I read every Halo novel and became the Master Chief of loneliness | Unraveled
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Halo Infinite is coming out... Halo Infinite is already here. On July 30, 2019, Brian David Gilbert set out to read every single Halo novel. He has finally unraveled all of them, but it's come at a price: No one wants to talk to him about Halo anymore.
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Video Sections:
00:00 - Prologue
06:21 - Chapter 1: The Indoctrination
14:35 - Chapter 2: The Universe
21:00 - Chapter 3: The Isolation
23:56 - Chapter 4: The Unknown
Enjoyed this? Well, check out this video from before Brian learned how to read: kzhead.info/sun/bJyOoKWgsHZpqps/bejne.html
...why was this posted today?
@@dandischinosvarietyhour1655 ...circumstances.
Hit me up, i own them all, I love talking about them
HELL YES
@@dandischinosvarietyhour1655 they’re trying to get people to watch non-unraveled stuff so Brian leaving isn’t the death of polygon :þ
Brian.... just write fanfiction. That’s what you do when you feel empty because you know too much about a franchise. You write fanfiction.
Been doing so myself, to close up some loose ends from the Forerunner/Flood war, and the, cough, um, Logic Plague...
Write for rvb😝
chris sonofpear1 link? 👀
@@expressnumber-5049 Sure: www.fanfiction.net/u/7240238/CaptChris42
chris sonofpear1 thabks
The real reason Brian didn’t want to read the novels is because they’re not by Waughin Jarth.
Hes a big ol Jarth-head
I'm a mega jarth-head
I’m a fookin jarthhead
JARTH YOU DID IT AGAIN!
This one's for you Jarth!
In hindsight... I wish Brian wrote for the halo show :(
I agree 100%.
Hindsight? We should’ve seen the trouble from a mile away lol
Honestly the Halo Show would’ve probably been better had Brian written it
It would have been far better.
He probably likes the show because he doesn't give a damn about stupid things like wanting Master Chief's helmet on all the time.
@@mikecameron6667 he probably likes the show because the AI woman got cucked
No it would've been the exact same.
@@mikecameron6667 I’m about to start a full fledged immature rant on why this statement is wrong, if you play the games, you realize master chief is a stoic, silent, respectful individual, the show brutally assassinated his character, the show turned him into a rebellious, talkative, shouty moron. But more on your statement, the reason we hate to see him without his helmet is because not only does it disrespect the character and everything he’s been for the past two decades, its also utterly useless and the “emotion” they try to portray is just him being whiny or angry, it’s not master chief. You don’t even need to read the novels to understand who he is, halo doesn’t always need to revolve around him, Halo 3 ODST displayed this perfectly, it made the player enjoy the fresh take on the halo universe and find interest in character not known in the games. The show could have gone with that route, but we got a politically correct, utterly garbage, non canon joke of a show. I’m never going to see it as Halo, it’s a fan fiction set in the halo universe the show writers want, not what’s established, I’m no longer giving paramount my money or attention, that’s one way to destroy my interest.
"God has cursed me for my hubris and my work is never finished" really comes home with the reappearing novels in the beginning.
At least we know what a degree in creative writing qualifies you for: Eternal toil at the indenture of an unforgiving muse, gaming
Cassun *currently studying creative writing in uni* _oh no_
@@kayundae4411 Don't fret! You could just write slash fiction for a living. It doesn't have to be gaming
@@kayundae4411 there's only two job options for creative writing: fanfiction or gaming. /s
lmaooo
“A brief two-hour meeting” is a five-word horror story
Strong "baby shoes, never worn" energy
@@PlaySA cant flush no hands
“Would have been six”
@@revivvles6736 "It's me, your daughter"
thats all dnd is really
BDG asking "who are they making this show for?" really hits differently after watching the "Halo" tv show
the answer seems to be "mass effect fans" originally, given that just by changing a few of the names and locations of the existing halo show you end up with pretty much the mass effect plot.
@@BiomechanicalBrick they completely butchered the characters so clearly not
@@BiomechanicalBrick in episode 8 master chief has sex. BDG EXPLICITLY STATES THAT THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE, SINCE THE BIOIMPLANTS ESSENTIALLY CASTRATE HIM. In conclusion: do not dirty bdg’s good name over your fanboying over a show that doesn’t follow halo lore at all.
