#Psequel app function series

Transformers: Beast Wars is an example of a TV series that uses time-travel to serve as both a sequel and prequel to another series (in this case, the original Transformers cartoon). The later installment Escape from the Planet of the Apes served as both a sequel and prequel to the first film. Even though the latter three films depict world events chronologically prior to those of the first two films, the narrative itself is continuous for the main characters, as three apes from the first two films go back in time. Time-travel sequel-prequels can be found in the original Planet of the Apes series. Examples of arguable soft-reboot prequels include Star Trek, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and Terminator Genisys. Time-travel often results in a work being considered both a prequel and a sequel, or both a prequel and a 'soft' reboot, depending on how drastically history is altered. In this sense the film can be regarded as both a 'prequel and a sequel' (i.e., both a prior and a continuing story), and is often referred to in this manner. In the case of The Godfather Part II, the narrative combines elements of a prequel with those of a more generalized sequel by having two intercut narrative strands, one continuing from the first film (the mafia family story under the leadership of Michael Corleone), and one, completely separate, detailing events that precede it (the story of his father Vito Corleone in his youth). Sometimes 'prequel' describes followups where it is not always possible to apply a label defined solely in terms of intertextuality. Likewise, 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a prequel to 1981's Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, in that it is set in 1935, one year before the first film. For example, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) is a prequel to Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) but is only a predecessor of Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) because of the release order. Rather than being a concept distinct from that of a sequel, a prequel still adheres to the general principle of serialization, defined only by its internal chronology and publication order. Delderfield was written as a prequel to the novel Treasure Island. The Adventures of Ben Gunn, a 1956 novel by R. Lewis's children's book, The Magician's Nephew, published in 1955, that explained the creation of Narnia - the subject of Lewis's seven-book series The Chronicles of Narnia, which began with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, published in 1950. The term has since been popularized by the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005). īutch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979) may have introduced the term 'prequel' into the mainstream. The term came into general usage in the 1970s and 1980s. The Cypria, presupposing hearers' acquaintance with the events of the Homeric epic, confined itself to what preceded the Iliad, and thus formed a kind of introduction.Īccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word 'prequel' first appeared in print in 1958 in an article by Anthony Boucher in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, used to describe James Blish's 1956 story They Shall Have Stars, which expanded on the story introduced in his earlier 1955 work, Earthman Come Home. Though the word 'prequel' is of recent origin, works fitting this concept existed long before.

Psequel app function