Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-86191-20161002203416/@comment-6369172-20161013052302

>>Seriously, going back to what the original creators had in mind doesn't really help with retcons.<<

It might not, but it's more legitimate than substituting an alternative retcon, even if it actually WOULD be an improvement. Take the case at hand: Thor finds and describes a problem with the story logic of the War of the Gods mega-event-thing. It's a real problem, and worth addressing, but, here's the alternative that was proposed:

" The only thing I can can figure out is that in the DC Universe that Greece was never part of the Roman Empire and both regions remained separate until they were separately conquered by the Turks in the 16th Century. "

For practical reasons given by Tupka, and for pseudotheological reasons given by me, this idea seems like a non-starter. It's a speculative alternative history, unsupported by any of the published literature, is why.

>>Regardless of what was planned by the original writers and editors after the fact retcons can throw that into the garbage can.<<

While this is true, we're not the ones who get to do that throwing. We also don't get to concoct alternate histories to account for the shortcomings in the literature at hand, even when-and-if they would make more sense than the stories "as found."