It has been a while since we checked on the show. We thought it was an interesting, strange, interestingly strange adaptation of the Xbox shooter franchise that had some potential, but it is rubbing a lot of people in a couple of different ways. The biggest change the show offers is how it explores Master Chief. The show's Chief is more vocal and takes off his armor in a way that gives the impression that the show wants to give the character some humanity. As the Covenant threat looms across the galaxy, much of this season has seen Chief or John attempt to dig into the past he had before becoming a child soldier brought into a larger conflict.
The story of Makee, a human woman who was taken in by the Covenant as a child, is similar to that of John's. Their relationship took a turn that many are finding hard to accept after this week's episode of Allegiance.
You probably know by now that Chief and Makee end up having sex in the episode, and John has been more open about his feelings since he removed the pellet that suppressed his emotions earlier in the season. They had a shared vision of the halo ring in episode six, and Makee has begun to feel a camaraderie with him due to their similar ability in being able to decipher the visions left by the Forerunner artifact. The fact that John's artificial intelligence partner is watching the two as they hook up makes the event even stranger.
Despite the many jokes surrounding Master Chief and his suit, the franchise is fairly sexless. Contact Harvest by Joseph Staten was the only other time the idea of sex was brought up in an official capacity. The idea that John is a good looking man is something that the show has been able to play around with. If you put someone in a suit of armor all the time, people are going to think that the person underneath is hot and run with that in their fan works, regardless of whether or not it meshes with the canon.
If you think that the Master Chief is so good a lover that Makee may be on the verge of changing sides, you're wrong. After learning that John and Makee were sleeping together, John's mother ordered the two to be captured by his fellow Spartans. Makee apologized to John and sent a signal for the Covenant to attack the planet Reach after being found out as a mole.
Reach was established as a key part of the military force's fight with the Covenant in the game. The fate of the planet in the games is to be invaded by the Covenant and eventually destroyed. The first game in the series opens with Chief and Cortana fleeing the destruction of the planet, and the final game in the series gives a more in-depth look at what happened. Chief was a vital player during the Fall of Reach, but the Reach game puts him to the side to focus on a different group of Spartan supersoldiers who greatly contributed to Chief and Cortana's escape and the pair's discovery of the original Halo ring. We probably won't see Noble Team in the finale, but it would be nice if they were acknowledged.
It feels cartoonishly silly to know that Reach will end due to a momentary fling rather than the Covenant's obsession with artifacts. Maybe the Fall of Reach will be epic and tragic in the show, or maybe there is another weird, massive curveball waiting to make itself known. This sex scene won't be the strangest thing to happen in the show once all is said and done. It comes across as a way to get events in place for the season finale.
The finale of the first season will be on Thursday.
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