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Originally Posted by larryfilmmaker
Well, with hundreds of writers over the last 70 years, it's hard to say which guy has the right to establish a character's power level for everybody else to follow. "How many feet can Spider-Man jump approximately? Oh, I had him jump 30 but here on this trading card it says only 20 so I guess Spider-Man has to fail, fall into the canyon, and die. It doesn't make sense, but hell... I stuck to the continuity."
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You do realize that this doesn;t have to happen at all, right? The writer can simply write the story to acomidate the character's pre set abilities.
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Originally Posted by larryfilmmaker
The current "continuity" in any comic book series contradicts itself...
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Not all the time. When that does happen, it's the fault of lazy writers.
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Originally Posted by larryfilmmaker
so how do we know which comic book is loyal and which is wrong? I stand by saying that debating power levels is silly and that character and story stand above all else.
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That's true. Story is important. But if you are working within a continuity, you have to follow that continuity. Otherwise, don't write the story in continuity.
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Originally Posted by larryfilmmaker
It's not lazy, it's just a different way of doing things.
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And that way of doing things is lazy. Or, if they're not being lazy, they;re just disrespectful to the continuity.
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Originally Posted by larryfilmmaker
Whether in fantasy superhero land, or the real world, people are allowed to disagree and it doesn't make them lazy.
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If you can't take the effort to write the characters based on the continuity set before you, you are just being damned lazy about it.
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Originally Posted by larryfilmmaker
I say Superman uses Thor's hammer to wipe his ass, some writers disagree. Who's right? Neither. Who's wrong? Neither... so long as the story does both of them justice as characters.
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No. If the continuity says that characters are capable of specific things, then characters are capable of specific things. If you don;t follow that, don't write the story in continuity. Otherwise, you;re just being a lazy *******.