Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25867149-20160717162323/@comment-25584850-20160721235904

ElectricFire 169 wrote: I hear ya bruh, I disliked quite a few of the retcons as well. The Cardboard Friend prequel video (and the explanation behind it) just seemed cheap, as if they just did it to get rid of the character. Turning Coolpollo into a Cleopatra clone-wannabe just to make Calculus seem sympathetic, that really annoyed me. And don't get me started on Maloney, there is just too much to list. Frankly it would've been better to just leave him dead instead of just bring him back as some stupid self-parody who dropped pretty much every character facet that made him interesting and was remoulded into an annoying, interfering authority figure whose ultimate purpose was to stick his nose into the main characters' business and try to arrest them. I didn't like what they did with Johnny Toast either, though I guess it's understandable considering. Can't really say I was too annoyed about the Kermit one either.

Couldn't agree with ya more friend. Maloneys death for instance, was so interesting because it's one of the few moments that influenced other episodes. The Higglydigglyögen clones took the mantle of the law, forcing the acachallas to move into maloneys old home, causing them to leave spencer become bitter and vengeful, etc.

The point is that moment (along with others) was so good, because it shifted the balance of the story. Showing us how important one character can be in a subtle if albeit unintentional way. Look at me rambling about YouTube videos like its high art.

I think it's especially hard for us on the wiki when they decide to just randomly change something out of the the blue. Since its our duty to make sense of all this madness, when they put new conflicting info, you half to think about what to do. Do I delete the old info, or can I just ignore this new stuff since its probably not canon anyway! And it's sorta sad having to get rid of the info you put there in the first place. Man I type too much!