They Just Didn't Care - Television Tropes & Idioms

Although killed before it got out of the planning stages, the proposed Toon Makers Inc. remake of Sailor Moon ("Saban Moon") is known infamously across the fandom for such features as Power Rangers-style live action sequences in the high school, space windjammers, and a wheelchair-bound sailor senshi included just for the sake of having a Token Minority.
An interesting example is Samurai X: Reflections, known in Japan as Rurouni Kenshin: Seisohen. The problem is not that it's spectacularly bad (though the character designs are pretty dire), it's that it goes against creator Nobuhiro Watsuki's firmly-held idea that Shonen series should have happy endings. Instead, Reflections has a Downer Ending full of Wangst, and most of the characters were written in such a way that greatly contradicted their personalities in the original.
The Mahou Sensei Negima manga's main plot is that Negi is looking for his missing father, and the adventures that take place with his thirty-one cute students. The anime series were Merchandise Driven and instead concentrated on his students, half of which are best known by the Cast Herd they run in. As for Negi's father, he gets sucked into a black hole thing in the first series. The Kyoto arc which was three volumes and introduced two really important characters, and third minor character was completely butchered removing Kotarou completely. The actual battles are reduced to two episodes.
- The rebooted anime Negima?! is even more distant, being a Gag Series that completely disregarded most of the manga plot in favor of making stuff up. The second manga Negima?! Neo is apparently trying to take the best of both the gag anime and the original manga.
- Also fortunately, the recent OVA and OAD episodes (Ala Alba and Another World) are much more faithful to the manga.
SiN: The Movie. Based off the 1998 FPS of the same name, and funded completely by ADV Studios, this anime is an interesting, if cliched take on the original source material. Its most egregious error is killing off one of the lead characters in the opening minutes of the film, and having the main character (John Blade) murder his friend.
The anime movie incarnation of Lensman begins with the main character looting his lens off an anonymous dying Lensman rather than getting it through the proper channels. However, the entire point of the lenses existence is that they serve as an absolutely fool-proof form of ID, that can't be imitated, transferred in any way, and can only be obtained by being judged worthy by some infallible, omniscient seers. Being able to steal one and still have it function is contrary to this fundamental premise of the Lensman world.
- The lens wasn't stolen. It forcibly attached itself to Kimball, informing him that he had been chosen by the Arisians. That's how a Green Lantern Ring behaves, though, not a lens.
- Please don't tell me that's the only thing you found wrong with this terrible, terrible movie. Nearly the entire film qualifies as Critical Research Failure, but I suspect that, as the trope says, they knew it was wrong and didn't care.
The ~~Sci Fi Channel~~ Syfy Channel's cuts of all their anime are pretty bad, but not in the typical fashion for anime. Instead of cutting sexual content and violence ala 4kids, Sy Fy pares episodes down to stack more commercials in. No other series on the network is more symptomatic of it then the second season of Gundam 00, which has completely removed any scenes after the credits...which are often the shocker cliffhangers of any episode. Sure in some cases these scenes were replayed at the beginning of the next episode...but some of these moments just leave people wondering..."Why the hell is Billy working for the ALAW's now?" "Why is Sestuna talking to some guy who looks like Lockon?" etc.
- The first season of Gundam 00 had most of its epilogue cut in favor for the usual end-credits miniadverts. Yeah, they cut the bit that explains what happened to the characters, and sets up the Sequel Hook for its second season.

The internet-based comic book of ReBoot advertised itself as being fan-friendly with comments of how the writers would even ask the advice of fans on issues such as "the colour of Bob's tongue". Would it have killed them to just watch the episodes of ReBoot for themselves if they really cared?
- I'm not entirely sure we ever saw Bob's tongue in the original ... did we?
The first year's worth of the original Gold Key Star Trek comic books, done by people in Europe who never saw the show yet were hired to draw and write the book.
- One horrific example has a -white- Uhura.
Ultimate Marvel books written by Mark Millar, who's default mode for his "re-envisioning" of Marvel characters involved making them unrepentant assholes.
- Speaking of Ultimate Marvel we must apply this to Jeph Loeb too. Ultimates 3 was this trope to the MAX - they didn't even care enough to remember that Wasp was of Asian heritage... but she randomly becomes white, that's merely the most obvious one. Best not get started on Ultimatum - lest someone EXPLODE with rage.
  - Too late. I went boom.
Brian Michael Bendis' Avengers. Made even worse when just about everyone, including the long-time fan-favorite editor of the book, Tom Brevoort, began to tell fans off for pointing out the massive plot holes, wholesale character assassination, and shitty writing in the book since Bendis took over.
Countdown To Final Crisis. Done to cash in on the success of 52, and to build-up to Grant Morrison's Final Crisis, since no one read Seven Soldiers to Victory, which was supposed to set up Final Crisis. This pissed off Grant Morrison, who wrote his scripts assuming DC would declare the New Gods off-limits, as opposed to declaring Seven Soldiers non-canon. Though the series ended strong and Morrison reluctantly agreed to the time-loop continuity patch to make both stories make sense, the series is widely panned by all save for Dan DiDio, who praised the book as "52 done right", simply because he was able to haphazardly trick people into buying other books that were made into tie-ins for the story.
- DC's editorial policy since 2004 can be considered to be this.
- Apparently, Didio really disliked 52 because he had so little editorial control over it. The fact that 52 was a very good book and Countdown was, well, Countdown might say something.
All Hail Megatron. To deal with falling sales, IDW wanted to bring in a new writer to write a new series in the established IDW continuity. The result was All Hail Megatron, which has enough inconsistencies with the previous stories(why are some using outdated vehicles for alt modes? Since when did the Decepticons have combiner technology?) to give the appearance that AHM was originally planned as a seperate continuity altogether and then rewritten somewhat to fit with Furman's stories. The Continuity Snarl isn't as bad as it's often made out to be, but there are problems. It's telling that the series got expanded with one-shot stories designed to cover over the holes-but have actually created several of their own.
- The worst part of this sad tale is not only did AHM fail to increase sales, it also introduced a new Mary Sue Transformer Drift, that only the book's writer seems to give a damn about.
Reginald Hudlin Black Panther. Black Panther's supporting cast, one of the best in recent comic book history, gone, or changed beyond recognition. Goodbye Queen Divine Justice, Monica Lynne, Hunter, goodbye Everett Ross' personality, goodbye Kasper Cole. Black Panther's backstory? Butchered. So he wasn't the real Black Panther all those years? All he has to do to become Black Panther is win a wrestling match? No spiritual communion with the Panther God through the heart shaped herb, just a knock down fight. Where the hell did his younger sister come from? Hudlin's Black Panther is so different from everything that came before, and ignores so much of his previous adventures and characterization, it would have fit better in the Ultimate Universe as opposed to the 616.

