User blog comment:Kish Can/Are they even mentioning TDI and TDA now?/@comment-25297892-20160304170254

Do mentions implies the use of flashbacks in order to remind fans what events they're talking about (also, consider there are many fans that started from TDAS and never watched TDI yet). Considering that TD usually tends to screw up with continuity I'm very glad they brought back an old friendship like Noah and Owen (instead of tossing it away as they have done with Gwen and Bridgette, Noah and Izzy, Geoff and DJ, exc..) showing so that the first generation is still regarded in at least some of the most prominent friendships seen in first 3 seasons without making them forced or flanderized (Gwen and Courtney IS the ultimate example). Geoff mentioned Bridgette, too. Poor mentions, I agree, but there were only 3 returnees this time and Dudes and Pros never got a single occasion to interact.

About Skatoony, it's a non-sequitur show/spin off that has no links with TD timeline. Otherwise for example we should wonder why Izzy's piratesque ego was never shown in the canon series. (EVEN IF THERE WAS A CHALLENGE SPECIFICALLY PIRATE THEMED IN SEASON 1). Noah in Skatoony was a bit different than in canon: more sassy and active...until he passed out for brain tiredom.

Writers have serious issues to follow continuity with big plots, how should they be supposed to handle minor details of continuity? EX: in RR episode 11 Noah says he will quits on Emma, episode 13 he's back in love her as nothing happened.