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Sliding Scale of Continuity

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Sliding Scale of Continuity	comment	Continuity is handled very differently between different works: some of them take it very seriously, others really, really don't; some works need you to have been watching from the beginning while others just let you hop in and enjoy an individual story at any point in the series, that will usually be contained within a single installment. Realizing where a work falls on the Sliding Scale of Continuity is often essential to being able to enjoy a series for what it is. In many cases, series on the lower side of the continuity scale often rely on a recurring structure or at least a consistent tone and mood — when deciding whether or not to watch an episode, a viewer will have some idea of what to expect beforehand. High-continuity series are usually expected to offer the viewer a sense of change or progress between installments, in terms of both characters and plot. This allows for more complex and detailed storytelling, spanning multiple chapters, at the cost of requiring more involved viewing. A lot of popular works attempt to combine the best of both worlds: offering self-contained episodes with something extra for those who take the time to watch all of it, or offering "progress" between seasons. From the production side of things, works closer to the episodic end of the scale are also much easier to coordinate between writers, and handle a change in episode count or order better. In television, their appeal to networks is that can attract casual viewership, and easily increase viewership at any point along the series' run. On the other hand, works leaning towards continuity may find it easier to maintain a more devoted viewership once they catch on. What this scale measures is: If you knew nothing of the series but the very basic premise and then happened to catch some random episodes in arbitrary order, how difficult is it going to be to understand and follow what's going on, and how much will you miss, compared to if you watched it in order from the beginning? The answer doesn't have to be static within a series. When a work starts low on the scale and progresses upwards over time, that's Continuity Creep. Then, in many shows, especially those with a Half-Arc Season, the answer is different depending on which episode you're watching. If the shift is very pronounced, you can list it under both levels; otherwise, just put it where most episodes go and note the variance. See also Season Fluidity.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: Most episodes are self-contained enough that they can be understood with only the basic premise. The show begins to slide towards level 4 in later seasons, and each of the three miniseries have their own internal continuity that briefly bumps it up to level 5.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_1869a077	comment	Samurai Jack fits comfortably in this category. Although there were a few developments over the course of the series (Jack befriending the Scotsman, learning to jump good) they are only rarely shown. (The Scotsman only appears in three episodes after his introduction, there are plenty of times when jumping good could have solved the episode's dilemma but went unused.) Jack was never going to get to that time portal. Season 5 bumps it up to Level 4, however.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_18cf31fd	comment	Royal Pains: With the arc being Hank working out his family issues and growing his business.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_1aacbbc9	comment	The Dragon Age series is notably more lax about its continuity than its sister series Mass Effect: while there are definitely several enduring Myth Arcs, each installment so far (including supplemental novels and comic mini-series) is a largely self-contained story that happens to push one or more overarching plots along. This is helped by the fact that individual installments usually focus on different (albeit often overlapping) main characters and are set in different parts of the world at different times; also, an occasional retcon by the writers prevents the established canon from being too reliable.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance creator Pete Abrams recently acknowledged the phenomenon at this stage of the comic's lifespan and narrative density. He still tries to link back to details in previous strips, but now that it's become necessary even in filler arcs, it's extremely daunting to new readers.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_1c1d7608	comment	Franken Fran is steadily here. While there is the occasional Continuity Nod or Sequel Episode, as well as the occasional change to the supporting cast (with Veronica's introduction being the biggest), chapters will almost always begin with Fran getting back to work at the lab and ending with her shrugging off whatever disaster her latest work has caused.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_2313563f	comment	Suits: With the arcs being Mike Ross' dubious past in the legal profession coming back to bite him, and the constant intrigue among partners (and Louis Litt) at Pearson Hardman.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Almost every episode ends with everything in the same place it started (albeit with the occasional use of Snap Back to clean everything up) and characters fail to recognize each other despite all the adventures they've had together. However, there are also occasional Continuity Nods and permanent changes such as Lisa permanently becoming a vegetarian or Maude Flanders's death. However, the show does run on Broad Strokes, and uses a hefty amount of Comic-Book Time, Multiple-Choice Past and Chaos Architecture as Rule of Funny dictates. Treehouse of Horror segments are Level 1.