Canon: There’s The Ability to Choose:

The word Canon is used to describe something that is part of an overall set of events that are accepted as happening within a series—Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who and lot of other series have a setup that accepts everything to happen on-screen as actually happening and anything to happen within books, comic or games as not actually happening within the grand scheme of the series. But to a point, what you accept as being part of the overall series of events portrayed in every format possible, should be personal preference rather than accepting the ideas of what is and isn’t part of it all.

Take the Alien Series of Films; technically you’re forced to accept the idea of Predator and Alien existing in the same universe, thanks to a little cash-cow of Alien V Predator brought into unnatural life of putting together things that shouldn’t be part of one another. Yes, the idea of such a life had been toyed with for a long time since one famous scene in Predator 2 presented an Alien Skull in the background, but I’m against accepting two AVP films into the grand scheme of the Alien series. I don’t accept the events of two AVP films as happening within the events of the series, as it messes up the plot of the opal of horror Alien and Aliens. If I accept the events of AVP 1 and 2, then that would mean they knew about the Alien for nearly two or three hundred years beforehand—to me that doesn’t make sense and only destroys the mystery the original film created. An idea of accepting what’s canon and what isn’t, comes from looking over a vast selection of material created in book and comic form—I choose to follow an alternative set of events leading off from James Cameron’s Aliens with one comic that went in a completely different direction to that of Alien 3.

Star Trek is known for the vast number of officially sanctioned fan-fiction released in the form of comic, books and video games, which manages to detract a huge level of credibility to the series as a whole. Though I consider the acceptance of what is and isn’t canon to be a important part of Star Trek—a well-known form of canon acceptances comes from a section of trek-fan who only accept all episodes of the series that Gene Roddenberry was alive to see produced as canon, while the rest of the series is left out in the cold. An interesting style of canon acceptance, and one I gladly support.

Canon—to a point—can be chosen, and one title in the Fallout series has already proven it’s possible to kick one game out, based on the fact no one liked it.

Thought of the Day: November 6th:

The day had moments of me thinking “What’s next?” from seeing a slightly retarded sentences presented to me in an prospectus for the college I attend with “What next?” as the question—notice how the English language is spat upon with asking “What next?” instead of the probably typed version of “What’s next?”. Did you see the proper use of contraction in sentences structure?