Continuity errors in the world of children’s television
Respect Continuity!
A DailySkew Interview with Angel Jimenez
DailySkew had an instant message conversation with Dailskew contributor and poster Angel Jimenez.
DS: “Angel, can you do an editorial about continuity? That’s a touchy subject among most of the geeks that read our site.”
AJ: “I’m sick of continuity errors. I feel like Pariah sometimes – no matter where I turn, some anti-matter cloud is wiping out what I knew as a child, and I’m forced to live in a new reality where, I don’t know, Haydn Christianson appears in Return of the Jedi, or Ewoks play love jazz at the end of that movie.”
DS: “Wow…did anything happen recently to cause this rant?”
AJ: “Let me just relate two continuity errors I picked up on this week, just to give you a sample of the hell that is my life.”
DS: “Go right ahead.”
AJ: “ONE- I’m watching Barney with my four year old, and he has a new voice! Barney sounded like someone doing a bad imitation of the original Barney voice!
I was outraged.
Of course, I pointed this out to my son. He didn’t believe me.
“This is a new timeline, son,” I told him.”
DS: “Wow!”
AJ: “TWO- I’m watching House of Mouse with my two year old. It was the DVD where the Disney Villains take over during the Halloween episode, led by Jafar.
As dizzying a concept it was to watch Ursula breaking bread with Hook, I let go my usual notions of continuity — after all, this was a variety show. It was as if these were the actors who had played the roles in the movie, even though they were referred to as the real characters … anyway, I let it go.
Then, it happened. I could no longer swallow what I was watching.
Sitting at one of the tables was the baby Simba and his girlfriend! WTF?!?
You mean to tell me that this episode of House of Mouse happens during the film Lion King? How is such a thing possible? How did this not affect the actions of Simba throughout the rest of the movie?
I mean, if Simba sees Mickey defeat all the villains, how could he have lost faith in his ability to defeat Scar?
Then again, maybe Simba was depressed because he didn’t have the Sorcerer’s hat.
DS: “Now..wait a minute, can’t you give a No-Pri-”
AJ: “-I don’t know, man. The Pariah in me couldn’t take it. I shut it off, to spare my daughter the mind-altering effects of witnessing a continuity error. She cried, but it was for the best.
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