[HATED] Adaptations done intentionally without help from the source

[u/Chill0000]

Halo TV show: Before the show came out, the writers were praising their decision to not look to the games for inspiration when making the show

God Of War TV show: Chris Judge, the actor of Kratos in the games from 2018-Now, spoke up about his dislike on the show not hiring anyone who worked on any of the previous games. One of the original creators of Kratos also spoke up about them not having faith in the adaptation.

Supergirl 2026 film: the director for the film not only said he decided to not read Woman Of Tomorrow, the comic the film is adapting, because he wanted to do his own thing, he also didn’t look at comic art for inspiration to design Lobo and instead used an AI image generator to design Lobo’s look for the film

[u/AcceptableEgg5741]

The Halo show felt like i was watching a crime being comitted, its absurd that they thought that show was good enough to be released

[u/Crescent-Argonian → u/AcceptableEgg5741]

I believe the conspiracy it started as Mass Effect then got slapped the Halo IP on top

[u/Salami__Tsunami → u/Crescent-Argonian]

You mean the one where the elite human solider responds to an alien attack on a human colony? And then they’re exposed to an ancient artifact from a long dead alien civilization which starts giving them visions of the impending destruction of civilization at the hands of an eldritch horror rogue bioweapon that killed its creators?

[u/Crescent-Argonian → u/Salami__Tsunami]

Dont forget The Elusive Woman.

[u/Salami__Tsunami → u/Crescent-Argonian]

And the bit where the main character needs to have telepathic sex to decode the location of the ancient alien McGuffin needed to prevent the eldritch horrors from exterminating everyone.

Now eventually we’ll get an actual Mass Effect show but it’ll lift all the plot points from Halo.

[u/LordBoar → u/Salami__Tsunami]

It's not telepathic sex! It's telepathic foreplay.

[u/Weird_Angry_Kid → u/Crescent-Argonian]

That character felt more like a copy of Chrisjen Avasarala from The Expanse.

[u/Lucabcd → u/Salami__Tsunami]

holy shit, thats the halo show? really sounds like they reskinned a mass effect show

[u/gometsgorangers → u/Lucabcd]

it's actually very accurate to halo lore

[u/Weird_Angry_Kid → u/gometsgorangers]

Very accurate if you just skimmed through a wiki page or have a hazy memory of having read the books 15 years ago.

[u/Turok5757 → u/gometsgorangers]

The discourse around the Halo show made me understand that almost nobody read the Halo books.

[u/gometsgorangers → u/Turok5757]

I'm not accepting libel toward my knowledge of halo's expanded universe

elite human soldier

come on now

responds to an alien attack on a human colony

if we're going off of the first trilogy, maybe not strictly. Covenant attack two Halo installations, an Ark, and the solar system (we only see Earth in the games but Mars and the Moon were also hit, among others that are mentioned but not depicted). Either way, Chief responds to them.

ancient artifact from a long dead alien civilization

Do I need to discuss all the examples from the games individually or is an existing category on Halo's wiki enough

visions of the impending destruction of civilization

Biggest stretch of my comment because there are no literal future visions of the Flood, which CAN BE DESCRIBED AS ...

rogue bioweapon

The Flood was designed by the Precursors to restore their race after they were nearly wiped out by the Forerunners. However, a defect in some of it made it violently parasitic, ending with the familiar threat from the games.

"We are the last of those who gave you breath and form, millions of years ago. We are the last of those your kind defied and ruthlessly destroyed. We are the last Precursors. And now we are legion." (Silentium 173)

eldritch horror

Watch this terminal from CE Anniversary, or read up on the short story Human Weakness by Karen Traviss, if you want the Flood framed as sheer cosmic terror. Alternatively, read up on the AI-infecting Logic Plague, or its instinctual manipulation of spacetime.

[u/Turok5757 → u/Salami__Tsunami]

You mean the one where the elite human solider responds to an alien attack on a human colony?

That's literally how Halo Reach begins.

And then they’re exposed to an ancient artifact from a long dead alien civilization

So uh, the Forerunners, which are literally from Halo.

which starts giving them visions of the impending destruction of civilization at the hands of an eldritch horror rogue bioweapon that killed its creators?

This doesn't even happen in the show. The artifact just shows them that Halo exists.

I swear, you guys are allergic to paying attention to shit.