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** 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.
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It\'s a continuity error, but not a failure of the special effects. The trope is for obviously fake effects.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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** 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.
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* 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 be just as big. Understandably, ''Forward Unto Dawn'' got a lot of good backing driving those effects.
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* 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 be just as big.go big too. Understandably, ''Forward Unto Dawn'' got a lot of good backing driving those effects.
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* 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 budged budget had to be just as big. Understandably, ''Forward Unto Dawn'' got a lot of good backing driving those effects.
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* 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/Halo4'', ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'', and the marketing budged had to be just as big. Understandably, ''Forward Unto Dawn'' got a lot of good backing driving those effects.
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* UncannyValley: Spartans without their helmets fall into this. This was likely intentional, since they've been trained and augmented so far beyond human potential.
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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.)
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: ''Halo 4'' introduces Sarah Palmer, whose [[TheLancer supportive female friend]] role can seem [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute suspiciously similar]] to Chyler's. Of course, Chyler doesn't appear in ''Halo 4''.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: ''Halo 4'' introduces Sarah Palmer, whose [[TheLancer supportive female friend]] role to Lasky can seem [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute suspiciously similar]] to Chyler's. Of course, Chyler doesn't appear in ''Halo 4''.
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* UncannyValley: Spartans without their helmets fall into this. This was likelyintentional.intentional, since they've been trained and augmented so far beyond human potential.
* UncannyValley: Spartans without their helmets fall into this. This was likely
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** The chain gun on the Warthog doesn't rotate when being fired.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: The exploding [[spoiler:Hunter]] clearly just vanishes with some gibs effects being added rather than actually blasting apart.
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** InUniverse: Lasky views himself as a conscientious objector. The others view him as a cadet who is refusing to acknowledge his duty.
** Insurrectionists as well. YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters sums it up.
** Insurrectionists as well. YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters sums it up.
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* 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?
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* TearJerker: In part 4, the survivors walks the halls of the academy and see bodies everywhere. To the side, is one cadet with his arm around another.
** [[spoiler: Silva's death]].
** [[spoiler: Silva's death]].
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**[[spoiler: Silva's death]].
**[[spoiler: Silva's death]].
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: For a web series, it has really good special effects with weapons and the Covenant.
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* TearJerker: The sequence where the [[spoiler:remnants]] of Hastati Squad follow the Chief through Corbulo's grounds to get to a Warthog. On the way they pass dozens of bodies while sad music plays. One especially meaningful shot is one of two cadets, one male, one female, lying together. The male's arm is around the female's body.
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* TearJerker: The sequence where the [[spoiler:remnants]] of Hastati Squad follow the Chief through Corbulo's grounds to get to a Warthog. On the way they pass dozens of bodies while sad music plays. One especially meaningful shot is one of two cadets, one male, one female, lying together. The male's arm is around the female's body.
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* FridgeHorror: [[spoiler: Just before the space elevator falls, you see 3 covenant corvettes come into the atmosphere. This may imply that all the UNSC ships in orbit are destroyed, unless the battle in space is so heated that some managed to get through.]]
* FridgeHorror: [[spoiler: Just before the space elevator falls, you see 3 covenant corvettes come into the atmosphere. This may imply that all the UNSC ships in orbit are destroyed, unless the battle in space is so heated that some managed to get through.]]
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The screams of people [[spoiler: falling from a destroyed Space Elevator]] is certainly gonna send a few chills up the spine. [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou To think the ones killed by plasma fire were the LUCKY ONES]]ONES]]
* FridgeHorror: [[spoiler: Just before the space elevator falls, you see 3 covenant corvettes come into the atmosphere. This may imply that all the UNSC ships in orbit are destroyed, unless the battle in space is so heated that some managed to get through.]]
* FridgeHorror: [[spoiler: Just before the space elevator falls, you see 3 covenant corvettes come into the atmosphere. This may imply that all the UNSC ships in orbit are destroyed, unless the battle in space is so heated that some managed to get through.]]
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