Quote Originally Posted by Arteen View Post
The Fall of Reach was a mix of good and dumb. The Flood wasn't any good. First Strike was a similar mix of good and dumb. Halo 2 was an ambitious mess of a story (with a ridiculous talking, rhyming plant monster to boot), and Halo 3's story was also lacking. Reach's story was offensively bad.

I don't think Bungie would be so awful as to allow Cryptum's story specifically, but a lot of crap was put into Halo's canon on their own watch, or even by Bungie themselves.
Curious, what do you consider "dumb" in Fall of Reach? That was the highlight of the series, if you ask me, and I find any of it stupid. It all fit together.