Branching of Sequals/Prequels/Sidequels

[T Hedge Coke]

How do you feel about movies/shows that branch off from a source show/movie but also ignore other spinoffs or connected material? Are you a hardliner for keeping it all in order with a strict chronology/canon, or is it preferable to diverge, to see different people taking different directions from the same source or to pare down the branches sometimes?

The time jump in Laverne and Shirley, as it distanced itself from Happy Days. The weirdness that was the Space Battleship Yamato agreement, for awhile, that one guy got almost all the characters and the other got the ships. The erasure of Sleepaway Camp sequels or Halloween sequels to reset for a return of some talent from the first of those series. Blade Runner's had several different cuts, but it's also got two prequels, now, in essence, between Peoples' Soldier and Scott's Prometheus. Night of the Living Dead spawned two followup strains, the Romero pictures which share less chronology with each other and more a sense of how zombies operate and a strong sociopolitical emphasis, and the Return of the Living Dead franchise, which capitalizes on humor, science gone wrong, and sexy young gals with outre piercings.

[idlewildered]

How do you feel about movies/shows that branch off from a source show/movie but also ignore other spinoffs or connected material? Are you a hardliner for keeping it all in order with a strict chronology/canon, or is it preferable to diverge, to see different people taking different directions from the same source or to pare down the branches sometimes?

The time jump in Laverne and Shirley, as it distanced itself from Happy Days. The weirdness that was the Space Battleship Yamato agreement, for awhile, that one guy got almost all the characters and the other got the ships. The erasure of Sleepaway Camp sequels or Halloween sequels to reset for a return of some talent from the first of those series. Blade Runner's had several different cuts, but it's also got two prequels, now, in essence, between Peoples' Soldier and Scott's Prometheus. Night of the Living Dead spawned two followup strains, the Romero pictures which share less chronology with each other and more a sense of how zombies operate and a strong sociopolitical emphasis, and the Return of the Living Dead franchise, which capitalizes on humor, science gone wrong, and sexy young gals with outre piercings.

Huh? I'm confused.

[T Hedge Coke]

Huh? I'm confused.

Both set themselves up as quiet unofficial prequels, or at least, set in a similar world at an earlier time. It's not particularly necessary to either one, so I assume they did that to be cute, more than anything.

[idlewildered]

Both set themselves up as quiet unofficial prequels, or at least, set in a similar world at an earlier time. It's not particularly necessary to either one, so I assume they did that to be cute, more than anything.

Prometheus was set in the Alien universe. Not Blade Runner.

Unless you're saying that they're the same universe. Which would be interesting...........

[T Hedge Coke]

Prometheus was set in the Alien universe. Not Blade Runner.

Unless you're saying that they're the same universe. Which would be interesting...........

Prometheus has got some of the same companies, and apparently some other background stuff, from Blade Runner. Again, I'm assuming for to be cute more than anything, but you never know.

Peoples flat out states Soldier was set in the same world as Blade Runner, but earlier, and that the use of human machines was enhanced by that connection.

[Simbob4000]

How do you feel about movies/shows that branch off from a source show/movie but also ignore other spinoffs or connected material? Are you a hardliner for keeping it all in order with a strict chronology/canon, or is it preferable to diverge, to see different people taking different directions from the same source or to pare down the branches sometimes?

The time jump in Laverne and Shirley, as it distanced itself from Happy Days. The weirdness that was the Space Battleship Yamato agreement, for awhile, that one guy got almost all the characters and the other got the ships. The erasure of Sleepaway Camp sequels or Halloween sequels to reset for a return of some talent from the first of those series. Blade Runner's had several different cuts, but it's also got two prequels, now, in essence, between Peoples' Soldier and Scott's Prometheus. Night of the Living Dead spawned two followup strains, the Romero pictures which share less chronology with each other and more a sense of how zombies operate and a strong sociopolitical emphasis, and the Return of the Living Dead franchise, which capitalizes on humor, science gone wrong, and sexy young gals with outre piercings.

The Living Dead movies have a few follow up strands. There's the real sequals done by Romero, the Return of the Living Dead movies, Zombi 2 & 3, (Dawn of the Dead was sold as Zombi in some countries) and those had two more that came to the US under the Zombie title, and Day of the Dead 2: Contagium...which is a movie that for awhile is so bad it's good.