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It's Friday, and Dr Who is coming back with Russell T Davies as writer.
Woo, and furthermore, Yay.
Woo, and furthermore, Yay.
2003-09-26
This is the next century and the Universal's free
So anyway, I was a bummer on the loose last night (see ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
publicansdecoy for for further information. Indeed, he's always a good place to go with bumming queries). But having failed to find any bummers tied to trees on the way home, I watched Terminator 3 instead. Hmmm. They felt they had to be bigger and badder this time 'round, but sadly doing so apparently took precedence over having a coherent plot. And given it was rated 12, the megaviolence wasn't even that violent - it just had something of an Itchy & Scratchy feel. Furthermore, the deterministic elements of the plot were never quite explained, and the attempts at humour were terribly forced. Not a success, really. However, the whole killer robots/atomic apocalypse thing still left me feeling rather in need of a pint, so I joined aforementioned publicansdecoy plus missfrost for karaoke at the World's End.
I'm not normally much of a one for kitsch, but there was something undeniably entertaining about watching peons murder standards.
publicansdecoy for for further information. Indeed, he's always a good place to go with bumming queries). But having failed to find any bummers tied to trees on the way home, I watched Terminator 3 instead. Hmmm. They felt they had to be bigger and badder this time 'round, but sadly doing so apparently took precedence over having a coherent plot. And given it was rated 12, the megaviolence wasn't even that violent - it just had something of an Itchy & Scratchy feel. Furthermore, the deterministic elements of the plot were never quite explained, and the attempts at humour were terribly forced. Not a success, really. However, the whole killer robots/atomic apocalypse thing still left me feeling rather in need of a pint, so I joined aforementioned publicansdecoy plus missfrost for karaoke at the World's End. I'm not normally much of a one for kitsch, but there was something undeniably entertaining about watching peons murder standards.
Grant Morrison on continuity
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=2815
"'Continuity' is trying not to screw too much with people's memories of things they once read.
"With Shaw [an X-villain who seemingly demonstrated telepathy] it was my mistake and I apologize. I'd prefer to get it right, but it's the sort of thing I expect my editors to catch if I mess up and if they don't then I guess we're all to blame for being lazy or preoccupied. Monthly comic books are written by mere mortals on a rapid turnover of ideas and deadlines. We all try our best to get everything to hang together, but the Marvel Universe now has forty years worth of heavy continuity - hundreds of thousands of comics dreamed up by dozens of writers and artists, some much better than others. Sometimes a mistake slips through the net, sometimes an old piece of 'crap' continuity gets quietly dumped in favor of a better idea, sometimes it's just not possible to read everything that went before.
"My advice is just to white out the offending dialogue in your comics with correcting fluid and then, using a fine-nibbed lettering pen, write in your own, more pleasing and continuity-appropriate version of the character's words. It will make your comic collection more individual, more continuity-conscious and much more creative and it will also allow you to edit and collaborate with your favorite writers."
"'Continuity' is trying not to screw too much with people's memories of things they once read.
"With Shaw [an X-villain who seemingly demonstrated telepathy] it was my mistake and I apologize. I'd prefer to get it right, but it's the sort of thing I expect my editors to catch if I mess up and if they don't then I guess we're all to blame for being lazy or preoccupied. Monthly comic books are written by mere mortals on a rapid turnover of ideas and deadlines. We all try our best to get everything to hang together, but the Marvel Universe now has forty years worth of heavy continuity - hundreds of thousands of comics dreamed up by dozens of writers and artists, some much better than others. Sometimes a mistake slips through the net, sometimes an old piece of 'crap' continuity gets quietly dumped in favor of a better idea, sometimes it's just not possible to read everything that went before.
"My advice is just to white out the offending dialogue in your comics with correcting fluid and then, using a fine-nibbed lettering pen, write in your own, more pleasing and continuity-appropriate version of the character's words. It will make your comic collection more individual, more continuity-conscious and much more creative and it will also allow you to edit and collaborate with your favorite writers."
