From the first trailer alone, I could tell Halo<\/em> season 2 would go in a different direction than the first. Where season 1 was bogged down in strange storytelling choices that didn\u2019t leave much room for its characters \u2014 namely, the Spartans \u2014 to do what they do best \u2014 namely, kick Covenant ass \u2014 season 2 feels more in line with what a Halo<\/em> show should be about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n According to Pablo Schreiber, the difference mostly comes down to tone. \u201cThe biggest place where we succeed on a level that we didn\u2019t quite reach in season 1 is that I think the tone of this season feels darker,\u201d he said in an interview with The Verge<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Schreiber, who plays Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, thinks the action has gotten better, too \u2014 I agree \u2014 and attributes these improvements to Halo<\/em>\u2019s <\/em>new showrunner, David Wiener.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThis year, we\u2019re living in David Wiener\u2019s world,\u201d he said. \u201c[His] vision, I believe, matches the tone of the Halo<\/em> franchise in a way that may be more fitting than the first season, and it\u2019s incredibly successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The first two episodes of Halo<\/em>\u2019s second season are out now, and they\u2019re damn good. I\u2019ve already shared my thoughts on episode 1, \u201cSanctuary.\u201d While episode 2, \u201cSword,\u201d is far lighter on the action, it more than makes up for it with how it reintroduces us to Riz-028 (Natasha Culzac). In the previous season, only half of Silver Team, Kai-125 (Kate Kennedy) and the Master Chief himself, got screen time devoted to their character development. Schreiber said that one of his great joys of this new season was correcting that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cEarly on in the second season, we start to find ways to differentiate everybody, give them a little bit of personality,\u201d he said. \u201cGetting to see all of these people that I\u2019ve worked so closely with over the past almost five years <\/em>have their moment in the spotlight was something that was really fulfilling for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In terms of the Master Chief\u2019s other relationships, Schreiber has said previously he wasn\u2019t fond of the bewildering-but-brazen sex scene between John and Makee (Charlie Murphy), a human member of the enemy Covenant aliens. Schreiber would have preferred a more subtle approach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThe more in your face you get with any elements of romance or sex, the less grounded it feels in the franchise,\u201d he said. But Schreiber also doesn\u2019t think the Master Chief, as a character, is too serious for romance; it\u2019s just that he\u2019d prefer another partner: Cortana. \u201cThere\u2019s plenty of romance in Halo<\/em>. It just happens that it\u2019s between John and Cortana, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Of course, it\u2019s not a new idea that John loves his AI copilot. (Whose personality was cloned from Dr. Halsey, the woman who essentially created John and all the Spartans and is thought of as a mother figure for them all \u2014 make of that what you will.) She all but confesses her love for him in Halo 4, <\/em>and in Halo 5: Guardians,<\/em> he goes AWOL for the first time in his life in order to bring her back. However, one could read that as fierce loyalty \u2014 a trait Spartans are known and beloved for \u2014 with Chief considering Cortana as a member of the team. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n So it was interesting to hear Master Chief himself describe the final moment of \u201cSanctuary\u201d as romantic. In the scene, John visits a VR parlor and talks to a hologram that comes close to looking like Cortana but misses the mark. John says to not-quite-Cortana (Christina Bennington) that he feels like part of him is missing and that he hears sounds that he thinks might be her. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Though I\u2019ve never had a sentient, autonomous AI implanted in my brain, I can imagine if I did, and it was subsequently taken away like Cortana was for John, I, too, would feel like something was missing. But I may have been a bit too literal. \u201cIf you didn\u2019t hear romantic undertones in that scene, then I\u2019m not sure how to spell that out for you, but I definitely thought that was,\u201d Schreiber said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Of course, if you\u2019re not a Chief \/ Cortana shipper (personally, I\u2019m a Tom-B292 \/ Lucy-B091 girl) or think of them as merely friends, that\u2019s valid, too. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cIt depends on your concept of romance,\u201d Schreiber said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re talking about life partnership, you\u2019re talking about somebody that adds to you, somebody that completes you, somebody that makes you better than you were. That\u2019s certainly what Chief has seen in Cortana.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sounds a lot like love to me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] From the first trailer alone, I could tell Halo season 2 would go in a different direction than the first. 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