Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31255465-20170923034221/@comment-33165688-20171018054717

TMNTInsighter wrote: I don't make that distinction. I go by what was on the screen and if it was bad it's bad and if it's good then it's good. Just because something has errors in it (again the errors in this episode are way overblown) or is sad doesn't mean it never happened. You think that the people who hated the finales of Lost and Dexter, two of the worst finales out there said "Oh I don't like it so it never existed" said that? No! They simply booed and moved on. That's being fair. And the TMNT fans who are acting like Easol1 are not being fair. It's quite fair. Not everyone has the same distinctions of canon, as evidenced by your unwillingness to take anything except the immediate episodes and your interpretations of it as canon. Just because you don't make that distinction doesn't mean it isn't there to be made, or that nobody else should make it because you think it isn't "fair" to classify something as non-canon/AU.

Me? I go by official viewpoints by the people who have the authority to determine canon, namely the ones who own an intellectual property and determine what is to be done with it. That is quite fair, and recognized both legally and artistically (see Star Wars comparison). "Word of God" is a widely-accepted thing for a reason, and you PERSONALLY not making that distinction doesn't change that for the rest of the world.

No, the errors are not overblown. Like I said, we were presented with two scenarios that were mutually exclusive, and the preexisting canon was violated. That is inexcusible, writingwise. Just because it doesn't bother you doesn't mean the errors aren't massive and impossible to reconcile except by classifying it as an AU (which Nick did).

And comparisons to Dexter and Lost are irrelevant, because the people who owned those intellectual properties never said that they weren't canon. Nickelodeon did. There's more to it than just going, "I hate it," and just because you don't like WoG doesn't mean it doesn't have authority.