User blog comment:Garr9988/To Have or Not to Have/@comment-28082245-20190606114620/@comment-5782071-20190608180111

(They also survived multiple explosions, Pete survived a terribly intense eletrocution that probably should've ruined his organs beyond resuscitation, bodies affected by Cupertino's Medal didn't splatter all over the ground when they fell from hundreds of feet in the air, etc etc etc)

Now that I've accepted retcons as retcons instead of trying to reconcile everything as simultaneously canon, I'm more frustrated by the inconsistency of dates rather than trying to make every date fit (ex. I know Time Will Tell couldn't have taken place April of 2009, and it can't take place after Mild Mannered, so I've resigned that it's date is non-canon and therefore something besides April 23rd).

I just feel like it makes things too complicated and sorta takes some of the... idk, whimsy out of the show and this universe if we keep treating everything realistically? Realistically speaking, there are plenty of things neither our characters nor the canon ones would survive or be able to do, which is severely limiting when we write stories through that lens (I ran into that problem majorly during the Scott Trilogy and he kept flying around places, I had to shoe-horn in multiple artifacts out of nowhere to make things happen within a certain time frame and I'm not proud of it now). The show writers weren't limited by reality, why should we be, and why should we do that to their universe?