Re: In Defense Of Continuity

"Tim Turnip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On 28 Nov 2003 03:29:29 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pat ONeill)
> wrote:
> >And I think it's the insistence on maintaining this strict continuity and
> >"shared universe" that makes them seem like geeky kid stuff to the wider
> >public--who have better things to spend time and brain power on than
whether
> >Oracle's depiction in BIRDS OF PREY is consistent with her depiction in
BATMAN.
>
> Honestly, I don't think the continuity argument matters to the wider
> public either way.  Most people are unaware that there even is such an
> argument.  Rest assured, comics, as they are, would still be geeky kid
> stuff even if they adhered to your ideal of a loose, non-enforced
> continuity (or whatever you want to call it).  It's not continuity
> that makes comics geeky kid stuff, it's the fact that they're comics,
> and that they mostly concern superheroes, and that they're targeted at
> kids.
>
> >Stories told in other media do not insist on nor require that sort of
> >nonsense...even when they are, supposedly, set in the same "world".
Certain
> >elements--the existence of Phoebe's twin Ursula, the fact that Paul's old
> >apartment is now inhabited by Kramer--indicate that FRIENDS, MAD ABOUT
YOU, and
> >SEINFELD all take place in the same fictional Manhattan...yet no one
watching
> >all three shows would insist--as continuity-obsessive comics fans
do--that
> >events in one show carry over to the others.
>
> That's because these shows have only an incidental overlap.  They're
> not intended to do so by original design.  There's no Sitcom League of
> America show that features regular team-ups by Phoebe, Kramer and Paul
> Reiser.

Although if there was, I'd watch it! ^_^

Dave
-- 
"Before some man put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp, the ram in the
rama lama ding dong, the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop, and the dip in
the dip da dip da dip, was it only bah bah, a lama ding dong, shoo shoo, and
da da? If so, what exactly inspired him? And was it possibly the same
individual who wrote the book of love, let the dogs out, got some gangsta
s#!t, and was in my room last night?"
-PAD


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