Halo Season 2 exists in this weird limbo, apparently unwilling to deal with Season 1's two biggest dangling plot threads--the Chief possibly being possessed by Cortana, and also having ancient magic Halo DNA--and instead replacing them with a seemingly new mystery that I have no meaningful grasp on after watching the first four episodes.

It's not a miserable slog by any means, though. The action is quite good, and the cast is putting in work--particularly Danny Sapani as Captain Keyes, who gets the best scene of the half of the season I've seen, and Bokeem Woodbine's Soren. But with the story moving away from those, ah, controversial elements of Season 1 and dropping an obtuse mystery in its place, the show has become bewildering in all new ways.

It's also bewildering in one very familiar way: Like the first season before it, Season 2 of Halo bears only superficial resemblance to the source material. It's a show that takes a bunch of Halo terms and proper nouns and goes in its own, mostly original direction with them. That's a frustrating thing, but hardly a deal breaker if that new direction is good or interesting. While it certainly manages to be interesting, at least in an abstract way, it'd be a stretch to call it "good" at this stage. The back half of the season could change that, but it's not there yet.