Quote from: SSj_Rambo on Oct 29, 2013, 09:59:15 PM
Quote from: predxeno on Oct 29, 2013, 07:05:10 PM
Book 1 and Book 2 can still be canon, no one said they couldn't.
Well everyone has their own definition of canon, and for most people (in the world, not just this message board) the films are the basis, which would rule out Books 1 and 2.
Yeah I'm not so sure on that. "Most people in the world" likely either wouldn't care one way or another about "canon", or would accept what pretty much any "authority" said on the matter (because, as mentioned, casual readers don't care). And the "authority" in this case has consistently said they're "canon".
Quote from: SM on Oct 29, 2013, 10:15:52 PM
QuoteBook 1 and Book 2 can still be canon, no one said they couldn't.
Any other material that conflicts with the Alien infestation of Earth doesn't consider them canon.
Fox has produced or licensed content that does just that.
This assumes "canon" and "continuity" are synonyms.
The EU can all be "canon" without holding up to absolute fine-tooth-combed scrutiny from a continuity standpoint -- and that's an unrealistic standard to hold them to anyway, since even the
films fail that test.
The EU can also all be part of the same continuity if you're willing to be creative with it and allow it some wiggle room, and that's been the case with literally every fictional "universe". If you don't want to put forth the effort and would rather throw your hands up in the air and say "oh well, doesn't fit!", well... that's your loss, I guess.
Quote from: SM on Oct 30, 2013, 02:51:15 AM
Your way will be the "right" way, when it stands up to scrutiny. Even when you rejig x and ignore y and reinterpret z, and it still doesn't work, it can't, by any measure, be called "right".
Except that it's your opinion that it doesn't work -- it's not like it's some kind of universal truth. It doesn't work
for you, and that's perfectly okay. For PredXeno it
does work for him, so it's the right way
for him.