#continuity errors

[pleasantwasteland]

He smiled again, but it was a sad kind of smile this time. 'Let's just say I'm a doctor of history.' She smirked, in a way exactly calculated to inform people when they were being pretentious. 'You mean you study it.' 'I mean I make it better.'

Continuity Errors, by Steven Moffat

[nephilimeq]

Hey, I was just wondering what age you thought Derek was in season one? Cause it’s a heavily debated and unknown piece of information. Me personally I always thought he was 19 in the pilot, and this was before I had read anything about the writers wanting him to be that age in the pilot. It was just the way he acted, to me, it doesn’t seem like a mid-20s man. Also stiles says the fire happened “ like ten years ago” but then a few episodes later Peter says he’s been in a coma for 6 years. So I was just curious what you thought. Also stiles saying that is always made out to be taken as it literally happened exactly ten years ago, and people always bring it up but they never talk about how long Peter said it had been.

Sorry if this is long I just enjoy your blog and your thoughts. I wanted to share mine while also hearing it from your perspective. Hope you have a wonderful day, you deserve it!

This is a very tricky subject to handle, because the writers made mistakes in their own timeline so they switched things around.

But in the very first episode Stiles says that Derek is only a few years older than them. I always figured that Derek was around 19 in Season 1, while Stiles was 16.

The reason why they messed everything up so horribly is because they hadn't actually created a timeline for all the events when they started writing, and to me, it made the show feel like a fan fiction writer who was just making it up as they went and then all the reviewers were saying, "Hey, you have a few continuity errors," and instead of trying to make it work, they just made something up and didn't really try to go back and adjust anything.

There's a scene that happens when Stiles is asking Peter and Cora about Derek's past (Season 3, Episode 8 "Visionary"), and he is trying to find out how old they are, and this train wreck section of dialogue occurs:

Stiles: Okay, if Derek was a sophomore back then, how old was he? How old were you? ...How old are you now? Peter: Not as young as we could have been, but not as old as you might think. Stiles: Okay, that was frustratingly vague. How old are you? Cora: I'm seventeen. Stiles: See, that's an answer. That's how we answer people. Cora: Well, seventeen how you'd measure in years. Stiles: Alright, I'm just gonna drop it.

This dialogue made me so pissy when I heard it the first time because I knew that this was the writers' response to the viewers and fans. The fans are Stiles in this conversation, and the writers are Peter and Cora being purposely "frustratingly vague" in the hopes that we'll just "drop it", which a lot of us did because they wouldn't give us any straight answers.

They messed up and they know it.

In my head canon -- because it makes the most sense to me -- Derek is three years older than them. Canonically, Derek is actually only ten days older than me, as seen in this enhanced screencap right here (from Season 1, Episode 11, where Kate has him kidnapped and held up in chains):

So according to this he would have been around 22, about to turn 23 in the first season...but here's something to take into consideration. This driver's license isn't for California -- it's for New York. I have a theory that he got a professional fake I.D. so that he could do more jobs (such as bartending) while he was out of state.

Now, when Stiles mentions the fire was "like, ten years ago," I genuinely think that he was just generalizing. Derek was sixteen when Kate took advantage of him raped him, which means that the fire happened when Stiles was around twelve/thirteen (as he has a canonically April 8th birthday, so it all depends on the months).

Regarding anything Peter might have said...please remember that it has been firmly established in the show that Peter is an unreliable narrator. Stiles openly admits that to Cora in the previously mentioned Season 3, Episode 8, "Visionary".

A lot of these issues are because of the lack of consistency from the writers.

I think the biggest problem was when they cast a younger Peter and totally threw the timelines off, trying to make him only a few years older than Derek -- which he wasn't. Peter is Derek's uncle, for crying out loud! The man would have been in his late twenties, early thirties when Derek was a teen, barely looking any different than he does in the show...and yet the writers and producers thought that making him look almost like a teenager was the right call.

I do think it was a last ditch attempt to try and make Derek waaay older than Stiles because they didn't like the shipping -- but they had already established too much of their timeline at that point and simply messed up and didn't have the guts to admit it.

Simply put, I genuinely think Derek was nineteen and turned twenty during season one.

Hope that answers your questions, anon!

[stra-tek]

"I once performed a c-section on a pregnant Gorn and let me tell you, those little bastards bite!"

Just try and make sense of this after what Strange New Worlds established about Gorn reproduction😂

[pythagoras180]

[pippin-katz]

Alright I need some fucking input here, so reblog the shit out of this poll please so it gets more votes

Please, PLEASE vote on this cause I need to know! I know that I must be in the minority, but I need to know just how small of a minority it is!! I’m losing my mind a little bit lmfao

[dallasthetransgenderlegend]

“I’ve never been this far out” says the “man” who’s been outside of the universe.