Quarter-Life: Halfway to Destruction. Featuring, among other things, Black Mesa fully intact (but still with headcrabs), Gordon Freeman remaining the only canonical character, being inexplicably set in Dallas, Texas, failing nuclear physics forever, and "bad guy from the game". See it for yourself here.
- Peter Chimaera's work in general could be seen as a parody of this trope.
  - Especially "DIGIMON SAVEZ THE WROLD!!1111", which is as far as you can take In Name Only to, as the only link to Digimon is that the protagonist is NAMED "Digimon". Witness the madness here. ^*
    ^{Note that the machinima slightly changes the fic by twisting the Bittersweet Ending of the second half with the addition of a Take That to Furry Fandom.}
  - The Digimon name issue is Handwaved in Digimon 3: Predator VS Digimon. It's revealed that de writer 'invented' a Digimon called Digimon since "there is not actual Digimon that is called Digimon". And at least he got the Predator's equipment right when put next to Digimon's "Digimon powers"; not so much his canon personality though.
Most of the fan-fics for Final Crisis over on fanfiction dot net are examples of this trope by authors who either didn't understand the story, hated the story because they didn't understand it, or just decided to disregard continuity to write Sue fan-fics.
Tara Gilesbie, if her magnum opus isn't a Troll Fic, certainly qualifies. By her own admission she hadn't read the books she was fanficcing, or if one of her author's notes is to be believed even heard of them.
Endemic of Transformers fanfic, which nigh-universally ignores the canonical methods of Cybertronian reproduction (MacGuffin application) in favor of sexual reproduction (or Homosexual Reproduction), since they can't figure out how to do romance with the given method. Note that in Transformers Animated and the Michael Bay movies, the fact that they reproduce via MacGuffin is the driving force of the plot, as in both cases the plot starts off with the loss of the Mac Guffin the species reproduces with.

Attack of (the) the Eye Creatures is the Trope Namer, but honestly, you can apply it to any of Larry Buchanan's films, especially any of the remakes of old AIP films like Invasion of the Saucer Men, or Zontar, Thing From Venus (It Conquered the World).
Crow: Get ready to give chase to an injured eye creature; as you can see, he's wearing his Jack Purcell athletic shoes! Folks, they just did not care!
The quote-unquote film version of Robert A Heinlein's Starship Troopers is a peculiar example, and shows some of the odd ways Hollywood works. The production originated as a vaguely similar film with a different name and plot; director Paul Verhoeven and scriptwriter Edward Neumeier didn't even know of the Heinlein novel until someone on the studio legal staff pointed out some potentially actionable similarities to the book. After getting the rights to adapt the novel and then reading only a few chapters into the book, which Verhoeven decided he hated, he retouched his film as a vicious attack on the source material. Not that it was necessarily bad, mind you — it essentially takes the book's bugs-as-communists theme and extends it throughout the whole story, turning the entire movie into a satire of Cold War-era propaganda, to be judged on those merits — but it is really a very different work from the novel. On this wiki, we have people who love the movie and hate the book, and we have people who love the book and hate the movie, so let's all remember the Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgment.
- Apparently, a review of the movie included the phrase "Based on the back cover of a novel by Robert Heinlein." Though honestly this seems less like the filmmakers didn't care and more like they actively hated Heinlein and went out of their way to make the tone of the movie as unlike the book as possible.
Demi Moore's version of The Scarlet Letter - in particular, her wonderful reaction to accusations that she completely missed the point of the original story, which very neatly sums up this trope: "Well, not many people have read the book!"
- Roger Ebert:
  "Director Roland Joffe says 'the book is set in a time when the seeds were sown for the bigotry, sexism and lack of tolerance we still battle today... yet it is often looked at merely as a tale of 19th century moralizing, a treatise against adultery.' Actually, it is more often looked upon as a tale of 17th century moralizing and a treatise against hypocrisy. But never mind."
The Lawnmower Man, supposedly adapted from Stephen King's short story, shared only the title with the short. Then again, the story is about a satyr who mows lawns, and they already made a movie about that.
- There is one five-minute scene that takes one of the ideas from the story... different use, different point, different characters, but the two policemen discussing what happened is line-for-line...
The Film Of The Book of Eragon: The director ripped random pages out of the book, and said 'Let's film these!' This movie could've been called 'Joe and His Dragon Sally' and it would've been much better. If you want to know just how unbelievable and unforgettably inaccurate the movie really was, no comment or review could ever summarize the true horror of it. To get the first idea of it, check out this painstakingly detailed table created by fans detailing the differences from the book.
The Catwoman movie started out as a completely unrelated script. Warner Brothers wanted to make a DC Comics based superhero movie every summer and Batman Begins was simply taking too long. At the last minute, when it became clear that Begins wasn't going to be done in time, they grabbed a script about a woman who gains cat-like powers, changed some names around, and called it a Catwoman movie, even though it more closely resembles The Crow.
"My city screams"? In the original Will Eisner comics, the Spirit's city doesn't "scream". It kind of chuckles, with a slow, sad smile. On a more serious note, the movie gives Denny Wolverine-style healing abilities that kind of take away from the whole idea of the Spirit as a relatively down-to-earth (though with occasional flights of fancy) mystery/adventure series starring a likable everyman. Also, they changed the Octopus's gimmick from being a criminal mastermind who has never shown his true face to wearing a series of bizarre costumes and having eight of everything.
- What makes the film's end result more inexplicable is that the comics work of its director Frank Miller was heavily influenced by Eisner (most obvious in Daredevil), and the two were good friends. (A book was published transcribing some of their conversations). On that basis, we might have expected Miller to care a lot...
After the obligatory crushed butterfly, A Sound of Thunder drops all pretense of following Ray Bradbury's original plot and instead turns into an action-thriller about people fighting off monkey-lizard creatures. The video game adaptation of the movie goes a step further, giving the hero time-controlling weaponry that isn't mentioned in either the movie or the book.
- And the special effects weren't that good either. That movie was made in 2005, yet the Special Effects Failure makes it unbelievable that Jurassic Park could have been made 12 years earlier. Oh and Baboon Lizards?
The remake of The Wicker Man changes the setting from northern Scotland to AMERICA!, replaces the troubled Anti Hero with a smarmy Nicolas Cage, makes the little girl he's trying to rescue into his daughter, ditches all the mythopoeic symbolism and Celtic folklore theme in favour of a bunch of Straw Feminists, and has a scene in a bear suit, and some bees. And they ditched the songs. What's up with that?
