Well the Daleks did invade again about a hundred years later in The Day Of The Daleks.
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Well the Daleks did invade again about a hundred years later in The Day Of The Daleks.
They are nothing if not repetitive in their ambitions.
Who canon is what YOU want it to be....it's easier that way.
I love the Cushing movies and to me Cushing is simply playing a version of Hartnell's charactor, the first doctor, but for the big screen....don't matter that the tardis insides are diffrent or that its not made clear they are not human.....it only matters that it's Who and it's enjoyable to watch....and the movies have the best daleks ever.
Who canon is what YOU want it to be....it's easier that way.
No, it isn't. That's a misuse of the word "canon." Yes, fans can imagine the continuity to be whatever they want it to be, but that's got nothing to do with canon. Canon, by definition, is the official version of things. The term comes from religious usage, where "canon" meant the religious texts that the church declared to be the genuine word of God, and everything else -- anything that individual believers might consider true but that the church didn't -- was apocrypha.
So of course fans are free to interpret a fictional continuity in their own way, but referring to personal interpretations as canon is like referring to your personal tastes in food as FDA regulations. It's simply not what the word means.
^^^Your quite entitled to feel that way about the word canon, and i respect that totally.......but i will alway's feel that i decide what's canon for Who, that's why in my universe the Cushing movies are canon, and im not shoving that in your face and forcing you to accept that, this is my personal opinion of what is canon, nothing more, and i respect that you hold a diffrent veiw on canon and what it means.
And look, the world do not stop because we have two diffrent views on something that's only really important on the net.
And look, the world do not stop because we have two diffrent views on something that's only really important on the net.
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^^^Your quite entitled to feel that way about the word canon, and i respect that totally.......but i will alway's feel that i decide what's canon for Who, that's why in my universe the Cushing movies are canon, and im not shoving that in your face and forcing you to accept that, this is my personal opinion of what is canon, nothing more, and i respect that you hold a diffrent veiw on canon and what it means.
Look, you're missing my point. I agree entirely that you have the right to make your own choice about what you consider the continuity, the "reality" of the Doctor Who universe to be. I'm just saying that "canon" is the wrong word to use for that idea. Saying "canon" when you mean "my personal preference" is like saying "sweet" when you mean "sour." They're contradictory words. The problem isn't with your belief, only with the vocabulary you're using to express it. "Canon" does not mean what you think it means. It doesn't mean "real" or "right" or "stuff that actually happened." It's not a value judgment, just a description of category. It just means the core body of work of a fictional series as distinct from derivative works, or the interpretation of the officials in charge as distinct from the interpretation of the general public.
^^It was a off the cuff remark made to the poster above about the Cushing movies, i did not think the BBC legal department would then be after me on my use of the word canon.
