• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      I like Stan Lee’s line. A fanboy asked him who would win a fight between two particular characters.

      “Whoever the writer decides would win.”

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      9 months ago

      I dislike cannon contradictions because they are basically headcannon rewrites by the writers ignoring cannon

      I understand that mistakes do sometimes happen in writing where they miss a cannon detail but those are mistakes and mistakes aren’t intentional

      If someone wants to write a new star trek story there is plenty of rich cannon already there to craft into a story or a new story could be made following trek universe rules to add to the cannon

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        9 months ago

        A lot of what fans think is canon just isn’t anyway. Most so-called ‘violations’ are just different interpretations of what was shown on screen decades ago.

        There’s an entire list out there of all the headcanon that fans hold up that just isn’t supported by what’s on screen.

        Writers shouldn’t be held to fan interpretations of what they thought they saw in TOS or TNG.

        In other words, fans who clearly live in glass canon houses shouldn’t throw stones.