The Film Of The Book Ella Enchanted featured sheer butchery of the characters. It seemed as if the writers asked someone to write down character names, races, and a very basic plot and ignored the rest. The only redeeming feature of the film was Eric Idle doing the narration. Seriously, the singing and dancing elves, the Prince Char FANCLUB? Physics-defying obedience? Plus, one of the coolest things about the titular character in the book was her linguistic ability, which was totally left out!
- Because this page is mostly devoted to So Bad Its Horrible works, it's worth noting that the movie was not So Bad Its Horrible. As with The Scarlet Letter above, it could have been called "good" if it weren't a bait and switch.
- Don't forget the whole Evil Uncle thing, which wasn't in the book at all.
The Film Of The Book of The Dark Is Rising series. Not only did the fanbase universally hate it, people who hadn't read the book rightly loathed it as well. Very much a case of In Name Only, the Stanton family was made American rather than English for no good reason, Will's age was bumped up from eleven to fourteen for the sole purpose of giving him hormones, and all the bits relating to Arthurian mythology were hacked out in favor of Christian allegory. And let's not even get started on the stupid and utterly ridiculous 'Will's long-lost twin' bit. Had they called it something else, it might have performed better, but as it was it was a resounding commercial and critical flop. Even Christopher Eccleston as the Dark Rider couldn't even begin to salvage it.
In Urban Legend: Final Cut it's explained to us that the main character is so talented a filmmaking student, her student film will net her a "three picture deal," in Hollywood. This is shown happening at the end. But no Hollywood studio would ever offer that deal to someone because their first time ever in the director's seat went well, when they haven't even put it on the market yet and have no measure of its success, and especially not when they're a goddamn student. They'd be lucky to get a one picture deal. This becomes They Just Didnt Care instead of Did Not Do The Research because the people behind this movie would have known exactly how ludicrous this was - being in the industry and all - but did it anyway.
- There is, however, a simple explanation for this
Hackers had Eric "Emmanuel Goldstein" Corley, the editor of 2600 magazine, as a consultant during the development of the film. Given how the film turned out, it's no wonder he decided not to be credited on the actual film...
- The legend is that after being invited as a consultant, Emmanuel decided to see how much BS he could feed them. Apparently, they bought all of it.
I, Robot, the Will Smith movie version. Making an original script? Fine. Not tying it in at all to the plot of I, Robot and its successors? Not so good, but it could've still been a good movie. Making it directly contradictory to Isaac Asimov's fundamental beliefs about robotics and encouraging technophobia and the "Frankenstein Complex" that the book itself was written to combat? Bad move.
- Though this is another example like Ella Enchanted - it's actually a very good film if you don't go in expecting anything related to Asimov.
The movie version of Dead Like Me. When the closest thing the misbegotten waste of film had to a climax depended on casually ignoring a major premise of the series, there are problems.
Highlander explicitly stated that nobody knew how immortals gained their powers (Ramirez simply states "Why does the sun come up? or are the stars just pinholes in the curtain of night? who knows?"). Evidently he'd forgot to add (as was revealed in Highlander 2) "Though it may have something to do with the fact that we're all aliens."
- What ''Highlander 2''?
After the relative box-office disappointment of On Her Majestys Secret Service, the James Bond franchise lured Sean Connery back for Diamonds Are Forever, ensuring a better gross - maybe that's why they let some things slide:
-Secondary character Plenty O'Toole is tossed out of Bond's hotel room, she later shows up drowned at Tiffany's house with no explanation. Unused footage shows she'd gotten the address when she sneaked back into the hotel room but they dropped it, because They Just Didn't Care.
-Bond drives a Mustang up onto its two right wheels to fit through a narrow alleyway, and it comes out the alley on its two left wheels! They spotted this minor error and added a quick shot indicating he changed wheels in the middle of the alley, but it's clear that They Just Didn't Care.
-The big blow-everything-up climax has Blofeld in his mini-sub attached to a crane, used by Bond to smash into the side of the command center structure, making it blow up more, but we don't see Blofeld either dying or implausibly getting away - I guess They Just Didn't Care.
- Sean Connery, tired of shoots overrunning, had a very hefty clause in his contract penalizing the producers if they went over a certain number of weeks. So, they probably just didn't have time to care.
Cheaper By the Dozen was basically just a case of stealing a title from a book about a family with twelve kids to make a movie about a family with twelve kids. There are no other resemblances whatsoever.
The version of Tarzan that starred Bo Derek had the title character as very insignificant scenery while all the camera time and plot were given to Derek's attempt to play Jane.
Twenty Twelve can be summed up by this trope (though part of it was done for the Rule Of Cool).
In the book Les Liaisons Dangerous Valmont writes about a scene that, in the film, is attributed to Cecile's mother. This is actually a subversion as he later states that when he is sleeping with Cecile he tells her all the current scandals, but pretends that her mother was the protagonist in all of them 'because I have observed that when a woman doesn't respect her mother, she doesn't respect herself'.
Subverted with Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. After reading Daphne DuMaurier's novelette, Hitchcock liked the idea but didn't think the plot was particularly filmable. So instead, he used the story's title and premise (flocks of birds from multiple species attack a human city) and changed just about everything else. It is considered one of Hitchcock's greatest films.
This trope seems to apply to the works of Seltzer And Friedberg in general, but Disaster Movie features a particularly bewildering instance. In two different scenes, Bland Name Product versions of Facebook and eBay are shown on computer screens. Fine so far, right? Could even make for a good gag or a Lampshade Hanging. Except that's not what Seltzer and Friedberg did. Rather, they had the characters refer to the sites using their real-world brand names, in the very same scenes where the mockups were shown. Oh, and did we mention that the fake sites are pulled up on MacBooks with the Apple logo clearly visible?
The Super Mario Bros movie. It's already an example of Video Game Movies Suck and In Name Only, but you really have to mess up to call the good king 'Bowser', the bad one 'Koopa', a human character the name of a fish enemy and Wart one of Bowser's troops (in the concept art at least). Or think that Goombas are seven foot tall humanoids with tiny heads.
The Neverending Story III is a Neverending Story movie In Name Only. Atreyu is completely gone, while all the other major characters (and a few minor ones) are relocated to our world. Irritating pop culture references are littered into the speech patterns of Fantasian characters (and the book itself even makes one) and none of the characters survive intact (And the Childlike Empress is now anything but).
Uwe Boll. Just... Just Uwe Boll. At least he has a half-decent reason not to care - Through tax loopholes and such, he makes money no-matter what the movie is like.