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_2675c915	comment	The Winter Soldier itself has its own ramifications for the MCU with the revelation that HYDRA rebuilt itself from within SHIELD. While the only effect it has in later films is that the Avengers now work independently, in the TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the revelation of HYDRA's continued existence loses some impact if you haven't seen The Winter Soldier before watching the final third of Season 1.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_2d644371	comment	There are certain games within the Tales Series that are directly related to each other (Tales of Symphonia being a distant prequel to Tales of Phantasia, and similarly Tales of Berseria being a distant prequel to Tales of Zestiria being the only non-number pairs) but otherwise are unrelated games that merely share similar battle systems and Deconstructor Fleet storywriting tendencies.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_2f203125	comment	The Shin Megami Tensei franchise as a whole. Certain games may share a continuity but have a completely different cast between games (such as Persona 3, 4, and 5) and there's rumblings in certain games that the franchise is part of a massive neverending conflict that transcends time and space, but to most people they all might as well be completely unrelated stories that only share basic themes such as All Myths Are True, The World Is Always Doomed and Order vs. Chaos with the ability to Take a Third Option in the conflict.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_33fdae4d	comment	Mad Men: The ongoing story of Don Draper and the firm of Sterling Cooper.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_38974f2	comment	The King of Fighters: KOF currently* as of 2022 has four (technically five) arcs: "The Orochi Saga" ('94-'98note KOF '94, as the inaugural entry of the series, served as a standalone title and is sometimes designated as "The Rugal Saga" to reflect this, but since Rugal returned in the next game and was explicitly tied to the Orochi power thereafter, '94 is often treated as part of The Orochi Saga, as evidenced by its inclusion in The King of Fighters Collection: The Orochi Saga.), "The NESTS Chronicles" ('99-2002), "The Tales of Ash" (2003-XIII), and "The Shun'ei Saga" (XIV-present). note It should also be noted that '98, 2002, and their Updated Re-releases are actually non-canon Dream Match Games that bring back all the playable fighters from the previous entries, even the dead ones. The similarly non-canon XII was likewise billed as a "dream match", though in practice it's more of a stopgap released prior to XIII, with a much smaller than usual roster. While the NESTS chapter of the story isn't too hard to follow without prior knowledge (as the protagonist of those titles, K', distances himself from previous hero Kyo despite being genetically engineered with his DNA), Ash's saga almost requires that you played the first four games given that 2003 introduces a plot to unseal Orochi and the children of Rugal. This is made worse if you look past the main plot and focus on the supporting cast, as you then have to deal with allusions and plot points carried over from Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Ikari Warriors, Athena/Psycho Soldier, The Last Blade, Savage Reign/Kizuna Encounter, Buriki One, etc. as well as interconnected subplots involving the Dragon Spirit inside of Kensou and the Hizoku clan of assassins that haven't been resolved since they first appeared in 1999. While it's Continuity Porn and Fanservice for those who have followed SNK since its heyday, it's borderline Continuity Lockout for anyone else. Remember that this series originally existed as a storyless gathering of fighters. XIV, though giving off the appearance of a standalone entry point as opposed to the beginning of a new arc outright, has its fair share of this. Notably, though the Final Boss has the look of a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere at first glance, it's later revealed to be a byproduct of the Temporal Paradox Ash caused at the end of XIII and, according to Geese, was foretold in the Jin Scrolls that lied at the center of 1995's Fatal Fury 3. There's also the matter of said Temporal Paradox opening up a dimensional rift that allowed Nakoruru, Mui Mui, and Love Heart note hailing the pachinko section of SNK's library (Dragon Gal and Sky Love, respectively) to cross over, while another subplot involves remnants of NESTS running around in the background, with Angel (a former operative last canonically seen in 2001) being on the run from NESTS loyalists whereas newcomer Sylvie Paula Paula was deemed a "defective" experiment by the cartel. XV continues to build upon by the central storyline with Shun'ei while also bringing back a large number of characters with ties to the previous arcs like Chizuru, the Orochi Team, Krohnen (better known as K9999), Ash, and Elisabeth.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_398cc823	comment	Under the Dome features extremely tight continuity such that even the inclusion of a Previously on… segment at the start of each episode isn't much help.