@@BiomechanicalBrick 10:17
@@CN-yb5gn that's just what the video says, that's partially incorrect. "Akin to". The augmentation process messes with their libidos but does not castrate them.
The worst part about being a lore nerd is that you really really want to tell people a bunch of useless information about fake people and fake events, but the only people who would care to listen are other lore nerds, but they already know what you’re talking about so there’s no point in explaining it to them.
Well,you could also track down newer halo fans interested in the lore
@@AdamDj-ic3kr Becoming a wise old sage on the mountaintop that aspiring catechumens must climb in an arduous test of mental and physical fortitude for me to tell them “Master Chief’s suit jerks him off”
@@captaincapitalism9535 wait is that true?
Trust me, just find an autistic halo fan (As in the actual thing autism not any kind of insult), they will be HAPPY to hear you ramble about lore for hours on end even if they already know what you're talking about
@@AdamDj-ic3krnah, just an in-joke
I love how almost every Unraveled turns into BDG trying to audition for other jobs
Perhaps he's trying to say something
It all started with him calculating his retirement x)
If making a video got him this job, then making more videos can get him *every other job*
@@vordjoncus 2020, video resumes are now the only way to apply for jobs
What a millennial.
bdg is actually leaving polygon to write the halo show
How amazing would that actually be though
We all know al ready that bdg left polygon becouse he had been hired by nintendo to be the voice of Samus in Metroid 4
@@javierminguez3420 Odd, I thought he'd been hired by nintendo for the role of Waluigi in a FMV game and DEFINITELY not also Luigi.
@@groofay Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that he found out a way to be his own boss.
I've heard it's a musical.
"Halo's gonna have a tv show!" He said with enthusiasm. "Not much is known about it!" _Little did he know, the entire halo community would agree the show fucking sucked(s), and would have actually been much better if he had actually gotten to write for the show_
Why does the worked sucked have an optional plural?
@@Brent-jj6qi not sure if its still going or not.
literally the only thing the Halo community has ever unanimously agreed on
They're making another season
As someone who genuinely enjoys the show (present tense since it is, in fact, still going), even _I_ feel like it would have been better with BDG in the writing department It would have been _much_ better written by BDG Hands down Missed opportunity right there
"let ME write the halo show! as a real true fan, I know more about this universe than you do!" ... Oh boy ... This bit didn't age well
I think it aged great. He was right in that he should have been writing for the show. Though he was wrong in thinking they cared about the lore.
@@Flaris they kicked the lore in the balls so hard, the brain got flattened inside that skull
@@Gamma_249 How so? Examples?
@@mikecameron6667 they didnt wven play the games so that they could do their own thing
@@Flaris See, but he wasn't though. That moment was talking about fandom entitlement, getting to the core of the social isolation that can happen when someone is so obsessed with a singular franchise.
Brian was so absorbed in the halo universe that when listing his qualifications for writing for the halo tv show he didn't even mention his degree in creative writing.
Everyone knows a degree in creative writing never gets you a job in the field
@@sycastells1212 Judging by what we know about the show's story, the writers probably would've liked Brian more if he only listed his creative writing degree and skipped out on the Halo lore
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I like how unlike his other episodes, this time he genuinely had me like "Yeah, i can actually see him getting that job"
now that the tv show is actually happening I'm wondering if he is in the writing room.
"Wait why is he in the office? America is still in lockdown-" "Today, july 30th 2019" "O h, o h n o"
"A lot has changed since I started this project" Oh boy has it
Uhoh john!
pishoopy i mean he no longer has a mustache
Hehehehe
One year of work...
I think the saddest thing is knowing that he spent his last normal summer reading halo novels... if only we could have warned him.
Last?
@@evincollins5198 yea last before covid
@@normalyo5571 christ that's awful
@@normalyo5571 I mean, we're back to normal this summer in most of the US at least...
@@mechanicalmonk2020 ^^^
Brian put more love and care into this entire video than the paramount writers did for the million dollar Halo show. I really do wish they let him write for the show
He does actually have a degree in creative writing so 🥲
@@papercutsrock2403 lol it definitely shows. Still makes me sad that they gave this beloved IP to writers who openly admit to never reading the source material or looking at any of the games for inspiration.
