Pretty much everything is considered official canon, unless it contradicts the movies.
On that note:
Anything Traviss has ever befouled with her touch? Discanon. The same goes for whoever wrote the piece of crap called “Tilotny Throws a Shape”.
I hate the fact that the old Robin, Jason Todd, has risen from the dead. Same with the BS about Bruce Wayne’s son. Ah, Batman used to be my favorite comic.
I also heartily disagree with Pachelbel’s Canon in D. Basso continuo, my ass…
Pfeh. The only people who think those abominations are canon are the writers - one of them merely happens to be Dune author’s son. It’s still atrocious fanfiction, boyo.
Did you know the Matrix wasn’t a trilogy but a single opus ? Interstingly enough, so was Pirates of the Carribean. In a similar vein, both the Terminator and the X-Men franchises have been rumored to be trilogies, but there are no reliable cites to support the allegation - both fall one movie short. Star Wars is a trilogy though. Not a hexalogy, obviously. Wanna know another quite often mistaken-for-longer-than-trilogy series ? Indiana Jones.
Much of the World of Darkness meta-plot isn’t canon to me. Not every single event or war in human history is the result of vampire powergames, goddammit ! The Ol’ Dirty Bastard did some of that shit :).
Warhammer 40k : Suuure, put some overpowered idealistic mecha in my gritty crapsack world, why don’tcha. In the immortal words of Lex Luthor : WROOOONG !
*House *: Cameron did not just kiss Foreman. Nuh-uh. Not only do relationships not spring up from middair, but she’s already engaged. To me.
Oh god, why’d you mention that? 
I HAD ALMOST FORGOTTEN!
I deny the entire Robotech canon, in favor of the original Macross canon. The music is better.
Also, I prefer the original OVA Tenchi Muyo! canon to the various TV shows.
- becomes the new Herald of Galactus
There’s a slightly complicated, but actually quite elegant system in place.
Oh, and Malacandra…cooooool. 
Say, how many other (Earth born) Marvel characters are currently dead and adrift in space—I can think of two, counting Kitty—or at least MIA outside the solar system? This might actually be a fairly inter’stin’ megacrossover.
Wait, what? I’m a couple of episodes behind, but who what now? I thought Foreman kissed Thirteen, not Cameron, hence giving rise to the pairing portmanteau of Foreteen. When did this Cameron kiss happen?
You’re most definitely correct, tumbledown. I think the other people are misremembering. It was Foreman and Thirteen who kissed, not Foreman and Cameron. Cameron is most definitely not cheating on Chase.
And there’s the sliding scale of literary tastes. From my point of view, if it’s going to be bad, there should be a point to it. Otherwise, I can destroy my soul just as thoroughly by watching the evening news.
No, it really doesn’t. Thanks anyways.
Don’t you mean 13, not Cameron?
If I missed someone beating me to this, I’ll be royally pissed.
Frank. Poole. Lives.
Bull. Shit.
:smack: Yes, yes I meant Thirteen. Cameron can get plague cancer for all I care.
Was she? I could’ve sworn that the first time we met her was in Buffy v. Dracula. That may’ve just been the first time we saw that Willow and Tara were, in fact, a couple… and I may just be conflating the two situations.
However, I still stand by my recanonization. Tara should’ve been created by the wish.
Back to Buffy, in Once More With Feeling I never bought the fact that Xander summoned the demon Sweet. My money’s still on Dawn having done it, with Xander covering for her.
Yep, *Hush *was the first time we definitely saw her as Tara. Although scuttlebutt is that she was a background extra earlier, I can’t confirm that. She and Willow were working magic together (if not “making magic” together ifyouknowwhatImean) midway through Season 4; Buffy vs. Dracula was the season 5 opener.
Don’t get me started on the Aliens debacle. I like Alien, (it was on Tele last night actually) and even now almost 30 years later, it still plays well. I adored Aliens, it is in my top 5 favourite movies ever. Luckily there were no more movies made in the franchise after Aliens. Leaving the series at a high point. :rolleyes:
I’ve reconciled myself somewhat to Alien 3, the directors cut is barely palatable, and I guess I have gotten over the annoyance at my favourite Aliens character (Hicks) being killed off. I still however have to skip the first minute of the movie to dispense with the idiocy of an egg being on the Sulaco.
The blaster deflecting never actually bothered me, as you say even by RotJ Luke would not have been a patch on the Jedi presented in the prequels. I was mainly trying to explain the basis for the original comment - it seemed some people weren’t getting it.
As to the prequels themselves, I enjoyed certain aspects of them, but on a whole, they were very ordinary movies by any objective measure. I will forever wonder however if my love for the originals would be different if I hadn’t seem them as a kid, and didn’t have the insight back then to pick them apart as well.
The bit where Spider-Man tells his wife “Hey honey, I would rather sell my soul to the devil so that Aunt May could have another torturous 15 years of heart-attacks, mysterious ailments, and general suffering than let her go peacefully to be in heaven with Uncle Ben and meanwhile stay married to you.”
The idea that for even a brief period, Superman’s powers were all psychic because “psychic” was more “realistic” than the yellow sun/lighter gravity thing. (Yeah, more realistic in the same sense that the Easter Bunny is more realistic than the Tooth Fairy). Luckily, that’s been completely ignored since the late '80s.
That Spider-Man wasn’t only bitten by a radioactive spider, he was also caught in a nuclear explosion in downtown Manhattan that killed 300-400 people, created Doc Ock and was hospitalized for months.
Oh, and in Buffy? Xander stayed an emotional adult, married Anya and went on to live a happy life. I love Joss’s dialogue, but loathe the fact that he cannot allow his characters to ever grow or change)
Joss doesn’t let his characters grow? Xander stayed pretty static, but everyone else was pretty dynamic. Wesley alone went through enough growth for half a dozen characters.