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alexseanchai) wrote2019-05-07 09:41 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2019-05-07 09:41 pm
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...question
you know how fans of media properties reconsume canon lots for etc and so forth reasons?
concerning people whose paid employment is to create canon
(which is to say, TV writers usually, book writers not often?)
it doesn't seem to be part of their jobs to reconsume canon much at all
...
why not?
you know how fans of media properties reconsume canon lots for etc and so forth reasons?
concerning people whose paid employment is to create canon
(which is to say, TV writers usually, book writers not often?)
it doesn't seem to be part of their jobs to reconsume canon much at all
...
why not?
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It's also possible that they're working completely out of order - the sixth season episode that seems out of place is a reworked first season script that never got filmed because one of their sixth season scripts got rejected at the last minute, so they do their best to revise this old thing in a rush but it still feels really off for season six. Or they may have had to pull in an emergency backup scriptwriter who usually works across the hall and has literally never seen the show.
In some cases I think it's also deliberate? Like, I'm still listening to that X-Men podcast, and they do a lot of interviews with writers who are taking over a long-standing character, and the impression I get there is that if they're not already a fan of the character (or sometimes even if they are) they get/make a reading list of the parts of that character's previous canon that they want their work to reflect off of, and only review that. Partly because *nobody's* getting paid enough to understand all of X-Men canon, but also because the new content usually isn't being aimed at people who have canon memorized- they'll consume it regardless. It's being aimed at casual readers, and new readers. So they don't even *want* to be scrupulous about continuity at the expense of telling a fresh and exciting story. As frustrating as it is for those of us who do care.
That probably applies less to something like Miraculaous Ladybug than something like comics or Star Wars, but I'm sure it's still something of a factor.