Seminars
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each seminar, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
One continuity technique a week, taught from the MCU, the Arrowverse and Ninjago. Each seminar lists the learning outcomes it works towards and the assessment that tests it.
What a Continuity Is
The orientation seminar. What counts as a continuity, the three ways one fails, and a worked audit of the Mandarin.
Week 1 · 24 February 2027
The Bible
The document a writers' room checks before it breaks a story, what goes in one, and what happens when nobody checks it.
Week 2 · 3 March 2027
The Retcon
Change what an earlier scene meant without changing the scene. The cheapest repair in the course, until it isn't.
Week 3 · 10 March 2027
The Soft Reboot
Keep the name and some of the cast. Stop honouring the rest of the continuity, and never say which parts.
Week 4 · 17 March 2027
The Crossover Event
Several series, one event, and the one chance a franchise gets to settle every continuity at once.
Week 5 · 24 March 2027
Spin-off Drift
A spin-off starts with its parent's continuity and a licence to leave it. How far it goes, and whether the bible should stop it.
Week 6 · 14 April 2027
The Multiverse Solution
If two facts cannot both be true, put them in different universes. The repair that fixes everything, and what that costs.
Week 7 · 21 April 2027
Recasting
The character stays and the actor changes. Say nothing, explain it in the story, or refuse to recast at all.
Week 8 · 28 April 2027
Winding Down
Every continuity ends. A planned ending closes the threads that matter. An unplanned one leaves them for the audience to carry.
Week 9 · 5 May 2027
Paracanon
The work that might count. Films and series a franchise has never said yes or no to, and the canon policy that decides.
Week 10 · 12 May 2027
Franchise Fatigue
The point where a continuity asks for more attention than its audience has, and how much canon a year a franchise can sustain.
Week 11 · 19 May 2027
The Stranger Test
The Capstone studio. A stranger's episode meets your bible, and every contradiction is a gap you get to fix.
Week 12 · 26 May 2027