I think itās actually the other way around, the money people are starting to care too much about the creative process (Netflix with Cowboy Bebop, KK with Star Wars, Amazon with LOTR, Apple with Foundation, etc). The quality of content and the bottom line are suffering as a result. These entities though are too big to fail so it doesnāt hurt them like a studio bomb would back in the day.
Marvel is even suffering to me, Iāve only finished one of the series on Disney+ (Wandavision). Itās getting to the point where I anticipate Hollywood screwing up great original content (although there are some exceptions out there like Dune, Spider-Man, and surprisingly Peacemaker).
Expect the worst, hope for the best is how I approach these now. I wait for good reviews/word of mouth now before I get too excited. Halo Iām going to pass on for now.
Production values are a little uneven within the episodes, and Iām not sure about the writing yetā¦ But ā¦ itās not bad. Iād give it a B. Itās enough that Iāll keep watching.
It is NOWHERE near the hatchet job they did to Wheel of Time. Which makes me angrier everytime I think about it. WoT could have been a solid fantasy show if they had just stuck to the bones of the story, and not tried to cram all that agenda crap into it.
Also, Dr Halsey is played by the actress from Roninā¦ an underrated movie from 20 some years ago.
So far I find nothing too off-putting about the Halo series. I think there were some interesting creative takes that I, as a fan of Halo game/books, would have certainly done differently but in this world where everything is suspect to change in existing canon to better fit a perceived social injustice outside of the actual story, I have so far seen little in the Halo series to set off my own alarm bells.
For folks interested in these topics I recommend the following:
Started binging āThe 100ā on Netflix. Itās decent entertainment. Itās basically a post-apocalyptic science fiction show about survivors from a space habitat, the Ark, who return to Earth nearly a century after a nuclear war. The kids sent to Earth are a group of juvenile delinquents who encounter descendants of survivors of the nuclear disaster on the ground.
