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Author: antialiasis

Sep 23rd 2011 at 7:52:43 PM

Whoa. I happened to recheck this on a whim only to find quite a bit of support for it in the comments from after I kind of gave up on it. So I thought maybe it would be worth it to resurrect this again.

Looking at Season Fluidity, especially as it's phrased right now (I don't remember precisely how it was phrased when I originally proposed this), it is about transitions between seasons or arcs, not about episode-to-episode continuity at all. The main reason it seems to bring up episode-to-episode continuity, in fact, if I'm understanding it correctly, is that very episodic shows where StatusQuoIsGod generally also don't have very sharp distinctions between their seasons/arcs, but that's a correlation, not an equivalence; heck, the high end of that scale is explicitly where different seasons are practically reboots, which actually belongs on the lower end of this scale. I therefore propose that Season Fluidity have the bits that appear to be about continuity specifically reworded to concern seasonal distionctions and this be launched as the continuity trope; the pages could then reference one another. Anyone in favor?