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*Plenty of eighties Doctor Who stories began to suffer from this, but for the absolute nadir of the series, watch Attack of the Cybermen, or for a lesser but no less relevant example, Remembrance of the Daleks. Or rather, don't.
**People should definitely watch Remembrance as this troper needs the royalties.
You are Ben Aaronovich and I claim my ten pounds...
Lucid Seraph: Query. Whilst at Comicon, one of the editors of the current IDW Transformers series fielded a question about Beast Wars and G1 from a fan. Said fan asked if there would ever be a comic that explains the connection between BW and G1, and WTF happened between those two series. The editor (wisely) answered that he didn't like stories that existed SOLELY to patch holes in continuity. He said that if they visit that era and find that there's a good story in it (this troper thinks there might be) then they'll do it, but otherwise no because stories that just explain plotholes 1. suck and 2. nobody likes them. I kind of wanted to applaud the guy. THAT'S a good editor there.
The query I have is: Is this a worthy example (counterexample?), or not?
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- And then some moron decided that needed fixing...
- Your Mileage May Vary, indeed. Geoff Johns does often engage in continuity fixes, but many of them are popular - the new Green Lantern books are a result of one of these, and Legion of Three Worlds, despite its delay, seems to be well received as well. Some of his works may qualify for this trope, but he's more a Continuity R-rated Romantic Comedy writer.
- That was inside his head. Or not.
- This Troper honestly thinks people at Marvel just try to forget about that. First we had Xorn. Then he turned out to be Magneto pretending to be Xorn. Ignore the Fridge Logic of the two having completely different powers and that the X-Men had at least three telepaths with them who could easily see this through, and you'll end up with bad writing. The icing was when the real Magneto turned up later. And Xorn's brother. Turns out, Xorn was pretending to be Magneto pretending to be Xorn. Why, no one knows.
- HA! Compared to the Wold Newton Universe, LoEG is practically a three-character fairy tale!
- Is that why Wold Newton comes up red?
- Owned.
- Moore calls the Wold Newton stories "a seminal influence upon the League"
- Mr. Thomas spent so much time on time-travel-to-explain-continuity that he forgot to have his characters do what they were supposed to do, which was fight in the bloody Second World War!!
- Considering how lame some of the new characters were...
- Why does nearly every single fighter craft from before A New Hope resemble an X-Wing, a TIE fighter, or some combination of both? This extends all the way back to Knights Of The Old Republic Era, whose Cool Ship, the Ebon Hawk, happens to look vaguely like the Millennium Falcon, and is also believed to be the fastest ship in the galaxy.
- Proabably because, like with the military today, they started with a basic concept that worked well enough that they decided to just keep upgrading it, instead of building entirely new ships.
- Although in the particular case of the Ebon Hawk, it's pretty just a Captain Ersatz of the Millenium Falcon, but who cares?
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- ...So corny that it necessitated a Continuity Reboot with the next film.
- This troper thought the last two books came the closest the series came to counting, as all the loose threads from the earlier books being tied up and the return of characters and spells. The starting point was probably the funeral at the end of Book 6, which featured pretty much every living character that could have attended. But characters like Griphook, Krum and Ollivander coming back, Ron's Aunt, Aberforth, Bathilda Bagshot and Grindelwald making new appearances, objects like the Two-Way Mirrors and Gryfindor's Sword reappearing and even the mention of Dumbledore's broken nose (which is a descriptor not used since his first appearance if I can recall) all taking place in Deathly Hollow's definitely counted as Continuity Porn IMO.
- Either that or the series as a whole was a vast Chekhov'sArmory. YMMV.
- This is generally to be expected in any continuity-heavy series; while series in other media vary along a continuum from largely standalone episodic works to strictly serial stories, videogames are often assumed by default to be exist at the standalone end of the continuum, which can lead to a somewhat disproportionate response when a series like MGS comes along that very emphatically does not.
- Also done in the episode The Sting, especially during Fry's funeral. However, the episode is still enjoyable without recognizing it.
- Also happens in the final movie, Into the Wild Green Yonder although the movie is still enjoyable without recognizing all of it. A few examples are:
- A few members of the Eco-Feministas are from previous episodes: namely Petunia, Frida Waterfall, and Dixie & Trixie (Slurms Mac Kenzie's party babes).
- Many characters from previous episodes can be seen in the audience near the end of the movie.
