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twister111
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Canon; A philosophical question.
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26-Nov-2013, 3:33 AM

I cared about official canon when I first learned it existed for tv/movies. Then I learned more about it and how petty and childish the official canon of tv/movie property can be handled made me not care much about it beyond discussion about said show/movie on message boards. I mean in 2nd BSG Ron Moore seems to expect his words in interviews to be taken as the official stance instead of explaining it in the show itself. Some interviews I've only heard about, not seen the original source of, seemed to explain a whole bunch of stuff during the show's initial production. Yet in the show itself it remains completely absent of explanation. Just reminds me of a kid refusing to add an explanatory paragraph to an essay.

Further things like the "levels" of canon where George Lucas canon is atop the levels of Star Wars official canon. Really seemed petty to me.

It feels like the creators of these works of fictional entertainment want to say "you're wrong" to the audience and have the last word. Instead of allowing it to be entertainment that the audience can interpret from the work itself apart from the author. In essence "official canon", whatever it's initial intentions, seems to have evolved into a way to demean the audience and stop them from "one-upping" the authors. To that I say personal canon all the way!!!!!!

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