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

[ SECRET POST #2330 ]


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Re: Attitude towards retcons?

[personal profile] terabient 2013-05-21 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Well, there are lots of reasons for retconning....

The ones that DON'T bother me are the accidental retcons of minor things, stuff like changing a character's age or the dates of certain events in their life because whoops, the creator didn't remember that they mentioned it previously.

I'm a little harder on retcons that occur because of a creative team change, or because the original creator decided they wanted to do something wildly different. The attitude of the people doing the retcon is a big issue--if the...uh...retconners believe that they're 'fixing' a problem or making a superior version of what came before, they come off as disrespectful and arrogant and often, the retcon itself ends up being polarizing or just plain bad. I mean...even if the original material was super crappy, if you are working with it, you should have some respect for it. :/