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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
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What is this film critic saying here?

The word which I can't make out is in the fragment from 0:24 to 0:27: "awkwardly [word?] new ideas into a narrative"

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retconning (I had to google it by sound. ) "transitive verb [ with object ] Revise (an aspect of a fictional work) retrospectively, typically by introducing a piece of new information that imposes a different interpretation on previously described events. com/words-at-play/retcon-history-and-meaning )

  • retconning (I had to google it by sound.
  • ) "transitive verb [ with object ] Revise (an aspect of a fictional work) retrospectively, typically by introducing a piece of new information that imposes a different interpretation on previously described events.
  • com/words-at-play/retcon-history-and-meaning )
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retconning (I had to google it by sound. I'd never heard it before.)

"transitive verb [ with object ] Revise (an aspect of a fictional work) retrospectively, typically by introducing a piece of new information that imposes a different interpretation on previously described events.

‘I think fans get more upset when characters act blatantly out of established type, or when things get

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