A Covenant attack on the planet Sedra unveils a plot to destroy humanity. An ONI team and Sedra military staff must work together, despite their differences, to uncover the location of the element ...
The team of Sedran and ONI officers arrives on the segment of Halo destroyed by Master Chief. An unexpected complication arises, causing them to adjust their plan.
In a race to get off the Halo segment, and destroy the new element, one member of the team may have to make a final sacrifice.
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| Steven Waddington | ... | Aiken 5 episodes, 2014 | |
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Siennah Buck | ... | Aiken's Daughter 5 episodes, 2014 |
| Mike Colter | ... | Locke 5 episodes, 2014 | |
| Christian Contreras | ... | Ramos 5 episodes, 2014 | |
| Alex Bhat | ... | Estrin 5 episodes, 2014 | |
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Luke Neal | ... | Horrigan 5 episodes, 2014 |
| Jonathan Harden | ... | Axl 5 episodes, 2014 | |
| Sarah Armstrong | ... | Gaines 5 episodes, 2014 | |
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Shaun Blaney | ... | Hundley 5 episodes, 2014 |
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Katherine Fitzpatrick | ... | Doctor 5 episodes, 2014 |
| Eleanor Williams | ... | Aiken's Assistant 5 episodes, 2014 | |
| Christina Chong | ... | Macer 5 episodes, 2014 | |
| Enda Oates | ... | Goodwin 5 episodes, 2014 | |
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Jennie Gruner | ... | Wisner 5 episodes, 2014 |
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Rob Pavey | ... | Best 5 episodes, 2014 |
| Dermott Hickson | ... | Condor Pilot 5 episodes, 2014 | |
| Eric Kofi-Abrefa | ... | Haisal 5 episodes, 2014 | |
| Alexis Rodney | ... | Arris 5 episodes, 2014 | |
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Roman Beguns | 5 episodes, 2014 | |
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Taylor Topal | ... | Sedranian 5 episodes, 2014 |
In the 26th Century, the prolonged war between humanity and the fanatical alien alliance the Covenant has ended with a tenuous treaty. Despite the ceasefire, Earth's outer colonies remain vulnerable to the Covenant's covert intrusions. The ONI - Office of Naval Intelligence has been tasked with counterintelligence to beat the Covenant. In Planet Sedra, Commander Jameson Locke and his team witness a Covenant's spacecraft and a Zealot Elite warrior disembarks with a bomb. They unsuccessfully try to stop the alien that explodes the bomb in a mall. They realize that it is a biological attack with an element fatal to humans. Sedran Commander Aiken captures the middleman Axl that tells that the element is obtained from Alpha Halo, where the day longs 16 h and the temperature in the sunlight reaches 482o C. Aiken, Locke and his team head to Halo in the spacecraft Condor with pilot Macer carrying a Havoc weapon to destroy the place. On the arrival, they find two terrorists but are trapped in ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The worst thing about the pilot is that it is not that sci-fi. It starts promising, detailing the threat and "the mission", it shows the characters, then they all go to an isolated place where technology works against them. So basically, an entire setup for a medieval like quest, only on an alien world.
Other than that, the plot is predictable, but not terrible, the acting is good and it kept me watching it, even if I knew how it would end from the first half of the movie.
As I have not played the game, I have no quarrels with that aspect of the movie, however it did seem that it had nothing to do with how a specialized fighting force would behave in the 26th century. Also, it didn't really say anything about the Halo universe. As a complete noob, I had no idea who MasterChef (he he!) was and what a Halo was.
Bottom line: forgettable, but not that terrible. It did seem really low budget, though, and I have to ask myself what is the purpose of a low budget sci-fi series pilot which brings nothing in terms of story or characters? It only prepares an even less worked on series, right?
Update: didn't realize that "the pilot" was the whole first season. Heh!