Halo Episode 6 Review: The Revelation Of The Blessed The Arrival of The Answers
Cast: Pablo Schreiber, Jen Taylor, Shabana Azmi
Director: Steven Kane, Kyle Killen
Streaming Platform: Voot and Paramount+
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 4/5 (four star) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
Halo Episode 6 Review: From action on the field we pass to action in everyday life. Master Chief let slip the artifact he was trying to recover on Eridanus, but he was able to return to his home planet and discover that all his past has been eradicated from his memory to build a soldier capable of not letting himself be influenced from nothing of everything that belonged to his previous life. The only culprit, in this case, is Dr. Halsey, who with Cortana has begun to control him: information that finally reaches John’s knowledge and no longer just us, who have had the opportunity to witness the creation procedure and implanting the AI into the Spartan’s body. The sixth instalment of Halo continues to go deeper in what is the information related to our Soldier and what the future holds.
Returning to the out-of-action setting, Halo begins to deliver answers to some of the main questions that arose during the season. Despite this episode having a more reflective tone and worrying a lot about the proper explanations, it wasn’t bad at all. In fact, it helped even more to illuminate the path taken so far. From the relationships between Halsey and Miranda, Master Chief and Makee, even Spartan Kai-125, none were left out of the bigger questions. First we have the results of the war itself and the doubts that everyone has about it. In the last chapter we had a bitter defeat for our hero, which is extremely addressed right away. They are grateful for his support and for saving 150 platoon lives in his insubordination. Even doing what he wanted, he soon impacts with the truth “and if I don’t recover the artifact, millions more will be lost”. As much as he saved the day and did what was said to be the right action, he couldn’t escape that reality.
Halo Episode 6 Review: The Story
At the end of the fifth episode (find here our review of Halo Episode 5) we had been shown a sort of agreement between the Beata and the Covenant, leaving us to guess that there was the will on the part of the alien race to send a copy in front of John by Makee, making it seem as real as possible. During the sixth episode this which could have been a belief is turned into a supposition: the girl, raised and raised by the Covenant, seems to be real, really sent to Eridanus to represent a sort of Trojan horse in the UNSC. Despite the warning of one of the soldiers guarding the room where she will be imprisoned about the fact that Makee is one of them and cannot but be a prisoner, John decides to confront her, to find out more about her about her entity. The new episode of Halo, broadcast on Thursday evening in the original version and next Monday dubbed in Italian, allows us to understand a few more elements on the connection between Makee and Master Chief two people who find themselves equally identified as Blessed, despite the fact that for the Covenant John is in effect a Demon.
We still lack something to understand what is the peculiarity of ours, but in the meantime a flashback – which has the flavor of explaining it by the writers – allows us to review a part of the second episode (find here our review of Halo Episode 2), in the which the Spartan had already been revealed to be special, to be able to be a Blessed, a human different from the others. There was no escaping the truths any longer and the doctor manages to use the time of this chapter to reveal everything she knows about the plot of Halo. Sorry for the impartiality, but I found it impressive how much actress Natasha McElhone manages to transit through the character’s tenderness, seriousness and eternal curiosity. I must give up what I said in the last reviews, that she would probably be a villain: she isn’t! That doesn’t mean she’s good, just that her mysteries went in another direction.
Right off the bat we have an extremely impactful scene of her with the Master Chief, who wants at all costs to know the limits of her machinations. With an extremely questionable attitude, he puts her between life and death and the result of that makes anyone wonder if he’s still the hero we know or if he’s already becoming something else. The second option, as incredible as it is for a gamer to say these kinds of things, has become extremely more interesting and palpable than the original games. I really enjoyed the development of the two and the fateful conversation they were forced to have on the subject. There was no running away anymore, they had to discuss the relationship and the truth didn’t get any less painful now that it came out. The same goes for the character Miranda, the doctor’s daughter and who for the first time took the courage to go to her mother to have a family chat. In both Halsey demonstrated her true intention: the advancement of humanity in the face of galactic chaos.
Regardless of how wrong our ethics treat it, she didn’t mind kidnapping children, lying, manipulating an entire organization and conducting illegal experiments for it. However, I dare to agree with a statement said by Halsey, which sets the course for the entire Halo series. “Everything can be considered wrong until it presents positive results, at this point no one will question it anymore”. Of course, it is not a justification, but it shows the fragility of our society and how our so-called ethics is something passable, not static.
Halo Episode 6 Review And Analysis
What in effect could have seemed, therefore, a scam by the Covenant begins to be much more incomprehensible, especially when the entire episode focuses on what is happening in the UNSC. There is no trace of Kwan Ha, not even Madrigal and what is happening in parallel on what was the colony that started the whole Halo story. All the events unleashed in the first five episodes, however, begin to produce effects on the entire universe created around the Spartans, starting with the consequences suffered by Dr. Halsey. Not only towards John, who now sees her as an enemy, but also in relations with the Committee, tired of the way in which he managed the entire research project and, above all, for the choice to proceed in the creation of an AI like Cortana.
Halsey is no longer an ally and her character begins to be much more complex than we thought: the justifications that the Doctor comes to bring to John’s court put in place military theories that reveal little shared war methodologies, both as a Master Chief than by the Committee itself. Moving away also from what have been the environments shown up to now on board the UNSC operational headquarters, the direction also offers us some more airy, less gray and more colorful shots; happens when Halsey is removed from her realm of hers, from her laboratory, when she is assigned another position and another task, almost as if to tell us about an open mind that allows her to rediscover also part of the his family relationship with his daughter.
Relationship that sees the figure of Miranda begin to grow: after what were the signs shown in the first episode, now the girl yearns for a different path, completely detached from that of her mother, a figure who has never given her anything and who seems willing to sacrifice it once again for the sake of its research and science. Among her experiments, beyond the Spartans, to be saved is Cortana, who remains the most obvious double agent of the entire show, but also the least predictable one. John begins to can’t stand her presence anymore, but the way he leaves her outside the door is hard to believe when he decides to throw himself into contact with the keystone: although visually it is very impactful as a choice, it is clear that, being implanted in her head, she will not be able to get rid of it by leaving it out of a room.
Much of the emotional rendition of the entire series, which reiterates its willingness to focus on the psychology of the characters rather than the action of the battlefield, is entrusted to Kai. The Spartan is informed, while she is still in a sort of operating room recovering from the injuries suffered in Eridanus, of Halsey’s deception against the Silver Team and, thanks to her having eradicated the graft that inhibited her feelings, she begins to be plagued by the thought that her parents may still be somewhere in the universe, unaware that she is still alive. Of the four members of the team, only she and John have decided to embrace human knowledge, and the rift, the distance between the two couples is highlighted., is represented both visually, with them never separating from the armor, and in the way they express themselves; on the one hand doubts and perplexities, on the other one and only one thought: war and preparation for.
Halo Episode 6 Review: The Last Words
The Halo series continues to put meat on the fire: the relationship between John and Makee becomes much more intense, but at the same time it fills us with doubts and questions. In the meantime, another relationship is broken, which had begun to show the first cracks since the beginning: we are talking about the one with Catherine Halsey, who stands, in some way, as a true antagonist of the story, a figure who knows a lot and wants to continue learning more. Depowered and relegated to another structure, the scientist, however, does not lose the trust of her collaborators and her creatures, starting with Cortana. We are confident that we will be able to discover more about her AI over time, perhaps arriving at a reaction from her that will allow Chief to review her beliefs. Which are starting to be ours too.
