: Buck flat out says, "I figure if God can hear how scared I am, than so
: can everyone else." And then him and the rest of Fireteam Osiris go
: flipping down the mountain-side like gazelle, charging straight into the
: battle with reckless abandon, pounding through rocks and jumping into
: dropships to punch the snot out a few covenant with perfect fluidity and
: grace before leaping out as it crashes into a fiery explosion, only to
: say, "heads up!". You could argue that that's badass, but I
: can't help but find it totally, completely unrealistic and unrelatable.

: If there's no discernible danger, how can I as the viewer feel the fear that
: Buck's supposedly feeling? How can I relate?

Again, I don't think the cinematic is supposed to be trying to put you in Buck's head or make you relate to that, or even relate to the characters in the sense of "yeah I'd be freaked out". The point is to show how badass they are. Obviously it's not realistic for us, but they're operating in a universe where they are augmented humans in power armor that could break your phones with a shove.

Wanting to have a cinematic that focuses on a character or characters more deeply is certainly one thing (I feel like at some point all fan discussions morph into "wouldn't this have been better?")—and it'd be interesting if the opening bit with Blue Team we're presumably getting before this part of the cinematic approaches things in a quieter fashion. But you still have to judge what you're given based on the terms it's using. Complaining that this introductory scene is bad at showing characterization is akin to me saying that I dislike horror movies because of the scary scenes. Yeah, I may have a point about how the movie would work better, but it would also be turning it into a different genre altogether.