Originally Posted by
warty goblin
My view is 'they changed it' is almost always a lazy, surface level criticism of any adaptation that to me at least feels like its coming from a sort of fan possessiveness and obsessiveness I really don't like. If it ruins it for anybody else, hey, that's your taste, but what a strange, pointless reason to not like something.
And as I said, I like the actual end result. Not the best thing ever, but fun, and I enjoy its compare/contrast character structure, and the gradual soft rebellion and re-humanization of the spartans. I think it's generally well acted, the writing and dialog are good, the production values are through the roof, and the parts that don't land for me are pretty ancillary to the core of the story. That puts it very far above, say, the Mandalorian, which hasn't landed at all for me in two entire seasons, and only ever attained the giddy heights of "fine." Not the best SF show of the last couple years (that's Star Trek: Brave New Worlds hands down) but I've had a lot of fun watching the Halo show. I've found parts of it surprisingly emotionally effecting even, which is a rare thing in modern TV.