Originally Posted by
Thage
Except that Chronicle vol 1 was billed as a setting bible. Now that they've retroactively claimed it to be from an unreliable perspective, there is no guarantee those events are how they were portrayed within the text of Chronicle. Ergo, no, we can't reliably say "This is how it happened." We can say, "This is how it happened for now," which makes trying to nail down a meta perspective of events pointless because not even the writers are adhering to a meta perspective of events; Watsonian points of view are being sloppily paintbrushed over books that were written from, and advertised as, Doyle's word on the matter.