Lt.Overload
Rear Admiral
I was confused about this. Knight dies in the WCM (or at least I think that's him, with Paladin in the bombing run), but then he's back in WC1?
I don't know, maybe he ejected. Anyway, why does Paladin says "Mr. Knight" if Knight's last name is Khumalo?
I don't know, maybe he ejected. Anyway, why does Paladin says "Mr. Knight" if Knight's last name is Khumalo?
I was confused about this. Knight dies in the WCM (or at least I think that's him, with Paladin in the bombing run), but then he's back in WC1?
Wait, pardon my ignorance but I was unaware the movie and the games took place in the same continuity.
The movie is designed in just such a way that you can very well ignore if if you please.
Well... short answer is yes.
But wait! Before everyone gets their knickers in an knot, I'll tell you exactly how this should influence your view of the series: NOT ONE BIT. The movie is designed in just such a way that you can very well ignore if if you please.
So what does this have to do with continuity? We'll for future games, that means that the Tiger's Claw thwarted a sneak attack/invasion attempt shortly after Blair and Maniac shipped to the Claw... That's it.
Ship designs? Don't matter. Look of characters? Don't matter. Pilgrims? Well, I guess we know Blair's mother's religion now... but otherwise doesn't matter. They're written in a way that they basically disapear from the universe after the movie (per the books). Skipper missiles? Not as complicated as full cloak and we see full cloaks in the intro to WC2 only a year or so later... So don't matter.
Bossman and Knight are dead, Paladin already doesn't fly fighters anymore. For something that's supposed to happen prior to WC1 that doesn't sound like the same continuity at all.
Yes, Farbourne, you could look at it like that, but you would have reason to think that the movie is the much more distorted version of events, as it seems to grab different events form WC1 through WC3 and recombines them to a different story, and has them all happen in a much shorter time span.
That seems to be more the way Holy Books "evolve", not history books.
Heck, anyone who has served on a jury should know this...ten different eyewitnesses will tell ten similar but slightly different stories, and forensic evidence will sometimes present yet another (or more than one) different possible versions of the events.
If we can rarely find perfect continuity in different accounts of real life events, why should we demand it of a fictional universe?
That seems to be more the way holy Books "evolve", not history books.
What I meant was that in case of holy books they kinda "build upon each other." Like Christianity builds on Judaism, and Islam builds on Christianity.Books do not evolve or "evolve" at all, except new revised editions and translations.
I think the animated series fits the games much better than the movie. But that aside, I also think it's either one or the other: You can argue the movie being the same continuity as the games, or the cartoon being the same continuity, but if you try to get them both in, well... let's say you've to be very creative.Then fit in WCA animated series, and you need to come up with some pretty slick thinking to fit them all in.
I was confused about this. Knight dies in the WCM (or at least I think that's him, with Paladin in the bombing run), but then he's back in WC1?
I don't know, maybe he ejected. Anyway, why does Paladin says "Mr. Knight" if Knight's last name is Khumalo?
Bossman and Knight are dead, Paladin already doesn't fly fighters anymore. For something that's supposed to happen prior to WC1 that doesn't sound like the same continuity at all.
Yes, Farbourne, you could look at it like that, but you would have reason to think that the movie is the much more distorted version of events, as it seems to grab different events form WC1 through WC3 and recombines them to a different story, and has them all happen in a much shorter time span.
That seems to be more the way Holy Books "evolve", not history books.
If Bossman had a wife a daughter, was he having an affair with Angel? If the movie and SM2 both happened as descried, was he shot down and declared dead, only to to return to duty and get shot down again?
Then fit in WCA animated series, and you need to come up with some pretty slick thinking to fit them all in.
Wasn't there a timeline created somewhere to fit all these things in? Since the Arena manual references to all these sources, it's pretty obvious it's Canon.
While we did see Knights ship lost, he did not get a funeral, or was declared lost, he may have Ejected, same goes for Bossman who might have drifted off somewhere and was recovered while the Tiger's claw was already out of reach and communications with the claw were impossible.
And ofcourse with some pilots lost, it makes sense that Paladin who was on the ship anyway got put on the Roster, he could sure still fly as he was on the strike force.
On Bossman's fighter: Now could have the fighter been heavily damaged in an engagement, and they couldn't repair it in time, for Bossman's next flight, so he flew a different fighter than his own?