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Feb 29, 2024 · Kwan Ha's vision on Aleria hints at a looming force separate from the Covenant threat. The Mother warns Kwan of a cryptic danger, potentially setting the stage for the Flood's arrival in Halo season 3. It's unclear how The Mother, a shaman from Sanctuary, might figure into the larger story.
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By Jesse Schedeen
Updated: May 5, 2022 4:20 pm
Posted: May 5, 2022 4:16 pm
Warning: this review contains full spoilers for Halo: Episode 7! If you need a refresher on where we left off, here's IGN's review of Halo: Episode 6 - "Solace."
Everything comes with a cost. And for Halo, it seems the price of watching the show's best episode to date is to immediately follow it with the worst. "Solace" makes the mistake of focusing entirely on the show's weakest storyline. Worse, the series is still no closer to revealing why that storyline matters in the first place.
"Solace" didn't succeed solely because it ignored Yerin Ha's Kwan Ha and Bokeem Woodbine's Soren-066, but their absence certainly didn't hurt, either. Since Master Chief and Kwan Ha parted ways in Episode 2, the series has routinely failed to justify the decision to keep the latter in the spotlight. Why, with all the drama afoot within the UNSC and the steadily worsening scale of the war against the Covenant, does this random freedom fighter matter? Why is Madrigal so important to the bigger picture? The video game lore certainly gives fans little to go on, as in that version Madrigal is just a minor world that becomes one more casualty of war.
One would certainly hope that an episode entirely devoted to Kwan Ha's quest to liberate her home would answer those questions. Eventually, she and Soren have to become more than mere side characters with no tangible connection to the larger story. But even with all the allusions to the secrets of Madrigal and the true destiny of the Ha family in Episode 7, this storyline remains dull and lifeless. It comes across as a much more bland and formulaic sci-fi series crudely grafted onto the Halo mythos.
And that's really the sticking point here. It's not simply that Kwan Ha's arc feels so completely divorced from everything else going on in the series. Even in a vacuum, it simply doesn't make for compelling television. This episode is littered with bland sci-fi tropes that have been executed far better elsewhere. Kwan Ha's charge into the sandstorm is Mad Max: Fury Road with no payoff. The sage women of the desert are basically bargain-basement Fremen, there to do little but spout cliches and send Kwan Ha on a textbook desert vision quest. And all so she can find out she has to "go back to where it started"?
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It's a shame Halo has to follow up the best episode of Season 1 with the absolute worst. The series has done little over the past two months to justify the attention given to Kwan Ha and Soren-066, and so it comes as no surprise that things completely fall apart when the two are are forced to shoulder an entire episode on their own. Perhaps Kwan Ha...
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Halo follows up its strongest episode yet with its worst, as the series' most unsatisfying subplot suddenly becomes the main (and only) course in Episode 7.
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Having Kwan be the Cassandra of the Flood story puts her under threat, and gives her tension and dramatic conflict with the UNSC and Covenant, both of whom will be too eager to get their hands on Forerunner toys (or even the Flood, specifically, thinking they can use it) to listen to the good advice of someone who knows what they're talking about.
TLDR, Kwan-Ha would rather fight the UNSC because her dad fought the UNSC than fight the genocidal alien empire that will her kill her and every other human being if the UNSC goes down. The covenant isn't some far off myth to her, she fuckinf watched it with her own eyes as elites annihilated her father and his fighters.
Mar 8, 2024 · Halo season 2, episode 6, "Onyx," connects Dr. Catherine Halsey's (Natascha McElhone) knowledge of Forerunner technology and history with the UNSC to Kwan Ha (Yerin Ha) and The Mother's (Olwen Fouéré) story, which teases Halo's all-consuming, parasitic Flood villain.
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• 7mo. Spoilers are ahead for Halo season 2's finale. The Mother reveals a long-hidden connection to Kwan, prompting revelations about the Flood's intentions. Kwan is given the mantle of...
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Jun 7, 2022 · In Halo Ep 7, Kwan Ha is deemed as the “protector” of a portal found on Madrigal. This portal could be the doorway to one of the rings in the Halo Array, mostly likely Alpha Halo.
