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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-05-20 06:46 pm

[ SECRET POST #2330 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2330 ⌋

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Re: Attitude towards retcons?

[personal profile] dethtoll 2013-05-20 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm okay with good retcons (like Hal Jordan never being a drunk who went to jail for 90 days is fine by me), am not okay with stupid retcons (One More Day) and am indifferent about minor changes, like Superman being an active hero as a teenager.

This all applies to comic books, by the way. When it comes to video game retcons, I tend to take them as they come, especially when a series is long running. For example, MGS2 claims that Big Boss was in his late fifties when he was cloned. Peace Walker makes that impossible by explicitly stating that he was 39 in 1974 (the cloning was done in 1972.) Also consider that Big Boss was depicted as actually pretty young in MGS3's 1964, but his age was never outright stated.

That being said, I don't like when some retcons are obviously done because a new guy running the franchise or whatever doesn't like it, such as IGA tossing Circle of the Moon and Legacy of Darkness out of the Castlevania canon for the sole reason of "well I didn't work on those and they suck." Nevermind that the immediate next game, Harmony of Dissonance, was of lesser quality to CotM!