Friday DE

[bjornwilde]

Details! I’m currently reading a book that keeps getting little things wrong and it kind of knocks me out of the story for a moment. Details like referring to needing to wait until the thaw to dig up some roses, in SF where we never get a freeze that lasts more than a few hours, days at most. Or sending a telegraph with lots of details, cause telegraphs didn’t charge by the word or anything.

Any way, what are some small details from your canons that drive you a little crazy with their fallicy but you ignore in favor of the larger story?

Comments

[galen_erso]

What even is time in Teja's canon? For a historical novel, it's awfully timeless. People stay the same from 526 till 552, unless they die.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Where do combat omnics get all their bullets from??? I guess I could use assembler nanobots as a handwave if I had to, but canon leaves it glaringly unexplained so I've just sort of resolved to avoid addressing the topic of Bastion's seemingly unlimited supply of ammunition as long as possible. (In gameplay everyone has an unlimited supply of ammo clips, but I'm not sure to what extent this is a mechanical conceit.)

[quick_clean_pure]

Literally the entire final act of the movie involves three people dropping dead onstage in front of a huge audience, including the guy who is basically the ruler of the world, and not a single person in the audience does anything to help. WHY?

[sunbaked_baker]

My mind immediately said: "Well it was an opera...." :D:D:D

[quick_clean_pure]

Lmaoooo that is a very excellent point!

[sunbaked_baker]

"Oh my word, Harold, this year's performance was so much better than last year's. They went all-out on the special effects. And what a moving climactic scene! Bravo!"

[quick_clean_pure]

"And all that stage blood is EXQUISITE, I must say."

[for_everyone]

Star Wars ships are all brought to you by the design school of 'have five million identical buttons and make sure you don't label anything.'



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[bjornwilde]

The Gifted is set primarily in Atlanta, Georgia and the surrounding area, and yet not one person has a Southern accent...at least to my West Coast ear.

Dear writers and animators of Star Wars, space is huge! I get not wanting to bog down the story with travel times, but can you at least nod towards it? With how they edit scenes, it's like people from whole systems away show up as if they had just been down the street. Also, the fact there is no time delay in communications.

Also, how come Ahsoka never has to deal with face recognition software while the Empire is growing? I know the tech exists cause you had it in A New Dawn and her face markings are unique.

And Mr. Singer, the actors from XMFC aren't looking old enough for your time jumps. Can you stop please? Hank would like be nearing his 40s in Age of Apocalypse but barely looks 30.

Knights of Sidonia pretends to worry about physics when it comes to the big ship, i.e. any change in acceleration or direction causes massive structural damage within the ship, but then the smaller ships are flying around like they're in an atmosphere. Come on! Either ignore physics and be consistent.

[cottoncandypink]

I can only think of one instance, where cocaine and heroin were apparently the same thing? That was a case where I went with what was obviously meant, and ignored the words that were actually spoken.

All of my pups come from canons where the details are going to be weird and wrong as part of the meta, but that one was just bizarrely wrong.

[arkadia]

Yamato's canon is generally surgically exact with its use of place, with everywhere the kids go in Odaiba being a crazily exacting replica of an actual part of the island, even just for small scenes -- and yet its use of time is incredibly lazy by comparison.

01 only spans, in real world time, about five days, so it's not so noticeable, save that those five days are actually nine months of time for the kids and it's only referenced maybe twice in the whole series -- but 02 covers ten and a half months of time, during which apparently nobody in the twelve person cast has a birthday. Tri is almost as bad, having currently covered the period from June to September, but managing to do so in a way that constantly suggests a longer time span.

(For Eden, it's perhaps better not to start going into the small details of Kingdom Hearts that drive me crazy. We would be here for some time.)

[misslucyjane]

Sir Arthur, was Watson's first name James or John? Was he wounded in the leg or in the arm? Where did the second Mrs. Watson come from?

As for Marvel... apparently they're rebooting again. *sigh*

[just_cant_lose]

LMAO - and Sir Arthur, are there really three Moriarty brothers, all called James? Wtf sir.

(Omg, maybe JamesWatson is also a Moriarty brother. CANON: UNLOCKED.)

[mightbeagoodone]

THAT EXPLAINS SO MUCH!

[bjornwilde]

As for Marvel... apparently they're rebooting again. *sigh*

Yeah, I've about given up on Marvel as comics. I will be checking out the new Exiles title as it will feature a Valkyrie very much like Thor3's, but aside from that I'll just read what trades show up on Comixology Unlimited. Though I do wish I could afford Ms. Marvel and Champions. The new kids are amazing.

[mightbeagoodone]

I'll just be re-reading old favorites for a while, I suspect. Man out of time is still excellent.

[gifted_leader]

Rereading the classics is always a good idea. And I need to read that one. I didn't bother as I was burnout of the cross over.

(Still Bjorn, just different pup journal.)

[irish_vagabond]

In the pilot episode of Preacher, Cassidy was able to drag a cow down and eat it when he was splattered on the ground after jumping out of a plane. In the second season, he couldn't open a window that was painted shut. This bothered the HELL out of me and I can't explain it away.

[cottoncandypink]

Depending on who's writing Wilford's canon, he's either impervious to everything, or allergic to bullets. But since his continuity is weird anyway, I can ignore that one pretty easily.

[cutting_edge_physics]

Medical things, or animal things, like:

- You don't shock a heart to start it again. You shock a heart to STOP IT. Mostly to stop it being a mad bag of snakes doing no good whatsoever, but still. Almost every medical show/movie/book gets this wrong. I'm looking at you, ER/Greys/DR STRANGE HOW COULD YOU BETRAY ME LIKE THAT *cough* I mean.

