Talk:Continuity
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Moved in from article:
- Another problem in science fiction universes occurs when the backstory begins to conflict with reality. Star Trek provides a good example, as much of the backstory for the universe was written in the 1960's and involves fictional events in the late 20th and early 21st century, which have not occurred.
Don't see what it has to do with continuity per se. Continuity is about the story maintaining consistency with itself, not with reality. -Sean 08:22, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I rewrote and merged in the content from Continuity error (which is now a redirect). I'm going to take this off the cleanup page now. --Starx 03:57, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
Sorry 'bout the retconning link removal, Starx. It was accidental. Thanks for fleshing out this topic and folding in the Continuity error text. -- Jeff Q 15:25, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
No problem, thanx for the spell check, I really should start running these once through open office, spelling (as you saw) is a weakness of mine. --Starx 18:20, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
Quote from article: "Visual errors are instant discontinuities. These errors only occur in visual media such as film and television. Items of clothing change colors, shadows get longer or shorter, items within a scene change place or disappear...Such errors occur as early as Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, where in "The Miller's Tale" a door is ripped off its hinges only to be slowly closed again in the next scene." Um, this isn't a huge problem, but I'm pretty sure the Canterbury Tales isn't a visual medium. It's a book, right?