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Post by maxwellperfect on Sept 6, 2018 14:39:42 GMT
I recently read through a thread on another forum about continuity issues in "Bewitched" -- it had literally hundreds of replies from people noting everything from the discrepancies in Endora's age to witch powers and the rules of witchcraft. I realized that stuff used to bother me as well. Also, how in "I Dream of Jeannie" there was an episode in which the premise was that a genie loses her power if she gets married, but of course later in the series when Jeannie marries Tony she does not lose her genie powers. Even the original Star Trek had its share of inconsistencies, although the creators of that show from the onset tried to create a more consistent story-universe. By the 90's, viewers expected tighter continuity and would not accept things such as a disappearing sibling like "Happy Days" got away with in the 70's. But continuity errors inevitably turn up, even in the best-written shows. Which ones bothered you the most?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2018 14:43:55 GMT
Don`t care for when a character is a only child and than suddenly has a sister or brother.
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Post by Catman 猫的主人 on Sept 6, 2018 15:06:51 GMT
Hogan's Heroes: Sometimes their radio is strictly Morse code, sometimes voice, sometimes they can only reach the sub (which does not have an antenna deployed), sometimes they can reach a bunker located in England ... but it is funny that Howard Caine played three different Nazis who all looked and sounded exactly the same.
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Post by MCDemuth on Sept 6, 2018 15:46:32 GMT
Don`t care for when a character is a only child and than suddenly has a sister or brother. Or a "Sister" suddenly becomes a Brother, or a "Brother" suddenly becomes a Sister. (And... NO... I am NOT talking about a person having a sex change operation!) Or family members that seem to suddenly cease to exist... If I recall correctly, On Star Trek: Enterprise, Travis Mayweather mentions his entire family, including his sister was "still on board the Horizon"... When Travis visited the Horizon shortly after his father dies, we only saw his Mother and Brother on board... There is no mention of his sister at all. Not even a line of dialog to explain that she is on another ship, or how she is coping with her father's death... Or a description of an animal changes... A Black Labrador Retriever is now a Golden Labrador Retriever... A long hair cat, is now a short hair cat... A male cat, now becomes a female cat... |
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Post by Catman 猫的主人 on Sept 6, 2018 15:48:50 GMT
Don`t care for when a character is a only child and than suddenly has a sister or brother. At least in Buffy they explained the sudden sister. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2018 15:52:11 GMT
Don`t care for when a character is a only child and than suddenly has a sister or brother. At least in Buffy they explained the sudden sister. Yes but she should have been gone after season 5 and disappeared as she never existed. As she did not do in the first 4 seasons. |
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Post by maxwellperfect on Sept 6, 2018 16:18:12 GMT
Don`t care for when a character is a only child and than suddenly has a sister or brother. At least in Buffy they explained the sudden sister. They didn't explain why Oz looked totally different as a werewolf the first time we saw him in that form. |
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Post by sweetpea on Sept 6, 2018 17:25:37 GMT
That is actually something that doesn't bother me. I am thrilled when they follow through though. But with as much tv as I have watched in 50 years, I expect writers to throw things in that might not make sense. Tv has gotten better in that area. But it's because the more the expense budget, the more they can spend the time/& people thoroughly combing through all those details.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 6, 2018 18:17:50 GMT
Doesn't really bother me, but it stood out: in the first season of That 70s Show, Red asks Gerald Ford "what the hell were you thinking pardoning Nixon?" In later seasons, part of his character is that he's a hard-rightie who loves Nixon.
One that did bother me was all the character teleporting going on in season 7 of Game of Thrones.
Speaking of Buffy, the fact that Willow goes from 100% straight to 100% gay. Vampires exist, but not bisexuals?
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Post by amyghost on Sept 6, 2018 18:29:15 GMT
No attempt to retcon the backstory of a character who's spun off from one series to another, a la Florida on Maude: when transitioned to Good Times, there's no mention of her ever having been a maid in NY, her husband's name goes from Henry to James, he goes from having been a firefighter to chronically unemployed, and, as far as we know, the family has always lived in that high-rise project in Chicago. That may have been the single worst example of the writers not even making a cursory effort to line up a character's history from one show to another, but there have been others.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 6, 2018 18:40:32 GMT
On the original Star Trek, the Squire of Gothos episode:
Kirk tells Trelane that the latter has been observing events that occurred on Earth 900 years earlier. Trelane mentions the Alexander Hamilton duel from 1804 and a Richard Strauss composition from 1880, and this has been interpreted as suggesting the episode was set in the 28th century at the earliest.
