I actually agree with you Mr. Gordo, and Digfic writer too for that matter.
Ordinarily when you're talking about continuity in respect to the continuity guy you're talking about hard, black and white facts like Buffy is wearing high heels in the house, but she's wearing sneakers when she walks out the door, and yes Season 7 has those too.
123. Lessons
When Buffy tries to stop the spirit from killing Dawn, Dawn says "thanks sis", but when they get out of the basement Carlos says she's the coolest mom.
When Buffy arrives to Dawn in the basement she is wearing heels. When she is fighting the ghosts she has brown trainers on.
125. Same Time, Same Place
Buffy and Dawn's shirts were torn by Gnarl. Later in the episode they have no holes in their shirts.
Dawn is supposed to be paralyzed, but if you notice while she's lying down on the couch with Xander at her side, her head keeps changing positions between the differing camera angles.
126. Help
In the scene where Buffy talks to the Principal after meeting Cassie, either her shirts neckline or her necklace changes length and then changes back while she's talking.
When Cassie falls down, her head is upright, looking up at the ceiling, in the next scene her head is towards Buffy and then up again towards the ceiling.
When talking to Cassie in the library, Dawn's hair is straight. When she gets home and talks to Buffy, Xander and Willlow at the house, she has sections that have been curled.
But it's like you say these kinds of things aren't really a problem until they become so obvious, they make it difficult to suspend disbelief. If you choose to make such things a problem in spite of that, you're just nit-picking, as you say.
On the other hand there's a point where we disagree. I believe storyline continuity, and character continuity does exist. I could Google the terms for you, if you like. In fact I had nothing better to do, so I did. Here's one I thought was interesting:
... Research and caring about continuity to the extent that the character meets the
readers' expectations is the very least we need from creators
(actually that quote is taken out of context, but there is other stuff in the article about actual continuity of character, and it sounded so good the way I clipped it, I had to use it)
At what point do you call a storyline or character continuity problem an error though? It's subjective. Consider this one,
In the early seasons it was established that Willow was a major computer nerd. She tracked down Billy in "Lie to Me" without the use of fancy search engines and in "Ted" she was giddy over new computer upgrades. It seems odd that now the only thing she seems capable of using is Google. Which, unless you have a website that's your name, doesn't seem like it could provide a lot of personal information.
Is that an error? Not really. Apparently it does bother at least one person though. So if it bothers that person it's an error to him. I'm pretty sure when this thread was posted that's what the poster had in mind; problems in storyline or character continuity that bother you.
And yes stuff like this can bother you to the point it makes it difficult to suspend disbelief.
Personally I'm one of those who doesn't enjoy episodes like Him or Empty Spaces, because very little about them makes sense to me in respect to what I believe I know in respect to the characters, the Season 7 storyline, or Series Canon. For me there are flaws in either character, storyline, or series continuity. Someone else might watch those episodes and have no probems with the stuff that bothers me. For him there are no problems. Nevertheless for me there are, and I think that's all the poster of this thread was saying - "Stuff like that bothers me. Does it bother you?"
