What's your views on head-canon?

[JMTV99 1,354]

I don't mind headcanons or theories in general because all it is personal interpretation and speculation. Heck, I used to do that once in while.

However, I do have a problem with the show putting in the fan's headcanons on to the show's Canon way too often, leading to become artificial fanfiction on children's media.

It's best for professional creators and writers to create stories and characters that they want to take them instead of having the fans (who had no writing experience) doing it for them.

[Neo_Shiron 56]

I like head-canons and also use them.

They can help you when the makers of a show are messing up the story by forgetting canon things (yes, it also happened a lot in G4) or just forcing plots.

 

Here a few head-canons I use:

 

1. When Celestia lost control over the Elements of Harmony, she didn't banish Luna for 1000 years but forever. Feeling guilty for not being able to help Luna, she searched for a solution for many years until she was able to shorten the banishment with a powerful spell.

 

2. In every generation, there had been defenders of Equestria; The pillars of Equestria, after them, Celestia recruited new heroes and so on unti the mane 6 and then the young 6 appeared. So in short, next to Celestia, there always had been heroes to defend Equestria

 

3. Season 9 did not happen the way it did; Twilight refused to become the ruler, the Elements never got destroyed and the Legion of Doom got betrayed by a real Grogar. They then teamed up with the heroes and defeated Grogar

 

4. G5 is a different world and not a sequel to G4