Since the DVD and BD are out today and I finished watching all the videos over the weekend I thought I'd get the final episode review out on the same day the DVD is out. The episode Odd One Out is the black sheep of the family a non-canon episode that doesn't have anything to do with the actual story line of the over all Halo story. Although Cortana and Master Chief make cameo appearance they don't have anything really to do with the story other than to poke fun of the Spartan 1337 (get it he's LEET..hahahaha) who seems to be a clumsy Spartan with some seriously bad luck.

Bad enough that the Spartan's story starts with him falling off a Pelican and landing on a very desolate part of a planet. He meets up some children who are dressed like little cavemen people and to make matters worse the Spartan while chatting with the children gets nommed by a T-Rex. The children get the T-Rex to spit out the Spartan by playing catch. Apparently it's a tame T-Rex. In the mean time the Covenant have developed a super weapon like Brute and send him off into space where he lands on the same planet. The Spartan and the children meet up the kids' older siblings and the older siblings tell the Spartan a little bit about their back story. In the mean time the super powered Brute attacks them. The Spartan helps out but it's the older Siblings that kick some series ass. Then we meet momma who the siblings talked about and it turns out that momma is an older UNSC AI that resides in a crashed space ship. It's momma that activates when she sees her children are threatened. The ship activates a slipspace rupture and fires the MAC gun at the brute sending it through the rupture saving the children. Cortana and the Master Chief notice the activation of the AI and the slipspace rupture and are able to make radio contact with the Spartan.

Definitely not part of the greater story and thankfully after the sad story of Homecoming it's a nice comedic departure that helps to lighten the mod. Yeah I'm sure a lot of people were not happy with a stupid story instead of another serious story being added to the set. But hey lighten up it's a funny story that I think helps to lighten the mod after all the death and mayhem that is ever so present in the other stories. The DVDs and BD are out now so go rent it or buy it. You don't need to be a huge Halo fan to enjoy it so don't let that stop you from checking it out. If you are a Halo fan this is a great way to add to the experience. I might be getting it from Netflix early this week if not I'll be picking it up at the end of the week.

Here is a short clip of the misadventures of Spartan 1337.

The second to last episode for me was Homecoming and if you have been following the none game history or Halo like reading the books you'll have a pretty good understanding of what is going on here and why. This episode is all about the Spartans and is a look at the children who were taken and built up to be Spartans and how they dealt with that fact. This one doesn't have a happy ending.

We know that the children who became Spartans were taking (either willingly from their parents or not) and taken to a secret location to be built up and trained to be the ultimate weapon. Some of those Spartans decided to escape and return to their homes that they were taken from. At this point we follow Spartan Daisy as she returns to her home planet and finds her way to her house.

Finding a young girl who looks exactly like her confined to a wheelchair Daisy is Shocked. Dr. Halsey arrives in time to tell Daisy about the flash clone project to replace the children that were abducted and Dr. Halsey tells Daisy to return to the Spartans. During this conversion Daisy has pointed her pistol at her clone and hesitates to shoot her, she decides to leave instead. The clone stops her and tells her about her dreams of being a strong person able to run and do things and decides to give daisy a little teddy bear on a chain as a gift. The clone doesn't know why she should give Daisy the bear but she knows it's the right thing to do.

Daisy and only one other Spartan return to Reach as the others that escaped have committed suicide after meeting their clones. Daisy's clone is later seen on a death bed soon after as the clones don't have a very long life. We then return to the battle field were we see Daisy fighting along side some Marines in a fight to reach an extraction point. Things don't go great and the Pelican the Marines are supposed to leave on is destroyed while they are waiting for Daisy to reach the Pelican but on her way there she is struck by a Needler and tells them to leave. Since they don't leave the Pelican is destroyed and soon after Daisy succomes to her wounds and passes away.

A while latter another Spartan discovers Daisy's lifeless body and her little Teddy Bear laying in a puddle next to her. He closes her eyes and places her bear in her hands and the episode ends.

DAMN, no happy ending there. This is definitely one of the better but sadder stories in the series of Stories. The animation is good though and since yet again I watched this one on Youtube I'll definitely be looking forward to checking out the better quality when I pick up the DVD (yeah I don't have a BD player yet so I only get to check out the DVD at the moment) later this week.

The DVD and BD are out now. The BD has all the cool stuff and there are two DVD versions one a stripped down episode only DVD and the other one has a few DVD extras.

There isn't a trailer for Homecoming so here is the regular trailer that has some stuff from Homecoming in it.

Halo Legends: Prototype is another story that doesn't involve the Spartans, instead this episode focusing on the squad leader known as Ghost and his desire to protect his second squad from sharing the same fate that his first squad suffered. In order to do this Ghost wages a one man fight against an onslaught of Covenant forces until the bitter end.

Ghost and his new squad are tasked with carring out the Cole Protocol during an invasion by the Covenant forces on a planet. Their job is to destroy all navigational data and a Prototype Powered Exoskeleton. The marines are pinned down awaiting extraction. Ghost in defiance of orders suits up in the heavily armed Exoskeleton, while it's self-destruct time counts down, and takes the fight to the Covenant forces by himself.

For a while Ghost is able to fight the Covenant forces off and give them one hell of an ass kicking. This buys his remaining squad mates the time they need to evacuate but unfortunately Ghost soon finds himself over powered, out of ammo and out of time as the count Down time has reached it's end and asks ghost for one last voice command to self-destruct. Ghost looks at the two words and remembers a time long ago when he's caring for one of his fallen squad mates. While they are talking the dying soldier tells Ghost to "be human." Ghost stairs at those two words on the screen and with one last defiant look at the advancing Covenant forces speaks those words "BE HUMAN" setting off a nuclear detonation fulfilling the Cole Protocol.

This was a pretty awesome and enjoyable episode that while it didn't involve the Spartans it did show that everyone must do their part and pay the price to ensure humanities survival. The fights were well done and the story was good and now I only have two more episodes to watch before the DVD comes out. Although AOTS DVDuesday already reviewed the DVD so by that it should be out already so I don't know what's going on but I'm thinking I'll have to check out Wal-mart tomorrow and see if it indeed already come out. How knows maybe it did.

You can check out a video clip of Halo Legends: Prototype below