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_3aeb1c75	comment	While Dragon Ball has a great amount of continuity about it, in a larger sense the various entries into the franchise almost always invoke Negative Continuity in relation to each other, especially if they aren't written by Akira Toriyama. The Dragon Ball manga forms the base from which all others are related by, but almost no works that expand the plot can ever be compatible with the others. note For example, Dragon Ball Super contradicts with Dragon Ball GT, which itself is based upon the anime, not the manga. Meanwhile, Bardock – The Father of Goku was referenced in the manga, but would later be contradicted with Dragon Ball Minus, which means Bardock – The Father of Goku is only canon to the anime. Movies get this the worst, slotting themselves into a hypothetical status quo that is similar to but not exactly the same as a point in time in the show. note For example, Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might has Goku alive and use the Kaio-Ken technique, alongside his friends Tien, Chiaotzu, Yamcha and Piccolo. However in the main story Goku learns Kaio-Ken after being killed, and by the time he's restored back to life, his aforementioned friends are dead themselves. Various machinations in the story mean that Goku and his remaining pals are too injured and/or busy for the film to slot in neatly. Trying to sort this out causes more harm than good for many fans, and the creators are none too bothered by it and prefer to instead focus on writing interesting and cool stories than be bothered about how every single entry fits with the rest.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_3b34143f	comment	The first three Harry Potter books' storylines don't directly depend on the stories of the previous books; they each explain basic premises like the wizarding world, Voldemort, Harry's backstory, etc., Harry continues to live at the Dursleys', go to Hogwarts every year, have friends named Ron and Hermione, etc., and the actual events of the first book almost doesn't matter by the third, but they ARE brought up a few times in the other books. Also, for the fans that say that the second book doesn't matter either, Ron and Hermione wouldn't have been able to destroy horcruxes without the Basilik teeth, which is something they could've only known to do if Harry told them about what he did in the Chamber of Secrets, which happened in the second book. As for the rest of the series, well...
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan has lots of Wham Episode worth of character deaths, revelations, and plot twists. You miss one chapter or episode, and the next one has you lost.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_3f3abe9	comment	Rick and Morty, although episodic, does have Character Development, Call-Backs, and status quo changes. Outside of Season Premieres, it's easy to understand what's going on even if you had never seen a single episode.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files slides quickly from Level 3 to here as the books become less "investigating a case" and more "investigating something deeply connected to just about everything else while dozens of old characters reappear and stuff that happened five books ago suddenly turns out to be vitally important," though there is still a plot with its own resolution in each book.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural tends to do this in later seasons, as compared to the Level 3 of the earlier ones. As it recaps all plot points relevant to the episode right before the episode, it's in no real danger of becoming Level 5.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_457b671e	comment	Each season of 24 is a continuous real-time story arc.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_468bebb0	comment	Most of the Discworld books are Level 4.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_482ba098	comment	PandoraHearts. You can read the first three chapters and infer well enough what came before, but as each follows directly from the last chapter, and the unexplained events and foreshadowing pile up as early as chapter one...
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_48bd0a63	comment	Raumschiff GameStar: The series swung between Level 5 (Full Lockout) in Seasons 1, 2, and 4 and Level 4 (Arc-based Episodic) in Seasons 3 and 5, occasionally tapping into Level 3 (Subtle Continuity) at some points in the third and fourth seasons.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV has the base game and several expansion packs that all continue from one another. Each expansion has their own story that is also built upon from the previous story and sets up for the next story. While you can skip certain arcs and still get the gist of it, you'll won't understand certain plot points, characters, or other references that are brought up from events that happened earlier.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_52e8fba	comment	Land of Oz: Hovers between 2 and 3 on the scale, mostly because Baum was burned out on the series, and grinding them out ahead of the bill collectors for a happy-to-oblige publisher. There are some elements that carry over (like Ozma taking the throne in the second book, Dorothy moving to Oz by the 6th book, the magic belt), but most books are standalone and many elements can contradict one another, especially as Baum started phoning in his later entries to the series. Things got worse as the apathy gradually developed into full Creator Backlash with repeated attempts to Torch the Franchise and Run, only for Baum to find himself writing yet another Oz book that retconned or otherwise undid the previous torching under the combined forces of his financial concerns, pressure from publishers... and the desire to please an enthusiastic fanbase that he actually rather appreciated (though he desperately wished they would embrace some of his other works as fondly). It became more complicated after other authors began working on the series and tried to untangle the Continuity Snarl Baum left behind, with the canon-ness of various events Depending on the Writer.