Continuity errors in Bionicle?

[kathy]

I've recently been reading the books, and was wondering what errors were made in the storyline. Anyone know some errors in it? 

 

Additionally,

[Bonkle]

I know an error: this should probably be in Storyline and Theories.

 

But seriously, I don't know any. I will be watching this topic closely, though.

[fishers64]

No, there weren't any. Any of them that did exist were retconned by Greg or stated to be artistic license by said aftermentioned Greg. 

[kathy]

I know an error: this should probably be in Storyline and Theories.

 

But seriously, I don't know any. I will be watching this topic closely, though.

Sickest burn. But yeah, I should probably report a move to it.

[-Windrider-]

Moving to S&T, then.

[Lyichir]

Yeah, Greg's heavy interaction with fans made it so that, as far as the actual canon was concerned, there were few inconsistencies or plot holes.

 

But that's not to say that there were no problems if you don't take those retcons into account. The Cathy Hapka books in particular tended to be really bad about this, especially the Mask of Light novelization (which included such flubs as referring to the pools of energized Protodermis in Makuta's lair as "liquid mercury", which would have an entirely different effect on Takanuva and Makuta if they were to fall into it).

[The 1st Shadow]

Continuity errors?

 

Well.....

 

Actually, there weren't too many, now that I think about it. There were a number of unresolved plotlines from different points in the story's run, but aside from some of the stuff in the first three books and the MOL novelization, as Lyichir mentioned, were all a bit off in terms of correlation to the vision of the story team. As such, there were many inconsistencies between the books, the online games, and the comics that often lead to confusion about which portrayal of events was canon. Generally, the events in the comics are most accurate, if a bit consolidated and less descriptive than the books.

[Irrie]

I suppose that the speed of traveling (i.e. the Federation of Fear traveling through half the universe in just a matter of days) could be one. But like the rest have said, Uncle G has managed to fix up a lot of the holes that were there. 

[Rahkshi Lalonde]

pahrak-kal dies in three or four distinct ways.

[The 1st Shadow]

pahrak-kal dies in three or four distinct ways.

Uh, what? Pahrak-Kal's death was always the same, far as I know. Surface burned so hot it just melted through the cave floor and down and down into the Metru Nui dome. From there, we don't really know exactly what happened. Possible that it burned hot enough to go straight through the Silver Sea and through the back of the GSR's head (leaving a little leak) and continued on into the core of Aqua Magna, where it would currently reside.

[Rahkshi Lalonde]

okay "dies" was kinda a poor word to use,

 

but i remember a while back the greg discussion topic was abuzz with the most recent result of the bohrok of plasma melting through the planet, they range from "stuck in a hole" to "burned up" to "clean out the other side of the planet"

 

and none of gregs "assume my prior answer is true" can erase the fact he's said all of those things, and that by nature of author-answers, they become continuity errors.

[The 1st Shadow]

 

but i remember a while back the greg discussion topic was abuzz with the most recent result of the bohrok of plasma melting through the planet, they range from "stuck in a hole" to "burned up" to "clean out the other side of the planet"

 

Not sure why he would have said "clean out the other side of the planet," since gravity and physics and logical thinking dictates otherwise.

 

Why aren't the other two mutually inclusive? It would have burned a hole into the planet, gotten stuck there due to the aforementioned forces of physics and nature, and then burned up if it had enough power to do so. There's no reason to say he wasn't separately describing different aspects of its death.

[Rahkshi Lalonde]

 

 

but i remember a while back the greg discussion topic was abuzz with the most recent result of the bohrok of plasma melting through the planet, they range from "stuck in a hole" to "burned up" to "clean out the other side of the planet"

 

Not sure why he would have said "clean out the other side of the planet," since gravity and physics and logical thinking dictates otherwise.

 

Why aren't the other two mutually inclusive? It would have burned a hole into the planet, gotten stuck there due to the aforementioned forces of physics and nature, and then burned up if it had enough power to do so. There's no reason to say he wasn't separately describing different aspects of its death.

 

 

If that's true, he's doing his job in the must infuriatingly cryptic way possible. :t

[The 1st Shadow]

 

 

 

but i remember a while back the greg discussion topic was abuzz with the most recent result of the bohrok of plasma melting through the planet, they range from "stuck in a hole" to "burned up" to "clean out the other side of the planet"

 

Not sure why he would have said "clean out the other side of the planet," since gravity and physics and logical thinking dictates otherwise.

 

Why aren't the other two mutually inclusive? It would have burned a hole into the planet, gotten stuck there due to the aforementioned forces of physics and nature, and then burned up if it had enough power to do so. There's no reason to say he wasn't separately describing different aspects of its death.

 

 

If that's true, he's doing his job in the must infuriatingly cryptic way possible. :t

 

Depends on the question asked.

[fishers64]

Welp, if we're going that direction, we could say that Greg's retconning of Aqua and Bota Magna being moons of Bara Magna could fall under this. 

 

I'm Greg the Author,

And I can make physics work the way I want it to,

But sometimes fans don't like it,

And get real frustrated,

But I can make physics work the way I want it to. 

Edited August 5, 2015 by fishers64

[MrSciFiGuy]

To me there are just little things that were just generally overlooked by fans in the early years because Bionicle grew into something so much more. So mainly things in the first books or so

[kathy]

To me there are just little things that were just generally overlooked by fans in the early years because Bionicle grew into something so much more. So mainly things in the first books or so

Such as?

[believe victims]

I seem to remember something about the Red Star's prophecies not actually being part of the Red Star (I believe the canon explanation is that the Turaga came up with them and matched them up with positions of the Red Star, but correct me if I'm wrong), which results in some continuity errors when the Red Star's position predicts something the Turaga could not possibly know (i.e. when Makuta would wake the Bohrok)

 

The problem is, with Bionicle smattered across all kinds of media, and the ease of direct access to its most visible writer, it's taken on a weird kind of canon where there can't be a such thing as a continuity error. Going completely straightforward, like TFWiki does, any contradiction between two forms of media is technically a continuity error, but because Bionicle canon has openly declared swaths of media to be non-canon, it's become an item separate from that media, into a nebulous thing that can resolve all such errors with a quick answer declaring the offending event non-canon.

[northmarch]

A bit trivial but a lot of dialog in scenes that overlap different media is inconsistent and neither can be named as superior cannon as each each references/discusses things the other ignores or vice verca.