However, later episodes placed Star Trek in the 23rd century.
On Star Trek Voyager the fact that half the crew belonged to the Maquis rebel faction was significant to the first season (and there was one trouble-making character named Seska I think, who was reminding Chakotay about this and he was initially combative with Janeway). But then all the Maquis resistance vanished and they became regular Starfleet crew like the Maquis never existed.
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Post by maxwellperfect on Sept 6, 2018 19:53:23 GMT
On the original Star Trek, the Squire of Gothos episode: Kirk tells Trelane that the latter has been observing events that occurred on Earth 900 years earlier. Trelane mentions the Alexander Hamilton duel from 1804 and a Richard Strauss composition from 1880, and this has been interpreted as suggesting the episode was set in the 28th century at the earliest. However, later episodes placed Star Trek in the 23rd century. On Star Trek Voyager the fact that half the crew belonged to the Maquis rebel faction was significant to the first season (and there was one trouble-making character named Seska I think, who was reminding Chakotay about this and he was initially combative with Janeway). But then all the Maquis resistance vanished and they became regular Starfleet crew like the Maquis never existed. it took a while for the time-frame of Star Trek to get settled. Some episodes suggested approximately 200 years in the future, but they ultimately settled for approximately 300. It's been a while since I watched any post-OT series, but as I recall the Maquis weren't directly at war with Starfleet, but rather were former Starfleet officers who got involved in a war with one of the non-Federation galactic powers. |
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Post by marianne48 on Sept 9, 2018 6:22:06 GMT
What exactly was the timeline on MASH? I think in the beginning year or so, the doctors had been together for a year or two, and 1951 or 1952 was mentioned. As the series lasted for 11 years, they seemed to keep going backward and forward through those three years of the war. Meanwhile, Radar kept aging physically, but he kept getting younger and younger--he started out as
an older teenager and sounded like a ten-year-old in his last year on the show.
Siblings who come and go--on the first year of The Cosby Show, the Huxtables discuss having another baby in one episode,
which would make five children in total. Then in the second episode, they do have a fifth child--really their first, whom they apparently forgot all about in the first season since she was away at college. The opposite phenomenon occurred on Happy Days, where oldest son Chuck Cunningham went away to college and soon after ceased to exist. Even in the series finale,
Howard Cunningham mentions having had only two children. Both students must have attended the same college in the Twilight Zone.
On The Odd Couple, Felix and Oscar were originally "childhood friends" (as mentioned in the opening credits); after the first season (where it was explained that they met as adults serving jury duty together), that was changed to simply "friends." But they were also in the army together.
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Post by louise on Sept 9, 2018 8:06:17 GMT
M.A.S.H. Had some of the most annoying. IN the early seasons, Hawkeyes has a mother and a sister, then suddenly he only has his Dad - mother and sister mysteriously wiped out. COlonel Potter has a son and a granddaughter at first, then later son and granddaughter vanish and he has a daughter and a grandson instead. RAdar in the early seasons mentions siblings - then suddenly he's an only child. also he has a tattoo that disappears.
Frasier - Martin states in an early episode that he never had a brother - then later he suddenly has one.
N.C.I.S. - in an early episode Ducky has a nephew - then suddenly he's all his mother has got - what became of nephew and his parents?
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Post by DarkManX on Sept 9, 2018 16:08:47 GMT
On Home Improvement Jill Taylor mentions way more sisters than she ultimately ends up having.
