At Number 4 on my top ten pet hates for Fame is Continuity errors:
I guess it’s wasn’t easy trying to create a show like Fame in seven working days especially when on the whole there are 20 odd episodes per season. On top of that there were albums to promote and concert tours too. However, for life long fans like me some of the problems with continuity are more than frustrating.
I believe Fame like most TV shows had a file on all the characters referred to as the Bible, which would detail their family relationships, likes, dislikes, all those little details to help people new to the show understand. However, people either didn’t refer to it or it wasn’t kept up to date and so lots of little things were missed.
I guess it’s wasn’t easy trying to create a show like Fame in seven working days especially when on the whole there are 20 odd episodes per season. On top of that there were albums to promote and concert tours too. However, for life long fans like me some of the problems with continuity are more than frustrating.
I believe Fame like most TV shows had a file on all the characters referred to as the Bible, which would detail their family relationships, likes, dislikes, all those little details to help people new to the show understand. However, people either didn’t refer to it or it wasn’t kept up to date and so lots of little things were missed.
I always find it incredible that either a writer or a producer or a cast member wouldn’t realise a mistake had been made. Like in “A Way of Winning” Danny makes an excuse from doing something because he has to baby sit his brother. Then only 2 episodes later in “Sheer Will” we discover Danny’s brother died.
I guess continuity errors in different seasons are slightly more forgivable but when they are just a few episodes apart I do feel it is bad writing. I suppose sometimes they had to change small details to make stories work; like in “Heritage” we discover Doris’ mother isn’t Jewish she’s Italian! Although in season 2 her Mother is played by Nancy Walker and she appears to be very Jewish.
A Lot of the mistakes that were made were to do with Family members and past relationships that would conveniently change but there was a lot of other stuff too; like when Doris is allergic to Dogs in Season 1, when only a dog previously being in a room would set he off sneezing. This was all forgotten by Season 2 when she caries Toto around with her in “Not In Kansas Anymore”.
Also it was always so difficult know how old the kids were supposed to be and how long they’d been in school and how much time was supposed to have passed in a season.
To me it’s the little things that make a show and I really wish the writers on Fame had taken a little more care with things.
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