What do you consider canon?

[donutsweeper]

This poll is brought to you by the fact that the international version of the White Collar pilot contained scenes not in the American one...

[Poll #1614567]

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[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I meant the poll to be fandoms in general, Doctor Who, NCIS, White Collar, whatever.

So the longer version is the one that aired in England? Interesting, I'm surprised the scenes haven't shown up on youtube or whathaveyou then.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I saw at least the one that showed him giving Peter the bottle. And the thing about El saying Neal's a romantic didn't surprise me. Really must watch them all again. I should have them all stored on the cable box (unless someone's had a brainstorm and done a 'clean-up' while I wasn't looking.)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

That's really interesting. I wonder why the shortened version aired here and was sold here

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Because you have more advert breaks? *ducks* I know your tv guys are a lot more restricted as to run times than ours are.

Okay I did the poll: I said D - but even that's not right because it's more... that I take as canon officially licensed things as far as I am aware of them. Which can get pretty complicated in DW :o
Oh, and I don't accept stuff like the Captain's Blog as canon, or come to that 'reveals' in Confidential type programmes, mostly because I refuse to watch/read them until well after a series has concluded, if at all.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

That is usually true, but the original airing of the White Collar pilot had no commercial breaks, it was 'brought to you by whatever company' They do that a lot here. I have seen it happen where shows have some scenes that appear in that viewing and then never again in repeats ("Smallville" comes to mind here because there was a scene I loved and then never saw again but someone mentioned was on the DVD)

DW canon is... complex. Even if you go by the 'canon is what aired' belief a huge chunk of canon is no longer accessible so you're relying on spotty memories and incomplete write-ups.

Out of curiosity- which canon do you accept if facts dispute one another (i.e. an officially licensed book says one thing but an episode claimed something else)