>>87325223You don't understand, anon.
Familiarity is important. Much more than whatever continuity a company might want to push. I mean, the company is free to try, but the public will still find it strange and probably reject it.
So the key here is to preserve what people know and build on top of it.
For example if Marvel Comics had decided that Peter Parker and Mary Jane had simply gotten a divorce, i doubt people would have complained as much. Because what they know of the couple would be forever preserved. Peter and Mary got together, spend their years happy married and then later divorced.
But Marvel Comics instead had Peter making a deal with a devil and erased Peter and Mary time as a couple, basically saying to the readers that what they've grown up with never existed. That leaves everyone confused and betrayed.
Take Green Arrow and Black Canary. They're always breaking up and going back together with Ollie and Dinah dating other people in between. Nobody complains about their trysts because they know it is a natural thing.
But then DC rebooted things and out of nowhere Ollie and Dinah didn't even knew each other anymore. That was strange.
So that's my point. You take advantage of familiarity, keeping what people know of things in place, and then you build on top of it by adding new shit to it.
