Post by Rusty Master on Nov 11, 2006 20:15:43 GMT -5
I've created this thread for the purposes of discussing and providing solutions for every IDOJ continuity problem that has plagued and worried fans over the years. Feel free to join in.
Let's get the ball rolling with some of the most well-known ones:
Jeannie was trapped in her bottle for 2000 years, yet she knows all these histrorical figures.
Jeannie needs to catch up on what's been happening while she was all couped up in that bottle and so, while Tony's away at work, she's been occupying herself with travelling back in time over the last two thousand years, and meeting some of the those historical figures in the process. And remember, she can spend days, weeks, months, and years in a particular time period, but can still come back to the present at the moment she left.
In an early episode, Jeannie cannot be a film star because she does not come out on film. And in the episode when Jeannie & Tony Nelson get married, Jeannie can not be photographed. Yet two other episodes have her photo appear in a newspaper.
Whether Jeannie comes out on film or photo or not actually depends on the type of film and/or the chemical processes involved. Some work for genies and some don't. Therefore, obviously, the two photos that appeared in newspapers used a different process from the others.
In an early episode, Nelson proposes to Jeannie when he finds out that genies lose their powers if they marry a mortal, yet after Jeannie and Nelson get married for real, Jeannie still has her powers.
Jeannie was deceived by her relatives into thinking this because they did not want her to marry a mortal. In the end, she didn't care; she wanted to marry Tony anyway because she loved him so much and later found out, to her surprise, she'd been lied to.
in the first season it's made clear that "Jeannie" was born a mortal but was turned into a "genie" when she refused to marry the Blue Djinn. Also in the first season, Jeannie has both a mother AND a father and both appear mortal; yet in later episodes, Jeannie's mother, older sister (unseen) brother and nephew, are ALL genies or djinns
The Blue Djinn was very cunning in that regard. She didn't actually get turned into a genie, she was born a genie as were her parents and relatives BUT...the Blue Djin, wanting Jeannie to feel indebted to him enough that she would marry him, put a spell on her to delude her into thinking that he had given her her genie powers, hoping she would fall into his arms and marry him in gratitude but, when it didn't work, he stuffed her in the bottle as punishment. He may have also somehow taken genie powers away from her parents for a while in revenge for being rejected by their daughter OR...they simply weren't using their powers in the first season. Didn't mean they didn't have them though. Anyway, when Jeannie was released from the bottle, she was still under the delusion that the Blue Djiin had given her the powers, but not for too long. The "fresh air" slowly cleared her head over several months.
In an early episode, when Jeannie tries to join the WAFs, she knows when her birthday is, but later on she starts to vanish when she can't recall the date
She didn't really know the date - she made it up on the spot because she was desperate to join the WAF and then work for Tony. However, she wasn't bright enough to come up with a more realistic date closer to our time period, and also when people are put on the spot like that and are under pressure and need to come up with an instant lie, they tend to make mistakes.
In a very early episode, Jeannie alludes to once having a pet lion, which, at Tony's suggestion, she dutifully conjures up without telling Tony it WAS a lion, but later on, she's got that incredibly annoying uniform-shredding dog as her only pet
It's the same pet, she just decided to blink it into a new form. When genies get tired of something, they can do this kind of thing you know.
In one episode, Tony's (apparently widowed) Mother (played by character actress Spring Byington) comes for a visit, which she almost makes permanent when she feels Tony can't look after himself properly, yet during the episode when Jeannie and Tony get married, Tony has BOTH a mother and a father.
"APPARENTLY widowed" is the key phrase here. Actually, Tony's parents were going through a trial seperation. His father had done something bad like being unfathful or somesuch, and this was a very big deal, particularly for that time period. So, on that first visit, they basically didn't want to talk about him and acted as if he was dead. Later, there was forgiveness and reconciliation between them. His parents were back together.
At the beginning of the fifth and final season, when Jeannie and Tony become engaged and marry, they are on the verge of celebrating their FIFTH anniversary as Genie and Master.
Television time sometimes runs at a slightly different pace than real time, don't you know? Why is it, for instance, that 18 months have past between the fourth and fifth season of 24?
Let's get the ball rolling with some of the most well-known ones:
Jeannie was trapped in her bottle for 2000 years, yet she knows all these histrorical figures.
