Goes By Too Fast - Not

There’s a lot of funny stuff in the “it will go by too fast, one time, no one will ever notice” category from the days before home players, before re-runs, and when movies only came around once. Or, recent but just sloppy works.

Is it kind-of similar with “continuity” in a long-running series. You’d think nobody would notice or care that you got some minor character’s home planet’s name “wrong,” but noooooo….

We can cut some slack for interrupting our suspension of disbelief. (Your “I get it” point about not really wrecking vintage cars, for example.) The more realistic the medium, the less so, though. We’d not get much put off by a prop failure in a live stage performance, but in film, it would be a real speed bump: Star Trek, Amok Time? or some other episode, fight scene, the stand-in was so obviously not Shatner one wondered, “who’s that guy? where’d he come from? where’d Kirk go?” :D