Halo Episode 7 Review: Evolution Of The Relationship Between The Master Chief And The World Around Him

Cast: Pablo Schreiber, Jen Taylor, Shabana Azmi

Director: Steven Kane, Kyle Killen

Streaming Platform: Voot and Paramount+

Filmyhype.com Ratings: 3.5/5 (Three and half stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

Halo Episode 7 Review: We had begun to discover a few more details regarding the elements that the Halo tv series had put on in the last few episodes. The Blessed had finally reached the Master Chief, starting to trigger fundamental doubts in him to understand what the relationship that binds them and makes them is. In equal measure succubus to the artifact known as Keystone. Similarly, we had come to an equally important crossroads in the relationship between John and Dr. Catherine Halsey (here is the review of Halo Episode 6).

Having discovered what happened in the creation and start-up phase of the Spartan program, Chief comes to understand that the real enemy, beyond the Covenant, is hiding in what has been a putative mother for years. Thus, following the growth of the character of Miranda and Kai, the Spartan who decides to follow in John’s footsteps by removing the bullet that holds back the feelings and emotions of the super-soldiers, we had left Kwan Ha and Madrigal on the sidelines but now we are ready to go back there.

Halo Episode 7 Review: The Story

Florida’s outer colony of the UNSC, Madrigal is the only planet capable of supporting life in its star system, that of 23 Librae. So it is presented to us in the Halo lore (read here if the new Halo canon is working or not), which tells us about a planet vitrified by the Covenants and a population that emigrated entirely to the Rubble, the asteroids on which John meets not only Soren but also those who, for the first time, call him Blessed. Planet Madrigal is where it all began it is where we first saw the extermination by the Covenants of the colonial population, but also the hatred that all the locals felt towards not the UNSC and the Spartan project.

After two episodes on the sidelines of the developments, in short Madrigal together with Kwan Ha return to the foreground: a choice that, in the evolution of the story, takes away the bite from the storyline of Master Chief and Beata, from Keystone to all the main developments in the ecosystem of the first season. The entire episode in question, which we remember being the seventh, therefore two from the end, follows a single vein, focusing a lot on Soren and Kwan Ha, with his struggle in an attempt to regain the trust of his people, but also to free him from the game of the invader, Vinsher Grath. Although the whole story told in the 40 minutes is preparatory to what will surely happen in the next two episodes, allowing us to better understand the reason why we started from Madrigal, not seeing Master Chief in the flesh has taken away a bit of charm to the progress of history.

Halo Episode 7 Review And Analysis

The most disarming aspect of the way the whole episode was built concerns Soren himself and the task received by John in the first episodes: to protect Kwan Ha. After abandoning her and deciding to take care of his business, the mercenary immediately returns to the planet where he left the girl, to support her in his struggle both for economic interest and for a feeble and hidden affection felt towards her. There is no doubt that the comings and goings of which Soren is the protagonist in the eyes of the spectator are not very coherent, too sudden, and just as unexpected. Events that could have been distributed and disseminated during the previous two episodes, for a more sensible balance of the whole story, interspersing some narrative segments of Kwan Ha with what was happening to the Master Chief. Meanwhile, the girl, thanks a dream that allows her to find herself with her father too, discovers that she has a key role in the Keystones. We come to understand much more how much the hub of everything Beata and Master Chief are looking for can be.

Most of the questions we have asked ourselves in recent weeks about her presence in the narrative arc come to have a sort of resolution, although now, beyond the order received from her father appeared to her in a dream her next moves are all to be discovered. What we imagine, now, is that Soren can leave the scene to give way to a revival of Madrigal and a reunion between Kwan Ha and John.

Therefore, if the seventh episode of the series was presented as the most monotonous and also the most devoid of revelations, as well as perhaps the most subdued, the attention was paid to the special effects, especially in the explosion that involves, the end of the battle, what has become the fulcrum of the entire planet, around which much of the action was concentrated even in the first episode. We go back to having some action, which we always need in such a context, and we have noticed an interesting use of weapons. What clashes with the technological ecosystem of Halo and its lore is to find oneself entangled in a vortex of visions and dreams, managed in a somewhat rough way.

Halo Episode 7 Review: The Last Words

We came from two episodes full of content concerning the evolution of the relationship between the Master Chief and the world around him and the hope was to be able to witness an ever-constant crescendo for the last three episodes. So it was not, also thanks to the need to bring back the character of Kwan Ha: we reiterate that it would have been possible to balance the events of Madrigal by alternating them with what was happening with the UNSC because of the choice by the showrunners to focus the entire seventh episode on the events concerning the colony besieged by the Covenant did not completely convince us. Depriving ourselves of the Blessed and John at the pivotal moment destabilized us, but we are confident that from next week, given closure, all the knots will come to a head.