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Fans of big franchises care a lot more about continuity than the creators do (lemmy.ca)
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Before I started watching Star Trek, I had heard about it on the Big Bang Theory. The way it was talked about, I was expecting a franchise with very airtight and complex lore. In reality, it's kind of a muddled mess. And really, it's better the creators don't worry too much about continuity, why let continuity get in the way of a good story? It doesn't make sense that half the cast of the original series had encountered Trelane before but in the end, does it really matter?

Anyway, fans of big franchises who keep track of all the lore and act as though it's all consistent, put way more thought into continuity than the creators.

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

My thesis is that storytelling as a whole is about ideas and themes more than it is about particular nouns. I reject the idea that so much weight should be given to the components of storytelling that can be made into intellectual property. And sometimes you do want to tell a story that uses a compellingly iconic thing; Giger's xenomorph is an incredibly compelling creature that resonates across decades because it has so much psychological weight. If you tried to tell an Alien story with anything else people would notice and ask "why didn't they just make an Alien film?" and if the answer is "because they had interesting ideas that couldn't be incorporated into the exact continuity of a dozen different films made across four decades", that to me is a poor reason not to tell a good story.