I disagree with your comparsion with J J's Star Wars. Aesthetically its fine, but everything else is as generic and dumb as the new style of the Halo Universe. Abrams has shown with Star Wars and Star Trek that he is at best a mediocre director who can do flashy blockbusters which work as long as you don't think about the…
Skipped through (will watch properly later) but I agree that Halo in general went downhill after 3. Visually they got messier and less iconic on non-forerunner side, and on the forerunner side it became uninspired. design wise they became muddier and it lost the humour that actually made halo special for me -- it wasnt…