Another Will Smith example is I Am Legend. About the only thing the film shares with the book is the existence of creepy monsters around one lone survivor. Other than that, nothing.

Friday The13th: Hell Lake. It has a part where a welding helmet wearing Jason Voorhees teleports into a prison with his gang of henchmen and shoots up the place with a machine gun. The book also had various instances of Critical Research Failure, like a guy who gets his brain "fried" by a novelty laser pointer.
In a children's book adaptation of Disney's Aladdin, the book immediately describes Agrabah as an "oasis" city full of palmtrees and flowing water. Apparently, the person writing this never actually saw the movie: Agrabah was a dry desert city - the only palmtrees and flowing water you were likely to see were those on the palace grounds.
In the novelization of the Teen Titans episode "Sisters", the dialogue was often different in the book than in the episode. This was particularly infuriating when an improperly copied word changed the entire tone of the scene, such as when the Centauri police had arrested Starfire, and Robin snarled, "Nobody's taking her away." The author carelessly rewrote it as, "Nobody's taking my friend away."

The Sci-Fi Channel adaptation of the Earthsea series was widely panned for making the protagonist Caucasian, turning the novels' Wizarding School into a Harry Potter ripoff, and making the protagonist's best friend into a Magical Negro. Not to mention that the priestesses who worship the Nameless were changed to priestesses who protected the seal that kept the Nameless out. And turned the protagonist's mystical name into his public name, and decided that only wizards got mystical True Names at all... Ursula K. LeGuin went so far as to write this essay decrying the adaptation.
- Arguably, the Wizarding School in Harry Potter was a ripoff of Earthsea, not the other way around.
- LeGuin had a more charitable reaction to the equally unrelated anime adaptation of the Earthsea series, informing the director (the son of legendary Hayao Miyazaki) that it was a good film, but did not in any way represent her books.
  - Man what film were they watching? The Ghibli one didn't even have any semblence of a coherent storyline. It was just things... that happend. And suddenly there was a dragon at the end?
Kindred: The Embraced. A corruption of Vampire: The Masquerade which has so many things wrong with White Wolf's RPG that it's been nicknamed "Kindred: The Embarrassed" by fans. Listing everything they got wrong would take up too much space here... so we'll let Wikipedia do it.
Many TV networks will cut out scenes from movies for time and content, but some cuts just boggle the mind:
- TBS is particularly bad at this, cutting whole scenes from a movie to save for time. Never mind if they are actually crucial to understanding the plot or not. In Demolition Man, for example, a fight scene near the climax was cut where Huxley, a future cop who has never been in a real fight before, ends up shooting someone. On its own, this isn't that big of a plotpoint, but TBS kept in the following scene, which includes Huxley going at length to rationalize her actions; actions that the viewer didn't see.
  - On one TV showing, due to a sponsor mismatch, they edited every mention of Taco Bell out of Demolition Man. They didn't try for an alternate name, even. It made jokes deflate and other bits confusing.
- Similarly, when Mystery Men was shown on the station, they cut, among other things, all the scenes between The Shoveler's big speech and the parodied Power Walk, which included three very plot relevant scenes.
- One St. Patrick's day, Spike showed The Boondock Saints. Not bad - St. Patrick's Day, set in Boston, Irish protagonists. But they removed the scene where the brothers are "baptized" while in their holding cell and decide to become vigilantes for God.
- Brazilian network Globo is also prone to removing parts of films to make their schedule work (i.e. not only violence and sex). In a recent broadcast of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, most of the scene where Indy meets his father, Indy saying Marcus Brody will blend in the crowd - followed by him lost, and all between Brody's capture and both Joneses tied and starting a fire were taken off.
- Some years ago, a Korean television station wanted to show The Sound of Music, but needed to cut some parts of it for time. What did they cut? THE SONGS!
- In Private Benjamin, the titular character's newly-wed husband dies accidentally during the consummation of their marriage. Whether it was time constraints or being unable to show that before the watershed (the 'passing a joint around' scene was also omitted), a UK network broadcast cut straight from light petting to his funeral, with no explanation whatsoever.
- One broadcast version of the original Stargate movie attempted to cut out all mentions of suicide, child endangerment and arranged marriage. That's right - they chopped out O'Neill's entire character arc, not to mention all of the most touching scenes between Daniel and Sha'uri. The two biggest points in the movie and they completely missed it. Oy vey.
- An Italian television station aired Brokeback Mountain with the references to homosexuality removed. A heterosexual sex scene was left in, though, just in case the implications of this were not obvious. One would think it would be better not to air the movie than to bowdlerise the plot if they found the content offensive.
- In Stephen King's Christine, a pivotal moment is where Arnie first swears at his mother. I've seen it aired with the swearword cut - but the mother's reaction was left in: "WHAT did you say?" Er, well nothing, apparently...
- Some episodes of Scrubs in syndication will feature removals from a swear (Their Story) to THE ENTIRE FREAKING CLIMAX/AESOP (His Story).
- Australia's Channel 7 has an annoying habit of running ads during their end credits, but it hit a new low when it removed the blooper reel from Monsters Inc and fastfowarded the credits to synch it with the ads they'd been showing every break for the last hour.. Seriously, they went out of their way to not show their viewers one of the most entertaining parts of the movie.
Syndicated showings of M*A*S*H are bad about this. Whole scenes will be cut for time that were either important to the plot or were referenced explicitly in uncut dialogue later in the episode.
While time has diluted the general hatred in the fandom towards the Doctor Who Made For TV Movie, there is little denying it is replete with this trope. Even aside from the Doctor being a Half Human Hybrid and kissing Grace for no discernible reason, there’s the Daleks allowing the Doctor on Skaro despite him being their eternal enemy (and despite his having destroyed Skaro in the original series...), the TARDIS’s chameleon circuit renamed a "cloaking device", resurrecting Grace and Chang by going back in time (the single "rule of time" the series didn't ignore arbitrarily), and the Master somehow able to fire acid semen from his mouth.
- The film's novelization was written by a longtime author of the series' spinoff books who valiantly tried to wrestle things into existing continuity, and was as a consequence unreadable fanwank.
- There are a number of easily-justifyable continuity "surprises" in the movie, and one or two Wall Banger adjustments, but Segal's movie really did care — every proposed script prior had been a total Reboot, introducing elements such as the Doctor being the son of Ulysses, the TARDIS being haunted by the spirit of the Doctor's grandfather, the Master being the creator of the Daleks, and the destruction of the Time Lords (Oh... right.). The movie that was actually filmed cared enough to go out of their way to faithfully reproduce the designs of the Tom Baker era TARDIS key and sonic screwdriver, which most fans could not have cared less about. Their hearts were in the right places, it's just that their heads were up their...
