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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 1381650" data-attributes="member: 505">I have to disagree with your analogy.  A better one would be the direct to video sequels of their classic movies Disney has churned out lately.  "Officially" there may be a sequel to Cinderella, but many fans may not wish to acknowledge it because they see it as simply a crudely animated, money grabber.Another Disney example would be Aladin.  At the end of the film, Aladin and the Princess were married.  On the "official" tv series and at least one of the sequels, they weren't.  This ignoring of continuity doesn't necessarily mean that the results will be bad (I actually enjoyed the tv series), but you can understand people not liking it.Okay, let's look at it this way.  Russell Mulcahy directed the original Highlander.  The sequels (and tv series) pretty much took everything established there and threw it out the window.  Mulcahy may have the right to go back and re-edit the first film to bring it in line with the continuity of the later films, but that doesn't mean that people will like it, it will be good, or that it's even a good idea in the first place.I think that instead of trying to play with retroactive continuity, filmmakers should just try to stick to the continuity already established.  Going back to rework things never really pans out.  Comic book often try to do it and it only causes a backlash from the fans and much confusion.  Wonder Woman's mother was Wonder Woman in WW2?  Why is it that no one's mentioned that before?  People are just suddenly remembering her now?  The clone of himself that Spider-Man destroyed wasn't really a clone?  Then who did he kill?  Some innocent person?  No, the clone was a real clone?  Now the clone's not dead, but alive?  Wait a minute, the clone isn't the clone, but the original Spider-Man is?  What happened to the original and who have I been reading about all these years?  Wha...?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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