Not sure how Paramount read this script and gave it the green light for production. The show’s writing is terrible and I could’ve gotten over the fact that it was not connected to the games if it just wasn’t so lazily written and wasn’t actively spitting on the games and characters from the franchise I grew up with. The props and costumes of the show are cool and some like Chiefs armor are outstanding, but unfortunately some of CGI looks wack especially on the Elites whose design barely looks like it’s game counterpart. The games themselves had a better story than this by a long shot. I thought they avoided the original story because they wanted to cut cost and wanted freedom to do something different in a cool way. Until I read some articles on how the writers of the show literally bragged about how they never even played the games!?!? Pretty baffled and sad on how they screwed this one up :(