[ SECRET POST #3469 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3469 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Canon Discontinuity

[(Anonymous)]

Canon is a dumb idea that often doesn't apply to a fair bit of the media I engage in. We just watched Series 2 of Broadchurch, and even as tightly written as that is, there were still glitches and holes that exist for the sake of craftsmanship and casting. Like Ellie beating the world record for the dash while invisible between shots in the finale.

Or, say the way in which the Barnabys of Midsommer manage to repeatedly handle a full tenth of the homicides of Great Britain (sometimes in a single episode) without any real consequences. "Canon" creates bullshit like a Klingon virus to explain improvements in stage makeup since the 1960s. It's not something that needed to be explained to an audience who saw how the 1980s revolutionized creature makeup.

While we're talking about Star Trek, "Conspiracy," was an amazingly dumb season finale with alien parasites taking over Starfleet, Picard and Riker exploding a human torso with a phaser in one of the worst effect sequences of the series, and a stinger of a message sent off into space. Thankfully, nothing happens as a result, and DS9 did a better job with the premise. There are other episodes that are best treated as stand-alone stories not necessarily a part of some grand continuity. If later writers of the show didn't think it was worth chasing down the consequences of that episode, I'm willing to ignore it as well.

Mainstream comics continuity is a fucking mess, since the business model involves musical chairs and periodic "edgy." There's really no reason to assume that Captain America of today is the same as Cap of 20 years ago by a completely different creative team. That's especially true of Bats since everyone wants to "make their mark" on the origin story, so we might as well treat them all as different riffs on a classic theme.

Now of course, if you're disregarding the source material just because it sank your ship, (such as the conclusion of Harry Potter), I think that's a bit silly. Rowling's body of work is Rowling's body of work (until she releases a revised edition), warts and all. And since there's absolutely no benefit to ships being "canon," there's no reason suggest that the text doesn't say what it says. I'm ambivalent about the epilogue of Mockingjay but it is what it is.