Originally Posted by
Tiamatty
Yeah, let's not do that. Ever. Or anything even remotely like it.
There's no need to do it. Continuity's only a problem to people who want it to be a problem. For everyone else, anything they don't like, they ignore. If something makes no sense, they shrug and move on. And it's not like things are actually all that difficult to understand anyway.
I'll use, as an example, one of the more notoriously convoluted things out there: The Summers family tree. You've got Scott and Alex, of course. And Vulcan, but nobody cares about him. Scott married a clone of Jean Grey, and they had a son, Nathan. Nathan was raised in the future, and grew up to be Cable. In an alternate reality, Scott and Jean had a daughter, Rachel. And . . . that's pretty much it. There's an alternate-reality version of Cable out there. There's a clone of Cable. But, honestly, the whole family tree can be summed up in about 5 sentences. That's really not that complicated, no matter how fun it is to joke about how convoluted it is.
There is pretty much nothing that can't be explained, simply and effectively, in just a few sentences.
If people are turned away because they feel intimidated by thick continuity, then truthfully, I think that's on us. That's on comic book fans. Because there's a lot of comic book fans who talk up the complexities of continuity. If people are turned away, that means we're not making enough of an effort to make it clear to them that it's really not that tough to follow along with what's happening.
A reboot isn't necessary, and I would argue it's not a good idea. In the name of simplifying things, you actually end up making them more complicated, because then you have to figure out what's still canon and what's not.