Much as I love this show there's a bit of continuity that I have to bring up.
Remember I Will Repay, when Nick asks Jeanette if she had ever brought anyone across? She tells him no. Later in the same season, we find out that not only has Jeanette brought a woman across, but it was the same woman whom Nick refused to bring across just five minutes earlier.
Anyone else find it funny that both Nick and Jeanette seem to have conveniently forgotten that event?
Different writers, that's what I put it down to. *grin* Just like the 'Battle of Hastings' mention in season 2, by Nick. Oops.
shareThe continuity problem that bothered me the most was that Janette was conveniently never in the flashbacks after she left the show. I know the actress left the show, but how can you just not put the character in flashbacks when it was already established she should be there?
shareWell, I can kind of let that slide. I mean Connor Macleod was supposed to be in the Highlander series even though Christopher Lambert only made one appearance ever in American/Canadian television.
shareOT question for ncrawford82 what are you talking about with the highlander reference?im comfused it was duncan in the series.
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Yes, but there are several episodes where you see Duncan referring to Connor in flashbacks. Prodigal Son is a good example of that.
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it never really bothered me that connor wasn't there.....
susan
"The continuity problem that bothered me the most was that Janette was conveniently never in the flashbacks after she left the show. I know the actress left the show, but how can you just not put the character in flashbacks when it was already established she should be there?
I can think of one explanation: Nick was trying not to think about her.
The explanation I give myself is that maybe she went off on her own for a while. The three of them seemed to come and go. Nick was a vampire for 800 years so it's not as if all 3 were together the entire time. There were a few in the first season with just Nick and LaCroix ("1966" in Germany; "Nowhere to Run" when Nick is a medic is Vietnam; "Unreality TV" when Nick is a doctor in the Civil War.)
Despite Season 3 not having Schanke and Janette (Tracy is horrible), I think it was fantastic the way they explained Janette's absence. It really set the stage for the finale and it almost makes up for the lack of two good characters.
Here is another continuity error that I just picked up on. Not that big of a deal, but something I picked up on.
In S1's "Dead Issue" at the end in the picnic Schanke is seen talking to a young boy giving him fatherly advice which ends with him telling the boy not to chase the girls. The manner in which he was interacting with the boy made it seem like he was his son and that it was fatherly advice he was giving him. In S1's "Hunters" Stonetree tells Schanke to send Myra and Jenny up to the family cabin for protection until the shooter is caught. So this obviously makes reference to him having a daughter. Like I said though, the way that he was interacting with the boy at the picnic made it seem like it was his son. Before these two episodes, whenever Myra was referenced Schanke never mentioned having kids. So there is no way to know for sure either way.
So did Schanke have a son or a daughter?
He's a daughter, Jenny, as is referenced many times durring the show. The little boy at the picnic is just some random kid. You know how cops look after each other... why wouldn't they look after each others' kids, too? Just something to show the softer side of Schanke.
I thought there was a reference early on about kids (plural) and a mention of a boy at one time. That boy at the picnic , I thought he was his kid at the time.
In DEAD AIR the victim is mentioned had having died from being strangled in one scene and having her throat cut in another.
I am currently going through the series right now. I am at the end of season one now. I saw some of the eps when it first aired but, remember very little, cause the syndication in my area sucked and was not regularly showed, because i think the programming in my area was run by a bunch of goofballs.
Same thing happened with Highlander when it first aired. It would disappear and it would think it was cancelled only to have it reappear a year or so later skipping many eps in my area.
Theres quite a few goofs.
Schanke's mother in law is dead in I will repay, but in the last episode of season 1, Love you to Death, Myra's in Tampa with her mother.
Vampire Aristotle owes Nick for the matter at the battle of Hastings. Big boo boo there. Hasting took place in 1066, more than a century before Nicholas Brabant was even born.
Nick has brought more than one person over. I will repay says he only did it once, but third season he brought over a man named charles during the London Plague.
Things have improved in writers, over the years, but if they need to know consistencies, they really should listen to the fans. Who else knows their favorite shows better?
They actually needed to WATCH previous episodes before they write theirs. It's called "research" for a reason. LOL
Same thing with the Star Trek universe. We, the fans, absolutely hated when they brought a non fan in to write a movie or episode because he/she is the "crack" writer in (F)ollywood at that moment and he/she "knows" writing and then they proceed to royally *beep* up the canon. Grrrrr!
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This is actually why many shows have what is usually referred to as a "Bible" - a book with lists and descriptions of important continuity facts. For example, if you're going to say that your main character went to the University of Miami in one episode, that gets jotted down in the Bible, and future writers can simply read the Bible to see that the character went to that university, so they don't write a scene where the main character mentions having gone to another school.
Writers in general don't really have time to sit and watch dozens of hours worth of previous episodes (and it gets worse the longer a show runs), taking meticulous notes on every facet of a character's history or noting every single throwaway line. Having some sort of resource to consult let's a writer get the details right without having to waste massive amounts of time they could be spending actually writing.
Some shows with smaller budgets, or where the producers don't personally consider continuity to be all that important, may not bother having one, and those are the shows you'll notice tend to have more continuity errors than shows where obsessive notes are kept for every character.
lol...didn't think of that..but it's like the waltons...there are so many inconsistancies that show that it's not funny..
in one eppy john boy said that his mother never came back from the san...we know that for sure..
in the movies of the week, john says to his dad you've been gone 15 years pa.....but on his tombstone it says that he's been dead since 41...yet that movie of the week was just after JFK was shot.....so that's not 15 years..that's like 20 something.
then ben and cindy's daughter dies, i'm not sure how, but she does...but they don't remember that they also had a son..
maryellen wasn't supposed to have any more kids after she married jonsie, yet, she did...lol
susan
Shoot, you wanna talk continuity error, in Criminal Minds tptb conveniently forget that one of the main characters has a brother. They dedicate considerable screen time to him in one episode of the first or second season and then in the fifth when that character has some terrible things happen in his life and it impacts his family his brother is seriously MIA.
Basically, sh-t happens, it's irritating but when you consider that most American and Canadian shows have 22+ episodes a season and the writers, actors and other staff are running full tilt it's understandable that somethings slip. Irritating as a loyal fan yes but there it is.
Y'know what's an even more interesting question? What's the psychopath got in the bag Jason? - CM
let's see....happy days...whatever happened to chuck cunningham....he was never heard of after season one......so ritchie and joanie's brother just disappeared..
somewhere down the line family matters lost a daughter...i think her name was judy....she was just never heard from i think after about season 2.
in step-by step...when carol and frank had their daughter they lost one of frank's sons....brandon i think his name was......during either the last season or the second to last season..
so all shows do it......there are three examples of comedies..
then there was supposed to be this other brief show about a mixed family......they had three boys, and three girls......but i think that one of the boys disappeared..i think that it was mentioned that he was away at boarding school, but....
don't remember the name of that one..but one of the girls, she went onto 90210, i do know that.....
hey they take liberty....lol.i do a kind of story based on characters, that one was born during the battle of coloden..(sp)....when was that about 1769, and i'm writing it around 1869, so he's a hundred years old..but in my story he's only supposed to be like 55, or somewhere around that...lol...and he's not a vampire......
so if you know when the story starts with this one character that i do..and figure out the math....you're totally screwed, and shaking your head.....
lol..
susan