Episode seven shifts’ gears and we go back to the young rebel Kwan. Kwan has quickly become perhaps the most hated character in the show in popular opinion, but I still have hope for the character. Yes, her story has squat to do with the main story. Yes, she does some of the dumbest things. But I don’t mind exploring a story outside of the main if it’s interesting and done well.

The episode begins with Kwan on Madrigal after a flashback two years prior showing how she met Ruben (an acquaintance she met when her and Soren went back to Madrigal and warned her of the looming threat). Apparently, she abandoned Soren after nearly killing him. Then she takes his ride and goes off into the sunset. More like a sandstorm. Wh…why did she drive into a sandstorm? She doesn’t know where she’s going nor does she know the terrain. Anyway, she ends up getting kidnapped by someone in the most mellow sand storm I’ve ever seen. Once in it, it didn’t even seem like the wind was blowing.

Anyway, Kwan makes it to the Gerudo Valley and instead of Nabooru Kwan finds Desiderata who leads a group of nomadic mystical nomadic women. This scene was just plain weird. Kwan’s having a vision where she has to fight MC but keeps dying. It’s just weird cause the next thing she’s talking to her great ancestor, then her dead father. It’s like the writers watched The Clone Wars and then Dune and said let’s make a Halo show. From what I can gather from the, Kwan’s lineage is suppose to protect the planet to protect a portal to what I assume is a Halo ring. We do get a brief glance at a Guilty Spark. Would’ve liked her to share the scene.

Now the next scene is pretty weird because it all of a sudden cut back to Soren’s hideout and he’s back there all of a sudden. At first, I thought it was a memory and he was still unconscious but no. He’s back home with no explanation as to how or why. They introduce his partner, some shady guy who looks like he’d run at the first footstep but still sell his mother out the trunk of his car (or whatever goes for a car there). There’s obviously some tension there but again, it’s pretty forced. Soren’s telling jokes and the guy’s getting jealous and seems angry with him. In truth, the scene felt out of place. Based on how things left off two episodes ago I would’ve thought Soren would’ve been in the middle of nowhere trying to track Kwan on Madrigal.

But we get to see Soren and his goons be space pirates and the scene sucks. We don’t see them actually get on the ship, secure the workers, find the cargo and all that good stuff. Nope, the scene starts with everything already done. Outside of him flexing his muscle to his crew the scene didn’t do much for me.

The coolest part was seeing Kwan return to her home which was destroyed by the Covenant. You see all this damage structures and debris from that battle. There are Elite bodies still laying where they died. They don’t do the scene justice by giving us more of her reaction to seeing the destruction. Soren shows up save her and Vinsher shows up with more guns than they can count to kill her. I was hoping to see what Soren could do. He’s a Spartan after all. It was okay. I was hoping I’d see him using super strength, tossing people like ragdolls. Or jumping dozens of feet in the air. We didn’t get that but he did get to badass so we won’t complain.

The Verdict: In the end, Inheritance was okay. A lot of people hate Kwan and her story (for good reason actually) but for me there was some intrigue. Plus, with the way they are butchering MC I needed a break. The story was interesting (a more than a little farfetched), and it was cool seeing a certain level of respect between her and Soren. A really unlikable character got killed off so there’s another plus. There were some decent action. Inheritance gets 3 out of 5.