TMC
11-13-2013, 04:41 PM
http://whatculture.com/tv/big-bang-theory-18-annoying-mistakes-didnt-notice.php
Continuity errors are part and parcel of creating anything that lasts beyond a couple of season. Just ask the Friends writers, who clearly didn’t keep track of what they were writing for Ross particularly well, considering the sheer number of Annoying Mistakes In Friends that made it onto the screen.
Unless you have a continuity checker working tirelessly to make spider diagrams and pool all the biographical information together to make sure noone ends up having their appendix out three times or something, like the Rugrats team actually did, it’s likely you’re going to lose track of some of the major and minor events that have happened in the past to your star characters. But the internet won’t keep track – not for minor life events that happen multiple times, or even for character quirks that fundamentally contradict what we’ve already seen, so sooner or later, you’re going to get called out.
With The Big Bang Theory now into its seventh season, we’re getting into Friends-like numbers of episodes, and it seems, like the show it effectively replaced, that the geekiest show on TV is full of similarly annoying continuity and internal logic errors.
These mistakes go back as far as the pilot, but the major one can be forgiven as a case of the character not yet being completely decided upon. Because, frankly, the Sheldon we see in the pilot has very little correlation to the one who we all know and love now: he was called ”practically an expert” at masturbating, despite his lack of sexuality since then, and he even makes a vague play for Penny’s affections.
That’s just creepy, but that mistake is forgivable in comparison to the following annoyances…
Read more at http://whatculture.com/tv/big-bang-theory-18-annoying-mistakes-didnt-notice.php#8YemuHVLMjUb50dU.99
Continuity errors are part and parcel of creating anything that lasts beyond a couple of season. Just ask the Friends writers, who clearly didn’t keep track of what they were writing for Ross particularly well, considering the sheer number of Annoying Mistakes In Friends that made it onto the screen.
Unless you have a continuity checker working tirelessly to make spider diagrams and pool all the biographical information together to make sure noone ends up having their appendix out three times or something, like the Rugrats team actually did, it’s likely you’re going to lose track of some of the major and minor events that have happened in the past to your star characters. But the internet won’t keep track – not for minor life events that happen multiple times, or even for character quirks that fundamentally contradict what we’ve already seen, so sooner or later, you’re going to get called out.
With The Big Bang Theory now into its seventh season, we’re getting into Friends-like numbers of episodes, and it seems, like the show it effectively replaced, that the geekiest show on TV is full of similarly annoying continuity and internal logic errors.
These mistakes go back as far as the pilot, but the major one can be forgiven as a case of the character not yet being completely decided upon. Because, frankly, the Sheldon we see in the pilot has very little correlation to the one who we all know and love now: he was called ”practically an expert” at masturbating, despite his lack of sexuality since then, and he even makes a vague play for Penny’s affections.
That’s just creepy, but that mistake is forgivable in comparison to the following annoyances…
Read more at http://whatculture.com/tv/big-bang-theory-18-annoying-mistakes-didnt-notice.php#8YemuHVLMjUb50dU.99