Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27524978-20160210030742/@comment-27701762-20160211054555

Is Asriel The Best? wrote: I really hate the theory, but there's way too much evidence to deny it. With the new update with the photo and everything, I think this really is what Toby wanted everyone to figure out. And it sucks. I hate it. It's just the worst. Why couldn't he just let Sans be cool and mysterious? I had already accepted that there's just no explaination for Sans, and now the whole frickin' script got flipped. Ugh, I'm awful peeved if you can't tell. Well in order for there to be too much evidence to deny it, there really needs to be an extreme amount of evidence to deny any other possible explanations, and that evidence itself needs to unambiguously point to the conclusion offered. In other words, if the theory is undeniable, then there needs to be no other way to explain the same evidence, and to explain other pieces of evidence. And the fact is, there are at least two other possible explanations. First, the allusions could simply be homages. It's certainly not the case that an author making allusions to another work is clear-cut evidence that the author intended to have his work exist within the same universe as the other work. Second, it could be related to Gaster in some way, and given the mystery surrounding the character, this would seem to be the more plausible path. Certainly there are plenty of theories on Gaster already, but the fact that the "Sans is Ness" theory is new does not make it correct by any means. And there is certainly plenty of evidence to contradict the theory, at least enough to certainly prevent us from calling it undeniable.