narasith
crosser of fallen logs
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Post by narasith on Sept 16, 2019 1:51:39 GMT -6
I am really confused by the details in the game. The game setting was in 1996. There is an explicit reference in the first film. However, the sheriff in the game was named Lanning while the sheriff in the film and the mockumentaries was Ron Cravens. It is also stated in the timeline that Craven gave interview in 1999 - 3 years apart from the game. The confusing thing is that if Craven worked on the 3 students case, from 1994 to 1999, where was Lanning? Can there be 2 sheriffs in the same department? Since the game refers to the first film, it cannot set in a different universe like BOS right? The developers said themselves that this game is canon. (Maybe Lanning was a sheriff from a different county, not Burkittsville. Maybe I missed something in the game)
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Post by Tweek on Sept 16, 2019 13:48:05 GMT -6
Yeah, they got that wrong. Or Lanning is from another county. Like you said.
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Post by lilymae325 on Apr 15, 2020 12:49:21 GMT -6
There can only be one Sheriff. The Sheriff is the highest law enforcement officer in their county.
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gator
rock pile disturber
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Post by gator on Oct 9, 2020 22:08:41 GMT -6
County perhaps? Didn't Cravens state that it was in Burkitt County?
Idk law enforcement
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Post by Tweek on Oct 10, 2020 8:17:37 GMT -6
Yeah. They messed this up. They should have made Lanning something other than sheriff. Cravens is alive in the second film which takes place after the game. I hate when storytellers do that. Contradict what has been established previously. Possibly they (Bloober) thought it was a minor item that only uber-fans like us would catch. Casual gamers likely wouldn't question it.
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Post by lilymae325 on Oct 13, 2020 22:06:14 GMT -6
"County perhaps? Didn't Cravens state that it was in Burkitt County?
Idk law enforcement"
Cravens should be the fictional sheriff of Fredrick county, in which Burkittsville is located. But in the second movie when Jeff, Kim, and Stephen are being arrested the sides of the police cars say "Burkitt county"
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Post by The Missing Bear on Sept 25, 2022 16:08:57 GMT -6
OMG glad I'm not alone, thought I was the only one who noticed this.
Not only did BW2 COMPLETELY reinterpret the character of Cravens from a seemingly quite modest and quiet uniform-wearing clean-cut sherif, into a loud-mouth Willie Nelson-esque Frontiersman cowboy (but ok, it's a "re-enactment", so that can be taken with something a grain of salt in how well they recreated the original man), to the 2019 game saying there's a different sherif altogether.
Considering that Curse of the Blair Witch, Shadow of the Blair Witch and Book of Shadows all put so much emphasis on Cravens (characterisations aside), I'm baffled that the game made the clumsy mistake of throwing in a new one. Would have given it a lot more much-needed connection had they named him Cravens in the game.
Literally just seems bizarre that any company, especially an indie one (therefore seemingly doing it out of love and respect rather than corporate intent), would commit to making a Blair Witch game then completely overlook the fact that there was already an established sheriff in both two mockumentaries and (re-characterised, but still the same man) in the first mainstream sequel. Seems like obvious homework?
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