The Literature Devil showed this clip on Wednesday’s Morning Nonsense stream, and that got my waking brain going.
The above clip and corresponding tweets on X-Twitter (hopefully it’s coming up for you since the rebrand has messed with embeds) features James Gunn basically stating that because story is fiction canon is “whatever you want it to be”. Remember, this is the guy creating an entire universe, has had trouble deciding whether or not his DC movies and shows will or won’t be canon to the new movie continuity (they’re his so of course they are, even recently stating they’ll be using the recon bomb to force season one of Peacemaker into the new Gunniverse of movies and animated series to explain the Snyder Justice League cameo), and will be in charge of this universe going forward. He does not believe in a set canon according to that clip. I don’t know what podcast is from so I can’t confirm the context, but if accurate this does not bode well for Warner Brothers’ latest attempt to challenge Disney on the superhero front as the new DC Studios seeks to go head to head with Marvel Studios, who have themselves ditched respecting the comics like they did with the MCU first began and Paramount was doing the distribution.
There are times I’m worried the horse is so beaten that the glue factory can’t work with the remains, but then some necromancer pops up and restores the horse. The debate over canon has more resurrections than Optimus Prime at this point, as many writers out there are more interested in stories than continuity. Canon is the cohesion of a continuity for a series or a shared universe. That’s not what they want to make, though. What they’re really asking for isn’t a shared or even ongoing universe, but an anthology, something more akin to The Twilight Zone or even Golden Age comics than what a series or franchise is supposed to be. Marvel Studios is forgetting that, DC Studios seems poised to never learn that lesson, and both of the comics that spawned the movie studios that spurn their parent media are losing the ability to do this as well. Stories do not a series make. I think we need to learn the difference.
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Continuity Vs Anthology
The Literature Devil showed this clip on Wednesday’s Morning Nonsense stream, and that got my waking brain going.
The above clip and corresponding tweets on X-Twitter (hopefully it’s coming up for you since the rebrand has messed with embeds) features James Gunn basically stating that because story is fiction canon is “whatever you want it to be”. Remember, this is the guy creating an entire universe, has had trouble deciding whether or not his DC movies and shows will or won’t be canon to the new movie continuity (they’re his so of course they are, even recently stating they’ll be using the recon bomb to force season one of Peacemaker into the new Gunniverse of movies and animated series to explain the Snyder Justice League cameo), and will be in charge of this universe going forward. He does not believe in a set canon according to that clip. I don’t know what podcast is from so I can’t confirm the context, but if accurate this does not bode well for Warner Brothers’ latest attempt to challenge Disney on the superhero front as the new DC Studios seeks to go head to head with Marvel Studios, who have themselves ditched respecting the comics like they did with the MCU first began and Paramount was doing the distribution.
There are times I’m worried the horse is so beaten that the glue factory can’t work with the remains, but then some necromancer pops up and restores the horse. The debate over canon has more resurrections than Optimus Prime at this point, as many writers out there are more interested in stories than continuity. Canon is the cohesion of a continuity for a series or a shared universe. That’s not what they want to make, though. What they’re really asking for isn’t a shared or even ongoing universe, but an anthology, something more akin to The Twilight Zone or even Golden Age comics than what a series or franchise is supposed to be. Marvel Studios is forgetting that, DC Studios seems poised to never learn that lesson, and both of the comics that spawned the movie studios that spurn their parent media are losing the ability to do this as well. Stories do not a series make. I think we need to learn the difference.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on November 29, 2024 in Book Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged canon, commentary, continuity, debate.
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