  - ...Actually, it sounds like the the execs were the ones who didn't care, and everybody else...made an effort to work around the execs. Remember, nobody said that all attempts to minimize Executive Meddling had to be roaring successes.
  - I think it was a combination of Executive Meddling and sloppy screenwriting. Paul Mc Gann would have made a great Doctor in a regular series. And there's no problem with him going to Skaro despite destroying it in the series: HE HAS A TIME MACHINE.
One episode of The Suite Life on Deck featured one of the twins offering an injured Mr. Moseby a quick game of an MMORPG they had previously played at the hotel from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. In of Zack and Cody, it was called Medieval Magic Quest; in on Deck, they Did Not Do The Research and accidentally gave it the title of an actual series of RPGs.
In the second season finale of Robin Hood Maid Marian was brutally murdered by Guy of Gisborne in a move that writer/creator Dominic Mingella described as an attempt to "rock the show" and "open up new storytelling possibilities." Translation: shock value. Interestingly enough, Mingella didn't stick around for the third series, being credited as a "creator" but contributing nothing to the script-writing or directing. The BBC obviously realised that the show had self-destructed, which led to a general attitude of "We Don't Care Anymore" for the broadcasting of the third season. There was very little publicity regarding the show (far less than previous seasons), the official website wasn't updated until a few days before the premiere, a "closed-mouth" policy seemed to be in place on the reasons behind Marian's death, it was given a terrible time-slot, detailed plot synopsises were released to the press which contained massive spoilers, and the premmature release of the DVD box set ensured that the final episode was leaked on You Tube a good three days before it aired on television (not that many people saw it on television anyway: the BBC pulled it in favour of the tennis and plonked it on a different channel only a few hours before it was scheduled to air).
- Furthermore, the new batch of writers brought in for the third season clearly didn't bother to watch the previous seasons. Fan speculation is that they were simply handed a note that said "Marian got killed", since this is the only major plot-line that is carried over from the past two seasons (and even that is more of an afterthought than any kind of sustained story-line). Even the actors appeared bored and unenthusiastic in the cast interviews (as here), and declined to appear on any episode commentaries for the DVD. They Just Didnt Care.
The network that currently shows Top Gear in Australia has an editing policy that is best described as 'schizophrenic'. For the past few seasons, after the airing of the Australian version of the show (which may just be a coincidence), the British version has received numerous cuts to their airings. The thing is, there doesn't seem to be any definite logic or pattern to their cuts. They cut out the news most consistently, but have left it in on occasion, and have also at various times cut the Stig's power laps, the star in a reasonably priced car, and the Cool Wall (the last is particularly noticeable in the season 13 finale - when suddenly Hammond was stuck on top of a scissor lift at the end of the show for no apparent reason). Strangely, it doesn't seem they even have time constraints or advertisements to blame - entire episodes have been cut.
Tales From The Neverending Story, like the Film example above, is this trope. Whatever could have been made of actually giving the story a decent airing (which has never been done before—even the first film only tells half the story) is squandered on a standard kids' fantasy show where Xayide now has the Nothing in her control, Bastian now has a total lack of interest in reading (and is given the book in exchange for a crappy handheld game), Falkor has wings and characters pass between the real world and Fantasia at will.
Near the end of the third season of Alias, the official ABC.com recap included a plot point (the reveal that Vaughn had been brainwashed by Lauren) that was deleted from the episode (when the season was released on DVD, it was included in the deleted scenes, though). The summary was fixed a few hours later. In the next episode, Vaughn refers to "Whatever Lauren did to me," which was never revealed on screen. In the season finale, the cliffhanger involved Sydney being alerted to secret documents about how she was some sort of pawn. When Syd read the file about the CIA's secret "Project SAB-47" (SAB = Sydney's initials, 47 = the show's recurring magical number), created by her father, Jack, with a starting date of the day she was born, she cries, and then her father appears and tells her that he was hoping she'd never find that. The implication is that her life was some massive CIA project started by Jack. When the website recap went up, they included deleted plot points AGAIN, this time from shots of the documents that were deleted to not reveal as much in the cliffhanger. Again, the recap was fixed within a few hours. After a long wait (the new season was moved from September to January), the first half of the season premiere ends on the reveal that (spoilered because this actually was official continuity) Jack recently killed her mother with CIA approval...even though they used the Season finale scene as a flashback, which the new reveal didn't make sense as an extension of due to the date and project name. The writers decided that it was the best move essentially because they thought that they wrote themselves into a corner by making Jack potentially too evil, and they did it as haphazardly as possible. The show had a ridiculous amounts of dropped plots and other weird stuff at various points, but the sloppiness over the course of these few episodes really made it look like they just didn't care.
- Oh, and then about half a season later, there was a two part episode where Sark went from knowing that Vaughn killed Lauren in the first half to "learning" it in the second half and being shocked by the information.

At Wrestlemania XX, a truly godawful match between Bill Goldberg and Brock Lesnar occurred. Goldberg and Lesnar were, at the time, two of the biggest names in the WWE, and both were good in the ring. However, both were also leaving the company, and thought they could phone in their last match, so instead of a great battle, the fans got a slow-paced, boring match.
- It's worth pointing out that the fans were heavily booing both of them from the moment they stepped into the ring, as it was well-known that both men would be leaving. It became more like a tag team match between Brock/Goldberg and Stone Cold (the special referee)/the fans.

Although it was popular, the version of the Threepenny Opera which won at the Tony Awards a few years ago was deeply at odds with Bertolt Brecht's authoral intent. Instead of the original's gloomy atmosphere and characterization of Macheath (Mack the Knife) as a typically conservative gangster with upper middle class ambitions, the production chose a "Studio 54" setting and turned Macheath's discarded mistress, Lucy, into a transvestite who flashes the audience.
- The history of upbeat adaptations of Die Dreigroschenoper is fairly long (and glamourous). First off, when Brecht and Weill wrote the musical Mr. Brecht was not as hardline a communist as he would become. In fact, Weill and Brecht broke off their working relationship due to Brecht's increasing extremism (which led to Brecht adapting the opera into the Author Tract The Threepenny Novel). The first major recording of (Marc Blitzstein's translation of) "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" was Louis Armstrong's "Mack the Knife". He performed it in his usual loose, exuberant, improvisatory style. Generations of audiences and performers in America heard the Armstrong performance long before they saw the musical.
  - Oh, and The Threepenny Opera is based on The Beggar's Opera that is based on the rivalry between two gangs of criminals.
