What An Absolute Waste

Ok, it introduced Agent Locke, but seemed to do little else to expand on the Halo Mythos, or give insight into the greater Halo Universe. Aside from the Covenant being mentioned early in the series, it being set on a Halo shard (which had little to do with the story other than the destruction of Alpha Halo created the right circumstances for the new element), and a brief mention of the Colonel being a former SPARTAN-II (which was only discussed in passing), there is nothing else in this to identify it as being a Halo story. So aside from these few references, it ends up being a generic Sci-Fi "movie" with cheap costumes and poor special effects. What was the point of the whole thing?

I understand this had a limited budget and was a web series, but Forward Unto Dawn seemed to be able to achieve so much more in terms of storytelling and it felt like it belonged in the Halo Universe. Nightfall had some tacit links to Halo, but never delved into them to any interesting degree, making the links superficial at best. For example:

1. Randall was a former SPARTAN-II that left the Spartan Program and appears to have had his augmentations removed. Ok, why? What did this end up having to do with the plot? It was an interesting concept that was never explored, thus giving us no further insight into the history of the Spartan Program, or what factors could allow a SPARTAN to leave. Wasted.

2. So this new element was created from the destruction of Alpha Halo. Aside from this plot element giving the characters a reason to go to a Halo Shard, it has little impact on the rest of the story overall, because this could have played out anywhere. If they had gone into some more details, it would have helped: Why did the shard enter a slipspace portal when the rest of the Halo was presumably destroyed? If supernova-like conditions occurred on the halo shard to create the new element, how did any of the shard survive?

3. Hunter worms are present on the Halo shard, but where did they come from? They behave unlike like any Hunters seen in the games or extended media, but it offers no explanation why. They're just monsters chasing the characters for no discernible reason.

All of these just add to the pointlessness of Nightfall. Some interesting concepts that, if fleshed out, could have added to the Halo mythos, but are left completely dangling and this ends up being a waste.