Unfortunately yes, it is easier said than done. If that was someone’s badly written fanfic (which it looks like anyway) then it wouldn’t have mattered, and maybe could’ve even been amusing. But there’s this lemming-like insistence from writers and part of fandom that this is *canon*, and the fact that officially it would be considered that, despite objective reasons against it. It is sad to see the writer of a supposedly smart show taking the role of the head lemming.