Way too many operas have been subjected to this treatment in recent decades, particularly in European productions, where many directors have decided that opera needs to get Darker And Edgier with over-the-top violence, gratuitous sex scenes, and Dead Baby Comedy. It doesn't matter if the action on stage tacitly or openly contradicts the words being sung. This article, describing the trend, cites one recent production of The Abduction of the Seraglio, explaining that "neither the streetwalkers nor the whippings, masturbation, and transvestite bondage are anywhere suggested in Mozart’s opera."

The rules of Shadowrun explicitly state that magic can never revive the dead. The Microsoft video game does exactly that, twenty seconds in. Further, the game tosses out the RPG's time line, the "unsexy" species, and any semblance of the game's stealth/tactical roots.
The brutal oversimplification of the tabletop strategy game Battle Tech done by Microsoft for the Mechassault series (not to be confused with the Mech Warrior series which for the most part is pretty faithful). This included such things as force fields, a gun that shoots lava, magical glowing green piles of salvage that instantly repair damage, infinite ammo, and contact with the ground causing all mechs to explode violently.
- Mech Warrior 4 also added variable-damage weaponry in the form of the Bombast laser, and claimed that the vacuum of space provided improved cooling over air.
  - Small Battle Tech note. A variable-damage weapon was later added to BT, but it was not the Bombast laser.
  - As of the recent core book, Tactical Operations, there are two kinds weapons that can vary damage: Bombast Lasers and any PPC with a capacitor. Not counting Ultra and Rotary Autocannons, and range-variable weapons like Heavy Gauss Rifles and Snub-nosed PPCs.
Interplay tried to cash in on its Fallout franchise by creating Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, a knock-off of its successful Dark Alliance series. The gameplay bore no resemblance to the original Fallout roleplaying games and made only passing references to the Fallout world. At the same time, Interplay canceled the highly anticipated Fallout 3 game and jettisoned its entire Black Isle Studios division, which had masterminded the real Fallout series. Fans reacted in outrage before the game even released, prompting the developers to insert a snarky Take That into the credits. The fans had the last laugh, however, when the game performed poorly and the company folded soon afterward. Interplay did recover from that... by selling the Fallout franchise to Bethesda.
- Of course, NMA claims Bethesda obviously shows they don't care about the game, by removing everything that makes Fallout worth it for 'true fans'. Of course, given that NMA is the archetype for the Unpleasable Fanbase, Your Mileage May Vary.
The video game adaptations of Hunter: the Reckoning are infamous for turning a tabletop game that's (ostensibly) about gritty, high-strung monster hunting into a Gauntlet clone. It's especially egregious in the second game, Wayward, where one of the setting's biggest psychos becomes a player character.
An unusual medium for an example is the Madden NFL franchise. It has had a bug for years on end that stops players in simulated games from getting tired, so the backups never play. This means that about five running backs break the all-time rushing record each season, and there are all sorts of other silly consequences. The makers cannot possibly be unaware of the bug, and they just don't care.
- That error is prevalent in a lot of sports games - backup goaltenders in hockey games and bench players in basketball and football don't play nearly as much in simmed games as in real life, because there's no such thing as a "day off" in the simmed version.
Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, a (re)telling of the events between the end of the original game and the end of Mortal Kombat II, derails so many characters and changes so many established events, one has to wonder if the development team are just sick of the series. In compensation, it did get praise for its gameplay, which is generally considered the best out of the recent MK games by critics and fans.
- However, Mortal Kombat Armageddon completely disregards the storyline established in Deadly Alliance and Deception in favor of a ridiculous Xanatos Roulette based around a one-off Joke Character, tossing in a bunch of nonsensical endings that read like bad Fan Fiction, and not even bothering adding in bios for the characters to explain why they're going after a flaming man on top of a pyramid. Adding to this was a tacked on create-a-fighter mode, characters sharing the same moves, and the fact that none of the characters had their iconic fatalities (in favor of a generic create-a-fatality mode).
  - Mortal Kombat in general, following John Tobias's departure from the team. Given that he was the lead designer and he wrote the story and bios, it meant characters lost their edge, new characters became blander and character designs turned to the ludicrous, while at the same time the gameplay took a backseat to gimmickry, leading to controls becoming more and more unresponsive while programmers focused on making the most ridiculous stage fatalities they could.
Silver Surfer for the NES. On one hand, it does have great graphics (for the NES era), music, and play control. But on the other hand, the gameplay is way, way different as it is difficult: Most of the game is the titular hero shooting up enemies like rubber ducks and ghosts (who take many, many hits to kill), and if Silver Surfer touches anything, he is dead. And weeps like a crybaby. It's obvious the developers had the talent and potential, but they didn't give two bleeps about it.
- This trope is becoming a dominant present-day interpretation of the unforgiving nature of older [[Nintendo Hard]] games.
The old Valis series was an epic tale of strong female Magic Warriors with swords. Unfortunately, its original publisher went under and sold the rights to a porn game company. The resulting Hentai enraged fans and left everyone else cold.
The Dawn Of War: Soulstorm expansion. Outsourced to another company that closed down partway into development, and then released anyway. The result was "SPESS MEHREENS!", "We shall take away their metal boxes!", and a few Game Breaking Bugs including one that could result in infinite resources. In multiplayer. All this is understandable, if hilariously awful, but then there were things like having the only recurring character's voice actor still on staff and giving the role to someone else, then only having him grunt a few lines and leave. Or a backwater factory shipping out the oft-cited "tank so big its guns have smaller guns attached to them and is only produced on the most technologically advanced planets in the galaxy" by the hundred (it isn't just game mechanics either. At the start of the said mission it is mentioned that there is a company of the said tanks deployed on the planet. Actually, getting three would be considered extremely lucky). Or, y'know, any of the script writing. Our enemies hide in metal boxes! Of course, some have speculated that, because Iron Lore Entertainment - the company responsible - was closing down after all, they literally didn't care. Perhaps only the ex-staff know.
- The Dark Eldar have horrible, horrible voice acting.
- A superheavy company in 40k usually has three super heavy tanks in it. Lucky, wouldn't you say?
  - No, it has between one and three super heavy tanks.
- The chaos side thens to get a bad cast in all the games, the story army in Soulstorm and the frist Dawn Of War is the Alpha Legion, whose's whole Hat is being faceless Magnificent Bastards and having no true comman. While you can say only Sindri is the only true Alpha Legion just using a local cult/Chaos Space Marine group dressed up as Alpha Legion (which they often do) you can't say the same for the ones in Soul Storm.
Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria. The inevitable formula of translating a detailed and reserved world into a video game will obviously lose or bend some things, but completely break them and acknowledge that you could've done otherwise is a whole different ballgame. Enter the Rune-Keeper, where you can play, out of the box, as a magic spell caster, something that was explicitly stated by Tolkien as not only highly improbable and rare, but also required a great deal of power to do so (much more to use in a violent matter). The powers of this class make Gandalf, one of the Istari, look like a conjurer of cheap tricks.
- People also cried foul on LOTR: Conquest for similiar reasons. Which raises the question: How did Pandemic go from caring about the Star Wars Expanded Universe with the Battlefront series to that?
- This is actually a case of Broken Base—the Rune-Keeper was intended to neatly dodge around canon rather than contradict it, and some people argue that it's a necessary addition to balance out the character types.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted includes adrenaline pumping chases with the police, an important part of which is the dispatcher on whom you can listen in and who vectors the cop cars on your position (and so gives you clues on how to avoid them). She does so by calling out the direction you're going and the location you're currently at. When the material was recycled for NFS: Carbon, which takes place in a different city, the place names obviously couldn't be re-used. And so they simply aren't. Cops in Carbon are apparently psychic and can find you on no other information than your direction of travel.
There's a reason why the Zelda C Di Games are not just Discontinuity but Canon Discontinuity... Oh, where to begin? Let's start with this: Ganon is a (off-model animated(?)) dog-pig-cross.
- While I haven't seen those games, that's at least a semi-reasonable description of his appearance in the original Zelda.
  - ...Just watch a couple of the cutscenes on Youtube and you'll see what the problem is. They border on Nightmare Fuel.
The plot of the Crash Bandicoot game Crash Tag Team Racing is very much this. Aside from making little sense by itself, the plotline has practically nothing to do with Crash aside from having several returning characters in it (most of whom are subject to Character Derailment). The plot also ignores some things previously established in the series by having several Talking Animal characters running around for no reason whereas all the animal characters in the series are supposed to have been experimented upon and mutated by Cortex and other scientists. Oddly, the game seems to inspire less They Changed It Now It Sucks complaints than Radical's later games, Crash of the Titans and Crash: Mind Over Mutant, which are in every way much more faithful to the series.
The developers of Wild Arms: Alter Code F cared. The company that localized it in America, Agetec, did not. Agetec picked up the rights to localize the English version a few months after the game was released in Japan (November 2003), a move that was welcomed by fans considering their work publishing the Armored Core series, which included adding extras that weren't in the Japanese release. A year later, no one had heard a word about any work that had been done with the localization and absolutely no word of a release date. Small details trickled out through one insider, but even he expressed frustration when the game was finally released in America, in November 2005...without voices (the Japanese release had grunts and shouts in battle, and vocals in a few songs, all of which were cut out entirely without any replacement dub), without fixing the Game Breaking Bugs, without any extras (except a DVD of the first episode of the questionable-quality WA anime, Twilight Venom)...and worst of all, a Blind Idiot Translation that was barely any better than the original game, and certainly wasn't up to the standard of 2005 PS2 games. Agetec went mysteriously silent and didn't respond to any inquiries, even from the insider, as to how they managed to release a gutted version of the game after sitting on it for two years. Subsequent games in the series have had their localization handled by XSEED, who are widely agreed to be handling the process better.
Vergil mode in Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition. While some may have been satisfied just to use him as a playable character, others were hoping for a complete deal - cutscenes showing Vergil's interactions with the bosses, fights against Dante, Vergil's own take on wielding the weapons Dante gains etc. Regrettably, the only cutscene we got made sense only as part of Dante's story, with no pre- or post-bossfight cutscenes or gaining the bosses weapons. The "Dante" fights were with a mere Palette Swap of Vergil, sometimes Fan Nicknamed "Vante". It's playable, yes, and there is a certain amount of Squee to using Vergil... but it isn't exactly an expected complete package.
Lux Pain's English translation. So very much.
Backyard Baseball 2007 and future games in the Backyard Sports series. The announcer now refers to everyone as "he" and the characters have no personality now. The series is basically now a Cash Cow for the affiliated sports leagues.
Knights Of The Old Republic 2 - love it or hate it... the game shipped half finished and despite using an all but identical version of the original game's engine. The game was clearly pushed out the door early because a HUGE, ridiculous amount of content - whole levels, complete with spoken dialogue and quests - was in there but just not implemented and polished. They Just Didnt Care
- That's not quite fair. Obsidian clearly cared, as they strove to capture the feel of the original as much as possible while simultaneously expanding on and subtly retconning events of the first game while maintaining (and, dare I say it, improving) the high standard of dialogue, plot and characterisation. Lucas Arts, on the other hand, are butchers who forced Obsidian into a ludicrously short development cycle just to get the game out a few months earlier, thus causing much butchery and a general sense of anticlimax. Lucas Arts, after all, has a wonderful track record of quality Star Wars games.
After The Lost Frontier's perceived dive in quality in comparison to the rest of the Jak And Daxter series, it's hard to argue against this. Of course, most fans don't bother to watch the credits and still blame the new developer for it instead of the creators, who actually took care of the story aspect.
Sometimes, the 'just didn't care' leaks out of the game and onto the box art. Take the masterpiece of ~~shovelware~~ videogaming that is Chicken Shoot◊. Now, compare it with its sequel, Chicken Shoot 2◊. No, it's not a fake.
The manual for the Sega Genesis version of Strider Returns , the non-canon sequel to Capcom's arcade game Strider, refers to the main character as "Strider Hinjo"; evidently the writer Did Not Do The Research since he is actually called Hiryu in every other game. To be fair, the game itself never calls him by any name and this mistake can be blamed solely on the manual writer (who seems to had been too busy taking notes from Konami's localization department by writing the game's plot in surfer lingo), but since Strider Returns isn't that well-liked by fans of the original to begin with, this inconsistency allows them to pretend that Hiryu and Hinjo are actually different characters (who just happens to have the same sprite).
Last Battle, the English version of Sega's Hokuto no Ken II beat-'em-up game for the Sega Genesis, is notable for its hack job of a localization, making very little effort to hide its Hokuto no Ken origins. Instead of redrawing the game's graphics like they did with Black Belt (the English version of their earlier Hokuto no Ken game for the Master System), all Sega did was simply alter the palette of all the character sprites. The game's script is an almost word-by-word translation of the Japanese original, changing only the names of the characters and fighting styles (i.e: Kenshiro became Aarzak). The problem with this is that the game's plot and dialogue makes no sense if you're unfamiliar with the source material (which is practically every American Genesis owner prior to the anime boom in the early 1990's). Moreover, the game's prologue practically spoils the ending, which again, made sense in the Japanese (since Japanese players would've already known the story anyway), but not everywhere else.
