Games Journalist Disses Old Master Chief as Halo TV Series Crashes

Master Chief rarely wears his armor anymore, he’s having “relations” with a Covenant human spy, and half the time you watch this show you can’t tell what intellectual property it belongs to. If you’re still watching the Halo television series on Paramount+, we congratulate you… but if you’re wondering where our weekly reviews are for the show, we can let you know why we promised those and then backtracked.

The increasingly political Paul Tassi of Forbes can give us a start to an explanation:

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— Paul Tassi (@PaulTassi) May 12, 2022

As you can see from the above tweet, games journalist are now turning against Halo the video game series and its legacy hero, John the Master Chief, in favor of this new Paramount+ television version. Rather than the series being a uniting factor for fans of the franchise, we’re seeing the same garbage that we’ve seen with Star Wars. Namely, people who do not at all love the source material come in and destroy the characters for a sociocultural agenda not shared by the majority of the fans. It’s like new kids coming into your play space, stealing your space ranger toys and then having them make out with Brats dolls. I can’t imagine how that would go wrong.

But Google Trends apparently has that sort of imagination needed for a story such as this:

As you can see, unlike with almost any other healthy show out there, Halo has an overall declining interest level. As an experiment, go check out the Google Trends chart for any show that has been semi-popular in the past. You’ll find that the opening has a big jump in interest, then it may level off, drop slightly, but almost always has an eclipsing pattern as the show moves towards its finale.

Not so with Halo. Cortana, meet cliff. Cliff, meet Cortana.

What is happening with this show is that almost nobody is still watching it. We know that because almost nobody is searching for it anymore.The show currently generates about sixteen percent of its original internet interest and that’s not factoring in how much of that sixteen percent is made up of people mad at the show or accidentally searching for a TV series instead of the game. So while Paul Tassi and forty-thousand Twitter users may still be engaged and enjoying the property, they may be the only ones still left. But at least it’s allowing average fans and normal people to see the disconnect between games journalists and customers even more. Because when given the opportunity to be divisive and trash on an important pillar of gaming, people like Paul Tassi will do it in a heartbeat.

https://twitter.com/sacrediconpod/status/1524866885745098754

When even the most positive, always-happy Halo sources out there are jumping ship, maybe its time to write a memo for the rest of the games journalists who have yet to see the charts.

We will leave you with this on the way out. We aren’t doing weekly reviews on Halo because we don’t want to do non-stop negative coverage of something that has dwindling viewership. If you want to read what people actually think about this show, we encourage you to check out the MetaCritic audience reviews. Just be ready, because some of them don’t hold back on their “honesty”.

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