History YMMV / Halo4ForwardUntoDawn

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: For a web series, it has really good special effects with weapons and the Covenant. Microsoft really put a lot of money into ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'', and the marketing budget had to go big too. Understandably, ''Forward Unto Dawn'' got a lot of good backing driving those effects.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The script writers clearly didn't understand how an actual MilitarySchool works. General Black's constant involvement with and treatment of a group of freshmen cadets is the most JustForFun/{{egregious}} example. Colonel Mehaffy's (non) reaction to the fight is a close second since fighting between students is considered a serious offense, and is often grounds for suspension or dismissal.
** Or since this seems to be the first time Lasky acted aggressively towards something they overlooked it. Everyone had him pegged for a disloyal pacifist up to that point.

* UncannyValley: Spartans without their helmets fall into this. This was likely intentional, since they've been trained and augmented so far beyond human potential. This comprises having faces too-youthful for their size (the youthful faces are right for their age, the size of the bodies on which those faces rest is what is unnatural), too-pale skin (from having spent most of their time in armor), and otherworldly eyes (due to their ocular augmentations.)

** The story of the real life Roman General Corbulo: A valiant warrior hero whose suicide at the Emperor's command represents ultimate loyalty (as General Black would have everyone believe), or a tragic victim of corrupt politics and Emperor Nero's paranoia?

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: For a web series, it has really good special effects with weapons and the Covenant. Microsoft really put a lot of money into ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'', and the marketing budget had to go big too. Understandably, ''Forward Unto Dawn'' got a lot of good backing driving those effects.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The script writers clearly didn't understand how an actual MilitarySchool works. General Black's constant involvement with and treatment of a group of freshmen cadets is the most {{egregious}} example. Colonel Mehaffy's (non) reaction to the fight is a close second since fighting between students is considered a serious offense, and is often grounds for suspension or dismissal.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Corbulo Academy: A tough but respected school that teaches TheSpartanWay because they need disciplined commanders, or [[http://www.halopedia.org/index.php?title=Forum:Forward_Unto_Dawn_Impressions&t=20121102151823#Corbulo:_A_damning_insight_into_the_UNSC an elitist academy that is nepotistic]] and fails to adequately enforce its authority?
** The story of the real life Roman General Corbulo himself: A valiant warrior hero whose suicide at the Emperor's command represents ultimate loyalty (as General Black would have everyone believe), or a tragic victim of corrupt politics and Emperor Nero's paranoia?

* CriticalResearchFailure: The script writers clearly didn't understand how an actual MilitaryAcademy works. General Black's constant involvement with and treatment of a group of freshmen cadets is the most {{egregious}} example. Colonel Mehaffy's (non) reaction to the fight is a close second since fighting between students is considered a serious offense, and is often grounds for suspension or dismissal.

* FanDumb: There's is a distressing amount of comments on YouTube about how the series is "inconsistent" and "confusing" apparently because the commenters in question can't tell between the flash forward sequences in the intro and the scenes in the past of the rest of the series. Understandable for the first video since not all may have read preview material for what it was about and when it was set, but said comments persisted up to the last video.

** The story of the real life Roman General Corbulo himself: A valiant warrior hero whose suicide at the Emperor's command represents ultimate loyalty and allegiance (as General Black would have everyone believe), or a tragic victim of corrupt politics and Emperor Nero's paranoia?

* UncannyValley: Spartans without their helmets fall into this. This was likely intentional, since they've been trained and augmented so far beyond human potential. This comprises having faces too-youthful for their size (the youthful faces are right for their age, the size of the bodies on which those faces rest is what is unnatural) and otherworldly eyes (due to their ocular augmentations.)
** They're pretty pale, as well... but this is justified ''many'' times in the EU as being that they have spent so much time in their armor that their melanin production is extremely low.

* SpecialEffectFailure: The exploding [[spoiler:Hunter]] clearly just vanishes with some gibs effects being added rather than actually blasting apart.

** See AlternateCharacterInterpretation above

** The story of the real life General Corbulo himself: A valiant warrior hero who represents loyalty and allegiance (as General Black would have everyone believe), or a tragic victim of politics?

* CriticalResearchFailure: The script writers clearly didn't understand how an actual MilitaryAcademy works. General Black's constant involvement with and treatment of a group of freshmen cadets is the most {{egregious}} example. Colonel Mehaffy's reaction to the fight is a close second since fighting between students is considered a serious offense, and is often grounds for suspension or dismissal.

** Excused somewhat by the fact that this is a UNSC Academy, not a United States Academy, AND this all takes place 500 years in the future.