@@Hamppdurhoping the fallout show turns out different, the people behind it are actually fans and care about the games and accuracy
@@Hamppdur Are you serious?! What the actual crap?? I just started the show, I'm literally on the second episode right now... are you telling me it's going to suck?
@@katherinebrown5720Big suck unfortunately.
Brian: I should write for the Halo show Brian: lists why Brian: DOESNT LIST THAT HE WENT TO HOPKINS AND HAS A DEGREE IN CREATIVE WRITING
he actually deserves to write for a show though
That doesn't seem to be helping him
@@funkuro he does!!!
@@Sam-on5jf :o for what?
He actually set his degree on fire in one of his videos so he can't use that anymore
brian i think you need to start writing Halo fanfiction, that's the only logical use for this knowledge
Melody Pond yes I would love that
I'd read it
tags: Halo, comedy, tragedy, philosophy, suit-jacking
God fuck that would be a trip
I don't care about Halo at all, but I would read it
"I have, no clue, what's going on in these games" As someone who has played practically all of them, neither do I my friend.
Honestly, the plot was fine in 1, 2, and 3. 4 was good writing, even if it was simple, and helped develop master chief and his relationship with cortina, then 5 drove a bus straight through everything and caused a nuclear catastrophe, that infinite is trying to kinda sorta maybe fix but not really
@@Brent-jj6qi Don't forget the massive retcon that halo reach is.
@@shawno8253Yeah, that game is weird to me. On the one hand, I love the artistic style and gameplay, as well as Noble Team and some of the things they do on Reach. But the massive contradictions to previously established lore are rather… distasteful. Especially when you consider how people who’d read the books probably felt when nothing was known about the game, versus when they learned. Overall, I love it, but I wish it stayed faithful
@@double1777TBF, Bungie was against the books from the beginning. They didn't even want fall of reach to be published in the first place, but daddy Microsoft has other ideas.
damn maybe Brian SHOULD have written for the Halo show
Considering he loves the garbage mess that is the KT trilogy and the cave man guilty spark nonsense maybe it would have somehow been even worse.
No definitely not. He liked the Karen Travis trilogy. I feel like the people who liked that wrote the show.
Let’s be real nobody would have been mad if this video was 2 hours long
God, can you imagine a collaboration between Brian Gilbert and Jon Bois? They would probably talk for seven hours about the most trivial topic possible and it would be the most interesting thing you have ever watched.
Hell, I watched an over 2 hour video about how The Lion King didn't rip off Simba The White Lion. Two hours of this would be *nothing* .
I would have loved that honestly
If Jenny Nicholson can produce a 2 hour video on a terrible conservative novel or a bootleg published Star Wars fanfiction and have people begging for more then BDG could produce a 5 hour Halo novel analysis and no one would bat an eye
Dude he could’ve gone for 16 hours and I’d be cool with it
Brian: "Today, July 30th" Me: "Wait today is July 30th" Brian: "Of 2019" Oh *Oh no*
I felt that
Samesies 😆
I timeskipped back like 3 or 4 times because I thought HE READ EVERY NOVEL IN A SINGLE DAY?!......... IT TOOK A YEAR?!
Oh good, that explains the mustache continuity error
20:02 “I know more about this universe than you do” Oh how we laughed. For we did not know the legitimacy of this claim at the time.
Yeah, he was NOT kidding on that one.
Seeing the halo show finally release, what a massive yike. Brian must have discovered a new despair when the show abandoned all the novels, lore, and everything else of substance. He really should have written it (after playing the games)
The show actually only abandoned things that had no substance whatsoever, like chief having his helmet in inappropriate situations and chief having stockholm syndrome about being kidnapped and brainwashed. The cool and important stuff is in the show such as Soren
@@BiomechanicalBrick You re a clown
@@BiomechanicalBrick the thing is that the helmet and extended suit are like a second skin, they’re even more basic to him then the clothes you wear, so of course he doesn’t take it off. Also, it pays off in Halo 2, because the covenant attacked during a ceremony where SGT Johnson told him to wear something nice. Also, of course he has weird Stockholm syndrome over the whole situation, he is one of the main reasons that the humans didn’t lose the war against the covenant, which would’ve spelled death for all sentient life in the entire fucking galaxy. If you were in that situation, you would probably excuse the horrible treatment because you would’ve been dead before retirement age anyways, along with everyone you know and love.
