Why does he need to say anything? Shouldn't it be open to interpretation, which is a privelege afforded to any other fiction?Agent Earle wrote:I mean... and to shift the focus away from Lynch for a bit: 4 or so years have passed since The Secret History book was released and we still haven't gotten anything from its writer about all the changes that were applied to the previously established canon. Nothing whatsoever about how and why they came about, despite some vague hints (or were they even that) he was dropping about it around the time of its release - ZILCH. As long as that remains the case, I'm calling them retcons on a good day and lazy work on a bad one.
And anyway he has said a few things--that errors can be attributed to Tammy, that it's realistic because humans do make errors regarding misremembering, that in terms of real life, data and "the official records" are often unreliable and that that was a deliberate theme. Frost has said before (regarding TP the show) that an often ignored subtext is miscommunication not just in a human sense, but in an information sense--the question of how much we can say we know Laura by her diary pages, or by character testimony, plus there's characters constantly fabricating documents, etc. Also, given that the timeline is screwed with towards the end of S3, and finds itself having effects within TFD in terms of events changing, I feel like that's enough room to extrapolate as to certain causes of what look like retcons.