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_564871a	comment	The first two seasons of Blue Bloods fall here, with season-long arcs starring Jamie Reagan independent of the Body of the Week format of each episode's A-plot with his older brother Danny.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_58808436	comment	Both Higurashi and Umineko: When They Cry count. Ye gads, get out of order or miss a segment or two in either, and you can end up so lost. And, this is the same, whichever medium you're playing/watching/reading them in.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_58fc1f8c	comment	Each episode of Space☆Dandy has the core crew of Dandy, Meow, and QT in common and little else. While they behave the same from episode to episode, the stories tend to end with one or more of them getting killed and/or horrible, irreparable damage to their universe. This goes beyond a Snap Back in that the art style, genre, soundtrack, and writing style also change from episode to episode, especially in Season 2, to where they would look like different series if not for the main characters' presence. However, the show shifts to a Level 4 in Episodes 23 through 26 while keeping the wildly divergent art styles and episodic format: 23 to 25 gradually explain the nature of why there's no continuity at all with 26 displaying the end result when someone tries to exploit it.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_69d15cc0	comment	The Marvel Cinematic Universe that started with Iron Man is in this category, courtesy of Marvel deciding to create its own movie label after they were bought by Disney. The individual films (the Iron Man series, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger) are pretty self-contained but each contributes to an ongoing Myth Arc that hit a climax with The Avengers, which in turn used The Stinger to set up the next major villain, Thanos, who would take part in Guardians of the Galaxy. Meanwhile Phase 2 of the MCU deals directly with some of the fallout from the climax of The Avengers (i.e. Iron Man 3: Tony Stark has PTSD after nearly dying at the climax; Thor: The Dark World: Loki is chastised for causing the alien invasion; Captain America: The Winter Soldier: SHIELD is gung-ho about stopping threats before they become threats). The Winter Soldier itself has its own ramifications for the MCU with the revelation that HYDRA rebuilt itself from within SHIELD. While the only effect it has in later films is that the Avengers now work independently, in the TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the revelation of HYDRA's continued existence loses some impact if you haven't seen The Winter Soldier before watching the final third of Season 1. The Netflix shows are also mostly self contained much like Phase 1 of the MCU though it too has its own ongoing Myth Arc as well as plenty of Continuity Nods, namely Hell's Kitchen being what it is because of the damage caused in The Avengers. The Infinity Stones/Gems and their build-up to Avengers: Infinity War will be lost on anyone who hasn't seen the key films where five of the six have respectively appeared so far.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_6d8311c4	comment	Pokémon Gold and Silver carries on with the major events from Pokémon Red and Blue. The Johto Pokedex is considered as an extention of the Kanto Pokedex, you have to stop Team Rocket from returning to its former glory, and the Pokemon League is the same Indigo Plateau. Most, if not all, characters from Kanto returns, including the previous game's protagonist, who is now the true Pokemon Champion. And many of them have moved on with their lives. The only reason this isn't Level 5 is due to having to start with a new protagonist.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis follow this model. Each show has multi-season Myth Arcs but the individual episodes are pretty self-contained, and they usually have a Previously on… segment in the continuity-heavy episodes.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender is mostly like this — while Team Avatar is always traveling the world to find bending masters to teach Aang and there are plenty of episodes that belong in Level 3, there are pretty steady continuous developments on the villainous side that would be very jarring to anyone who just watched individual episodes here and there. Episodes almost always air with Previously on… segments, though they don't explain everything.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fits into this catagory and was known for having greater levels of continuity compared to earlier Trek shows.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda. The games tend to be standalone but there are three timelines that diverge at Ocarina of Time. Yet the games only get a Continuity Nod or Mythology Gag at best and can be played with any knowledge of the other games.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_7832b74c	comment	Though covered on the earlier point, Steven Universe received a further jump midway through Season 2 and hasn't looked back. The show's gone beyond the occasional two-part episode and heavy background plot to long stretches of continuous storytelling. The Peridot arc featured 4 episodes, took a brief respite to detail Garnet's backstory and a one-off episode, followed by 3 episodes in a row to resolve it, then 6 episodes in a row dealing with the Cluster and its aftermath. The Season 3 finale featured a four-parter, and the fourth season arc to retrieve Greg from Blue Diamond was a five-parter that leaves off seconds after the last episode stops, hinging on the aforementioned Garnet backstory. If you missed that one, you're going to be very confused.