Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24732895-20140910035928/@comment-25222572-20140918143141

Paul.rea wrote: Spock had green blood for years without explanation.

Into the trial with two juries, Alicia picked two juries and started the trial in one day. An impossibility on both counts.

Everything you cited is from literature. Where clear world building must allay the readers expectations for a clear understanding of the text. That doesn't apply to visual mediums such as the graphic novel or television because the information is shown and doesn't have to be stated. It is all part of the whole. For instance, Star Wars didn't have to state that Tattooine w is in a bianary star system - they simply showed it. In the later spinoff fiction, authors explained it in a detailed way.

The blood of Spock is another example of this - with the explanation of copper based blood appearing in the spin-off fiction but not in any of the Original Series except maybe "Journey to Babel" but I don't think they explained the copper thing just called it T type or something. Either way, that episode was the way after they showed Spock had green blood without explaining it.

If you're applying literary standards to all of television - there's no hope for you.

As for the Lord of the Rings thing - I'm not a fan but I seem to remember the two old guys, the gray and the white, flying around some big tower thing flinging energy balls at one another. Which reminds me - "kung-fu time," the ability for characters to defy gravity, is a completely visual storytelling feature that, to my knowledge, has never been explained on screen. .....Paul, you wouldn't happen to be referring to Gandalf the Grey and Saruman the White? Who were NOT flying, but....well, I guess the closest thing you could call it would be telekinetically throwing each other around, as opposed to flying. If Gandalf could have flown, trapping him on the top of the Tower of Orthanc would have been pointless, as he could have just jumped off, rather than having to wait for an eagle to come take him away.