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What TV series has the worst continuity or internal plot consistency? (piefed.social)
submitted 11 months ago by [M] to c/television@piefed.social
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[–] 13 points 11 months ago (5 children)

They wanted a phaser but couldn't call it a vaporize setting.

But they didn't completely abandon it. Disintegration gets used a handful more times when they remember it and it helps them wave away plot holes. Like in the episode where they end up in the 60s they disintegrate a box. A box!

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    Well, not quite. Iirc the disintegration effect came about last minute when the director decided he needed a way to remove the bodies, to explain why other jaffa wouldn't see them and get suspicious.

    It's why in the Wormhole Xtreme episode, they mock that exact premise when O'Neill Marty suggests it.

    Edited, corrected below!

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    he needed a way to remove the bodies, to explain why other jaffa wouldn't see them and get suspicious.

    Wasn't it just about the practicality of having bodies laying around the set? That makes sense in-universe though, but at least in the mockumentary meta episode (200th?) they give that reason, to clear the extras to make room essentially.

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