Nightfall

A new Halo series has been showing once a week for a few weeks and I think I have the feel for what it is by now, and at this moment in time, my thoughts are, meh. I don't want to call it bad, because I've keep watching it once a week, but I am not going to call it good because I don't really care for it at the same time. Lets go through what Nightfall is doing right.

Nightfall is about Halo, which is about science fiction, boom, its already in the green. It has a pretty good plot. It also has decent characters, and the whole thing takes place on a Halo ring. Now we can get into what I dislike about it. At times the CGI is terrible. In the first episode there is and elite that just looks off and out of place, and every time I saw it, I wanted it to go away. I also don't care for the small, 15 minute chunks that it comes out in. Most likely I am going to watch the entire thing just at once in about a month because every time something ACTUALLY is about to happen, it ends, and then the same exact thing happens next week.

I don't want you to think that it is something a Halo fan wouldn't enjoy, but honestly if I weren't a fan of the series, I would not watch it; although how could you if you weren't a fan, you need the game to watch it... Well maybe you know someone who is a fan, nevertheless it isn't going to rope you into Halo like Forward Unto Dawn. THAT series was infinitely better than this, and that reason is why I'm most disappointed. Forward Unto Dawn was so great that my family who are not fans of the series, enjoyed and appreciated, but this isn't that. I cannot put a finger on what sets me off about it, it must be a combination of little things but when you go in with so much hype for something and it is, lackluster. So watch it if you are a Halo fan, but if you haven't seen Forward Unto Dawn, I can guarantee you will enjoy that better. Maybe it is the 15 minute bursts that ruin it. Maybe, watching the entire thing, start to finish, will shine some light on it. Another possibility is I am judging it to early. It's like I am sitting down and watching the first 30-35 minutes of a movie and then getting up, leaving, and declaring it lacking. If you have been keeping up with it maybe you already know the answer, or you are like me and have waited. I may come back to this subject at a later date, if my opinion differs then.