This is despite the show giving him ample opportunity to remove his helmet, which rarely happens in the game. Unfortunately, the screenwriters aren’t giving him a lot of help this early in the series – Schreiber doesn’t have much to say, and mainly just looks a bit confused that he’s been forced to suddenly stop blowing the bejesus out of monstrous aliens and engage instead with his inner child. Standing 196cm tall and now built like a tank, he makes just the sort of imposing, statuesque figure required for a seemingly unstoppable human battle machine. Whoever decided to cast Schreiber, the character actor veteran of shows such as Orange is the New Black (as dodgy prison guard “Pornstache”) and American Gods, as an action hero deserves a medal. Meanwhile, the UNSC command, deviously nudged along by Natascha McElhone’s slightly mad-looking scientist, Dr Catherine Elizabeth Halsey – she also doubles as the AI Cortana, a major staple of the games – are wondering how in space they are going to get their major asset back. It doesn’t seem as if our man will be given much time off for R&R, however, The Covenant are also after the artefact as part of their ongoing spiritual mission to unlock the secrets of the Halo Array and go on their famed “great journey” to meet the Forerunners. Before long he has reconnected with a one-time comrade-turned-deserter (Bokeem Woodbine) who has turned his back on the UNSC for the life of an outlaw, and whose job seems to be to show Masterchief that there is an existence beyond daily extra-terrestrial mass murder. Cue some serious awol action, as the power-suited soldier grabs the last remaining settler from the planet, a 17-year-old girl (Yerin Ha) and sets off on what we assume will be a journey of self-discovery with wider significance. In the first of two episodes screened so far for press, he stumbles upon a strange glowing artefact on a pioneer world, and after unwittingly activating its mysterious powers begins to experience visions of his former life before being turned into an all-powerful alien-killing badass. Aficionados will recognise elements of Larry Niven’s Ringworld saga, as well as a heavy hint of Iain M Banks’s Culture novels, while this new version of Masterchief has a Robocop-lite in space vibe. The game and TV show seem to borrow from all the good places in modern sci-fi.
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