I haven't been involved in a good old canonicity debate since my LOTR days, and even then, there was strong consensus about the status of the Book of Lost Tales and such.
I'm not sure, therefore, why Whedon's statements about the comics should matter at all in whether fans consider them canon or not. As you said, the whole idea of the fandom canon is a fan-created concept that is relevant only to people who write fanfiction and meta. Whedon doesn't do that and he has no stake in it. (And frankly, I don't know why people get so fussed about what is or is not canon in the first place, but that's just me ...)
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Date: 2007-04-21 05:21 pm (UTC)I'm not sure, therefore, why Whedon's statements about the comics should matter at all in whether fans consider them canon or not. As you said, the whole idea of the fandom canon is a fan-created concept that is relevant only to people who write fanfiction and meta. Whedon doesn't do that and he has no stake in it. (And frankly, I don't know why people get so fussed about what is or is not canon in the first place, but that's just me ...)