@@BiomechanicalBrick You forgot to mention how he takes his helmet off every episode, and has sex with a prisoner of war.
Brian from Oct 28, 2018 : "i had to read all the skyrim books UGH!" Brian from Jul 30, 2020 : "you child, you babe swaddled in the cloth of ignorance"
*2019
I'm almost disappointed that noone gets the unraveled reference.
@@schippai3308 2020 is correct as it reflect the state after the books are read
*cashmere blanket of ignorance
Best comment
**At any point during the year** Someone: Hey Brian, what're you reading? Brian: *Horrified screaming*
Brian: no the suit doesn’t jack him off Someone: that’s not what I asked
Brian: *goes off on a tangent*
"Can't tell you. I'm saving it for a video."
"This Halo show is being made specifically for me, because this universe is incredibly interesting to me" Oh Brian, how I wish we had known
He would same the same thing today tbh. The show only halo book nerds can understand.
@@BiomechanicalBrickyea where book nerds could see how they butchered the lore, they follow nothing in the books. They literally just pick and choose characters, locations, and programs and butcher them.
This video unironically inspired me to get into Halo and now its one of my favorite franchises so I have to thank Brian for his suffering.
Dude same, the audiobooks have been fantastic!
You are a braver person than I! I refuse to get into them for fears that the new games will butcher the canon.
I feel like the breakdowns are shifting from what they used to be: the ramblings of a serial killer. Now they are the sad whispers of a broken man.
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Respect the avatar miboi
It all started with Waluigi. Waluigi broke him, though he is still wonderfully amazing.
I believe this is called character development
@@AlicedeTerre yeah bdg's character arc is really investing, can't wait to see where it goes
"his vocaloid waifu" Never have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with.
Sooooooooo not a weeb
wow, just as i was reading that comment it was at the part where brian david gilbert said that, was trippyXD
James Acaster fan?
In the fall of reach Cortana even says that Chief is hot
_it do be like that sometimes_
27:12 if you want the fact that his one partner that has always been on his side has turned on him to become even more fucked up, Brian didn't even mention the fact that Cortana is modelled after Halsey, the doctor/mother figure of john who is the core person behind his abduction and abuse
You got no one to talk to about Halo? You got me bud. Always up for a chat on Halo. Its what I do.
the GOAT
@@Liaison_Verequiem get GOATed
Next episode: “I read every single Warhammer 40,000 novel and am now the Emperor of being dead.”
This man is clearly not the God Emperor, you heretic! I'm calling the Inquisition!
God. I would love to see this one happen.
Oh dear god. Everything not written by Dan Abnett is trash though
Honestly not sure if it would be possible to fit them into one lifetime... And that thought is darker than many of the events that take place in 40k 💀
Featuring several (SEVERAL) videos discussing what is canon and what isn't.
This is the only universe where "Don't worry, they used orphans this time" is a positive thing to say...
hey, one of my friends got into a half-hour/hour long debate during a D&D session about why it is the more ethical choice to use orphans, if you're going to sacrifice children
@@8-bitsarda747 i guess its a quantitative measurement more than anything. "Instead of violating the human rights of a father and his son/daughter, you will only be violating the human rights of his son/daughter!"
The only universe? * Laughs in Warhammer 40k lore *
"Well, I didn't use ALL of it!"
@@8-bitsarda747 to be fair its kids that have been orphaned by the covenant so they get a chance to fight the covenant. since the covenants spread was so wide that they needed spartans to fight the covenant and taking the orphans of the covenants conflicts it means you can have soldiers that have a personal stake in the conflict. still definitely ethically icky butfar better than taking children from their family lives into a conflict they have no stake in.
I can't tell you how much I love this, The Fall of Reach was the first book I ever read outside of school at 10 years old. Even my Halo loving friends felt the same way about me when I'd go on a tangent about the spartan III's while playing Reach. I bought the Halo encyclopedia just to happily sit down and go "haha I knew that"
dude that last sentence was so fucking funny & so fucking inspiring.... currently googling my way to purchasing a copy as i am the same type of person as you lol
Not being able to talk about anything else after reading that many books is such a fucking mood. 14 volumes of the Overlord light novel ripped my personality to shreds.
