Sorry, Osiris, but I’ve been running around all over the Boards for half an hour, looking for a thread in which to make my (second) 8000th post. I…
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D’oh!
And so shines a good deed in a weary world.
Feh. I didn’t care the first time I crossed 8000… and I still don’t. 
As an avid odometer watcher I can say that I enjoyed it.
Points one and three can’t be blamed, like most of the stuff here, on writer/producer stupidity. Seth Green and Anthony Stewart Head wanted out, so their characters had to be written out. As for point two, I think that if they are going to have a romantic relationship, it would be quite unreralistic for Buffy to not go through such a phase first.
I would delete the last season of AIRWOLF, when it moved from CBS to USA and killed off the entire previous cast.
so many good ones so far…
Hicks and Newt (or at least Newt) survive the crash.
(I know people have other beefs with the Alien series, but other than the F/X on the newborn in A:R, that’s my only qualm with an otherwise perfect series IMHO).
I see that someone already mentioned Zeist. Comapred to that, other Highlander plot points seem inconsequential. But I’d still prefer if Duncan never married and there was no such thing as Ahriman.
Oh and Jarjar and the midichlorians can stay as long as Fode and Beed, the 2-headed podrace announcer, is wiped from the universe.
Dang it! At least i can still tell apart “Emissary” and “The Emissary”! “Emissary” was the one with…no wait, “The Emissary” was the one that…ummm…
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At the rate i’m forgetting Geekdom, next thing you know, I’ll be cool!!
As a one time great fan of the original ‘Mission Impossible’ TV show, I’d like both movies consigned to the bin. Jim Phelps remains a good guy to the end, thank you very much.
You didn’t notice that the Xeno’s were turned in a facsimile of the Zerg in A:R (which is ironic, because the Zerg were created as… nevermind)? What was once just a “secreted resin” in 1 & 2 suddenly became a pulsing, twitching, moving mass that had a life of its own.
Galactica 1980. The first series was okay, but when they brought it back…
King of Fighters
Eliminate everything and anything that has to do with the name Orochi. Goenitz is just a religious fruitcake with some funky wind powers, there are no “Heavenly Kings”, and Ryuji, Leona, Iori etc. are just efficient killing machines.
This was a COMPLETELY INSIGNIFIGANT substory…whose sole original purpose, I remind you, was to flesh out Rugal Bernstein…and it exploded into the driving force behind the tournament since the dawn of time. Jeez. A substory which lasted for just two games, and now at least 90% of the gamers out there know more about it than the teams, stories, and subplots that have been around for over a decade now.
Lest you think we’re past that now, note how the popularity of the Orochi storyline has affected the later games. Droves of unique, fun-to-play characters tossed out because 1) they don’t fit into any massive, 50-layer story, or 2) their whole being was tied to the Orochi story, so they have no reason to keep on fighting. And now anytime a game comes out with even a modestly diverse roster, there’s a huge argument on whether or not this is a “dream match” which “doesn’t count” toward…whatever it is “non-dream matches” are supposed to count toward (and damned if I know what that is).
An absolutely horrible shift in ideas, values, and mindsets regarding what a fighting game should be, and it ALL began with Orochi.
Street Fighter Alpha
Scrap the idea that this is a “prequel” and market it for what it so plainly, obviously is: A companion game to the regular Street Fighter line, which is not the same tournament, but within the same timeline, canon, etc.
A veritable MOUNTAIN of continuuity screwups that could’ve been nipped in the bud had Capcom the guts to tell the truth. All kinds of wonderful, creative characters who don’t have to be eternally bound to the Alpha series because it’s supposed to be “before” everything else. None of those endless rewritten histories. No need to explain characters that never age (Sakura, anyone?).
So many things that went wrong that could’ve been avoided if Capcom never got enamored with the idea of a “prequel” which could “explain” everything.
And two words: Dan Hibiki. After Alpha 2, they should’ve decided that their point (i.e. Kyokugenryu just cheap clones which prove that SNK has no creative blah blah blah) was made and retired the character for good. Instead, we have the same old fireball/uppercut/spinkick sorta-joke…which is absolutely nothing like how the Kyokugenryu gang fights today. And guess what, he’s now in the same game with them, so the “joke” has lost all meaning. Furthermore…he doesn’t even suck anymore! Is there any reason at all to keep him around?
Tekken
No great 20-year leap forward. Repeat, no great 20-year leap forward. I know making a clean break from the previous games (which was the obvious reason; I refuse to believe that Namco did it for the sake of ONE CHARACTER) isn’t the easiest task, but this was pure ham-fisted foolishness.
Samurai Shodown
Ukyo remains the picture of health from 2 through 4.
Nakoruru doesn’t die.
Don’t even try to dress up 4 to make it look like it might have been before 2. Which, IMHO, it pretty plainly isn’t.
And don’t get me started on that “Bust = evil” crap.
As soon as I think of a movie that needs a plot point revision as badly as these examples, I’ll post it. 
X-files
Mulder’s sister’s abduction.
Only kiddin…
Gwen Stacy lives.
The Warlord My favorite comic book from childhood. Horribly ruined by the damn DC crossover fiasco. So I would keep Travis Morgan’s universe unconnected in anyway with any of the others and erase all superheros from my beautiful swords and sorcery world!
And the same goes for Mike Grell’s The Green Arrow. Sigh, both ruined, IMHO, by superheros. I would still have a subscription to this one today if they maintained its integrity. Sigh.
Although Grell did have Morgan visit the Green Arrow, but it worked cause it was funny, and Morgan didn’t violate any of the rules of the Green Arrow’s universe.
Didn’t bother me. I chalked it up to another bit of mammalian genes that the queen picked up from Ripley. The Zerg never entered my mind while watching it,
The Mission Impossible movies never happened nor the Alien movies after the second.
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
Way to take a dashing timeless classic serial-type movie hero and show him as a practically helpless decrepit 93-year-old old man who is confined to a wheelchair and is probably incontinent. Bleh.
Oh. And the Legacy Virus.
YES! And the fact that they killed off COLOSSUS to get rid of it! GAAAH! Man. People wonder why I like the glory days of Chris Claremont better than any of the recent trash.
Someone’s already mentioned the travesty of Alien Resurrection, so I’ll stick to the plot point that annoyed me the most.
Newt and Hicks wouldn’t die after Aliens. I don’t know what the three of them would do, but these two characters didn’t die in a crash in my little fantasy world.