You're my bud, but FUCK the UT, that shit is useless stupidity.Dominic wrote:The UT made it official that TF exists in a multiverse. Since then, the Fan Club has parsed it by sub-franchise and even dates of publication. In theory, if you have the naming convention itself memorized, you can figure out which timeline any given story (including those yet to be published) is set in.
At this point, it is probably best to look at Hasbro's "Aligned" setting as a cluster or grouping of timelines that are where Hasbro has direct control, rather than the veto they have over IDW or shared control of the Paramount timelines.
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-and as is often the case, "multiple timelines" means "poor editing".
Hasbro cannot call it "aligned" if it's... not aligned.
That's not a "canon" then, that's in fact the OPPOSITE of a "canon". And in fact, it's also not a "continuity". So it's not aligned, it's not a continuity, and it's definitely not a canon. Yup, sounds like Hasbro!Shockwave wrote:Ok, think of it this way: A movie comes out. You've got the movie, you've got the novelization of the movie and then you've got the video game of the movie. These three items are not going to be the same but they will have the same core characters, settings and story. But, a movie is not a novel and a novel is not a video game. By that alone there's going to be significant differences but most people wouldn't really regard those differences as "separate continuities", it's just the same thing rearranged to work in those particular mediums. The "aligned" continuity is the same conceptually.JediTricks wrote:That sounds to me like 6 different universes telling somewhat-overlapping stories, not the same universe.
To me, what you describe sounds like the various versions of the Bible, while what I'm seeing from Hasbro is more akin to someone wrapping a religion around the Torah, the New Testament, the Greek Bible, the Koran, the Buddhist scriptures, the texts of the Pyramids, the Book of Mormon, and Dianetics as "all true" no matter how contradictory they are even to the same tales.