Before i go to bed i wanna say a few word on continuity vs. canon and why they are different.

Canon is basically "here's this thing that happened"

Continuity is taking that canon and building around it to make sure it makes sense to the story/characters you're trying to tell.

Let's say you're watching a western. 2/3rds into the movie it's set some things that are canon such as the setting and the events that occured. Then in the 3rd act they're in a space ship and the characters completely changed with no warning.

The continuity is broken.

When you break continuity, the important piece of storytelling is broken which is the audience's suspension of disbelief. Putting together stuff on the fly with no regards to continuity to the story you are telling can lose you your potential audience.

You cannot be mad if someone pointed out to you that your 3rd act makes no sense because you ignored or changed the canon events that happened before without any build up to it. Without any narrative flow. Canon is one thing, continuity is another.

Night.