Freeza did it.

@Background Pony #AFEC  
Exactly.
 
For example, I can’t believe they came up with an evil celestia design….and it wasn’t even evil celestia, just Starlight’s fictional imagination of what Evil Celestia would be.
 
The canon show had a knack for constantly wasting potential even when potential was given to them on a silver platter.
 
Sure not all comics were well written but…we’ve all seen the bad premiers and finale’s right? Not exactly much competition in terms of serious arcs.

@Background Pony #3B76  
Exactly, that’s why the arcs of the comics were better stories than the canon of the series.
 
But don’t worry, the comics that have “Season 10” written will be canon with the series.

Anyone who keeps saying the comics are canon. All you have to do is look at their two biggest arcs (Chaos Theory and the one related to Sombra) to realize that they are not canon to the show.

@blizzard64  
In the future after the last song, Luna running back to Twilight ask for help that Celestia is transforming into Daybreaker slowly. Daybreaker powers start to show up, and her mane start turn into a flare.  
Daybreaker is slowly taking over Celestia body

I have a theory that Celestia only retired only because she felt she was corrupting. After she saw Daybreaker (although it was not real), she was meditating and observed the darkness inside (in the style of Dragon ball with kamisama), she told Luna and she felt the same. So they decided to retire both and leave the crown to Twilight who was the most worthy and they did not say anything to not worry her.

@DTavs.exe  
You got that right.
 
She’s gone full supernova during their skirmish.

@DTavs.exe
 
Agreed..
 
It’s just so sad,we just see her only 1 episode, too much wasted potential

Can we just admire for a few seconds, how cool this entire interchange was?

She can create her own Sun

@lonewolf  
Don’t start that “Moon is Better than Sun” shit. We get enough of that on Celestia posts as is.

 

 

 
_{Moon is still better though.}

Daybreaker is awesome and cool

Daybreaker is canon

@ColdhardSilver  
I’M A FIRE STARTER, TWISTED FIRESTARTER!

I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE AND I BRING YOU FIRE!

@Daneasaur: And even then, not all of the comics would get the canon discontinuity treatment. To say nothing of the fact that the show contradicts itself from time to time.

@Keith Mowz  
The official rule of the comics:  
“It’s canon until it contradicts with something in the show, then the show wins.”

AGHHH!!! I’m blind! And irradiated.

If the comics are canon… who gives a shit? They already said that the comics will not change anything in the show; They are 100% supplementary canon. The show has plenty of stuff you can nitpick for continuity issues as it is without trying to insist the super inconsistent IDW stuff is somehow all in continuity with the show.

@Background Pony #0A25  
Mind relating when Word of God stated the comics are canon to the animated series and in what context? Last I heard those involved in the series didn’t rely on the comics and vice versa in regards to where they decided to take or make a given story, though that was some years ago and my memory of it is foggy.
 
Also, I’d call having a whole society of dragons in the comics that don’t exist in the series as a bit bigger than a simple continuity error, and indeed larger than the errors you cited (some of which can be explained, though I am not certain of all the errors you think are in those episodes).
 
As for everything else, we’ve said our pieces, and in the absence of more information I can’t argue my position further. I am curious though just how many adhere to your idea that the comics are canon, as my impression until now has been that a lot of people don’t think they are.