Quote from: Drukathi on Jul 22, 2021, 09:00:37 AM
Nothing wrong with this. Canon is a very liquid and unstable group of some media in the actual time. It changes constantly. And in fact it is not worth the time to argue or to determine the current canon. I will say more - we need more products that frankly won't be considered as a canon and thanks to this they will be creatively free.
Canon shouldn't be such a thing. It's the framework of consistency, by which we get the parameters of what is and isn't applicable.
It's only morphed into that because of how Fox began informally declaring things were canonical without vetting them for quality ('
Colonial Marines'), consistency ('
Fire And Stone') or both ('
Hunting Grounds'), mostly because they just wanted extra sales of whatever the product would be.
Disney hasn't yet taken up any formal stance as regards those things. They seem a bit laissez-faire about it.
The RPG has, unfortunately, more muddied waters than helped to clear them, with the 'everything-is-canon-until-it-isn't' logic, which is great for coming up with random creative games, but absolutely useless for the subject of canon, itself (weirdly, the only point where it
does put its foot down is adopting the Alex White retcon about facehugger impregnation, which isn't reconcilable with the Hadley's Hope medical report, instead of continuing to simply be ambiguous).
You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you aren't. Same applies to canon. Is something canon or not? Should be simple as that.
Some things are unknowable, but there are definite points within continuity which should be factual and not open to conjecture.