Who to the whatsit now? Even Xander - and I agree he changes less than most - matures. Go back and watch Welcome to the Hellmouth and then watch *Potential *and tell me Xander hasn’t grown or matured. Is he fundamentally the same guy? Yes, of course. But he has oodles more insight and adult feelings about who that guy is and how he fits in than the Xander of season one.
There’s a lot to criticize in Whedon’s writing, to be sure. But this is the first time I’ve heard the claim that he doesn’t allow his characters to grow or change. Usually just the opposite charge is lobbied - that he changes his characters too much to serve the plot or to “torture” fans.
I’m a comics fan. When it comes to, say, torturing & killing Ralph & Sue Dibny, I don’t disagree with canon, I simply deny that it is canon.
In that vein. Anything DC has done with the initials I.C.–not canon. Phantom Lady is still bouncing around Washington D.C., Ralph & Sue are on KooeyKooeyKooey with Ted Kord & Max Lord, etc.
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Actually, I do have one really, er, different one. I don’t buy that Wonder Woman’s Amazons would have hereditary monarchy, which has been specifically mentioned by both John Byrne & Phil Jimenez. When Polly freaked out & left the island, I can’t see handing the reins to a 27-year-old when the rest of the leadership are millennia old.
So – just to get this straight (because we haven’t seen this season of House in the UK yet): you’re saying it was Thirteen and Foreman that didn’t happen?
Rather than Cameron and Foreman, which really didn’t happen?
How about if it was Thirteen and Cameron?
It is obvious to me that Enterprise is set in a different parallel timeline than TOS, however, the last episode never happened. Trip did not die that stupid way and the Andorian did not fall into dishonor. It just is not credible.
Yes, this. I’ve never been happy with this development. I do accept it as canon, but I’d rather she had her memory left intact. She deserved it after all she did. Fastest temp in Chiswick. Especially with that mother of hers. See Turn Left.
“Of course she’s special. She’s my daughter!”
And the Doctor: “Maybe you should tell her that.”
I’ve always taken solace in knowing that, although Donna has no memory of how wonderful she got, her mother and grandfather do remember. Mother seemed poised to get off of Donna’s back and go supportive.
And it’s good somebody remembers for her, but even so, I would have liked it better if Donna knew herself that she was a worthwhile human being.
And it helped in preventing him getting dismantled, since his remembrance of her proved he was human enough, in his own way. True, if they had just been friends that would have helped too.
Regardless of how long the series went on in real life, I think the internal timeline of the show is far longer than the real Korean War. I’m pretty sure for example that all the major characters who were subsequently replaced (Trapper John- BJ, Blake-Potter, Burns-Winchester) were each shown in episodes set during the blazing heat of summer and the freezing cold of winter. So depending on overlap which I’d have to research, we’re talking up to six years fictional time. Maybe more if another seasonal cycle was shown with Klinger as the post-Radar company clerk.
Another way is to look at the episodes: There were three Christmas oriented episodes, and another one that was a “year in review” type show: The one where Klinger convinced Charles to bet the entire camp that the Dodgers were going to win the pennant.