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_7988cb68	comment	The original Mass Effect trilogy is probably the most continuity-restrictive series BioWare has ever produced. Thanks to the ability to carry over the main character (and thus most of the plot) across all three installments, Mass Effect 2 and particularly Mass Effect 3 depend on the previous installments to such degree that it is literally impossible to get some of the best outcomes in the third game (such as the peace between quarians and the geth) without having completed the previous ones.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: The show fits this category to a tee, with each character having the same goals, motivations, and relationships with one another at the beginning of almost every episode. References to past episodes are often made, but regardless of which episode you watch, you can expect to see Phineas and Ferb trying to make the most of their Summer, Candace trying to show her mom the dangerous things they do, Dr. Doofenshmirtz trying to either take over the Tri-State Area, or get some sort of petty revenge for his Hilariously Abusive Childhood (or sometimes both at once), and Perry showing up to stop him. If any episode has something that could potentially result in a status quo change, expect it to be undone before the end of every episode, save for the series finale. Every now and then, the show introduces something new to the table. For example, "Hide and Seek" introduces Irving into the main friend group, and "Nerdy Dancin'" brings the creation of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. and the introduction of its members. However, each subsequent episode to include them has them in the same situation, and with the other characters having the same relationship with them. Perhaps the only aspect of the show that sits somewhere between Level 3 and 4 is Candace's relationship with Jeremy. She spends the beginning of the show crushing on him, though as the series progresses, they become noticably closer. After the special, "Summer Belongs to You," the two of them are officially a couple.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_7d5e43b0	comment	The Goodies, which rapidly devolved from a Work Com-Roommate Com-Brit Com hybrid into a vehicle for razor-sharp satire disguised as a live-action cartoon with dirty jokes, wasn’t afraid to do Monumental Damage, kill off the entire main cast, turn the population of Britain into clowns or in one memorable instance blow up the Earth, with everything back to normal next week.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_7ef64348	comment	Most works in The Idolmaster franchise have separate continuities, the main exception being the various A-1 anime series, which appear to share a continuity.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_7fbd159a	comment	ThunderCats (1985) hovers between Levels 2 and 3 in its first season. Later seasons, however, fall more into Level 3 territory, with the introduction of three new Thundercats, the promotion of Snarf's nephew to the regular cast and the addition of a new team of antagonists in the form of the Lunataks. Later still, the show's regular villains (with the exception of Mumm-Ra) get written out and, for the most part, stay written out. Oh, and the Thundercats' home planet reforms.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_81692f99	comment	The Kurtzman-era Star Trek series fall into this, except for Lower Decks and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which are both 4s. There are some exceptions in Discovery, where the episodes"An Obol for Charon" and "Time Loops Together" dip to level 4.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_85b79d17	comment	Black Mirror
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_86061aff	comment	Neptunia: The second game takes place in an Alternate Universe from the first and Victory involves the protagonist and her sister from the second game Trapped in Another Alternate Universe. Despite having the same characters, the games taking place in AU versions of the same world and with AU versions of the cast make this a Level 0. The continuity progresses with VII, which features mk2's cast dealing with a new crisis and new characters in their home world, as well as Neptune and Nepgear ending up in another Alternate Universe that isn't actually one. Victory's Ultradimension is not mentioned for the most part outside of a quick recap at the very beginning, although a couple of elements from there do have considerable plot relevance. Namely Croire, the power of Tari's CPU, and Ultradimension Neptune. This in turn brings it up to somewhere between a Level 2 and 3.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_86904ab8	comment	The individual films (the Iron Man series, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger) are pretty self-contained but each contributes to an ongoing Myth Arc that hit a climax with The Avengers, which in turn used The Stinger to set up the next major villain, Thanos, who would take part in Guardians of the Galaxy. Meanwhile Phase 2 of the MCU deals directly with some of the fallout from the climax of The Avengers (i.e. Iron Man 3: Tony Stark has PTSD after nearly dying at the climax; Thor: The Dark World: Loki is chastised for causing the alien invasion; Captain America: The Winter Soldier: SHIELD is gung-ho about stopping threats before they become threats).
