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Geek History Lesson

Canon: Why It Does and Doesn't Matter

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Film History, Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

It's time to explore the biggest word in fandom this side of "continuity" on this week's Geek History Lesson as we dare to examine the thing that holds it all together - "CANON". What exactly does it mean? How can canon be applied to the things we love most? And, most important of all - does canon really matter? Jason and Ashley tackles canons with specific rules from DC Comics to Marvel Comics, canon that negate any kind of rules from Doctor Who to Sherlock Holmes, dive into their feelings on the canon of their own comic book properties, and reveal how much reverence they thing the concept of canon is due across multiple mediums: comic books, television, movies, and MOAR! It's time to talk canon!


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Optical center. See only the good, here only the best. Okay, so we live in a world of adaptations, IP, all kinds of corporate synergy speak talk when we're talking about stories that's what we're

0:55.3

actually talking about we're talking about stories whether they are adapted into books

0:58.6

movies television video games tick talk videos however you want to look at them, they are all at the end stories.

1:07.7

And each story brings along sort of a long, let's say, like family members, relatives, but other b-emers would call it

1:16.4

canon, you know, and that's a very loose and nebulous term nowadays and it's

1:21.4

also a term that I think is being used wrongly in a lot of ways

1:26.6

and how people now view certain properties that are mixed with IP.

1:30.4

So actually I need to ask you we are in in this world, where everything is almost being adapted from other IP, almost everything we're seeing on television and movies and books and video games and everything has to be from some other source.

1:43.0

So I have to ask you, in that form of adaptation,

1:47.0

are you a stickler about adaptation?

1:50.0

Like when we're moving something from one medium to another, story are you like man I want them to stick to every single

1:56.4

element or do you like a little bit of a loosey-goosey in your storytelling?

2:00.4

Where do you find yourself lying down on that scale of accurate to the source material, wide big swings?

2:08.0

I'm more of a stickler for Cannon than you are, but I do think that I am more forgiving and understanding of

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