No offense, but the whole reason why any of us are arguing this point at all is because there is no right or wrong i.e. there has been no published timeline post-movie (the Confed handbook, if I can speculate correctly, makes no mention of anything similar to the game timeline) so we don't know for certain who is right and who is wrong. So don't go saying anybody is wrong with such certainty, Kris, because *you*, sir, have no jurisdiction whatsoever other than that which your inflated ego imposes on you.
As for majorities and minorities, outside the CIC staff, I think you will find that most sane Wing Commander fans would laugh hard at the attempts to slip the movie, and the Iason incident, into the game timeline continuity.
What I don't understand is, LOAF, the movie-Iason incident is only chronicled in the Confed Handbook, and possibly the novel(? haven't read either). Then it has been pointed out that the author ofthat handbook said that everything in there was deliberately different from the game universe. *Then* you argue that the guy is in no place to make that claim. *But* you religiously (literally) follow his Iason incident story. I'm thinking, if this guy who has written this stuff is in no place to write anything, why don't you simply discredit that Iason story as apocrypha?
The only rational argument that wouldn't debunk all of your pro-movie theories would be to say that this guy isn't qualified to say that.
Well apparently that's what LOAF is saying, thta McCubbin is not qualified as setting things canon or not...Originally posted by Dougie
As for the Confed handbook guy. He was quoted earlier as saying "Everything in the Confed Handbook follows RELIGIOUSLY from the continuity of the MOVIE. However, that continuity is deliberately, extensively and consistantly DIFFERENT from the continuity of the games."
The only rational argument that wouldn't debunk all of your pro-movie theories would be to say that this guy isn't qualified to say that.
The only rational argument that wouldn't debunk all of your pro-movie theories would be to say that this guy isn't qualified to say that.
I'm....what age is middle school(at a guess 12-14?) (forgive the person who is not part of your 'proud' nation)?
I respect the administrators, thanks. However my point that they have no authority to judge what is right or wrong with regards to Wing Commander extends no further than any other fan.
No, you miss the point. He wasn't told, "Make sure you're accurate with the movie. Oh and by the way, It's not really part of the WCU, it just shares the name." He was probably told, "Write a book. You have a month."Originally posted by Dougie
You miss the point. Why would the author say this if he had not been instructed to write the book that way?
LOAF saying that something you did was stupid isn't insulting you. Me telling you you're an idiot is me insulting you. Can you see the difference?Please also drop the insults. Just as I'm about ready to drop it, someone comes along with a fresh attack. I don't feel I deserve it.
I'm sitting in MY little corner LAUGHING AT this arguement...Originally posted by LeHah
I'm sitting in my little corner avoiding this arguement...
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