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: You could say that nobody remembers Halo: Nightfall because of how
: spectacularly boring it was, but I think it's a mental defense against
: remembering how gawdawful it was.
: Come see the main character (that nobody cares about) from the upcoming Halo
: game (That won't hit for another year) bungle his way through the thinnest
: SciFi Channel excuse plot you've ever seen!
: Watch as he's saddled with a bunch of forgettable assholes that work together
: about as well as the typical cast of nobodies in a budget horror movie!
: Watch as the Covenant use a cheap plot device (It's a biological weapon! It's
: an element! It only kills humans! It's mined from the fragments of Alpha
: Halo!) as a terrifying weapon of mass destruction to kill a fraction of a
: fraction of the number of people they could kill with a single plasma
: torpedo.
: Watch as the Generic Horror Movie Protagonist Ensemble stumble their way onto
: Sedra, a colony that is technologically 200 years behind the UNSC (because
: we blew our CGI budget on a crappy-looking Elite and unconvincing Lekgolo
: monster worms), a curious backwater colony where horses inexplicably
: coexist with supersized dropships that sport slipspace drives more
: advanced than the 2552 UNSC standard!
: Oh, and remember what we said about blowing our CGI budget on crappy aliens?
: Meet Axl, chief Not-Ferengi of the Rubberforeheadian clan!
: Or you could watch something more interesting instead. I've got a
: recommendation or two.
Supposedly Axl was entirely a Scot Free Productions creation and when 343 realized what they'd done it was too late to reshoot all that, so the Covenant Fringe got hastily created to explain it.