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_8a3a1edd	comment	As it says on that page, Saved by the Bell was the king of the Status Quo Is God trope.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_8aef1fcf	comment	Space Quest, like its "brother" King's Quest has games that stand alone mostly, but later entries reference the hell out of previous ones. Even if Roger is always busted back down to mopping floors, there's always some hint of his previous adventures that comes up when playing. In Space Quest 6, this is referenced by showing Roger with a collection of inventory items from previous games. Space Quest 4 spoofs this with Time Travel by having Roger go to his future (The Latex Babes of Estros), where he gets in trouble for something he technically hasn't done yet, and the first game where the bar owner complains about the slot machine Roger broke. Space Quest 4's plot was kicked off by a Virtual Ghost Vohaul wanting revenge over Roger killing him off in Space Quest II, and much of the subplot in Space Quest 5 (in addition to why Beatrice getting killed means Non-Standard Game Over for Roger) has to do with events in Space Quest 4.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_8c0c101d	comment	Albedo: Erma Felna EDF is a rather extreme case of this, since you need to read each and every single piece of information from not only the comics, but also every single piece of extra information Word of God has published outside the comics like the tabletop RPG games, fanzines, info from almost every single piece of published media like interviews, websites, Usenet posts, etc., some of them were published from the 80s.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost is a frequently cited example of Continuity Lockout because of this.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	A Series of Unfortunate Events is much the same as Harry Potter, with the first four books or so being mostly independent, starting off with the Baudelaires being adopted by a new guardian and carefully explaining who the characters are to potential new readers, but later on the continuity creeps and the reader starts to need to have read the previous books to make sense of all this stuff about VFD and Beatrice and so on.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_9068877a	comment	Most of Red vs. Blue belongs here starting with the Recollection Trilogy. There's a lot of space to goof around and tell jokes that aren't usually important to the plot, but with the way episodes follow one-after-the-other to the point where the DVD releases compile them into long movies, the plot is crucial whenever it does. And speaking of said jokes, they themselves half the time can be far-reaching callbacks to the beginning of the series that make little to no sense without the context. The Project Freelancer Saga and The Chorus Trilogy in particular are borderline Level 5, barring season 11 which dips into Level 3.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_91684031	comment	Pokémon Black and White have direct sequels and are the only main series games to do so. Black 2 and White 2 can be played with no problems to their story, but it it is appreciated more if you've played Black and White first. There's even a feature where you can connect a Black 2 or White 2 game to a Black or White game and transfer the latter's data (such as the player's name and what team they had) to enhance the story further.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series adhered to this level of continuity well enough that with a scant few exceptions you can watch the series in any order and it generally makes perfect sense.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls main series of games (i.e. the ones with numbers in the title) fit here. Each has a brand new protagonist (the Player Character) but take place chronologically (with Time Skips ranging from four to 200 years) after the previous games in the series. In the background looms the (mostly) benevolent Third Tamriellic Empire whose involvement with the main plot of the game varies from relatively loose (Daggerfall, Morrowind) to being an essential player in the game's events (every other game). The first four games, in fact, all take place during the rule of the same Emperor (Uriel Septim VII). Other consistent elements are the inclusion of (or at least mention of) various Guilds and Factions (Fighters Guild, Mages Guild, Thieves' Guild, Dark Brotherhood, etc.) as well as the presence of the same gods and deities (save those you kill or otherwise alter).
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_a81325d3	comment	The Final Fantasy series. A couple of games had sequels or spin-offs; the others are each their own reality with their own characters, their own plot, their own setting... However, they share various nods to one another such as similar monsters, summons, chocobos, and characters named Cid.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: What do you expect from an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire?