[saltysplayt00ns]

Author Weaseling their narratives.

I want to state this now before it leaves my brain, just a small penny of thought. After pages are uploaded and the Author not using a script. He will IMMEDITALTY try to cover up the holes and fix it the next pages or so. Then messes up continuity along those lines.

Yes, cause that's better to wait it out then do anything at all. Ranach and Avanti can sneak in the territory during the night and wait to slaughter EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM. The territory of meteor is vast with minimum eyes, they can't keep watch for 24/7 simultaneously. Like for one, When the Avanti beast came into Home and everyone questioned why he didn't just kill the meteor tribe?? Kiq. made pages to answer the question to the audience, literally Him telling the audience why something is not logically going or going against what doesn't make sense - ya feel me??

I would think knowing a family member dying, would pushed you to make sure your other family member is over their safe, you literally stated it to Rhovanion of them being an oppressive tribe and dangerous group. When Everyone questioned Why Roamer didn't go help Ronja and save her from a inbreeding, oppressing, Sexual assaulting, tribe instead of going swimming and hanging out in midnight guard. Kique had to make an excuse for it.

CH. 13 PG 807 & 809 - Yes, let us give more justification for the tribe to easily state the capitol ' meteor is killing members left and right again' to have the matriarch to annihilate them on the spot. Good idea guys. Have majority of the Tribes' who hates meteor with tangible proof and track record to put more endangerment over Ronja's pups. I might as well left the group after that with Javo, Galti and Alva.

Another is when Roamer murdered bear dog and when people got hurt about that he tried to justify it and praise the Garystu characters. more so having Ronja not do anything cause Roamer literally been disobedient the moment he got separated from the pack and followed two strangers the beginning of Home. Also stopped people from commenting cause he didn't like people pointing it out. He did it before of killing dogs or shunning hem to Justify they are BAD , they are the VILLAINS when they're anything but that. Jonna. Kargo before his death. Fairikh. Ruan. Aira etc. Let me remind you that kique doesn't have a script, and when he does it's by volunteers before he burns the bridges with them and then back to square one again. He has a Patreon that the pages are ahead of the public, so he can produce pages to cover tracks before they present to the public. He already probably doing one now or has not made the pages to Justify the ' Golden ' Lioness to give a starting couple a child without consent. It's already bad when you have to prove what's morally wrong to be right or worse to romanticized it. What's sad the hybrid cubs will be brushed off.

CH. 12 PG 738 & 739

CH. 11 PG 607 & 608

Ronja's kids have been on the way-side and we have only have scenes when Roamer needs comfort involving when Rogio is NOT there or Ronja is involved to do parenting. If this is supposed to be just a slice of life type of comic, I would like to see something that pertains it and not dragged stupidity, and teenage drama on fully grown adults. Diarko now in the mix will be forgotten, cause his purpose was to save Rogio and Kargo. Now to be a child to 3 dogs that are NOT FIT TO BE PARENTS, NOR METEOR and he already has a mother. The author probably already has a page to Have his mother who has a high distrust of dogs and practically everyone else, leaving their only cub to a bunch of strangers. I don't need to look at the blur page of patreon to know he already has one, the repetitive pattern of evidence is on the Public pages on it's own will suffice. She's literally going to a decent tribe in the beaches so why not bring her son with him??!! where she knows they're Safe?? like that's not how mothers and maternity instincts work. The only reason Diarko stays is because the author wants his toxic, soon to be Poly to have a kid around and have them look good, a means to look like saints. It's very obvious its going to be poly, there is too many signs to show it and Rogio is that much of a possessive, manipulative prick to have Roamer and Kargo under his paws.

He did it to Ranach,

CH. 7 PG 293 & CH. 9 356 - Yeah, its all Kargos fault despite Ferah and Rogio was there and kept the secret too. Plus Ferah is the one to start it , but since Kargo had a heart to be honest, he gets the short end of the stick and labeled a bastard. He did to Roamer...

Trust me y'all there's a lot more of these of Ronja seeking Rogio for mostly everything. I guess Vandi, Kargo and Ferah don't hold much weight. Soon it'll be the Larpdog of Whispervale, cause Ronja can't think for herself as a leader. ...and Ronja might as well make Rogio a Leader cause she's laying it on him for everything even to the voice of reason. He's literally a Garystu with plot amour. How does everyone not know anything but Rogio does? I rather trust Vandi and Vigr over Rogio - heck take Shiverfall Eopi.Could easily take the trip their and bring Diarko along so he can visit his mother and not be forgotten.

