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Subject: In your mind which is cannon?


Posted by: FleetAdmiralBob

Posted by: xXFatal v1
Posted by: GanonSmash
Both.
Deal with it.
In an ideal world perhaps, but it's one or the other.

If we accept Reach as canon then TFoR(most of it) is non-canon.

The only way TFoR(as a WHOLE) can still be considered canon is if Halo: Reach is declared non-canon.


Bullcrap. The only bits of TFoR (that weren't already in canon trouble) are things after Sigma. The creation of the Master Chief (y'know, the important bits to the overall universe) still stand.

Halo: Reach directly refrences Red Team through radio broadcasts. They are on the planet doing things, just maybe not anywhere when and not quite how FoR depicts it.

Retcons don't leave gaping voids in the narrative. If that was true then FoR would have been kicked out the moment Spartans started using shields pior to Reach. That was pre-Halo Wars stuff, right there.

They are "both" canon, but Reach has priority for any contradictory bits. This rule has been known for years. Some of FoR's other contradictory bits when compared to more recent fare have been ignored by you folk for years. Why the sudden DOOMcon 1?
I am with you i love reach not only DOES IT FIT! but it's just awesome, now you can say it's not true but give it time all those "IT DOESNT FIT" will be made clear soon rome wasnt built in a day you know, more like a century or so :P

  • 11.19.2010 3:27 PM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

You can think the book is canon, but if you get in any discussion about Reach, the game will win out. As Fleet said, practically 90% of TFoR is canon, it's the battle that's contested. Here is how I break it down.

Pre-Reach events, read the book. For the conflict, play the game.

  • 11.19.2010 3:38 PM PDT

I will believe the events of the novel. All of it makes more sense, and was so much more enjoyable.

  • 11.19.2010 3:47 PM PDT

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Posted by: GanonSmash
Both.
Deal with it.

  • 11.19.2010 4:15 PM PDT

We were somewhere around Barstow...


Posted by: Acres 057
The game is canon, because that's what the majority of people will accept as canon, including players who aren't b.net members and those who don't even know the novels exist.

  • 11.19.2010 4:43 PM PDT
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With out a doubt the Book.

  • 11.19.2010 5:12 PM PDT


Posted by: FleetAdmiralBob

Posted by: xXFatal v1
Posted by: GanonSmash
Both.
Deal with it.
In an ideal world perhaps, but it's one or the other.

If we accept Reach as canon then TFoR(most of it) is non-canon.

The only way TFoR(as a WHOLE) can still be considered canon is if Halo: Reach is declared non-canon.


Bullcrap. The only bits of TFoR (that weren't already in canon trouble) are things after Sigma. The creation of the Master Chief (y'know, the important bits to the overall universe) still stand.

Halo: Reach directly refrences Red Team through radio broadcasts. They are on the planet doing things, just maybe not anywhere when and not quite how FoR depicts it.

Retcons don't leave gaping voids in the narrative. If that was true then FoR would have been kicked out the moment Spartans started using shields pior to Reach. That was pre-Halo Wars stuff, right there.

They are "both" canon, but Reach has priority for any contradictory bits. This rule has been known for years. Some of FoR's other contradictory bits when compared to more recent fare have been ignored by you folk for years. Why the sudden DOOMcon 1?


this.

  • 11.19.2010 9:04 PM PDT

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