621: They Built the Halos

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Let’s face it, there’s not a lot of evidence to support the cause of adapting video games for movies or TV. And yet we tried the “Halo” TV series from Paramount+ and… liked it? We discuss making the Master Chief a real character with a strong supporting cast, why the UNSC is not trustworthy, the origin of Cortana, and the show’s connections to Star Wars, Firefly, and… 2001?!...

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0:51.9	The incomparable.
0:58.2	Number 621, July 2022.
1:01.5	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
1:13.3	I am your host, Jason Snell, and on this episode we're going to be talking about a TV series, not a video game, but a TV series that's like a video game and is based on a video game a little bit.
1:14.4	It is Halo.
1:18.8	Now, Halo available on Paramount Plus in the United States.
1:21.4	I don't know where else it's available.
1:25.9	It is also, as of this week, available on Paramount Plus in the UK.
1:30.7	Oh, that's information there. From one of my three guests for this episode.
1:31.4	It's James Thompson.
1:38.0	Thank you for providing us valuable Halo-related information and also obviously for binging the entire series in this first week that it's available in your country.
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