Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20150312220054/@comment-4839682-20150818171656

The fun issue is that retcons and flaws are going to vary from person to person. What you might see as an unforgivable continuity issue or ridiculous retcon, I might find perfect reasonable, or vice versa. We have a tendency as viewers to, when watching movies and TV shows, want to forget that we're watching a movie or show (if that makes sense). We want everything to match up perfectly and make total sense. Not a wrong way to think, but it does lend itself to finding more serious "errors" in what you're watching.

Getting sidetracked here, but I actually talked to a guy at a comic-con who really, totally believed that TV shows are planned entirely from the beginning. They know how many seasons it will be on, and while they may not write every episode immediately, they know how the plot is going to go. He told me that all retcons are just lazy writers, since it's all planned out beforehand. That's the extreme example, but he had a really negative view of most TV shows because of it. The majority of us know how the writing process works, but this guy was just delightful XD

Off top, the only retcon that ever really bothered me was (as Apple mentioned earlier in this discussion) Snow White telling Charming that Regina poisoned her because she was prettier than her. When we found out that wasn't the case, it bothered me for a while. Of course, that claim was made in the pilot, before the show was picked up and characters were fleshed out, but it still bugged me during season one.

Now, of course, knowing Snow White much more intimately than we did then, I just think she was full of it XD That's my personal explanation for a lot of the minor issues in the show.