Skyward Sword story inconsistencies (SPOILERS!)

[Mr Khan]

fordy said:

Soleron said:

fordy said:

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And by the way, the King sounds even more evil than Ganondorf in that scene. Surely he could have just purged Hyrule of evil and let the water subside...

He knew he was living in a doomed timeline for Hyrule. It wasn't 'meant to be' restored, I think.

The official timeline is really stupid. Letting the player fill in the gaps himself is part of the Zelda's rich worldbuilding. Or at least rich worldbuilding prior to 2006.

I see it in a similar universe to Star Wars. There have been a lot of novels made based in different eras of the Star Wars universe, and they usually get the fans to attempt to explain where they fit into the timeline in their own representation.

I wouldn't say Skyward Sword's story was bad because of this. In fact, I can see another potential story based in the past where the godess Hylia imprisons Demise. It might give some insight into how Demise got such power much like how Ocarina of Time told the story of the point where Ganondorf stole the Triforce of Power.

Star Wars Expanded Universe is a bad example. They are rather meticulous about maintaining continuity (at least until the prequels came along and fucked a few things up. Like the foundation of the Republic being at 25,000 BBY, but then in episode II Palpatine mentions the republic that stood for a thousand years, and so in comes the New Sith Wars and the Ruusan Reformation to reset the clock on that).