Halo canceled at Paramount+. Looking for new network
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I was a Sony guy for a long time so never played Halo but I knew it was a popular game and saw a lot of dudes playing it. When I saw the trailer for the series and they made sure to prominently show women I remember thinking “ok, this will be like every other adaptation”. Didn’t they say they didn’t want to follow the video game?
Yes, I think they said they didn't play the games at all because they didn't want to be influenced by them.
Gotta love modern day adaptations. Peter Jackson says “I want to put Tolkien’s vision on the screen, not my own” but now you get morons who don’t even bother with the source material.
Then of course the WOT moron says he is a feminist and lgbt representation is important. Main character kills his wife. Make it make sense
The Jackson movies aren't perfect but they are the best we're going to get for at least another century. He approached it how people should approach adaptations: how to adapt a story from one medium to another. Going from a literary medium to a visual/audio medium.
The "oh boy now we can stuff this with diversity cookies to reach arbitrary quotas and add our snide little dialogue" approach is just taking the Mona Lisa and spray painting all over it.
Imo, Jackson did an amazing job. Was it perfectly true to the books? No.
But that's always going to be true, for a lot of reasons.