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Post by maxwellperfect on Sept 9, 2018 16:17:23 GMT
What exactly was the timeline on MASH? I think in the beginning year or so, the doctors had been together for a year or two, and 1951 or 1952 was mentioned. As the series lasted for 11 years, they seemed to keep going backward and forward through those three years of the war. Meanwhile, Radar kept aging physically, but he kept getting younger and younger--he started out as an older teenager and sounded like a ten-year-old in his last year on the show. Siblings who come and go--on the first year of The Cosby Show, the Huxtables discuss having another baby in one episode, which would make five children in total. Then in the second episode, they do have a fifth child--really their first, whom they apparently forgot all about in the first season since she was away at college. The opposite phenomenon occurred on Happy Days, where oldest son Chuck Cunningham went away to college and soon after ceased to exist. Even in the series finale, Howard Cunningham mentions having had only two children. Both students must have attended the same college in the Twilight Zone. On The Odd Couple, Felix and Oscar were originally "childhood friends" (as mentioned in the opening credits); after the first season (where it was explained that they met as adults serving jury duty together), that was changed to simply "friends." But they were also in the army together. MASH did indeed go backward in time! Potter was there before Blake if some of the dates mentioned are to be believed. |
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Post by DC-Fan on Sept 9, 2018 19:06:07 GMT
On the original Star Trek, the Squire of Gothos episode: Kirk tells Trelane that the latter has been observing events that occurred on Earth 900 years earlier. Trelane mentions the Alexander Hamilton duel from 1804 and a Richard Strauss composition from 1880, and this has been interpreted as suggesting the episode was set in the 28th century at the earliest. However, later episodes placed Star Trek in the 23rd century. On Star Trek Voyager the fact that half the crew belonged to the Maquis rebel faction was significant to the first season (and there was one trouble-making character named Seska I think, who was reminding Chakotay about this and he was initially combative with Janeway). But then all the Maquis resistance vanished and they became regular Starfleet crew like the Maquis never existed. it took a while for the time-frame of Star Trek to get settled. Some episodes suggested approximately 200 years in the future, but they ultimately settled for approximately 300. It's been a while since I watched any post-OT series, but as I recall the Maquis weren't directly at war with Starfleet, but rather were former Starfleet officers who got involved in a war with one of the non-Federation galactic powers. The biggest continuity error I remember from Star Trek was an episode of TNG when the TNG crew found Scotty trapped inside a transporter beam for 75 years. When they released Scotty from the transporter beam, Ryker identified himself as Commander William Ryker of the starship Enterprise. When Scotty heard Enterprise, he said "I knew Captain Kirk would come looking for me!" Scotty obviously didn't know how long he had been trapped in the transporter beam so that wasn't a problem when the episode aired. But years later when the Generations movie was released, Scotty was on board the Enterprise when Kirk was sucked into the ribbon. Scotty and everyone else thought Kirk was sucked into space and died. So from Scotty's perspective, Kirk had died before Scotty was trapped in the transporter beam so it didn't make sense that Scotty would expect Kirk to be looking for him when he was released from the transporter beam. |
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Sept 9, 2018 22:56:37 GMT
On the original Star Trek, the Squire of Gothos episode: Kirk tells Trelane that the latter has been observing events that occurred on Earth 900 years earlier. Trelane mentions the Alexander Hamilton duel from 1804 and a Richard Strauss composition from 1880, and this has been interpreted as suggesting the episode was set in the 28th century at the earliest. However, later episodes placed Star Trek in the 23rd century. On Star Trek Voyager the fact that half the crew belonged to the Maquis rebel faction was significant to the first season (and there was one trouble-making character named Seska I think, who was reminding Chakotay about this and he was initially combative with Janeway). But then all the Maquis resistance vanished and they became regular Starfleet crew like the Maquis never existed. On Voyager, I believe there was an episode where the crew finds out the rest of The Maquis were killed. Episode "Hunters". |
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Post by deembastille on Sept 9, 2018 23:11:11 GMT
Boy meets world. They use this mute kid (the director's sin or someone) as both the weird baby in the married dorm (I see dead people) and later on as Joshua.
That and they age the babies super fast.
Farting out a kid (especially when that's the premise of the show). Then you see the kids parents often but hardly ever the kid. (Reba)
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Post by deembastille on Sept 9, 2018 23:17:09 GMT
I recently read through a thread on another forum about continuity issues in "Bewitched" -- it had literally hundreds of replies from people noting everything from the discrepancies in Endora's age to witch powers and the rules of witchcraft. I realized that stuff used to bother me as well. Also, how in "I Dream of Jeannie" there was an episode in which the premise was that a genie loses her power if she gets married, but of course later in the series when Jeannie marries Tony she does not lose her genie powers.But who told her??? Her bitch sister. Remember how gullible Jeannie was due to her being without world contact for 2000 years. She believed anything anyone told her. |
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