{"id":604,"date":"2008-01-31T08:19:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T12:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2008-01-24T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T15:30:56","slug":"more-than-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-retconning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"More Than You <EM>Ever<\/EM> Wanted to Know About Retconning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A retcon is retroactive continuity, the deliberate changing of previously established facts in a work of serial fiction.  (Like Bobby Ewing showing up in the shower after being &#8220;dead&#8221; for a whole season, or Sherlock Holmes surviving the waterfall.)  It&#8217;s popular in comic books, much to the dismay of long-time fans.  Websnark has posted a passionate-to-the-point-of-frothing dissection of the practice, including a discussion of the various types of retcon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then Dev-Em had his history retconned twice and then he blew up the moon. Because time had to&#8230; Superman could have stopped it but he couldn&#8217;t be allowed to because&#8230; look, at this stage they were clearly huffing paint, okay?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.websnark.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/retconning_just_1.html\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.typepad.com\/wwdnbackup\/\">Wil Wheaton<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n<p>(This <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Retcon\">Wikipedia article<\/A> gives lots more examples, many having to do with science fiction.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retcon is retroactive continuity, the deliberate changing of previously established facts in a work of serial fiction. (Like Bobby Ewing showing up in the shower after being &#8220;dead&#8221; for a whole season, or Sherlock Holmes surviving the waterfall.) It&#8217;s popular in comic books, much to the dismay of long-time fans. Websnark has posted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}