User Reviews

This episode felt really weird. It had some solid parts in it that I loved, the scene where the 2 spartans went out to capture john and his girlfriend oh and the artifact. There were alot of problem though with majority of it feeling forced or not making any sence. John is just flat out a weak character at this point, he has no ambition and only feels like a soft potatoe with feelings. This is very easily seen int he forced scene with his new hot alien gf that magically switches sides from a walk in the park after decades of indoctocation by the covenant, nice one.

Another major problem I thought was that cortana, out of nowhere, betrays Halsey and saves john for some unknown reason. Is it love? THEN SHOW IT BUILD UP AND HAVE AN AFFECT. You can't just drop in a scene with her being jellous and then *boom* do a 180.

Overall, a messy and badly writen episode with small parts of gold in it, focus on small.

Allegiance covered a lot of ground to recover from last week's blunder. We have Master Cheeks and Makee finding comfort in one another, Jacob and Halsey butting heads, betrayals and a fun fight scene at the end. Overall, Allegiance was a solid setup for the finale. A few characters at this point deserve more screen time. Miranda, Kai, Vanek and Riz need some love from the screenwriters. Curious to see if Makee touching the artifact is going to unleash the full force of the covenant on Reach? I don't really have much else to say other than I was reasonably entertained throughout Allegiance, and I can only hope the finale sticks the landing.

We have loved his iconic character for 20 years and he has never done such silly feelings that make his character emaciated, I beg you! Master chief needs you to stop doing these crimes to his character, please do this sexual absurdity with any other character but Master chief??? You insult his legacy and you don't respect his loyal fans 💔

Before my actual review I'll say this: I've come to accept that we're never getting a true to the games/books series, at least not yet. This show could really flourish if they get rid of Kwan, have a Miranda be more confident, and....did i mention Kwan yet? This is the show we've been given and I'll take it.

Anyway. There's a lot to unpack here so bear with me.

This by far the best episode, with one more to hopefully top it. Almost every character added a level of complexity. It had a little bit of everything... espionage, betrayal, action, romance (still a little weird but I'll allow it because Chief and Makee have good chemistry), and a tad bit of jealousy (mostly from Cortana and Halsey's creepy assistant).

Halsey's God Complex really comes through with the way she tries to manipulate everyone and everything for her own benefit. Jacob tries to anchor her to reality, but in her mind, she's the hero of her own story and no one can tell her different.

I was 50/50 with Makee at first but this episode makes you start to sympathize with her character. With Chief off his meds and actually able to address his feelings, he's the first human who's looked at her as an equal and that connection translates well on-screen (again still kinda weird). She had a chance to end him but instead chose to remove her uh..laser sword fingernail, thus believing that humans may not be that bad. Enter Halsey and a good jolt from a taser, she jumps ship. Hope sticks around for the long haul but i could see them killing her off to numb the chief and get him back to that "duty over everything else" mentality.

Ok after some thought there's way too much to go through so I'll leave it at this.

I'm curious where they'll take the Spartans from here. Obviously Kai is taken a more extreme route than Chief has in regaining her humanity, but Riz and Van are still brainwashed but the hesitation from Riz could hopefully bring an end to that. Jacob's attempt to do what needs to be done and trying to keep his humanity will be interested to see. If he goes the same way he did in the games, it'll be a sad time. Miranda just needs confidence, other than that she's good in my opinion.

Even with the slight jealously portrayed from Cortana towards Makee, its nice to finally see the Master Chief & Cortana dynamic we've been waiting for.

I'm fairly certain the season will end with the destruction of Reach and them finally making the jump to Halo.

I still feel like this show dropped the ball after so much early potential, but this at least had a little bit of excitement in it. In season two they need to just unleash the war and go from there though.

It's less and less like the canon Halo, but more and more a good series (not a great one). Whether it's bad or not, everyone will decide for himself, even before the show was released, I resigned myself to the fact that it's not worth waiting for the usual scale and a story familiar from the original. I watched this episode with a slight sense of embarrassment, shame, and mostly delight. It wasn't boring at all. It will most likely be the same for many.

The Master Chief is still acting strange due to the loss of the pod, but his leadership and heroic qualities are redoubled. He is too naive, but these are the consequences of the story that was built before. I don't really like where Halsey's character is being taken, and if she doesn't have a redemption arc in the next season or in the final episode, it's going to be a slightly awkward moment that will spoil the big picture. But as I said, there's not much from the canon, but unlike other film adaptations of games and videos that do the same, Halo at least builds a more or less logical and interesting replacement, given the television format and non-rubber budgets.

An excellent fight in the finale, the identification of clearly defined antagonists of the next season, the excellent building of Chief's friendship with Cortana, the stakes have become even higher and it is still difficult to understand what will happen next until the end. But I'm actually really happy that the showrunner of the show has been changed. I looked at the projects he worked on with one eye, and everywhere he builds the plot for an extremely long time in order to accelerate to the finale.

I don't know which is worse really, the fact that most people who rate this dumpster fire highly are PR people, bots and women who like the lead (because anything with a good looking lead is good enough for them) or that the writers are clearly high on something?

For 20 or so years we grew up with John, 117, AKA Master Chief.... A hardcore military person who was augmented at a very young age to simply be the best, and he was the best.....He hardly ever talked, he was respected by all (even the Covenant), was defeated by just 1 enemy in the entire saga (and that was temporary) and never, ever took his helmet off in front of us...... Now take a look at this Master Chief.... A guy who is not shaved, is a punching bag for a good amount of the series, is belittled by the doctor (he was never the best line), almost never wears his armor any longer (let alone his helmet), speaks all the time, makes jokes AND even has SEX with a girl he just met 2 days ago.... And i will not go into the bad CGI, the weapons we have now and are still present there, the annoying Kwan and 100 more plot holes.

Good stuff right? After all of the above it's clear that people who rate this with more than 2 have no clue what they are watching.

Master Chief stretched his ass with Maki, let's be happy for him! Of course, this is not the same John-117 from the games. But this is not the same Dr. Halsey. And a lot of other things. But I'm already used to it, and if we consider the series as something similar, but not copying, then this is very worthy of watching!

Great fight between the Spartans, good drama by Maki.

The final must be unrealistically cool, otherwise all these excellent series (except the seventh) that led us to it will crumble and get a maximum of seven out of ten from me.