Jeannie needs to catch up on what's been happening while she was all couped up in that bottle and so, while Tony's away at work, she's been occupying herself with travelling back in time over the last two thousand years, and meeting some of the those historical figures in the process. And remember, she can spend days, weeks, months, and years in a particular time period, but can still come back to the present at the moment she left.
In an early episode, Jeannie cannot be a film star because she does not come out on film. And in the episode when Jeannie & Tony Nelson get married, Jeannie can not be photographed. Yet two other episodes have her photo appear in a newspaper.
Whether Jeannie comes out on film or photo or not actually depends on the type of film and/or the chemical processes involved. Some work for genies and some don't. Therefore, obviously, the two photos that appeared in newspapers used a different process from the others.
In an early episode, Nelson proposes to Jeannie when he finds out that genies lose their powers if they marry a mortal, yet after Jeannie and Nelson get married for real, Jeannie still has her powers.
Jeannie was deceived by her relatives into thinking this because they did not want her to marry a mortal. In the end, she didn't care; she wanted to marry Tony anyway because she loved him so much and later found out, to her surprise, she'd been lied to.
in the first season it's made clear that "Jeannie" was born a mortal but was turned into a "genie" when she refused to marry the Blue Djinn. Also in the first season, Jeannie has both a mother AND a father and both appear mortal; yet in later episodes, Jeannie's mother, older sister (unseen) brother and nephew, are ALL genies or djinns
The Blue Djinn was very cunning in that regard. She didn't actually get turned into a genie, she was born a genie as were her parents and relatives BUT...the Blue Djin, wanting Jeannie to feel indebted to him enough that she would marry him, put a spell on her to delude her into thinking that he had given her her genie powers, hoping she would fall into his arms and marry him in gratitude but, when it didn't work, he stuffed her in the bottle as punishment. He may have also somehow taken genie powers away from her parents for a while in revenge for being rejected by their daughter OR...they simply weren't using their powers in the first season. Didn't mean they didn't have them though. Anyway, when Jeannie was released from the bottle, she was still under the delusion that the Blue Djiin had given her the powers, but not for too long. The "fresh air" slowly cleared her head over several months.
In an early episode, when Jeannie tries to join the WAFs, she knows when her birthday is, but later on she starts to vanish when she can't recall the date
She didn't really know the date - she made it up on the spot because she was desperate to join the WAF and then work for Tony. However, she wasn't bright enough to come up with a more realistic date closer to our time period, and also when people are put on the spot like that and are under pressure and need to come up with an instant lie, they tend to make mistakes.
In a very early episode, Jeannie alludes to once having a pet lion, which, at Tony's suggestion, she dutifully conjures up without telling Tony it WAS a lion, but later on, she's got that incredibly annoying uniform-shredding dog as her only pet
It's the same pet, she just decided to blink it into a new form. When genies get tired of something, they can do this kind of thing you know.
In one episode, Tony's (apparently widowed) Mother (played by character actress Spring Byington) comes for a visit, which she almost makes permanent when she feels Tony can't look after himself properly, yet during the episode when Jeannie and Tony get married, Tony has BOTH a mother and a father.
"APPARENTLY widowed" is the key phrase here. Actually, Tony's parents were going through a trial seperation. His father had done something bad like being unfathful or somesuch, and this was a very big deal, particularly for that time period. So, on that first visit, they basically didn't want to talk about him and acted as if he was dead. Later, there was forgiveness and reconciliation between them. His parents were back together.
At the beginning of the fifth and final season, when Jeannie and Tony become engaged and marry, they are on the verge of celebrating their FIFTH anniversary as Genie and Master.
Television time sometimes runs at a slightly different pace than real time, don't you know? Why is it, for instance, that 18 months have past between the fourth and fifth season of 24?
But I think the 'holes' were merely created because the production staff had forgotten about previous refrences or limitation they had placed down. I mean for them the show spanned 5 years, alot to remember. Whereas we see the episodes all in a few weeks. So the mistakes are fresh in our minds. Also producers never like to look at old episodes limitations and references because it limits their freedom in script development. And particular storylines might require certain events to occur or references to be made that are inccorrect. So all the previous ground work just gets ignored. Shame they did that though. More consistant shows help you get more immersed in the story as a whole. 