On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Ian McDowell wrote:
> Tuvix <rwhelan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>...
> > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Ian McDowell wrote:
> >
> > 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.
Never, eh?
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