Big Time Jumps
An effective way to tell a story with new characters without angering the audience for ditching the old.

I’m watching a random episode of Gatekeepers 21. I’m watching characters almost completely unrelated to the original cast. They’re somehow related to the old cast, the cast I knew, the cast I grew up on and grew to love. The series drops scattered little pieces of information regarding the original cast…but all they do is raise more questions. The questions are never answered through the entire series…doing so would ruin most of the fun and mystery

Examples:
Beverly Hills 90210 (20-30 years?)
Gate Keepers and Gate Keepers 21 (31 years)

Small Time Jumps
The characters from the original series are still the focus but they skip development or uneventful times…the story post time jump sometimes goes back to the period of that short time jump to fill in some blanks (Naruto, Battlestar Galactica, Flash Forward) and sometimes don’t at all (Digimon, Death Note, Gundam Seed, Dragon Ball).

Examples:
Naruto and Naruto Shippuuden – 2 years
Digimon Season 1 and 2 – ?
One Tree Hill – 4 years
Sky’s Content – 2 years
Death Note – 6 years
Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny – 2 years
Battlestar Galactica – 1 year
Dragon Ball Z – 10 years
Flash Forward

If I were to write a story…
….I’d probably throw in a time jump in there. There’s so much mystery you can add, so much you can do without explaining every little detail. You can go back and only explain the important parts, the interesting parts. Seems like it would be a lot of fun…

Gate Keepers discussion…again
I’ve talked about Gate Keepers for 3/4 of the last posts -_-;
I’m personally peeved at how many unanswered questions were in GK21…now, I know there were 3 series, Gate Keepers taking place in 1969, GK21 in 2001 and GK1985 – a novel which was never published and I can’t seem to even get a synopsis anywhere…there are so many questions in that world that I’ll probably never know :(
So frustrating… >:(

I really like how the eyes are done, for any character that can open a gate, they’re perfectly circle….I love when the gate appears in their eyes and the sound that accompanies it…like some kinda deep vaccuum. Thinking about ocular movement, the gate in the eyes reminds me of the sharingan…but the gate keepers thing is better. there are 2 rings…and it lights up :)