Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-27547895-20160201202203/@comment-27547895-20160205044715

Grahamburglar wrote: Killer kev wrote: @ATeenWolfFan, Scott and the Oni didn't cross the mountain ash, the broke it, there's a difference.

@Grahamburglar, It was canon, if nothing supernatural and CROSS or TOUCH mountain ash and we've seen Lydia do both, that means she's not supernatural, its as simple as that. And if you read some of the previous comments on this thread you can see that this was rehashed long before I commented. You're right I don't care and I've noticed some others don't either. And I'm not the one holding on to anything.
 * sigh* Okay, let's have a little recap here for the people who very obviously missed last week's episode of "As The Wiki Turns":

It is canon that Deaton said nothing supernatural can cross mountain ash. It is canon that Lydia can cross mountain ash. It is canon that Deaton has been wrong before. So all that that statement Deaton made did was leave us with questions about the nature of banshees. Paul then proceeded to answer those questions with no actual canonical evidence to support him. Hence the problem and refused to hear anything at all that said "hey we actually don't know the answer to these questions" when, in fact, canonically we didn't have any evidence to answer those questions.

And now we have an e-mail from Jeff Davis which supports Paul's claims, but while that's all well and good, according to the canon policies of this Wiki, it's still a theory and not canon. And yet, Paul has not only stated this theory on the forums he polices for fan fiction and headcanons, he had even put it in the banshee article.

I really don't know how to explain the problem any more clearly than that. Nobody's really hung up whether or not banshees are supernatural (even though we're still discussing it), we're hung up on Paul's behavior. Hence this thread, hence the discussion. And don't forget, by Paul's previous logic that Deaton's words were infallible, he should also be stating that hellhounds are not supernatural. He isn't, though.

That's because what really matters is Paul's opinion...nothing else.