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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2018-02-07 06:30 pm

[ SECRET POST #4053 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4053 ⌋

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[personal profile] cbrachyrhynchos 2018-02-08 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm a canon skeptic as well, especially regarding collaborative franchises like Star Trek, Marvel, and DC that didn't value internal consistency to start with and have been nearly completely remade multiple times.

I don't have an objection to treating authorial comments as extra commentary, but that's not really Word of God as is commonly meant. Many authors use social media as a promotional vehicle, so anything they say on twitter needs to be viewed as self-promotion not necessarily supported by the text.

(Anonymous) 2018-02-08 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Sure sure.

(Anonymous) 2018-02-08 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
I guess my larger point is that the whole concept of "Word Of God" as an approach to evaluating the things that creators say is only really possible or comprehensible within a broader structure of understanding things in a black-and-white way where something either is or is not canon, and counts or doesn't count.

Yes, the Word Of God approach leads to ridiculous outcomes, but ultimately the fundamental problem is with the underlying construct.