Shiverfall tribe is BIGGER then meteor, meteor literally did Nothing - NOTHING to show it's a safe place to be. Ronja, Roamer, Rogio, Kargo should know that, The mother is Blind - BLIND!! FOR PETE'S SAKE and it makes me so damn upset that she can't see it and the tribe is not going to tell her and put her only son in danger with a falling tribe. Because everyone is going to be happy and ' d'awww' of Diarko staying with the OTP3.

Akleja already is also forgotten and just in the background in silence without knowing much of who they are as an individual, except they are Vandi's X Fuss's pup and were the first pup to be born free which should be a VERY BIG THING. You need more then just putting traits in Wiki cause a lot of the traits don't correlate to the Webcomic. He probably already doing and did pages to not make Feaf look bad and answer why Zahira and Raimos didn't have the kids. ----- He has done it countless times and has edited pages to Justify them under people's noses and they don't bat an eye of it.

[skeletondanc3r]

Should the fact that I'm counting increments in alarm clock times and working nearly unnoticeable continuity errors into lore be concerning or is it a good thing I'm doing my homework?

Should I write a paragraph on how it's possible Lord Hater's closet door overlaps with his bedroom entrance in multiple separate episodes?

(Bedroom door in front of bed ^)

(Also happens in The Prisoner when we're first introduced to his room)

(Closet door in front of bed ^)

[hislittleraincloud]

When Cairo snapped about laziness:

Two seconds later after Winnie's stomach growls:

The bangs, I mean.

And in the last one they look like viper fangs...like they came out just to ask Miller if he wanted anything.

Lack of continuity sometimes provides for potentially interesting connotations.

Revisiting Benson just because. Been writing sadness/strife w them and wanted to go back to the beginning, where she stalked him. LOL

[pleasantwasteland]

‘Yes, of course it has a minibar. This is a library, you know!’ Bad Earrings slapped the counter triumphantly and turned to a little man with a worse sweater. ‘You see. Academically, I’ve had an effect!’

Continuity Errors, by Steven Moffat

[maurastierney]

so funny when a season premiere (such as season 12 of ER) is supposed to take place effectively the same/next day after the previous episode (such as the season 11 finale of ER) but they have changes as big as:

- One actor (Alex) changing to another (and the kid going from being a 5th Grader to age 12?)

- One doctor (Ray) was in treating his friends who were injured during the party when a balcony collapsed, witnessed at least half a dozen people die, and now is back in work like nothing happened

and most importantly

- Susan’s hair is like two inches shorter

[young-royals-confessions]

kind of silly but a continuity error that's always bothered me in s2 of young royals is when sara sleeps with august for the first time, her bra changes colours from when she sleeps with august to the next scene over she changes in the bathroom having just come back from his room lol

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[earhartsease]

literally one second between these shots in the Buffy S01 ep I Robot, You Jane

always makes us laugh because they're both wrong - her canon dob is 19th January 81

all thanks to @mousewithapencil for pointing this out, but: one absence?! come on

[rjalker]

...............how the fuck did this man just manage to out-continuity error Anne McCaffrey???????????????????????? this is page 97 of a 208 page book where nothing has even happened yet!!!!!! He literally just established that they only "domesticated" (tamed) animals a few fucking years ago!!!!!

Page 84, after he gets done telling us that domestic animals literally did not exist 70 years ago when A Square told his story.

Years ago, enterprising men captured young wolves to exibit at circuses and fairs. When the animals were fully grown they were dangerous. Then they would be locked up in strong cages so that the public could view the beasts of prey without danger. As a result of selecting the most tame animals and breeding them, a species gradually evolved which was so docile that it could be used as a domestic animal. It was called a "dog".

And now on page 97 he's suddenly claiming that they were tamed whole entire centuries ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Page 97:

'But these small creatures you see here are domestic animals -- the descendants of wild animals tamed centuries ago, many of which still inhabit our southern forests."

what in the fuck, man?????? A gap of 13 fucking pages is not enough time to forget your own basic worldbuilding and timeline!!!!!!!!!!

[clairedelune-13]

I don’t know if this has bothered anyone else, but at the beginning of episode 2, Aziraphale goes “Oooh! It’s you! I haven’t seen you since the flood.”

But during that time, Crowley still goes by “Crawley”. He doesn’t specify that he’s changed it until they meet up again at Christ’s crucifixion. And he’s not wearing his sunglasses, either.

In 2x02, Crowley clearly goes by “Crowley” now and is wearing sunglasses, as well…

This has to just be an inconsistency. Don’t tell me it isn’t, cuz every human creation has imperfections. Even masterpieces like GO.