There was this fellow some of you might know, by the name of J.R.R. Tolkien, who said this, among many other noteworthy things, about fictional stories and universes:
'The story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed.'
He knew a bit about storytelling and world building, so I'd take his advice on this any day over that of hacks on FA trying to tell viewers that internal consistency in fictional stories (and especially fantasy) does not matter.
Edited at 2019/01/19 10:02:41
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