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Update to the LJ security issue mentioned in my last post: LJ says that it was a cache issue and did not allow users to edit other people's accounts, just to view them (which, yes, is bad enough, but not as bad as it seemed at first, especially since it's apparently random as opposed to being able to look at a specific person's locked content). Though it remains unclear if it's fixed, or just exactly how temporary it is (since apparently anecdotal reports conflict with the officially reported 3-minute window of misserved cache pages?) ... anyway, the chance of other people being able to edit your journal is apparently nil, so there is that.

Entertaining link I found today: 21 forgotten TV subplots - or plots the shows' writers would really hope you'd forget, anyway! (I remember an alarming number of these, at least the older ones. Others just made me laugh.)

When I first got into fanfic-writing fandom, I used to try to make the continuity/chronology of the TV shows I was writing for make sense, and used to go absolutely flaily with despair when I couldn't. (People who knew me in my early SGA fandom days might remember this. *g*) It's something I'm pretty sure I've totally let go of in the last few years, because no show, no matter how well written, is 100% internally consistent -- it's a collaborative medium involving hundreds of people; I don't think it's even theoretically possible to maintain perfect adherence to internal logic over more than a few episodes. Now I'm just amused by it, and actually quite intrigued by some of the creative solutions that writers come up with when they're having to work around missing/vanishing/misbehaving actors, network interference, major plot threads that don't play well with audiences, etc.

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Do you know that great DC fan timeline that tries to make sense of all DC canon in a coherent timeline? It's awesome. Kind of a hopeless Sisyphean task, but awesome.

ha, no, I'm not familiar with it, but wow, I can't believe anyone even attempted that -- well, okay, I can believe it, but what a headache, because comics canon is IMPOSSIBLE. Actually, one of the things that helped me come to terms with inconsistent TV canon is comparing it to Marvel & DC, because I just expect that their canon won't make sense, and I've never had much trouble holding contradictory versions of canon in my head at the same time.

I haven't looked at the site since the last reboot, but previous to that it even tried to incorporate the canonical explanations for the reboots, and timeline across the reboots. It is such an awesome site:
http://dcu.smartmemes.com/

Hahaha, I came to SGA from Angel, where continuity wasn't perfect but still kind of a big deal. On SGA, stuff happened... and then I expected the plot threads to be picked up next ep... or sometime in the future, and it never happened! If I'd come from FMA, my brain probably would've short-circuited. ;)

FMA: Brotherhood btw is what I'd consider an example of 100% internally consistent?

Thank you for the link!

... and oh my God there is a lot of information on that site. *boggles*

Yeah, I think FMA is, probably because it's a single-creator source (and the adaptation did a really good job of remaining faithful to the content of the original manga). The idea was floated over in the comments on the LJ side that perhaps one of the reasons why I had so much trouble in SGA was because my formative years in fanfic-writing fandom were in anime and manga fandoms, which do tend to have much more consistent source material (well, depends on the manga, I guess, but it's still not usually the mess that a lot of Western media sources are). And then I went straight from that to SGA. No wonder my capacity to handle cognitive dissonance was put to the test. *g*

Yes, I've lost some hours. It's not quite as bad as TV tropes, but not advisable to visit if you are in a hurry or need to be productive.

"......the chance of other people being able to edit your journal is apparently nil....."

I would hope so.............what's next edit your profile??
It is bad enough if you post something public and have every Russian from
Vladisvostok to St. Petersburg reply in cryrillic script.

Ahahah they found just one thing in X-files to mention! I would've just said "the entire mythology arc" and left it at that XD

When it comes to live-action TV, Babylon still manages consistency better than almost any other show I know of - it does have a few things due to actor changes/networks etc - especially early on - but it definitely shows the advantage of having one author writing all the scripts (okay, only the last 3 seasons - but I believe it holds the record to this day for number of continuous episodes written by the same person!)

(It is one of the pluses of anime based on manga, the single-vision principle - cartoons are less subject to actor changes as well, since you can change a voice but keep the character if necessary...)

Well, spam is spam, whether it's in Russian or English or any other language. The vast majority of the spam I get is English-language spam (or, er, English alphabet spam, at any rate -- whether there are actual words in it is a different story ...) but there's nothing inherently worse about it if it's in Cyrillic ... it's still just spam ...

Come to think of it, I suppose it's quite possible that the consistency of single-creator sources (manga, books) was one of the reasons why I had trouble making the switch to fanning on Western TV. ^^;; I really didn't watch TV much from about, oh, 1995 to 2004-ish, and that's the period when I got really heavily into manga & anime fandom -- of course, I did fan on DBZ for quite awhile, which is not exactly a model of internal consistency ...

I really do need to watch B5 one of these days.

True very true..........It annoys me no matter but
more in my face when it is not in English when my journal is obviously
in English

Well, maybe, but -- I guess I'm disconcerted when people on LJ are surprised or disconcerted by seeing non-English languages on LJ, because half the site's userbase is Russian, and a big chunk of my flist are from various non-English-speaking countries (Germany, Russia, etc), so I guess that I don't understand why it would be a surprise that the spam is rather cosmopolitan as well. It's not like English-language spammers pay the slightest attention to the content of the journals they're spamming, after all.

I can appreciate other languages, e.g.
when I was in Japan I learned Japanese and when I was in Peace Corps in Turkey I spoke Turkish in order to live and work in the area, and learned some Mandarin when we were in Taiwan, but this is different

I really think the issue for me is the spam which is most of the time
porn...............

Well, it's ... *ponders* I hope it doesn't sound like I'm accusing you of being narrowminded or anything like that, which is certainly not my intent. It's just that I've occasionally encountered on English-speaking LJ (not on my flist at all, but when I venture out into the deeper wilds of LJ in general) an occasional anti-foreign and particularly anti-Russian bias which is deeply baffling to me. There was a lot of that sort of thing floating around after LJ was bought by SixApart -- a Russian company -- several years ago, as if the site was going to instantly self-destruct simply because the owners were in Russia. Which is of course quite silly. But it's a way of thinking that is really offputting to me, and that's what I was reacting to, I think, more than the content of your actual comment. I don't get the impression that you meant it that way.

I don't get the impression that you meant it that way.

No it was not and it is why I finished up my statement that my real issue here is porn which someone has dumped in my journal
I don't care who they are, what their origin might be........that is unacceptable IMO
They are entitled to do they want with their journal or in their personal life, but I will not be used as landfill.

Oh goodness, yes, for someone to post porn to your journal is completely inappropriate, definitely!