Those books change a man
The star wars expanded Universe for me
I was legit disappointed when he said he was shortening it so it didn’t go on for hours. I want to watch him go in depth into the halo lore with the clips of his gut reactions cut in. I would watch the whole thing no matter the length
petition for bdg to do a several hour halo analysis
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@@AlbinoKiwi47 Have mercy to the man, he had already gone through enough. Have you no sympathy?!
@@PauaP no We do not
I watched a 2 and a half hour video on RWBY, a show I haven’t even watched before. I’m absolutely down to watch Brian talking about Halo for at least that long.
Wait this is legitimately so heartbreaking because I know that feeling of getting really into something and having absolutely nobody to talk to about it...
i feel the same...
Same
Yep :(
Same. And Halo is that thing.
@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer wanna chat about Halo? Cause I could use someone to talk to
God I’d kill to hear his thoughts on the now fully released show.
"For my Skyrim Book Report, I read 571 pages. For this, I read 10,920 pages. Which is _more"_
So when are we getting the full uncut eight hundred hours of Brian's check-ins after finishing every book
I actually want that fr
I really want him to release it. i would watch it. I also want to see his reaction to RVB
I really need this
Ok genuinely I'd love to hear some of his thoughts on the individual books because uh...I really don't want to read the books but the way he dives into some of them here makes me really interested in hearing a longer analysis
@@cass1115 If youre a decent fan of the games I'd say they are worth a shot. The original bungie novels are all pretty solid but the ones he highlighted as good are actually really good
Absolutely hysterical to me that the moment Brian confessed that he's alienated from his friends and peers the video got interrupted by a halo infinite ad that, upon ending, left me with an uncomfortably long shot of Brian's distraught face. Bravo.
the one time i'm sad i have adblockers on, is because of beautiful moments like this
Mine was an ad for beer, which I feel was a bit of a self destructive suggestion in that moment
These r the things you miss when you download an adfree browser😞
Capital one for me, not sure what the connection is there
19:23 this poor dude. this poor dude. i feel so sorry for him.
i am here once again almost 3 years later to say release the full Brian halo novel recaps, i would pay real money to hear over 10 hours of Brian talking and recaping the halo novels to me
BDG left Polygon years ago
Brian, whatever polygon is paying you, it isn't enough. Jesus.
Seriously, can we start like a GoFundMe to pay Brian what he's worth?
What do you mean they gave him like 300 dollars in free Halo books
mixmastermind yeah I’d love to have all of these books even if I’d take a long time to read them I just want them for collection
Agreed.
Actually VOX is paying him more than anyone else on the team, there is a huge pay disparity. If you like their content you should support them and look more into supporting the VOX union
I'm Greg Bear's daughter, and I linked him to the bits of this video that mention his books. He calls it "Very cool appreciation of pure genius!", which I think means he liked it. Bit surreal to see my dad's name in one of these videos, but hey, at least Brian was nice about it.
I'm disappointed he didn't go into more depth on those. There are some huge, powerful concepts which influence the whole lore.
You should check out "Halo Conversationalists". They spend hours talking about your father's work, and I am sure he'd love to hear it!
@@kingja2000 installation00's channel is a great source for concepts found in the forerunner trilogy as well
The Forerunner Saga is my favourite piece of Halo lore out there. Give the good man my personal thanks, hes a terrific writer.
Your fathers work was one of the highlights of my teen years, send him my thanks.
I think the progression of BDG from "funny guy losing his mind from taking things too seriously" to "man haunted by an unknowable cosmic force forcing him to try to comprehend everything on an absurdly deep level" was actually a slow enough build that I didn't even notice the change all that much until the show was over and I started rewatching unrevaled episodes out of order.
This is hilarious to watch considering the writers didn't even play the games
I mean neither did BDG
Things that have changed since July 30, 2019: -Brian no longer has a mustache -His brain is filled with Halo knowledge Nothing else. Everything else in the world is still the same
Nothing else
Absolutely nothing else
Nope, completely fine here, nothing changed
zero. nada. zilch. nothing at all has happened
everything is completely normal except for those 2 things
"The average American reads 12 books a year." I don't think I've ever heard a statement more false.
books georg reads 8000 books a year
This is a primary example of why the average is far less important than the median
He also said the median is 4, which is fair. The mean includes people like academics and uh, Brian now I guess.
