Halo’s Live Action Digital Series: Black Ops for the Black Spartan

Off the top, I want to let you know that your boy, Brutal Ronin as Xbox Live identifies me, been strapping on the MJOLNIR Mark IV armor with the gold visor since Microsoft dropped that first black box in 2001 with the “man grip” controllers. Me and the gawd John-117 been putting Elites (or Sangheili if you really about this Halo canon life) in the ground since before E3 tightened security and you could make up a fake press pass on your Lexmark inkjet and walk your ass through ALL the live demo booths. So, yo, I’m about my Halo, fam. We’ve been teased and tortured with so many tried and failed projects for getting Halo in a live action entity, that over a decade later, I’ve become a bit numb to it. To this day, while I love the movie District 9, it hurts my heart to watch the beautifully animated aliens that were under apartheid knowing that Neil Blomkamp was supposed to use that studio to make MY CONVENANT before the plug got pulled on the Halo Movie.

Oh well. We’ve been pacified with some pretty good alternatives since. The excellent collaborative Halo Legends animated shorts and the greatness on a budget Forward Unto Dawn live action web-series have either served as a bridge for something bigger or just made us UNSC enlisters hungrier. Either way, through its many trials, we’re finally getting “something bigger” in the Ridley Scott produced Halo: Nightfall. There’s a lot of confusing stuff out there that uses words like “Xbox Live” “subscription” and “Showtime” but here’s…