Quote from: Dekapitator on Apr 01, 2007, 09:30:28 AM
It's like:
Member #1: "Predators can change sexes."
Member #2: "No they can't."
Member #3: "They probably can though I'm not so sure."
Member #4: "I only consider the movies canon, so no, Predators can not change sexes."
Member #5: "I agree, they cannot, but not all the movies are canon, AVP isn't."
Member #6: "I believe AVP is canon and Yautjas CAN change sexes."
Member #7: "None of you are correct."
Member #8: "I don't really know what to consider canon and what not to.."
Member #9: "Just consider what you like as canon."
Member #10: "No, that would be chaotic, and way too contradictory."
Get it? Too many different opinions, chaotic.
Ah, now I understand. Well, as my Personal Canon thread has proven, people do have a lot of different personal canons and occasionally it does cause chaos although not as much as you think and it's not a bad thing by any means. There's a lot of disagreement about which version of Alien 3 is canon, whether Alien The Director's Cut is canon and whether the scripts, novelizations and deleted scenes are canon. Some people even refuse to accept Alien Resurrection and AVP as canon.
As for your hypothetical thread; in a real thread people will cite source material and leave it to the reader to decide what to accept. Evidence that Predators change sexes comes from Predator Forever Midnight and evidence that they don't comes from Aliens vs Predator Prey. I have yet to hear of anyone who considers Forever Midnight canon, though. They may also try to argue about why their preferred idea should be accepted as canon and not the other idea. For example, one might say that the Yautja are canon and the Hish are not because there are 3 books detailing the Yautja and only 1 book detailing the Hish, or because ideas from the AvP novel were used in the AVP movie or because the Yautja are simply more popular. The opposing side might say that the Hish are canon because the novel is newer, because the fact that the AvP novels were contradicted means they aren't canon or because the Hish seem more alien which is a good thing.
It might be chaotic but it'll be interesting.