I know I am the wierdo here, but I think I read about 150 books since 2019? so I am doing my part to keep that average nice and high
@@adammiller4473 I'm not from the US, so I don't affect your statistics at all, but I had to ask someone else that reads a lot. Is it just me, or is it weird to complain about reading 25 books in a _year_ when he can do it FOR WORK. I mean, imagine getting paid for reading books! The Halo books are mostly pretty okay books as well so it's not like they are a slog to get through.
To the show producers: “I know more about this universe than you do” It is *painful* how true that joke turned out to be.
Boy that Halo TV show enthusiasm did NOT age well, huh?
I think these short summaries are a waste of his time investment. Who would also watch a 4 Hour uncut narrated video with me?
Just finished typing out my own comment-rant on the exact same thing. Totally agree
me!!
The bigger irony being how many people I know that have read all if not nearly all the books and I'm working on doing the same but all media.
I watched that procrastinators video on Animorphs as well
I would watch an entire series, release the full synopsees 2020.
The fact that he started exactly 1 year ago is the most bdg thing I've ever seen
Exactly my thoughts
This is why I love him so much
I thought to myself, "Brian...are you alright?"
Keep in mind that all the unraveleds for the past year were done on top of this
You've underestimated the powers of theatre kids
I want the full length vids we are only given tiny hints about. Yes, all of them.
EVERY. SINGLE. DETAIL.
MORE, WE NEED MORE!
just started playing halo infinite today and this helped alot when understanding everything that happened before that opening cutscene because ive never played or read or seen halo before
“I am 0 books a year,” *Previously read every book in Skyrim
The books in skyrim aren’t full books, they’re only a few pages each so they don’t really count
@@MerkhVision if he counts them all in one, then he could count at least 1
It was more than a year ago...
@@MerkhVision Short stories are still books, dude
that graphic was for how many non-Halo books he read for that year, it's not how many books he reads on average per year
ME: *sees title* ME: Oh god no Brian don't- BDG: It's July 30th, 2019 ME: Oh no, he already did it...
'' Dom, he is not a comic book vilain. Do you think he would explain his master-plan if you had the slightest chance to stop it? He did it 12 months ago'' Ozymandias.
Remember when he said that the TV show was made for Halo fans like himself who have read the books? Well that that was a fucking lie.
@\f_a/ they clearly didn’t read or play any of the games because they fucking admitted to the latter and butchered everything
This video was hilarious but the whole thing was worth it for 'I was behind the wheel of the warthog of literature'
"today, on july 30th..." What? That's today, how is he- "...2019" oh. Oh no.
Dude same
Vanessa what a difference a year makes
Sameee
Oh Brian. Oh David. Oh Gilbert, what have you Done?
" I've read 571 pages in my Skyrim book report. For this, I've read 10,920. *Which is more.* " Dude knows his math.
*They* _really_ *should’ve let Brian write for the Halo TV show…*
Because of this video I completely got sucked into the Halo universe. I just finished reading the Kilo-Five trilogy. I spent Labor Day 2020 sitting on the couch watching all the cutscenes for Halo 1-5 (and cried at the end of Halo 4). It is super ironic that FPS games make me motion sick. I would love to hear BDG's thoughts about the series. I love it a lot and it's been funny reading the end of Mortal Dictata while watching the first half of the season.
dude its been crazy to see people who weren't previously fans get into it after watching this. it made my heart so full to read that! if you play video games (just not FPS) and have an itch to actually grab the controls of a halo game for once, Halo Wars is such a strange, unique little experiment that works surprisingly well. if you've played Age of Empires, you'll be able to figure it out. funnily enough, i believe the first Halo Wars can without a doubt be credited as the first real-time strategy game exclusively made for consoles - and made VERY well! totally shocked the industry that an RTS could work at all. anyways sorry for rambling, HALO IS FUN! hope you're well mate (:
Brian is literally Polygon’s biggest asset. The single biggest asset that they have is Brian.
my asset definitely becomes the biggest when he uploads
heheh ass et
mega props to the rest of the video team on these videos though - BDG subjects himself to all sorts of personal hells, but the story crafting and editing is what makes it all worthwhile.