Rare's Battletoads/Double Dragon crossover, while not a bad game by any means, gets the names of most of the Double Dragon bad guys wrong. Machine Gun Willy is renamed "Roper" (who was actually a different mook character in the original Double Dragon) and demoted to henchman, as the new Big Bad is a character named the "Shadow Boss", a character who never actually existed in the actual Double Dragon games (although he does vaguely resemble Burnov, the first stage boss from Double Dragon II, but he was just a boss).

South Park could be the poster child for this troop as the Parker and Stone have admitted they care more about the Rule Of Funny than facts. Which is alright in the comedy episodes, but can get annoying when they try to do a political episode, for instance they seriously claimed that there was no proof that second hand smoke was harmful.
- Or that global warming was a myth. At least three times.
1992's Frosty Returns was clearly written by people who had never seen the original. Frosty himself is changed from a Gentle Giant with a childlike innocence and personality into a Large Ham who is somehow omniscient. It would have taken them twenty-two minutes to watch the first one, but apparently they decided that kids wouldn't notice the difference anyway.
- The creators of this movie cared so little that they ignored the fact that Frosty is only supposed to be alive because of his magic hat, instead allowing him take to it off with no negative side effects at all. It's honestly pretty insulting that they couldn't be bothered to pay attention to the entire plot of the first movie and the Christmas carol. How do you manage to deviate from a plot so small that it can be outlined in a single verse of a Christmas carol?
Rumor has it that Walt Disney's instructions to his crew assigned with writing the script for The Jungle Book were, "The first thing I want you to do is not read the book." That would explain a lot...
- Despite this, judging by the behind the scenes features on the DVD, the original draft included more of Kipling's original plot elements, but the various "improvements" made by other scriptwriters whittled them away until...
- Disney had originally tried to follow the book but decided that the storyline was far too dark for American tastes of the time, so he gave those infamous instructions in regards to the rewrite of the film. The result may have not have anything to do with Kipling, but unlike many examples on this page, it is at least watchable.
Tom And Jerry: The Movie. Tom and Jerry are practically secondary characters. The plot was that a little girl was trying to find her father, and Tom and Jerry are practically a subplot. You could pretty much take most of their scenes and the movie would be more sensible. 2. There is very little of the slapstick that Tom and Jerry are famous for. 3. Tom and Jerry spend most of the movie as friends 4. More than a good half of the movie is simply That Reminds Me Of A Song. 5. The diabetes-flavoring would kill anyone who actually watches Tom & Jerry cartoons. 6. Tom & Jerry's lines and voices are rude and childish, while whenever Tom & Jerry talked in the actual cartoons, they talked like adults. In other words, it's a common-grade horrible low-budget straight-to-video kid's film with a sappy story and horrible knock-offs villains, with Tom & Jerry being slapped onto the project at the last moment. The movie was so bad, it got a 17% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's that bad.
- And Tom and Jerry sing! Oh my God. Tom and Jerry... are dead.
This should go with the poor TV editing, but EVERY time Cats Dont Dance is shown on Cartoon Network, there's a commercial break after the cue for, but before the beginning of the final musical number.
- Happens to a lot of movies, actually.
After The Thief and the Cobbler, Richard Williams' labour of love, was taken from his hands, it was passed on to Majestic Films International, who finished it in a manner befitting this trope. Then Miramax got a hold of it.
The only explanation for the "historical" segments on The Busy World Of Richard Scarry which have exceedingly little to do with the actual history (Michaelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel's ceiling to keep a meddling priest from messing with a mural he was painting on the wall?).
Not caring is what some Bionicle fans think the makers of the direct-to-DVD movie The Legend Reborn did. The very first shot of the movie already shows us a disregard of what's been established: namely, depicting the now uninhabited and barren island of Mata Nui as a lush, beautiful, tropical island. Due to this, the first scene has an incredibly large body-count, as the Mata Nui robot rises up from below the island. Then, the movie continues to show us the 44 million feet tall being (with Critical Research Failure and Special Effects Failure added to the mix) standing on the Endless Ocean Planet, and his head doesn't even reach into space, even though in every image of said being, he towered way beyond the planet's atmosphere. Of course, if you're not a hard-core fan, you'll probably let these details slip. But what really caused this scene to be ripped out of canon was making the Endless Ocean Planet look like Earth, with large continents covering it. The first scene did not happen as it was shown on the screen, simply put. Why no one bothered to ask the story writer about such things is anyone's guess, even though they worked more closely with him than in the case of the previous three films.
- The following scene of the Mask of Life hurtling through space, from one galaxy to the next (right...) is also considered non-canon as the mask should only have flown from one planet to the next (from the Endless Ocean Planet Aqua Magna to Bara Magna, to which the former is actually a moon), but this isn't a case of They Just Didnt Care, since the decision to make Bara Magna's moon and Aqua Magna the same celestial body was made after the film had already been finished. So don't be surprised if the same planet appears both as an Earth-lookalike and a strange-colored asteroid in the same movie.
- However the constant depiction of the characters as robots is somewhat irritating, since according to canon, 85% of their bodies is in fact organic (hence the name Bionicle). Yet in the movie, wounds spark, electric bolts flash when someone is killed (Legends of Metru Nui, the second movie from the first trilogy is also guilty of this), screws fall out of people, and instead of "healing", they "repair" each other. The constantly (well, almost constantly) spinning screws on the characters also made them seem more robotic, rather than lifelike.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was a novel written by Mark Twain. It used time travel as a mechanism to critique the feudal system and the Catholic church and is known for its acidic sense of humor. Nowadays there are no end of 'X in King Arthur's Court' movies or shows such as Martin Lawrence's Black Knight, which maintain the time travel angle but are usually childish and contain no thought-provoking material whatsoever.
- To be fair, Twain's critique was always somewhat crude and bigoted, even for his own day. His conclusion is frankly horrific. Although a serious re-examination of Twain's theme might well be in order, it seems not entirely fair to criticize every adaptation as They Just Didn't Care. Though I will grant you Unidentified Flying Oddball.
- ...and then, we have A Kid In King Arthurs Court, which is so horribly off the source material it may as well be an entirely different movie. Which still doesn't even remotely explain how a CD player can zap someone in the eye with the laser while open... from the center of the player rather than the source of the laser. Not only did they not even care, they didn't even think.
  - Uh, considering the protagonist of A Connecticut Yankee isn't a kid, it IS "an entirely different movie"!

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