biggest story continuity

[buddee1]

even writers make mistakes sometimes, frequently these mistakes interfere with other parts of the story and create continuity. I am a person who is prone to point these things out so i have a relatively long list of them. so what is the biggest one, for me its in alien vs predator when thousands of aliens are running up the pyramid, for that they would have needed thousands of humans because after the chest burster comes out of the human they die thus can not make another chest burster

 

[Legion]

I'm not sure that's an error. What is to say there were not thousands of humans to take as hosts?

 

[Ciarang]

Ooh I have one

In the first harry potter they find out what house they're in on the first day there, each house has a different uniform which they have to buy beforehand
So how can they know what uniform to buy if they don't know what house they're in ? =S

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

even writers make mistakes sometimes, frequently these mistakes interfere with other parts of the story and create continuity. I am a person who is prone to point these things out so i have a relatively long list of them. so what is the biggest one, for me its in alien vs predator when thousands of aliens are running up the pyramid, for that they would have needed thousands of humans because after the chest burster comes out of the human they die thus can not make another chest burster

don't forget that they wiped out the entire human settlement around that area.
I really should use spoilers. even though it's an old film. well. not exactly new or old.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

And it seemed that they only died as the chest bursters ripped out most of their internal organs, these were unscheduled births, they probably could have kept the host alive by using a breeding program with laboratory conditions, probably open up the torso under anasthesia shortly before birth so as to remove the newborn with the minimum of fuss, then patch the host back up, let it recover for a few days then implant a new embryo.

EDIT: As for the worst story continuity ever, the Star Wars expanded universe (books/comics) that are set before and between the films, biggest fuck ups ever.

 

[buddee1]

I'm not sure that's an error. What is to say there were not thousands of humans to take as hosts?

well really there's probably close to a million aliens on the screen and in ancient times i doubt that they would have a million people to sacrifice and even if they did where did they hold all of them until the predator came i remind you that they have acidic spit so a cage made out of rock really wouldn't hold them for long

 

[monojono]

Ooh I have one

In the first harry potter they find out what house they're in on the first day there, each house has a different uniform which they have to buy beforehand
So how can they know what uniform to buy if they don't know what house they're in ? =S

You know they have practically unlimited magical powers in harry potter right? They could probably change the colours on everyones uniforms pretty easily.

 

[awesomeemosewa]

I'm not sure that's an error. What is to say there were not thousands of humans to take as hosts?

well really there's probably close to a million aliens on the screen and in ancient times i doubt that they would have a million people to sacrifice and even if they did where did they hold all of them until the predator came i remind you that they have acidic spit so a cage made out of rock really wouldn't hold them for long

but the preditors probobly have means to hold them i mean they hunted them for sport.

 

[Diablini]

even writers make mistakes sometimes, frequently these mistakes interfere with other parts of the story and create continuity. I am a person who is prone to point these things out so i have a relatively long list of them. so what is the biggest one, for me its in alien vs predator when thousands of aliens are running up the pyramid, for that they would have needed thousands of humans because after the chest burster comes out of the human they die thus can not make another chest burster

Please learn what grammar is.

I'd say that from Back to The Future. Marty plays the "Jonny B. Goode" song from Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry hears the song and makes it popular. But how did the song get invented in the first place?

 

[plastic_window]

I'm not sure that's an error. What is to say there were not thousands of humans to take as hosts?

well really there's probably close to a million aliens on the screen and in ancient times i doubt that they would have a million people to sacrifice and even if they did where did they hold all of them until the predator came i remind you that they have acidic spit so a cage made out of rock really wouldn't hold them for long

The reason those Mayan civilisations disappeared was because they became far too overpopulated, and the cities that housed all these people were huge. They were the most densely populated areas on the planet, in their time. I'm not saying they ever had a million residents - I don't know that sort of information off-hand - but it's possible that they did.

I don't have anything to add to this thread, just that Jurassic Park has some hilarious editing. There's videos on youtube that show you all the mistakes they made, and they're pretty funny. Don't know any real continuity errors, though.

 

[plastic_window]

Please learn what grammar is.

I'd say that from Back to The Future. Marty plays the "Jonny B. Goode" song from Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry hears the song and makes it popular. But how did the song get invented in the first place?

Isn't that the nature of Time Paradoxes? That happens in a lot of things. Like that episoide of Futurama, Roswell The Ends Well. And Twelve Monkeys, too.

I suppose that somewhere, someone wrote out a theory of time in which there are no first places, but it's way too confusing for me to wrap my head around.

Although, if time travel exists, I assume it works like it does in Twelve Monkeys.

 

[oppp7]

Red vs Blue is guilty of this. But the videos are funny so it's ok.

 

[oppp7]

Ooh I have one

In the first harry potter they find out what house they're in on the first day there, each house has a different uniform which they have to buy beforehand
So how can they know what uniform to buy if they don't know what house they're in ? =S

Also, how did everyone know what happened when Voldemort tried to kill Harry and failed? No one else was there to witness it...

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

even writers make mistakes sometimes, frequently these mistakes interfere with other parts of the story and create continuity.

Actually they create discontinuity. Such mistakes are called canonical errors if they conflict with previously established canon (which is simply the sum of facts about the fictional setting).

I interpreted your thread's title as meaning we would discuss which story has the largest continuity (in other words, spans the most time).

 

[Anacortian]

even writers make mistakes sometimes, frequently these mistakes interfere with other parts of the story and create continuity. I am a person who is prone to point these things out so i have a relatively long list of them. so what is the biggest one, for me its in alien vs predator when thousands of aliens are running up the pyramid, for that they would have needed thousands of humans because after the chest burster comes out of the human they die thus can not make another chest burster

Come on! Do you own a dictionary? Continuity describes the state of being whole and (within a story) without holes or errors. The word for which you are looking is "discontinuity" or "continuity error." Look it up!

I would say the greatest continuity error which comes to mind is Gollum in the first print of Lord of the Rings. He loses the Ring to Bilbo on a bet and just gives it to him. The story was amended in later publications.

The greatest example of continuity? I'm going with the first five books of the Chronicles of Amber. If you have read them, you know what I mean. If you haven't, do yourself a favor and read them.

 

[AgentNein]

even writers make mistakes sometimes, frequently these mistakes interfere with other parts of the story and create continuity. I am a person who is prone to point these things out so i have a relatively long list of them. so what is the biggest one, for me its in alien vs predator when thousands of aliens are running up the pyramid, for that they would have needed thousands of humans because after the chest burster comes out of the human they die thus can not make another chest burster

Please learn what grammar is.

I'd say that from Back to The Future. Marty plays the "Jonny B. Goode" song from Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry hears the song and makes it popular. But how did the song get invented in the first place?

That's not a continuity error. That's a pretty typical time-travel paradox. Information origin paradox or some such. Sure, it's probably not possible, but then again neither is traveling to the past.