David Edwards I’m pretty sure Brian does the majority of his own editing. But, the cameramen make the video a thousand times more alive too
His back must hurt from carrying the channel
Can we have a stream where Brian just answers halo lore questions and goes on all the weird tangents that couldn't fit into this video?
Yes that would be so good
That would be absolutely horrible... I love it!
HiddenXperia would like to have a word
I want to see his 30 minute gut reactions to each book
We need it
@19:15 if only we knew then, what we know now...
Poor guy…
To add onto why the K-5 trilogy is so good; they're just fun reads. They detail some really cool concepts and sequences and all of the chatacters are actually quite well-done and distinct. Naomi, the Spartan, especially shines here; she's successfully depicted as deeply damaged and asocial owing to her upbringing while simultaneously forming very quick bonds with her military brethren, allowing for the relaxed interactions and occasional one-liners that made Spartans like Chief so personable in the first few Halo games. Basically she's not a shell, but rather a deeply damaged yet rounded out _person._
Polygon Unraveled: how can we get Brian to have a mental breakdown for people's amusement Brian on Overboard: *how can I get my revenge on all of my coworkers?*
*attempted amusement
@@djcwittz3012 SUCCESSFUL AMUSEMENT
@@mr.wonderfulwisdomouswonde2991 no... No only attempted
DJ Cwittz wdym, this stuff is great
@@barrsido7070 maybe for you
“His home would not fall...” *looks at title of novel* “UH-OH JOHN!”
@Fluffle Truflle ruh roh raggy
That joke is so simple, but it _killed me_ .
Whenever I see blatant foreshadowing, I will respond with a huge UH OH!
I'm very curious what BDG thinks of the show so far if he's bothered to watch Any of it.
So turns out Brian DID know more than the writers of the Halo TV show/
Hey Brian, now that we're in quarantine and people are losing their minds with nothing to do, how about you reconsider uploading that hour long Castlevania video about all the monsters?
Three hour
Bees ? Even better
i s2g ive never played a single Castlevania game but i would watch all 3 hours with undivided attention
jinxthedestroyr hard same lol
honestly please tho
Damn, bdg really turned a Halo book report into a critique of the toxicity and loneliness of fan culture.
that’s the magic of bdg
lol
This is why my Celeste save file is called "bdg > god"
Hey blame the book nuts. All the game fans want is a fun game that stays true to the core game
@@gabethebabe3337 What are you talking about? This reply has nothing to do with my comment.
I really would like to see even a short follow up with Brian about how the show turned out. I haven't seen it but all my mates who have and are also Halo fans were disappointed. Plus it would be the perfect excuse for Brian to put his limitless knowledge about the universe to good use again!
Master Cheeks would be an insult of Brian's commitment to this project.
Honestly, a longer version of this sounds pretty interesting... though it would probably mean BDG unravels his own sanity more having to reread the books
congrats, brian. you got my mom to read the halo novels, something that years of me and my brother infodumping halo lore has never done. i guess you're the favorite child now. edit: when the hell did this gain traction
What an interesting family unit!
Wait, how did he get your mom to read the Halo books?
Hey be glad at least your mom can write for the show now
@@JoshuaC34 By telling her that John's suit doesn't jack him off.
Oof
The implication that he does not choose the topic, rather the universe chooses it for him, is enlightening.
Previously, he has willingly chosen to cover topics destined for him to cover, but when Brian tries to change the threads of fate, the universe must dip its hand in to intervene.
Brian David Gilbert Unravels Why the Universe Torments Him So
Man they should have just let him write it given how it turned out.
They should've let you write the Halo show
His home would not fall. “The fall of Reach” Uh oh John
@@owenshirrell1150 apologies for the deception
@@statementofjoespooky1660 there's so much going in this one comment
Age like milk
Technically his first home was Eridanus II so double yikes.
