I really enjoy the crack but then...I always have had a far higher tolerance for that kind of thing than most...saner people. ;)
I don't really think that it is canon in any meaningful sense unless you particularly want it to be. There's never been any sense in previous series that the comics are more than tie-ins, unlike in say the Star Wars universe which tries to create an entire, cohesive secondary universe. Which is why I was really surprised that apparently one of the writers mentioned the comics as a source of answers at a con or something.
My instinct is that it was an easy dodge to not have to address why the show didn't offer more clarity (which as you know, I have more a problem with that on the basis of tone rather than as a creative decision, but I get why it bugs others) rather than the idea this was actually what the writers intended for canon and just passed off to the comics guys cus that makes no sense.
Plus the entire series is billed as "an original interpretation of the story of the Final Five," (bolding mine) so I think from the start Dynamite (the comics publisher) were billing it as like...half AU?
I kind of applaud their balls in just flat out clarifying massive bits of canon in explicit ways though; tie-ins usually steer WELL clear of that, for obviously reasons.
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I really enjoy the crack but then...I always have had a far higher tolerance for that kind of thing than most...saner people. ;)
I don't really think that it is canon in any meaningful sense unless you particularly want it to be. There's never been any sense in previous series that the comics are more than tie-ins, unlike in say the Star Wars universe which tries to create an entire, cohesive secondary universe. Which is why I was really surprised that apparently one of the writers mentioned the comics as a source of answers at a con or something.
My instinct is that it was an easy dodge to not have to address why the show didn't offer more clarity (which as you know, I have more a problem with that on the basis of tone rather than as a creative decision, but I get why it bugs others) rather than the idea this was actually what the writers intended for canon and just passed off to the comics guys cus that makes no sense.
Plus the entire series is billed as "an original interpretation of the story of the Final Five," (bolding mine) so I think from the start Dynamite (the comics publisher) were billing it as like...half AU?
I kind of applaud their balls in just flat out clarifying massive bits of canon in explicit ways though; tie-ins usually steer WELL clear of that, for obviously reasons.