- anton1792
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"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum
You can bring up as many hypotheses as you like but that does not automatically make everything all the better just because it may happen to fit some facts.
The Halo story is more than just a set of mundane dates and events; more than just having characters here, characters there. A few dates may work out with some conservative ret-conning or a few events may be explained by a theory, but they also have to make sense in the context of the Haloverse itself.
Take for example the ODP's.
People say: "Where where the SMAC's? Canons broke!"
Then an apologist will come back with "They were clustered on the other side of the planet/whatever/etc"
That would fix this if all Halo was was a set of dates and events and locations. However it does not make sense in the context of the Haloverse. We have been led to believe that Reach was the Titanic of the stars. We were told how mighty the SMAC's were in TFoR, how Reach was Humanity's last hope. We were therefore expecting to see that, to see the SMAC's sensibly arranged around the planet like a true fortress. A medieval castle would not cluster all of its cannons on one wall, so why does it automatically make sense for Reach to cluster its defences like such? The explanation of "The SMAC's were all in location X" may make sense in regards of "what" but it fails horribly in terms of "why" and ruins the theme and image of what Reach was supposed to be. The SMAC's is just an example by the way. Another I cannot really agree with is how the Covenant got onto Reach in the first place.
You may be able to explain "what", but if the "how" and "why" does not make sense then it is debauching to Halo's story and is useless as an explanation, and I think that is why some are unwilling to accept Reach with loving arms.
Because quite frankly, I don't care if the SMAC's were all at point X, or if the technology that the Covenant used to get to Reach was prototype, the explanations break down beyond that and make no sense in the larger scale of the story.
If this were a join-the-dot puzzle, people who defend Reach will say that all the dots connect. Perhaps they do, but does the resulting picture make any sense?