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>but that line has always stuck with me and it does carry a small but possibly significant implication that I decided I would use.
oh it´s a personal one that has been around your head more than most of the community at least.

>It's an interesting debate in how relevant each season is to each other and I have been trying to come up with a system to judge what counts as "cannon" and what rational theories can be made.
oh God the discussion of what´s canon or not. I mean, I simply put the entire gen 4 under canon, EQG as a spin off (except for the sirens because they also appeared in the show bcause they are interconnected) and the comics as complementary additional material. About special content/episodes, they also count as canon.

However, if we are taking everything with that standard, then we can enter into what´s more relevant but again, discussion becomes really difficult and kind of anticlimatic considering that FiM despite adding tons of lore in the end, the main purpose of the show relied on a slice of life spirit so it sounds quite contradictory because every single episode counts because in a slice of life show, nothing is filler. Having said that, we can continue with the topic.

>I think I have mentioned this before of what my working model is: episode canon, seasonal canon and then show canon. The reason why I say working model is because of all the problems it entails.
a work in progress like a great and powerful magician would say...

>Say there was something that was implied pretty strongly for the first 7 or 8 seasons only to be contradicted in season 9?
which didn´t happen (fortunately).

>If show canon equals the whole does that mean that season 9 trumps everything before? I'd say it is harder than a simple yes or no. I think different seasons had different intents and the problem with making rational theories is that many look at the show with too much of a unitary view of the storyline while it probably be best to break it down into seasons or eras and judge what the writers were planing at the time.
fair enough, considering that the staff was constantly changing (even scripts among the writers from the same season) so this show as a whole didn´t carry one solid vision from a creator nor the same team all the time.