MekaGojira3k wrote:No, it's not what the creators had in mind but creator intent only goes so far when discussing stuff like that.
True. Post-Modernism FTW! The creators' intent is often the least important thing to consider. :p
MekaGojira3k wrote:I get the puzzlement at assuming it's stronger and more rock-solid, but I don't really think there's anything crazy with somebody saying that the Showa era has a sort of vague continuity that makes use of some of the other Toho films (or some version of them).
Well, yeah, there's nothing crazy because that's what's going on!
Maybe I came off a little too harsh in the OP, because it's not like there's zero continuity going on or that the films
can't be placed on a single timelime. It's just that, like the James Bond films, there's not a whole lot connecting the Showa films together and it's just as easy to imagine a series of smaller independent timelines as there is to imagine a single grand one.