Suddenly instead of a trip to the Grand Canyon together being a goal, they'd already been there as kids. And there were other bits of canon that had been carefully fed viewers over seasons as accrued mythos, that were junked and left behind carelessly

I'll say this in the writers' defense: I can't remember minor details or throwaway lines (some of which become really important to readers, because that's what readers do, even if I was just trying to add detail or change the rhythm of a sentence) from books that I've written. When something's being written by committee, it has to be really easy to miss little things like that. Especially since the writers may be fans, but they're not necessarily fans the way we are. They're not living it in their imaginations and writing fanfic and debating interpretations.

Or if they are, it's part of the job, which I imagine puts a different spin on it.

I know it does have a different spin, if it's your job. I can't believe there are staff writers who have never watched earlier seasons. I mean I believe it, but it's not the way I work, in any endeavor. But I'm a ferret for history, if only to try and avoid repeating mistakes.

On the other hand, coming in new under a showrunner with his own mandate from the network, you follow his lead. I suppose lack of attention to the past is normal, in concentration on what's next.

I don't think it's lack of attention so much as not knowing what fans consider important. That line about the Grand Canyon, just as an example, was just a line. The fact that the fandom took it and ran with it doesn't mean it's loomed as large in the writers' imaginations.

And every show does it -- over time there are always continuity mistakes, sometimes big ones. Friends has lots of them. That said, it drives me crazy, too, I just don't think anyone does it maliciously.

No, I doubt it's maliciously done.

Poor writers. Poor people who lock their office door and leave the story at the end of the day. I'm sure they *know* that viewers and fans rewatch, a lot. But I'm not sure they have any concept of how ingrained canon becomes for some fans, due to rewatch and dissection and discussion and meta discussion. Let alone fic and grey canon. I think few, if any, writers actually comprehend fandom, and I think they'd be a little alarmed--although maybe a little gratified--at how intense some fans can be about character and story. As opposed to fans who are preoccupied about the actors, or fandom itself.

Aw, at the up-fronts: [link]

And Superwholock gets closer to reality--Captain Jack is behind Jared! Yes, I know Barrowman's currently on Arrow. Fun to fuel the cross-fandom flames, though.

On top of all that--more gets filmed than makes it onscreen. Not everyone actually sees the actual episode. They may have mentioned reapers were angels and it got left on the cutting room floor and no one noticed--Colin mentioned that happened a frustrating amount (n>0) on Eureka.

Especially the network. They see an early cut, and that's what they're thinking happened because they never see the final one. So they make intractable demands about what gets mentioned in subsequent eps based on that. And actors who don't watch the show are also surprised about what's not actually canon or in their character anymore.

It's a clusterfuck, and I can't get upset about little things-- except in fanfic. But reapers being angels could do with some explanation, not just assertion.

eta: Seeing Ruby 1.0 near the boys is weird.

The Js have signed for S11, according to post-Upfronts Twitter.

At this point I hope the boys are making Buku bucks. Doing the same character this long is hard on any actor. (Unless they start phoning it in, which has not happened.) So I hope they are being paid "I can afford a yacht even if I never work again" rates.

They've said this is easy and they're not sure who else to be.