Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-800707-20141108232701/@comment-1409915-20141114050209

VillainousTroper wrote: Xanton, dude, Derrick has had many counts of what TV Tropes dubs "Lying Creator". There have been plenty of cases where what he said didn't match up with the show, contradicted what actual writers (who hold more sway than he does) have said, or was changed later on despite him treating his statement like it was definite. Working on the show doesn't absolve him, especially when he's an art director and not a writer.

Zzfunk is right, "Ken 10" is clearly not canon. Kevin would not be friends with Ben and Gwen, or allowed NEAR Kenny, if it was. I can see where you guys are saying that Derrick could be a "Lying Creator" (I know TV Tropes Well, love those guys :) ) However when I asked him about Most Dangerous Game he said this

http://ask.fm/DerrickJWyatt/answer/121615888500

This, combined with the fact that he is human and gets stupid questions all the time, distinguishes truth from sarcasm.

It's like the infamous Darkstar conundrum on the wiki. That was an instant or pure genuine insight that was ignored because someone read the answer the wrong way (it actually was stupidity in not wanting to accept blatant obvious truth). The point being is that people need to be able to distinguish when Derrick is lying from his sarcasm from his actual facts.

People write him off and call him a liar usually when they don't understand that his reply may fall within one of those three categories that wasn't the one they thought it was.

Now with that said, I don't believe anyone holds more sway in a circumstance with this. Derrick, has been known, to have contributed to most of all the stories in Omniverse. Now yes, he and the writers say contradicting things, that's discrepancy. That's two people not agreeing on the same thing but I wouldn't consider one above the other in that regard. One has the official title of writer but that doesn't mean they know more than anyone else. In some cases this is false and they do but I believe this isn't one of those situations. I think this is a case where titles are misleading. Though he has the title of art director his job is not limited to just art, as the link I posted demonstrates. He has a hand in a lot of other things surrounding the completion of the show so I'd actually say, yes it does absolve him, but sometimes only in instances where it is more valid than others.

NOW, with all that said the quote confirming Ken 10 to be canon is very confusing, as Villainous Troper (now I get why you reference TV Tropes) pointed out, mostly surrounding Kevin 11'000 and his interactions with the others.

Maybe we're missing something, a missing year where things changed and he became good again. With things like this, especially considering time travel and the like, there are periods of time that could be missing from our record or passed that we didn't know about. It hasn't been said how much time could have passed from Ken 10, though I would point out he only said no to the question "is it non canon", subtly implying it could be retcon but more so just being canon.

Either way we're missing a piece of that puzzle, one we may find in the last episode or not at all. Ironically I just shot DJW a question about it before I came to this thread, so one of the three will win out or not at all.