Depends. Inconsistencies are more easily forgivable if the series runs on Rule of Funny. In a serious work, not so much.
In this example, it sounds like since things took a turn for the serious, you'd have to make things continuous.
edited 16th May '12 1:38:05 PM by KaiserMazoku
I'm not even sure I understand the question.
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That's how I roll in basically all my projects so far. I might wing it to get there, but I respect continuity and will make sure it follows. Plus I like planning out major plot stuff over the course of a work so that I have several points of reference either to get to or to work towards or otherwise connect things. Retcons are for the weak people who don't plan ahead.
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I want to know if I need to remain consistent if I ever have any sort of canon or continuity.
"Eratoeir is a Gangsta."
Um, isn't that the definition of continuity?
edited 16th May '12 5:48:00 PM by nrjxll
I have question about this trope being used, lets we have a webcomic that is pretty much a series of self contained short stories with no continuity whatsoever. Sooner or later, it gains plenty of story arcs with a lot of things being rewritten and/or revised to soon the growing continuity or canon. The webcomic is no longer is a series of comedic comic strips with but a webcomic series where things have taken a turn for the dramatic and those silly, nonsensical things get retconned. The early days of isolated stories are gone and now there is a canon to follow where these events cannot contradict each other. My question is even if you do have continuity, do you have to be restricted by what has already been established in you series universe? Can you still have a series of self contained stories where none of those stories overlap with each other? Or do you have a storyline with a clear ending in mind?
"Eratoeir is a Gangsta."