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_b6c9037f	comment	The Magnus Archives begins as a cosmic horror Genre Anthology with a Level 4 seasonal plot happening alongside the single-episode stories. While the show holds onto those anthological roots for its entire run, the final season takes a turn into Level 5, to the point that it would be incomprehensible without prior knowledge of the overarching plot and worldbuilding.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive is divided into storylines, which, while not necessarily self-contained, are by themselves more a bit more accessible than the comic-spanning larger story, which requires a full understanding of most things that have happened before to follow. And the EGS:NP B Side Comic is mostly Level 1 with a few storylines having level 3 continuity with the main comic and one (the Playing With Dolls storyline) having Level 5 continuity.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_c06a9c1c	comment	Final Space falls into this category. Although Season 1 involved recaps, protagonist Gary was an Unreliable Narrator. Season 2 lacked recaps except for the premiere, and had episodes that were completely self-contained, but still was more plot-driven than the previous season.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_c0aa8ea9	comment	Stargate Universe was heavily arc-based, which had the misfortune to occur at the same time Syfy changed its scheduling strategy to where it would air part of a season, then replace it with another show, then bring the first show back, and so on. The SGU showrunners partly blame the series' cancellation on the resulting confusion driving away viewers.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_c35714d6	comment	The seasons of Blackadder in relation to each other are this, the only similarities being the basic premise of "Blackadder surrounded by idiots" (and not even that considering the first season). However, the episodes within a season can be from Levels 1-2.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic became this in Season 4, having an arc related to opening the box from the season-beginning two-parter, and having details of Season 2 episodes come up in the season finale. Season 5 set a similar trend.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who post-2005. Pre-2005 DW is more a hybrid of Level 4 and Level 3, with 4-6 episode story arcs that have a strict continuity in themselves but overall have virtually no connection to each other. The only difference a casual viewer would notice between a Season 10 story and a Season 20 story is the new lead actor.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7 always had the ongoing struggle against the totalitarian Federation, but whether it was the foreground concern or subordinate to the current crisis depends on the episode.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_c75d67d	comment	Person of Interest fits here to a similar degree as Babylon 5, with the first season and a half being pretty episodic but featuring continuous story arcs in the background. After about the middle of Season 2, the importance of knowing the continuity rapidly ramps up because the show's cast gets huge and the various arcs begin to interconnect frequently.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_c97651d6	comment	Flight of the Conchords' second season had several episodes end with the guys having, say, lost all their furniture, or fallen below zero on Murray's friendship graph, with the next merrily restoring the status quo without so much as a mention. The first season, however, is Level 2-3, making it an example of inverted Continuity Creep.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_ca08598f	comment	The Wire: Most episodes push multiple arcs forward, along with continuity nods that don't just stretch across multiple episodes, but multiple seasons. Even missing a single episode can leave a viewer lost as to what's happened in the interim.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_cb09ad9	comment	King's Quest lands here, with the games themselves being standalone, but characters frequently reference past adventures, and the plotlines sometimes lead into one another, like the events of King's Quest V being set into motion over events in King's Quest III (the Big Bad of that game takes revenge for his brother being turned into a cat), and the events of King's Quest VI built on events in King's Quest with many references to King's Quest III in dialogue and flavor text. There's also an incriminating letter in King's Quest VI that hints that at least three of the previous villains may have been working together. It can get up to a 5 if you get your hands on a Fan Remake or Fan Sequel like AGD Interactive's remakes of KQII and KQIII or The Silver Lining.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_ccf875f7	comment	Criminal Minds falls here. Although story arcs are present from time to time and it has seen main characters get replaced, any differences between the episodes tend to be mostly cosmetic—the vast majority of episodes are simply the Mystery of the Week where the storyline is introduced and wrapped up in the same episode, with arcs operating mostly in the background.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_cd6bad8a	comment	The Twilight Zone
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_cdd82de8	comment	Gossip City falls between 1 and 2. While there are some things that stay the same such as the Suzumori family others like who is Himari's husband and Jo's backstory varies from story to story.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_ce50887e	comment	On an internal scale, the Dragon Ball manga fits here, and to a lesser extent the two anime based off of it. If you skip twenty or thirty Chapters you'll generally be quite out of place as to where the story is. On a larger, franchise-wise scale, however, it's more a Level 1.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Superman is a Level 3 in at least The Silver Age of Comic Books — while Mort Weisinger was the editor, his supporting cast, Rogues Gallery, and mythology were slowly built upon, without readers requiring to have read any previous stories most of the time. Supergirl (also edited by Weisinger) followed this model but often moved into Level 4 as she was more likely to be involved in two- or three-part stories.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_d59e2ca4	comment	The Quake games were this, for a while, with Quake-III having nothing in common but a name for marketing purposes. That ended with the back-to-back releases of Quake IV and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, which were a sequel and prequel respectively to Quake II.