SubJeff on 10/2/2014 at 16:47
Interesting! All the old places are there. Switching the Old and Southquarter positions makes sense with regards to where the docks are.
The Haunted Cathedral and Widow Moria's island, now a sanitarium, are there and this isn't sort-of a sequel?
Renault on 10/2/2014 at 17:30
Have to think with them labeling The Haunted Cathedral that we'll be visiting there. Could be interesting.
FYI, for those who need it, Wikipedia definition of a reboot:
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In serial fiction, to reboot means to discard all continuity in an established series in order to recreate its characters, timeline and backstory from the beginning.
june gloom on 10/2/2014 at 17:31
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Interesting! All the old places are there. Switching the Old and Southquarter positions makes sense with regards to where the docks are.
The Haunted Cathedral and Widow Moria's island, now a sanitarium, are there and this isn't sort-of a sequel?
I'm still not convinced it's not a New 52-style reboot, where they keep a bunch of stuff but change or excise several details. (For example: Prior to the New 52, there were several events in DCU history -- Zero Hour, Our Worlds At War, the three Crisis events, Blackest Night, and so on. When the New 52 reboot happened, Green Lantern just kept going as if nothing happened, but some deep background details were changed -- the three Crisis stories were erased from continuity, but Blackest Night, which was a Green Lantern event that spilled over into the DCU, remained in continuity, it just didn't happen quite the way we originally read it. In other words, the event stays the same, the details change -- sometimes to cover up holes left behind by other events that were removed from the timeline. If that makes sense. It probably doesn't, but you learn to get a feel for how continuity works in comics after a while. An example of that covering up holes is the original Green Lantern Hal Jordan is still written as having once gone insane and murdering several GLs and disbanding the Corps for a while, but it happened immediately after, and as a direct result of, the Death/Return of Superman arc. That arc is no longer in continuity (I think) but somehow the destruction of Jordan's hometown, which led to his rampage, still happened... I think.)
SubJeff on 10/2/2014 at 17:44
Well if you use Wikipedia's definition it most certainly isn't a reboot, and it is most certainly like the comic book continuity you describe dethtoll.
Renault on 10/2/2014 at 18:05
What choo talkin bout Willis....
1. Discard all continuity in an established series. CHECK
2. Recreate its characters, timeline and backstory from the beginning. CHECK
Weasel on 10/2/2014 at 18:13
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What choo talkin bout Willis....
1. Discard all continuity in an established series.
CHECK2. Recreate its characters, timeline and backstory from the
beginning.
CHECKExcept for the word I made red (and maybe some other words as well, we don't know yet)...
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Do we know of any characters being recreated besides Basso? He went from being a boxman to a fence and he seems older. That doesn't mean he's not the same character, as people sometimes do different things at different times in their lives.
Renault on 10/2/2014 at 18:25
We know enough about the "beginning" - TDP mentions that Garrett has "no parents, no home." The new Thief app also mentions that Garrett was an orphan. These two beginnings are identical, but that doesn't preclude it from being a reboot. In a reboot you can have both similar and completely different events at different points along the timeline. The slate is clean, you can do whatever you want, with no obligations from prior entries in the series.
Weasel on 10/2/2014 at 18:29
My point is that the story isn't starting over at the beginning.