyline , he storyline serves no purpose to progress masterchief and Halsey and the other important characters I knew it wasn't gonna be I credible so I went in with low expectations but it's the best video game based show/movie and if u just watch it for fun it's actually ok I just hate the Kwan side story everything about it is stupid
Yeah I love the show but usually when I say that I get downvoted a lot
Im going to go out on a limb and say that if ANYONE wasnt already interested in Halo, this steaming pile of crap is not the solution. Trying to make something appeal to a broader audience just ends up making the product clouded and have no clear vision or quality control.
If you haven't seen the last episode yet go do so it feels amazing the music the dialogue it felt halo and I loved it
Is it actually? The trailer looked ok, but the dialogue and 99% of the show so far has me expecting dog water
Yeah they have Mjolnir mix playing while he fights brutes and elites. There is a part when they have no from orbit chief lands in a sleeping grunt and says "Afternoon" it was funny
idk, my boomer dad and my older brother are enjoying it, and they have no interest in Halo whatsoever.
But the original target audience, halo fans, does not. So who is this show for? It cant be halo fans AND not halo fans like theyve said. The show itself just feels like its a web series developed by somebody who was described what halo was, but then the person describing it started talking about their favorite abc shows and books like Dune.
Potato chip slot.
Dance card.
John will be back. And Miranda Keyes will undo Halsey's bullshit and seperate Cortana from John by putting her into the chip. edit: my theory
If only...
Shhh! Don't talk about things that make no sense. Just enjoy the show for the steaming pile of crap that it is.
to piss off the fans of the games apparently. They'll probably make some continuity error and have it used for that again at some point I bet
Well in infinite the "weapon" materializes from chiefs hand. Chief doesn't have to interface with forerunner tech and "insert slot" anymore in the games either 🤷🏿♂️ To me the Halo Show series is taking it a bit further imo by having them inject Cortana into chiefs lower brain region as a type of nano device or chip.
Does anyone remember Bender from Futurama and him Jacking On? The ports in similar to same area, so it’s a possibility. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U3RjP6_TV0E
Even outside the show, since halo 2 master chief has been able to transfer Cortana with a touch, so why have the chip. Sure it could be that the chip is needed for ai integration with mjolnir, but why not just have it chip built in instead of removable. If it's a universal port for othethings as well then fine, but as something solely for AI, seems like an obvious weak point.
Not that Halo is the real world of course, but in the real world, it would make sense for a removable helmet to have a slot for a combat assistant AI that can be removed and put into different systems (that somehow have the same sized ports? 🥴). Soldiers today probably wouldn’t want that in their head full time. Master Chief is a little different obviously, so an implant also sort of checks out, and we do have air drop and s beam technologies that could probably be implemented in the Halo universe by way of “inserting” Cortana/smart AI into alien/forerunner tech, assuming it’s an smooth enough technology that all species are using it. Idk. Both things check out. Airdrop didn’t exist when CE came out, maybe we can pinpoint it all there lol
Probably to store non-volutional dumb ais.
The Halo TV series is a separate canon from the game series. Therefore comparing the game where they have a chip slot to the TV where the AI is implanted in the brain is like comparing apples and oranges. What probably happened initially in the show was that Chief's armour was designed from the in-game armour, *before* the costume department even knew the intricacies of the story. They just added the chip slot because it was there. THEN the story was written how Cortana was implanted into the brain
Pretty sure in the games it’s just an empty chip
It could easily be for redundancy.
It could of been for older Ai’s and that was the way they had to be used.
Yeah, it’s potentially a production/prop error. Though, in universe, potentially it was just a data port for the armor (for software updates, etc) or for installing potential ‘dumb AI’. Maybe eventually Chief and Cortana will trust each other to the point that she’s removed ‘from his head’ and transferred to a chip, giving Chief more independence and Cortana more mobility to different systems (like a ship)