Here's hoping they don't pull a "Boba Fett" with Master Chief!
I’m really feeling the trailer. They got the look of the characters really well, and it certainly looks like they’ve put good production into it.
...but it's Paramount, with all of its Trek sequel baggage.
I’m going to guess that nobody is going to force you to watch it.
Because they aren’t using the voice actor in scenes where John won’t have his helmet on?Why would they not have used the original voice actor? That seems like such a no-brainer...
That works for Vader because his suit was a walking life support system so it made it easy to buy that the suit altered his voice. But that's not the case with the Spartans, their armor is just armor and while his voice may be amplified, it's clearly not altered.Yikes, so they're gonna go helmetless with Chief? They could've easily just gone the Vader route and just do both. James Earl Jones when the helmet was on, Sebastian Shaw in the only scene when it wasn't (and he also had dialogue).
Having recently played through Halo 1 -3, I can say that Cortana didn't change much at all through the games. She's always been humanoid in a skin-tight digital looking covering, but not nude.In HALO 1 and 2, Cortana was just a humanoid appearing AI. But by HALO 3 and 4, they had basically made her a nude centerfold model walking around. They cleaned all that up in Guardians and Infinite, giving her more realistic female body proportions (and clothing). Looks like that's the route they are taking here; in fact her CG model looks childlike in the brief clip of her we see. At least they hired Jen Taylor to do the voice.
RE: the Spartans (who are genetically modified and should tower over regular humans at 7 feet tall when suited up); here MC seems to be somewhat taller than a standard soldier? Spartan's are supposed to be VADER big. Scale looks wrong here, but we will see.
I would’ve hoped that it would’ve been a moot point anyways because depicting him without the helmet and ruining the mystery would be a shame. If he’s helmetless enough in the show to warrant needing to use the physical actor’s voice (as opposed to Downes) so people aren’t confused, seems like a questionable choice.That works for Vader because his suit was a walking life support system so it made it easy to buy that the suit altered his voice. But that's not the case with the Spartans, their armor is just armor and while his voice may be amplified, it's clearly not altered.
It sounds like they're doing the origin story of the Spartans, at least in part, so it would make sense to have MC helmet-less from time to time. Perhaps they'll do something like in Mandalorian where 99% of the time, he's helmeted, but there will be an occasional helmet-less scene.I would’ve hoped that it would’ve been a moot point anyways because depicting him without the helmet and ruining the mystery would be a shame. If he’s helmetless enough in the show to warrant needing to use the physical actor’s voice (as opposed to Downes) so people aren’t confused, seems like a questionable choice.
His helmet has come off once in the games.I would’ve hoped that it would’ve been a moot point anyways because depicting him without the helmet and ruining the mystery would be a shame. If he’s helmetless enough in the show to warrant needing to use the physical actor’s voice (as opposed to Downes) so people aren’t confused, seems like a questionable choice.
I wanted to say several times but his visage was ambiguous, no? I also don’t think he spoke?His helmet has come off once in the games.