The Relative Importance of Continuity

[firstmutant]

http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanthropology/131370.html
"Soap people are just happy to be there. Sci-fi people want to know why in episode 2221 the molecular dithigium didn't split the atoms in half

Comments

[issuegirls]

Speaking as a Mutant X fan... con-ti-what? ;)

Cat

[kincsem]

It's called "contimohanization".

[tribeofroses]

Love the term. hehe

~~Lina ;)

[kincsem]

How else could Brennan come by 2 biodads, Shalimar have 2 different families, Jesse's grandfather be Mr Moneybucks in S1 and Mr Rusticplaidshirt in S3, Adam be a serious scientist AND practitioner of ceremonial magic, and Mason suffer a 70-80 IQ point loss between S1 and S2?

[lonelywalker]

One of the things about science is that it's science. There are laws and you damn well better stick to them. Soap operas rely mostly on interpersonal relationships, rather than the laws of physics, and people are more likely to change than gravity.

But you never know.