Specifically Halo Legends. Has anyone seen this yet? I got it from Netflix this week. I would have just bought it due to my love of Halo, but the Animatrix, Batman Gotham Knight, etc... have taught me that my love of various franchises cannot actually weather the Anime treatment.
Overall, I would say it's okay. There are 8 videos, 4 of which I liked, and 4 of which I didn't. There is one sooooo laughably bad, you have to take it as a joke. I think it's meant to be a joke, but who can really tell?
The 4 good ones, according to xhonzi, were:
The Package
The Duel
Origins I
Origins II
Maybe Odd One Out gets an honourable mention for being so terrible to be entertaining.
Not good, according to xhonzi, were:
Homecoming
The Babysitter
Ptotype
Origins I and II were interesting. In some ways, it's drawing the curtain WAY back on some of what they've been hinting at. The episode starts 1 kajillions years BC and shows the fall of Forerunner civilization. It covers the original creation of and firing of the Halo rings. And then the repopulation of the human and alien races that were saved on the Ark. It quickly covers Earth history as we know it and then gets into the future UNSC stuff. It covers some of the human v human stuff occuring at the beginning of the Spartan program and then starts the covenant war.
This is where I get confused.
I can't tell if Cortana is retelling the events of Halo 1-3, but in a very screwed up way... Or is she is retelling some event prior to Halo 1, but involves the Flood somehow? I've read most of the books and played all of the games, so I figured I pretty much knew what there was to know... but this scene through the ending really confused me. I listened to the commentary, and the only help Frank O'Connor was to say that the video was purposefully shown from Cortana's perspective. And since she is bordering on rampancy, her recounting of events may be inaccurate. Which sort of gives them a get-out-of-jail-free card for later contradicting anything in the video.
But if anyone else would like to speculate on it, please let me know.