Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33665275-20171120035000/@comment-26812877-20171124193508

It's a decent analogy. The problem however is that with the show, the writers are constantly changing continuity. Updates in a video game are usually there to enhance the stability of said game as well as to make adjustments to balance out the gameplay more; espeically in multiplayer but they are usually not there to affect the story, writing, and continuity.

I think some good examples would be like how in Star Wars the Sith can use the force to cast lightning at their enemies but then the writers decide that it makes the Sith a little too powerful so they decide to establish soon after that force lightning doesn't exist over a lazy excuse but we clearly see the Sith use force lightning so that doesn't make sense. In the Resident Evil franchise, the Nemesis can use a rocket launcher but wait, that just makes the Nemesis a little too powerful so let's just lazily state that it was an error and the Nemesis actually doesn't even know how to use a rocket launcher...but we clearly saw the Nemesis use a rocket launcher before the writers decide to make this change. I guess these examples work for my point.

Video games aren't like tv shows. Writers changing bits of continuity in the story isn't entirely like programmers making updates to fix issues in video games. Again, it's a decent analogy and it is pretty close but there is a difference between gameplay updates and changing continuity. If you change something that has already been established in the story and lore (especially at such an often rate) that can create inconsistencies and it can confuse the viewers and that can lead to viewers seeing the writing in the show as being lazy, messy, and of poor quality overall. I don't see this as like how game updates work. I see this as lazy writing. Yes, again, mistakes can happen and I do see some of these errors as mistakes, such as the tennis rackets duplicating with Echo Echo. However, stuff like Big Chill going invisible only for the writers to say that that's an error even though it looks intentional, what they should've done instead is just embrace it and just let stuff like that stay and not make some lazy excuse to write it out of the show.