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Posted by: EldritchWarlord
There's a difference between Colony and colonized world.Until the decision to dwindle the number, they were interchangeable terms. The individual worlds: Reach, Troy, Earth, etc., all the planets upon which Humanity actually took a permanent, wide-scale residence, militant or not, were considered colonies and were actively referred to as such in Halo content.
Now they are not, and I'm not saying that they are, either. However, whether they like it or not, what they wrote in the past is still written. It's a plot inconsistency. A very small one, sure, but still one nonetheless.
Posted by: Non Unique
Posted by: Dream053
Posted by: Non Unique
Like the fact that humanity had 17 colonies, not hundreds.
We can name more than seventeen human colonies. That's not retconning, that's a plot inconsistency. Big difference.
Retconning is perfectly fine if it fits alongside everything else. Otherwise, every single prequel in existence with an ounce of new information would be absolutely terrible.No, Staten specifically said that they changed the number of colonies for humanity because the 800 number was never official.
Bull-blam!- if you ask me.
I'm sorry, I should not have said it wasn't retconning. It is retconning. I was just trying to more effectively express its negative effect in relation to my next statement about retconning not necessarily always being a bad thing.