Tuvix <rwhelan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Ian McDowell wrote:
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> Re: retconning the nature of known characters
>
> > All shows do this, and the larger the writing team (or the more
> > turnover it has), the more likely this is to happen.
>
> Yes, and in the Jenny Callendar retcon, the episode was unusually
> badly written and directed. Following episodes seemed to be doing
> patch-up to make the retcon fit her known character. Which makes
> me suspect that the retcon was one ordered from on high, the larger
> team didn't go for it, so he had to depend upon one, bad writer to
> do the dirty work "necessary".
Erm, no. TV writing simply isn't done like that.
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