Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-4091815-20140701192156/@comment-19765459-20140713192244

Paul.rea wrote:

I will take umbrage with the statement "'canon' changes scene-by-scene" since very little of the canon of the show has changed.

We've had points clarified but the canon hasn't changed. You take umbrage to any statement that suggests that the show is in any way less than absolutely perfect! To the extent that one would assume Jeff has you on his payroll! Sorry, but your umbrage has long since lost all meaning, since you are demonstrably not an objective viewer!

As for the show, give me a break, it runs on Retcon!

That's why we still end up debating things like the difference between Alphas, Betas and Omegas for example! We have two standing definitions for an Omega, Gerard's (a lone wolf without a pack) and Ethan's (the lowest ranking wolf within a pack). Stuff gets hand-waved to fit whatever they're doing, but never explained. Like how exactly did Derek's Bite turn Jackson into an incredibly specific kind of supernatural reptile monster than coincidentally needs a master (someone other than the Alpha that bit them apparently)? Why did nobody seem to notice that multiple Beacon Hills police officers were killed in the massacre at the station, but a big deal was made when just one cop was killed late at night at the high school (although the Sheriff allegedly called in extra help on the last one, which took a long time to arrive in the form of Agent McCall, who was no help). What is the deal with the druid emissaries? The story explaining them was that they helped the werewolves because they knew how to shape shift. No evidence that any of them other than Jennifer has more than an OWL-level understanding of herbology!

Derek's backstory got altered. Kate became less outright a villain, since Derek's blue eyes would have made it clear to her at the time that he had already killed, despite being a teenager, providing a possible justification for her attack on the Hale's, a pack that shelters murdering teenage werewolves. The Argent's went from new hunters in town to having had a long history of activity in Beacon Hills (even back when Chris and his family supposedly lived in elsewhere in the country).

There's no point to really treating anything we see onscreen as "canon", because Jeff is virtually guaranteed to retcon it at a later time. You call this "calrification". I call it turning the "canon" into just a set of loose guidelines, subject to change.

This is before we even start getting into all the plot holes and implausible aspects of the storyline.