Halo | Thoughts and Theories | Review of S2E8

Looks like Kai is getting The Linda treatment.

Quan was totally talking to the Gravemind. The visions she had in the previous episode led her to opening up the forerunner laboratory and releasing the flood.

I wonder if Parangorsky is going to be integrated into a proto-gravemind.

The broken, dangling mandible was pretty sick, I gotta say. That fight was awesome

I just finished watching Halofollowers review of this episode, he said the fight between Chief and Arbiter was awsome but he wished it was Arbiter who killed Vannek so it make more personal for Chief. I was like wait a minute, Var 'Gatanai aka the Arbiter was the one who killed Vannek in episode 4 lol

Maybe the inflection forms are smaller because parasite is trying to use the available biomass as efficiently as possible, making smaller forms at first while still using the host as a combat form

It's refreshing to see a prominent halo youtuber that isn't on the hate band wagon and actually appreciates the positives of this season. I thought this finale was epic and genuinely great.

I feel that Parangosky will be filling in the role for Jacob keys within the Flood, I'm actually looking forward to season 3

Mjolnir armor in this timeline has durability of Praetor Suit(DOOM)

The Flood here was incredible. Not how we experienced the Flood before, but a very interesting and unique take on a Flood outbreak chosen for this. If and when Season 3 comes out, I feel that's where we'll see more traditional Flood infections with Infection Forms and Combat Forms.

Okay theory for the Spartan III's, I theorize that they are currently unaugmented. Right now they are more like ODST's in advanced space assault armor and will be augmented later, essentially they've combined the S-III's and S-IV's and Black Daggers/ODST's into one. I'm pretty sure that Soren will be a Johnson type character, it will be interesting to see if he ends up on the surface of Halo in the next season (I'm assuming so). Maybe we'll even get him being overrun by the Flood and a Breaking Quarantine type story for him. Kai-125 is a Kelly/Linda analogue (also Kurt as well as noted in the video, but I agree that she didn't earn the right to die like Kurt did to save HIS S-III's). Note that she is drifting in a debris field around the Halo like Linda was at the beginning of First Strike however sans the Cryo Pod. Speaking of which Halsey infected in an in suspended animation in a cryo pod was a cool move. No idea how that's gonna play out, if they want to bring her back they'll have to come up with a way to cure or at least stop a Flood infection which according to lore isn't possible even with composition. Then again...Silver timeline who knows what they have changed.  We saw Parangoski being attacked by Flood combat forms so will she take the place of Keys and Ackerson becomes the new CINCONI? Or will Ackerson survive, make it to the surface and be an Elias Haverson type character, possibly a Commanding Officer on the Halo like Captain Keys. I wonder if Kwan Ha has a Librarian gene song, she seems to be aware of a lot more about the Flood as "The Monster" or potentially some kind of Ancient Human female leader, like a female counterpart too Forthencho. I enjoyed the horror aspect of an early Flood outbreak via spores which like 00 stated would be a great way to explain a more advanced Flood outbreak on the ring. I also enjoyed the Chief and Arbiter fight, I'm enjoying that the Chief isn't just a full on tank and wins every fight easily. He takes hits and gets tossed around we aren't sure if he's gonna win each fight which adds a level intensity and fear when he gets into a fight because he might lose. Each fight feels higher stakes if you will. Lastly, the Monitor. I think it is 343 Guilty Spark, I think the conversation Chief and he are having likely takes place post Flood fight on the ring. As we see at the end his visor is broken which implies an intense fight and Chief seems shaken which is how the Chief is feeling in The Flood after his initial encounter with the Flood and breaking quarantine. I'd guess this is a bit of a flash forward to next season.

how she got platforms from the covenant...LOL i didnt even notice that

I think Parengosky will be used as the basis for a gravemind, similar to how Keyes was used in CE.

Quwons ancestor is the gravemind.. It is Quwon who opens the forerunner door ultimately unlishing the flood. The gravemind even says "We were waiting for you" , meaning gravemind was deceiving her to open the gate so that flood can be released

Gotta say, i’m really leaning towards kwan being talked to by the gravemind, and maybe a second proto-gravemind being made out of parangosky like what happened with keyes. When I was watching this episode, i kept thinking “dude, this is so flood behavior. Flooding stopping attacking? Manipulating a main character tied to chief? Fucking with chief himself? Thousand percent gravemind.” It could also just be how the scene was shot, but i feel like parangosky might be made into a proto-gravemind. When she was being “attacked”, she seemed relatively calm to me. She was still freaking out, but I didn’t get the vibe of being eaten alive like the randoms did. It also seemed like a bodypile to me, more in line with the creation of a proto. If the flood assimilated the knowledge of the random officers in the CIC, then it would at the very least have an idea of the power of parangosky. If I was the flood, I would want to keep her around to a degree and keep her semi-independent in the form of a gravemind, rather than just toss her in the trash like I would the janitor.

I think they took more inspiration with how infections work in Halo Mona Lisa, next season we’ll probably see more traditional combat forms as the infection spreads on Onyx. Also i 100% think it was the Genesong that saved Kwan. My guess is that her family were entrusted by the Forerunners to “protect” Madrigal/Forerunner tech. And since they were still in the feral stage of infection her Genesong was able to at least pacify them long enough for Kwan to escape.

"One single Flood spore can destroy a species..." - Rtas 'Vadum

Kai going into the super carrier reminded me more of George's sacrifice in reach

When Perez dual wielded those needlers I lifted up my arms with her, yeah filling Covies with a flurry of pink death and watching them explode in Halo 2 was always enjoyable to watch. I too am the idiot with two needlers.

I have a theory if you don’t mind. I think that the reason the Flood didn’t just go insane and start making everyone combat forms was because it has been asleep for, how many years. It’s awoken surrounded by strange new life forms, (humans). It doesn’t immediately know how powerful humans are or if they pose a major threat. The Flood was performing a stealth and recon op. It didn’t reveal itself because it was only one host at the time of awaking. It probably waited until it had infected a vast majority of people before forcing the girl to kill the guy. (Which it probably did so it could see and infect more areas of the facility that the girl probably couldn’t access.