In this video I return to my favorite sci-fi series of all time, Halo, and why its lore and universe is actually a horrible dystopian nightmare.
I would wager it is very much a grimdark setting, before the 343 games.
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Intro – 00:00
Halo’s Setting – 02:34
Insurrection Beginnings – 03:17
The UEG Dystopia – 05:27
Far Isle – 07:44
The Callisto Incident – 09:18
The UNSC’s Perspective – 11:12
Insurrectionist War Crimes – 13:08
Is the UNSC right? – 14:27
The Human-Covenant War – 18:20
Siege of the Inner Colonies – 21:17
Last Years of the War: 25:18
The Halos and the Flood – 28:33
Post-War and the Setting – 30:50
Outro – 32:13
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Great video broski!
27:21: One has to wonder what the Covenant's response would have been had that operation defied its trillion-to-one odds of success and actually worked. Remember, the goal was to capture a Prophet, not THE Prophets, so assuming the Spartans just grabbed the first important-looking guy in a hoverchair they saw and ran for it, the Covies would've laughed in humanity's collective face during the ransom and just said basically "yeah go ahead and kill him, there's more where he came from lol".
After a long wait the video is here!
I apologize if some of the footage is a bit choppy. I had some issues with the bitrate and getting it to match the source videos lol. But I hope this video and the ones I am working on next will make all this waiting worth it!
The way the flood was first introduced always carried this eerie foreboding presence that I feel adds to the dystopian atmosphere. Great video as always!
Always down to spend 30 minutes of my time diving into halo lore. Great video!
I'm a bit confused at your explanation of the forerunner being humans though, I'm pretty sure it was explained that forerunners and ancient humans were different races that existed at the same time, no?
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Something I find really interesting about the Great Schism is had we gotten Halo 2’s original storyboard ending with the Ark being located on earth and the “big reveal” being found in the Data Vault Truth’s plan would’ve actually made perfect sense. We know from the storyboards and leaked dialogue found in the files of Reach that when the Arbiter confronts Truth it would’ve been revealed that Truth knew all along what the Rings would do and that they’d kill everything. In fact his plan was to wipe the slate clean and use the Ark’s machinery to create a new species based on his genome, becoming God that way. He caused the Great Schism as a way to ensure the Covenant was far too distracted with civil war to figure out what he was doing, and he eliminated the other two Prophets to eliminate the competition. The Forerunner skeleton in the Data Vault acted as a template to guide evolution along a desired path. In a way the Great Journey was a very real thing, but only ONE could walk it. The Forerunner found inside the sarcophagus who presumably fired the Array was also implied to be the Abrahamic God, and the more mythical Bible stories like Noah building an Ark to repopulate the world fr a coming Flood and God creating man in his own image would’ve been tied in as retelling a of Forerunner history and them creating humanity to Reclaim(er) their legacy if they failed to defeat the Flood by any means other than the Rings. It also would’ve tied in with there being hominids humans evolved from and the Ark was located in East Africa where modern humans originated, at the same time that Forerunners disappeared from the galactic scene (in C3Sabertooth’s we were Forerunner video he pointed out that 343’s visual design for the Forerunners would still work because based on the various clues throughout the games and old EU humans weren’t the literal descendants of Forerunners. They were apes molded into Forerunners so it wouldn’t be exact. Something else that would still work is having the Covenant break into a thousand pieces like in 343’s lore because unlike Halo 2’s original ending where the human Forerunner connection and the entirety of the Elites ended their war of extinction upon learning they almost wiped out the children of gods, almost NOBODY knew about this. Having different splinter groups who have warped views of the Forerunner would still work. Plus, in real life militant groups don’t just magically disappear once the leadership are gone). That would’ve been an INSANE ending! Now let’s compare that to the objectively AWFUL story in Halo 3 that aside from a few cool moments mostly just spins its wheels and lacks focus. The absence of Jason Jones and Joseph Staten throughout most of 3’s development, and it being made out of the scraps from 2’s third act really show. 3 being 2’s extended third act also explains why it mostly just feels like Bungie filling out a checklist of things that needed to happen with little to no thought as to how they’d connect the dots.
If you want a truly compelling Grimdark setting go read the Sonichu comics. CWCville is one truly horrible place to live. Its mayor is also Jesus Christ reborn (we know fr the sacred jail letters that Chris Chan is Jesus and he “spiritually bonded” with, physically healed, and cleansed Barb Chandler of her sins. My boy also went to jail for our sins🤣🤮),
Dude, as a relatively new halo fan and fellow christian + huge lore nerd, this entire video was such a treat to watch!! Thanks for putting it up, im always down to dissect the halo universe and honestly be grateful that im not in it!
Anyway, am I ashamed of just now realizing the biblical parallel/reference of the creation of the 'ark' in response to 'the flood' after a year of plunging headfirst into the saga? Yes, yes i am.
Spooky yes. Grimdark. No
Great video and I love the comparison. if I could note, I think with some thumbnail/title tweaks you could potentially get some pretty big views on this.
Just wanted to say this is just a fantastic video dude, wonderful break down. Never realized how bad things really were!