Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31255465-20170923034221/@comment-33165688-20180213023019

Actually, one of the main men for the show has recently stated that it's valid to view it as an AU; he stated that the audience decides whether it's canon or an AU. So it's at the very least far from "no way."

Also, repeatedly saying that the future isn't written in stone can't ignore the fact of a paradox. Good writing doesn't cause paradoxes. Nor does it erase the simple fact that, as I've said about six hundred times, the entire future Renet is FROM is a complete impossibility and thus only works as an AU. Just responding that the future isn't written in stone cannot even begin to cover the problem.

And I don't know how many more times I can say it: you don't get to just ignore an official source merely because its statements are inconvenient, and dismiss it as "some guy pretending." That ain't how it works.