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meowskywalker t1_j9u3kki wrote

Reply to comment by Doc_coletti in What are some things the creators of a show later reconned that was absolutely terrible? by BlancoDelRio

But it’s not retroactive. It’s just active. They actively changed the continuity of the story. They didn’t say “Pete and MJ were never married and that’s always been true” they said “the devil ate their marriage and now it’s never happened.”

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thealthor t1_j9vqdht wrote

"Retcon is a shortened form of retroactive continuity, and refers to a literary device in which the form or content of a previously established narrative is changed."

That is the literary device they used. But they still changed a previously establish narrative, it is a retcon.

Not to mention that One New Day retconned Brand New Day on how it all worked because they bungled it up the first time. The writers wanted more freedom away from him being married plain and simple and they shoehorned that load we got to get there.

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Doc_coletti t1_j9u5a9n wrote

I think we are just gonna have to agree to disagree here.

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