- Speaking of Dr Strange can we talk about the absolutely HORRIFIC gowning going on during that first surgery? OMFG. That yanked me right out of the story (I still watched it twice in theaters and own a copy so sue me I like snarky Cumberbatch even if Strange should be sued for malpractice).

- Narnia's centaurs. Anyone's centaurs, really, but Narnia earns a special mention since CS Lewis felt the need to address how both the human and horse need to be fed and LEWIS, LEWIS MY MAN what about the horse heart and the man heart explain the cardiovascular function there and there's only one ass and horses get colic just by looking at them funny so how in the heck is the horse lower GI tract dealing with all of that human food something is wrong with this equation also bebes like do bebe centaurs have a magical ability to hold up their heads because lemme tell you my man human bebes and horse bebes run on entirely different scales of self-sufficiency. ... Also I had zero problems with that centaur from the latest round of Narnia movies none whatsoever so. >.> He was cool.

- Herbivore species eating meat. I'm looking at you, Redwall books. I can forgive a lot, but... Also, in the first book, the rats are riding a cart pulled by a horse is like the horse not sentient or if it is it some kind of horse slave where's my book about Martin freeing the horse slaves? Also, I assume all of the cheese listed is vegan cheese? As there seems to be no willing cows? Or..... is this some other kind of milk? >.> What's the rating on these books again?

- Midichlorians. Because if this was a thing all the Empire had to do was put the test as part of the standard 'yay you had a bebe lets run its bloodwork to make sure its okay' package and BOOM NO FUTURE JEDI. *flips off Lucas*

I could go on, but. *sighs* If we could just fix the whole shocking the heart thing, I'd have a lot more shows to watch that didn't involve me yelling at the tv.

[gifted_leader]

As a SW fan, I completely reject the Midichlorians thing. I think I've had SW pups acknowledge it as one of many theories different jedi have, but it is not the end of the story.

[moonandstar]

I think it's a positive indication of Force sensitivity that the Jedi got too hung up on. It was one of their many failings - rather than teaching wisdom and oneness with the Force that animates all things, they just pricked people with a needle to count their blood gremlins.

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond: HOW WAS NOT TEACHING GARION TO READ LOGICAL. HOW. I could go on a screaming rant about this basically for ages, but that's because I have issues with Polgara. There are other things but simply for logic, that's the first thing that comes to mind.

Star Wars:
- Midichlorians I absolutely reject this
- Freaking Mortis, there is a distant chance Rebels will fix this on Monday but I find it highly unlikely. It could fix it better possibly by just never going back to the subject at all, oh my god, why is this a thing.
- Actually, while we're at it: What is the actual deal with Anakin as the Chosen One? That was a terrible idea, it has no logic, just take it out and make him a very powerful kid and the plot works just as well! Grrrrrrrrrrrrh.
- Some of the ways ships stay the same and don't stay the same are a little weird. Or technology in general--consider how long lightsabers have been essentially cutting edge (no pun intended) technology...
- In-universe people not seeming to think droids are people too. Sure, their personal buddy is different, but... For as long as droids have been around, how has there not been a Droid Rebellion?
- See previous Star Wars people's answers

Tavi:
- The official map has some inconsistencies and I'm not sure it really works and I'm confused about some of the distances and I keep trying to patch it myself and aaaaagh.
- The timeline is hazy. That is putting it mildly.
- Family names don't actually work in Rome the way they do in Alera. Mostly because Butcher was just making a very bad joke (that I love) but sometimes it grates on me.
- Why isn't there a religion? They don't seem to have a concept of deities, which is fine by me personally, but what happened to those Romans? I know Butcher has talked about how they were a death cult for a while but then where did all that go? Did Primus forcibly stamp out religion and essentially institute secularism? Cool, but then, like, hoooow?
- What the hell is their language, anyway?! There's a joke somewhere about 'lie' having two meanings, as in lying down and to deliberately speak a falsehood. Which... is only true in English, but why would they have developed language that works that way considering their entire history doesn't have anything like the history that created English? That scene bothers the hell out of me! It makes no sense, linguistically!

I could think of more if I spent the time, probably. Too tired to deal with Dragon Age right now, and teen!Lois' world is pretty coherent, logically, honestly.

[moonandstar]

Elder Scrolls:
- When is TES 6 coming out goddammit
- Cyrodiil in Oblivion became a generic medieval European fantasy land instead of the classical Italy-Southeast Asia hybrid described in the first Pocket Guide to the Empire.
- No other meaningful problems with TES - anything you don't like about it can be safely ignored due to the way it handles canon.

Mortal Kombat:
- Uhhhh, do you have a few HOURS?
- The story of Mortal Kombat in general reads like a bad Image Comics event from the 90s.
- Shinnok is a shit villain. Nothing could ever make him not shit.
- They dropped the ball with Jacqui Briggs - she is defined exclusively by her relation to other people and nothing else. Jax's daughter, Cassie's best friend. Which is a shame, because black women in science are rare-to-nonexistent in fiction.
- Cassie totally has a billion better post-victory lines in her arsenal. "You got caged" is not a line worthy of the defeat of an Elder God.
- So, SO many other things.

[runningred]

DC - STOP REBOOTING THE WHOLE GODSDAMNED UNIVERSE. Seriously! Just stop. Because everyone's origin story shifts just a little every time so it's exposition time over and over. But because no-one wants to tell the bit in the middle again, all we get is an origin and current day. No transition, no character arc. No reason for actions or behaviour outside a four or five page origin reboot. There is more to a character's story than this!