sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:Tramp wrote:sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:
I still dont see how a definition of a word can be strictly referring to only one topic but since I'm not a litary scholar I wont debate it any further.
As for Batman SOTD they only took parts of that story and added it to their canon much like Beast Wars took parts of G1 Marvel stories and added them to the BW's pre-history.
Like I said, ask your priest, Reverand, English teacher, or College Professor. As for
Son of the Demon, the fact remains that DC had specifically excluded it from their canon. They didn't remove it, they excluded it. which is something all together. Hasbro has not specifically excluded anything they have licensed to any of our knowledge. Thus, everything they and Takara has licensed, approved and sanctioned is officially canon. Whether we as idivuduals choose to incorporate any of those materials into our own
personal "canons" is another matter and purely subjective. But to say that an offically licensed and sanctioned source is not
officially canon, is
blantanly false. We as fans do not have that authority. Therefore, unless Hasbro specifically states that a given work is non-canon, officially it is canon and
cannot be discounted as a reliable source of evidence and information in any discussion or debate where canon sources are cited as evidence.
I dont have a Priest or a Reverand and I havent been to school in almost 16 years and I'm not going back just to find this out.Now some of these retcons do remove some aspects od what was canon before, how do you explaine that?????
They don't remove them entirely, but they do change them, which happens in fiction. Retconning Primus as the one true creator of the Transformers doesn't remove the Quintessan incvolvement in their development, nor remove
Five Faces of Darkness from canon. It simply changes the interpretation of those past events and how they really played out in ancient Cybertronian history. Having Unicron actually created by The One along with Primus, and being a dark god who travels from reality to reality, does not completely eliminate the Primacron origin story for Unicron or
Call of the Primitives from canon. It simply changes the interpretation of the events told to the characters. Primacron could very well have built the "Unicron" body, and the real Unicron, then posessed it. On the other hand, the story itself told to the Dinobots by Primacron could also be chalked up to the fanciful delusions of the storyteller himself. Remember, it is being told to the characters by another individual. Primacron himself could have fabricated the whole story that he had created Unicron. Simply put, the retcon esteblishing Primus and Unicron as opposed gods spanning the multiverse does not remove any stories from canon, it simply changes the meanings and interpretations of specific facts within them. To give you an example from
Star Wars. Boboa Fett has had several conflicting origin stories given over the years from being Jaster Mereel, a former Jounreyman Protector of the planet Concord Dawn, to being a former Imperial Stormtrooper. All of these stories are canon. Yet, as of AotC, we now know his true origin is that he is an unaltered clone, son of Jango Fett. The retcon given to reconsile this is that his other stories are misinformation and rumor which adds to Fett's mystery. Jaster Mereel was the man who raised Jango, Bob used that identity for a time. All of his conflicting "origin" stories add to his mystery, though we, the audience, now know his true origins.
Another example is the age of the Old Republic. In
A New Hope Obi-Wan tells Luke that, "for a thousand
generations, the Jedi Knights were guardians of peace and Justice in the Old Republic". Yet, in
Attack fo the Clones Palpatine states that the Republic has stood for only 1000
years. HEre we have a conflict between two movies. Which is the true age of the Old Republic? 1000 generations (25000 years) or only 1000 years? That answer is both. According to The
New Essential Chronology, the Old Republic went through a reformation 1000 years before the events in the prequels after the thousand year war versus the Sith Brotherhood of Darkness. This retcon reconciled two conflictinfg statements from two G-level canon (the highest level canon in SW) sources.