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	Pokémon: The Series: While the games have a vague Level from 0 to 4, the Pokémon anime is completely set in the status quo, with the only real cast being Ash, Pikachu and Team Rocket. New companions join, and new Pokémon are caught, but Ash will always lose the league at the end of a series, and the Reset Button is pushed so that the whole series might as well have never happened. Rinse and repeat. This has resulted in Ash being no closer to his goal of becoming a Pokémon Master than he was in 1997. To wit, it took roughly twenty years out of universe for Ash to finally make it to the finals of a non-Filler league (Kalos) and about another two for him to actually win it all (Alola). Pokémon Journeys decisively breaks the cycle by chronicling what Ash does next after winning the Alola league: aiding Pokémon research and setting his sights on the Pokémon World Championships.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	One interesting example is Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, which explicitly identifies each episode as either "Stand Alone" (episodic) or "Complex" (part of the series arc). The episodic ones rarely contain any reference to other episodes.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_d9c602eb	comment	The eighteenth season of South Park has each episode picking up from where the previous episode left off or takes a minor plot point from an earlier episode and goes into greater detail with it. This is lampshaded in Episode 2, in which the unexpected increase in continuity plays a role in the plot.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_da73d677	comment	Quest for Glory is one of the most serialized franchises Sierra ever made, and unlike other games released around this time (like the aforementioned King's Quest), the QFG series allowed the player to carry their character over from one game to the next. However, this series wasn't quite as restrictive from a continuity standpoint. Each game (despite following a single hero) dwelt with a separate problem in a separate location. Although it worked in characters and continuity nods from previous installments, the games were self-contained enough that you could immediately understand what was happening without playing prior titles.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra may perhaps be the most continuity-heavy cartoon to date. Barring the first season, each season directly leads into the next, with the resulting fallout shaping the events of each. Although the villains and arcs they generate were separate, the characters and global politics constantly changed. By Season 3, it'd more or less become an adult drama that just so happened to be in animated form.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_de48ce05	comment	Happy Tree Friends. Every single episode has at least one character either die or get horribly injured, yet by their next appearance they're invariably totally fine.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time: Same writers as Lost, and same twisted plotlines that can cram several Wham Episodes inside Wham Episodes. Sure, they're all fairy tale and literary characters, but that means very little with their love of Composite Characters and Decomposite Characters and at least five Magnificent Bastards scheming against one another.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_dfee4401	comment	Unforgettable spent Season 1 at Level 4 but was switched to here after being Un-Canceled and retooled as a summer series. The Myth Arc of Carrie Wells investigating the cold case of her sister's murder is dropped completely, though it gets a Continuity Nod every once in a while.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_e5feb1e	comment	The Ace Attorney games have a stronger (Level 4) continuity between cases within each game, but are this with respect to one another, featuring the same characters (bar Apollo Justice) and explaining things like spirit mediums at the beginning of each game but otherwise having independent stories and not depending on the player knowing the previous games.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_e694aadb	comment	The Ciaphas Cain novels are a fusion of this and Anachronic Order, numbered thematically rather than chronologically. The first trilogy tells the story of how Cain became attached to the Valhallan 597th Regiment and their early campaigns. The second covers much more ground time-wise but is tangentially related to the shadowlight, a mysterious pre-humanity artifact discovered on Perlia. "Echoes of the Tomb" and The Emperor's Finest cover his time as Imperial Guard liaison to the Reclaimers chapter of the Adeptus Astartes, and shed light on a Noodle Incident repeatedly alluded to in previous books and why Cain is so terrified of necrons. The last two novels, The Last Ditch and The Greater Good, deal with tyranid incursions.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly's episodes can pretty much stand on their own in a mostly arbitrary order, though this may largely be because it never got the chance to go anywhere with the hinted Myth Arc.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_e936047a	comment	Hey Arnold!: Nearly every episode is standalone, but several episodes introduce characters that become regulars, such as "New Teacher" and "Ms. Perfect".
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_eef69f10	comment	The Sherlock Holmes stories can be read in any order (with a very few notable exceptions like The Final Problem and The Empty House). And after the first few stories, they aren't all set in the order they were written in, anyway. Arthur Conan Doyle deliberately wrote them like this so that readers would not quit following the series just because they had missed a story or two.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_f0c816fb	comment	Breaking Bad: Or, Two Years In The Life of Walter White. And boy, are they eventful ones.
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Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_f7d8fd70	comment	The Goon Show, befitting its anarchic, surrealist nature. The characters were dropped into entirely different scenarios every week (often in a different country or century) and seldom remembered each other — and even when Bluebottle did recognise Neddie, it was as "the one who deads me every week."
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