@@dustindubbo2892 *Uh oh John*
Me: confused how he started reading these books on July 30th when it is July 30th Description: July 30, **2019**
2020*
@@7kingly241 2019 *and* 2020*
He literally says 2019 in the video though
he also says 2019.. with his mouf
love how the constant cutting that's in every unraveled makes it looks so much less unnatural for the halo novels to appear out of thin air
18:15 oh, to be as hopeful as Brian about the halo TV show.
Can we get Pat to host an Unraveled called "Is Brian Okay" that shows the behind-the-scenes process for coming up with these wild and torturous ideas and in which Brian is sitting off to the side with a blanket and a cup of cocoa. So that he can, at least briefly, rest.
i also would like to see cuts of karen videoing him during his quarantine episodes
BDG himself | Unraveled ft. Pat
“July 30 2019” Me: there’s no way he read that many books, write a script and edit in a week! Is there? “July 30 *2019”* Me: oh.
Is that a Hollow Knight mixed with Lego Star Wars profile pic?
@@zeng6042 definitely.
19:40 all the people raging over the halo show right now
Honestly, Brian SHOULD write for Halo.
“The average American read around 12 books a year.” Nah man, that’s just my friend Geoffrey. He reads 3.9 billion books a year.
Books Geoffrey is an outlier and should not be counted
books georg
books geoeg is an outlier and should not be counted
He said the average was 12 but the median is 4, so I think you might be correct.
i rad nothing for the majority of the year then i read 4 books in like, 5 days
"So, who will read all the Halo Novels?" *BDG sitting in the corner, desperately trying to hide his creative writing degree*
Imagining that he does carry it around on him all the time makes it even funnier
Little did Brian know, the Halo TV show could of done with someone who read even the title of one of the books or even the back of the game box / digital description
Hey bro... Thanks for the Halo show. They made it just for you and unleashed it on the rest of us
BDG's emotional spiral about how his info-dumping is destroying his friendships and how Halo is basically his entire life now is too much of a relatable autism feel and i actually got anxiety over his relaying of this information thanks Brian.
I find your comment relatable.
This computes. Mind you, I've also found that friends tend to genuinely enjoy infodumping when it's well-presented. And honestly, that's basically just storytelling at that point, which is one of those Very Human Things that makes us special. So that's neat.
Clockwork Kirlia oh for sure. just sometimes i personally get anxiety that friends are tired of me always talking about whatever special interest i have at the moment. and i have had (ex) friends yell at me for it. but those kinds of people usually aren’t good friends anyway
@@LezbeOswald Oh, I totally get that. I have the same fear, and my friends are more fed up of me apologising for it. :P I'm glad you're rid of the people who weren't kind to you. I find that autism can be a really quick way to tell whether someone's an asshole or not. If they're gonna be jerks, they'll probably be jerks about that so it's worth mentioning. That's just my experience, obviously. I've definitely been lucky in being as open as I am.
@@LezbeOswald eff those people i know exactly what that feels like :o( one of my favourite things is to listen to someone gush about something they're passionate in, regardless of my initial interest. when i do it my hands go everywhere like i'm conducting an orchestra of space facts lol. unrelated but ur icon is iconic. have a nice day :o)
The real Halo novel was the friends you lost along the way.
*Warthog run plays
The scream of terror gets me everytime
As someone who has also read almost every single Halo book… I relate to this. Once you know so much there is NOBODY to talk to about Halo. Please send help.
hello please join halo pedia for fun
@@derpynerdy6294 oh I use Halopedia. A lot.
This is what it feels like to force yourself to enjoy something your friends like, then it becoming your hyperfixation after all your friends have moved on
That's what happened to when h3 came out and after Reach they all moved on. This was 10 years ago.
Hu Huu felt- I just now got into kingdom hearts years after its release and no one I know cares about it anymore and it’s all I want to discuss
I have autism so I hyperfixate to everything and this has been basically my whole social life
Kingdom Hearts has already taken my soul. And my wallet.
Me, knowing nothing about Broadway and just now getting into Hamilton because of D+
The knowledge that BDG spent LITERALLY the entire 28th year of my life doing a Halo book report is fantastic. Birthday to birthday, he suffered for my entertainment.
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday! Try not to dissect Brian's actions too much or you'll go mad from the revelation
happy birthday !!! hope u can find safe ways to celebrate w the people u love ❤️
paying my yearly pilgrimage to this masterpiece