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[[File:Discontinuity.jpg|link=Doctor Who|frame|"Will it stop, Doctor? The [[Fan Wank]], will it stop?" ]]
You've already watched the show, but there are just some things you wish you could have ''un''watched. [[Live
▲You've already watched the show, but there are just some things you wish you could have ''un''watched. Live Action TV fandom Discontinuity lies ahead. Proceed with caution.
'''Note:''' Do not post examples of personal discontinuity. Examples should only be of groups of fandoms.
== ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' ==
▲* Many fans of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' are notorious for this, seeing as how many fan theories of future events were thrown out the window by the premiere of a new season, hence the term [[Jossed]], there are a few moments that just about everybody likes to forget.
▲** Most fanfic (particularly the slash) will ignore that Spike said (and was later confirmed) to have been sired by Drusilla and NOT Angelus. To be fair this theory seemed canon for several seasons until clarified and, as many point out, [[The Ophelia|Drusilla was hardly in a fit state of mind to raise a child herself]] so Angelus probally did a lot of it.
▲** Most fans say that Willow's romantic relationships ended after {{spoiler|Tara was murdered by Warren}}, so that Willow seeing Kennedy, the series [[Scrappy]], never happened. Kennedy was widely hated for her unlikeable personality, which was made up entirely of trying to get Willow into bed, her shallow character, and terrible acting.
▲*** On a related note, many fans of Willow prefer to ignore {{spoiler|Tara's murder}} all together.
▲*** Others ignore the fact that Oz and Willow ever broke up.
▲** A segment of fans zealous enough to call themselves "most" also prefer to ignore the majority of the events of Season 4. Which featured the [[The Scrappy|highly loathed initiative,]] [[Replacement Scrappy|a new boyfriend for Buffy, ill received by fans]] [[Boring Invincible Villain|and the equally loathed Frankenstein Monster, Adam.]] Even those who don't ignore the events of Season 4 tend to ignore the episode "Beer Bad," which is easy, since it has no bearing on the overarching plot, and is generaly regarded as the worst episode in the series.
▲*** Strangely enough, Season 4 is also noted for [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|the episode "Hush," widely regarded as not just the best ''Buffy'' episode, but one of the greatest moments in TV history.]]
▲** Some viewers dismiss [[Seasonal Rot|all of seasons 6 and 7]], except for a few outstanding episodes. Debate rages as to whether it's worth junking stuff like the "Smashed"/"Wrecked"/"Gone" trilogy, "Hell's Bells," "Empty Places," "Doublemeat Palace," and the ridiculously polarizing "Lies My Parents Told Me" if it means losing "Tabula Rasa," "Conversations With Dead People," and the legendary "Once More With Feeling."
▲*** This particular break in continuity is particularly easy to rationalize because the show switched networks between the fifth and sixth seasons {{spoiler|and, in-universe, Buffy died in the season 5 finale.}}
▲** Others ignore anything past Season 3.
▲** Some fans, especially since the begining of the penultimate arc, consider the Season 8 comic-book as non canon. Officially, even if it is a comic, it is canon because it is outlined, and in some parts written, by [[Joss Whedon]] himself.
▲** In a related instance, after {{spoiler|Angel was revealed to be Twilight,}} many fans concluded that any of IDW's Angel comics after ''After The Fall'' (which was outlined, but not written, by Whedon) were non-canon. IDW says it considers them canon cause they are approved by [[Mutant Enemy]] and Fox. Think of that what you will.
== Other works ==
* There are two things most fans of ''[[The Shield]]'' would like to forget: the second-season flashback episode "Co-Pilot" (which was made solely to pad the season while the makeup crew figured out how to do facial scarring for one of the characters) and a scene where Dutch Wagenbach strangles a cat to death after being told by a serial killer that he didn't know what it was like to see the life drain out of a living creature. The latter example was later officially disregarded in season three when Dutch adopts a stray cat, remarking that it's nice to have an animal companion for a change.
* The majority of [[Mr. Bean]] fans reject the animated series, due to half the episodes being utterly, ''utterly'' ridiculous (far more than the beloved live action version, which has [[Rowan Atkinson]] and his excellent physical comedy to make it work), as well as the reveal that Bean himself is in fact a member of a species of aliens who are all identical to him.
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** Most ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' fans, particularly those fond of Trip, dismiss the events of the last episode, a decision made easier by the fact it was presented as a holodeck reconstruction many centuries later. The novel ''The Good That Men Do'' is [[Author's Saving Throw|devoted to doing just that]] by claiming the events we saw were a revisionist history. It's not just the fans, however. Even ''actors'' (primarily Connor "Trip" Trinneer) from the series prefer to pretend that episode never happened. But then, it ''was'' their own hard work over the last four years that was being insulted by such a terrible finale, so it's no wonder they'd hate it. Even many of those who didn't particularly like Trip consider the two-parter "Terra Prime" (arguably the series' best episodes) the series' true final episodes. (Except ''possibly'' for Archer's speech and the narration that combines Archer's, Kirk's, and Picard's versions of the famous "Space... the final frontier" opening. Maybe. If they are feeling particularly generous.)
** Even the [[Star Trek: The Original Series|original series]] had several episodes (mostly in the third season) that fans consider non-canon. "[[Star Trek/Recap/S3/E01 Spock's Brain|Spock's Brain]]" specifically is almost universally condemned to non-existence. However Vulcan biology works, it shouldn't work that way.
** ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' fans sometimes throw out Season Seven, as so much of what happens (magic books? Dukat posing as a Bajoran to get in Winn's robes?) is considered [[Seasonal Rot|significantly lower in quality]] than the previous six seasons. Other fans might be okay with most of season 7, but would like to pretend that pretty much every Ferengi episode in the series besides [[
* The seventh season of ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', the first one written entirely without the influence of both Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. For instance, ''Ouroboros'', which reintroduced {{spoiler|a Kochanski from a parallel universe, who has a baby by Lister, who then convinces her to leave it in a box under the pool table where he was abandoned, as per his [[Backstory]], making Lister into his own father}}. Worst of all, it wasn't ''funny''.
** Others refuse to acknowledge anything after the fifth season. They're willing to discard "Gunmen of the Apocalypse," almost universally loved, as the unfortunate cost of abandoning the last three seasons.
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