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Re: Why retcons don't bother me anymore
Posted By: Quirel <I_am_quirel@hotmail.com>	Date: 5/24/11 2:11 a.m.
: That's the thing with continuity. It can only hurt you-- it can't help. A : lousy film with great continuity is still a lousy film. A great film with : bad continuity-- that gets a pass. There's no word-of-mouth underground : that's spreading the word about films with great continuity, and how it : shows that the people created them really care about the details. : The ME2 DLC that let the player go over the wreckage of the ship was really : cool. If I were involved in whatever 343i was doing, I doubt I'd let a : thing like physics get in the way of portraying some Autumn wreckage : somewhere, if there was something cool I could do with it. Halo 1's story : requires the explosion to be big enough to crack the ring-- even if : there's no plausible way that's possible. It's not significantly less : plausible that, having done so, some bits remain when they shouldn't. Hey, Narcogen? I've been mulling over a response to some of your statements in this thread, and I'm going to do it sometime this week. But this just needs to be said. As an aspiring author, I find some of your opinions about continuity and story to be positively frightening. No offense, you're probably a cool guy, but you're absolutely the LAST person I would entrust the Halo franchise to. ... ... OK, it's a toss-up between you and Kevin J. Anderson, but still... =D

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