Prometheus

[BloodyMage]

Originally Posted by The Sevenshot Kid

As someone that watched all of Lost on Netflix this year, it works just fine without any of that stuff. Definitely my favorite TV series ever which is the entire reason I was interested in seeing Prometheus opening weekend (Scott has been hit-or-miss with his last few films).

I'm not saying you can't. I'm just saying the podcasts and extra material are there for clarification.

Originally Posted by The Sevenshot Kid

I think we should all be able to agree that something is only canon once it shows up onscreen. Explanations given by the director/writer or the theories provided by fans mean nothing until they're put on celluloid because that's the only time it counts. George Lucas changed his mind a lot when making all of the Star Wars movies.

Originally Posted by Lumenskir

If it comes up later in a movie connected to this one, it's canon. If he says it was something they considered but didn't include in the actual product, it's just his interpretation. To me, anything outside of what you can see in the theater is all just conjecture; Scott might be more persuasive, but not authoritative, otherwise he could have included it in the actual movie he was responsible for curating.

Yeah, no, that's not how canon works. It's not as simple as what appears on screen vs. everything else. What about the TED viral film with Weyland speaking? What about any potential tie in novels? Scott and co. have already stated that Alien vs. Predator are not part of the continuity with this film, but since you've seen them does that just mean that it's Scott's interpretation that those films aren't canon? There has to be some kind of authority to make the distinction between what is official and what is unofficial. Of course, you can make your own decision but I can't stress enough that when you make your own decision of what in included in the continuity that is fanon.

To return to Lost, Lindelof and Cuse have explicitly stated that these are part of the canon of Lost:

• Lost episodes (noted by Lindelof as "the only true canon")
• Lost: Missing Pieces
• Lost Encyclopedia
• Information released as part of DVD extras, such as the The New Man in Charge epilogue featured on the Season Six DVD. (this does not include DVD commentaries, bloopers and deleted scenes see below)
• The Orchid Orientation film
• The Christiane I's search for the Black Rock from Find 815
• Information about the Hanso Foundation and the Valenzetti Equation revealed in The Lost Experience
• The blast door map, the Incident Room, and the Island locations as seen in the video game Lost: Via Domus.

Most of this was confirmed via interviews and podcasts. Are you going to say this is an interpretation of canon? As Lindelof states, the episodes are the true canon as they're the main source through which people, such as yourselves, experience the TV show, but that doesn't mean that the rest isn't still part of the official continuity.

As far as Space Jesus goes, Scott mentioned it, it doesn't conflict with any continuity in the film and actually serves as an explanation to one of the questions posed in the film. It's hard to view it as unofficial at that point. At the very least it's semi-canon, but Scott is still the guy who decides the continuity, not me.