Back in the dark ages, I watched Days of Our Lives and there came a point where they retconned three years of storyline out of existence for my favorite couple. It was really, really sucky writing, but it was amusing watching them have to tapdance around three years of plot that aired on the show.
I guess it's kind of like when AMC's Greenlee kidnapped Kendal's child and drove him off a cliff... and yet Kendal apologized to Greenlee for having been pissed off with her because of it. Or the fact that GH's Sonny shot his pregnant wife in the head. Or that OLTL's Todd Manning was the leader of Marty's gang rape and not the 'nice one' (which was more WTF than I could handle).
The audience isn't supposed to remember that stuff or believe their lying eyes.
And, unfortunately, powerofthebook's scenario sounds all too plausible. I wasn't overly impressed with the 'maturity' shown in the IDW/DH snitfit when the Twilight reveal came about and I really wouldn't put it past IDW to give that sort of shout-out to Season 8's crazypants shark-jumping 'plot'.
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Date: 2010-07-29 03:27 am (UTC)I guess it's kind of like when AMC's Greenlee kidnapped Kendal's child and drove him off a cliff... and yet Kendal apologized to Greenlee for having been pissed off with her because of it. Or the fact that GH's Sonny shot his pregnant wife in the head. Or that OLTL's Todd Manning was the leader of Marty's gang rape and not the 'nice one' (which was more WTF than I could handle).
The audience isn't supposed to remember that stuff or believe their lying eyes.
And, unfortunately, powerofthebook's scenario sounds all too plausible. I wasn't overly impressed with the 'maturity' shown in the IDW/DH snitfit when the Twilight reveal came about and I really wouldn't put it past IDW to give that sort of shout-out to Season 8's crazypants shark-jumping 'plot'.