I just see it being a fun nod given both properties were Miramax. I don't think it was meant to place the movies in the same universe. I'm choosing to not overthink it by believing they're separate universes and that sometimes an Easter egg is just an Easter egg.
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An easter egg to me is a fun nod, like dialogue about some random movie or an item from something else.
Characters crossing over is harder to explain because there's more to it. The people behind the movie thought about them as Jay and Silent Bob. They are 100% Jay and Silent Bob. The dialogue calls them this and the credits call them this.
If it was just Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes playing similar characters, then that's the kind of easter egg that I'd get. It's the fact they're the exact same characters that makes it harder to excuse. "Logically" they should be the same. Maybe they aren't. I just don't get that implication from Scream 3 when they go out of their way to make it clear it's the same characters.
Characters crossing over is harder to explain because there's more to it. The people behind the movie thought about them as Jay and Silent Bob. They are 100% Jay and Silent Bob. The dialogue calls them this and the credits call them this.
If it was just Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes playing similar characters, then that's the kind of easter egg that I'd get. It's the fact they're the exact same characters that makes it harder to excuse. "Logically" they should be the same. Maybe they aren't. I just don't get that implication from Scream 3 when they go out of their way to make it clear it's the same characters.
I'm not arguing they weren't intended to be Jay and Silent Bob. The T-1000 appears in Wayne's World holding up a picture of John Connor and that doesn't make me believe Wayne's World is in the Terminator timeline.
Given Wes's cameo in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, I think it's just something fun the directors did with each other given both films were Miramax, if you want to treat it as the same universe, that's fine. I just don't think it was meant to be taken seriously.
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Wayne's World exists in a universe where there's apparently self-mending jeans and dinosaurs, as seen in the second film. It's just a comedy where random stupid stuff happens, while Scream is a fairly serious film series throwing aside the meta humour. The View Askew series is actually interesting because they're mostly comedies set in a realistic world, although it can get very silly and meta in some stories such as Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Kevin Smith actually endorsed Zack and Miri and True North as canon too, and they're not part of the View Askewniverse series.
Also, nothing in that scene tells us he's playing the same character except maybe the credits and even if he was, then Terminator is a time travel franchise where there's a ridiculous amount of offshoot realities. In other words, Wayne's World doesn't have to be part of any Terminator timeline in order for that to be the T-1000. That was also Robby Koch in the picture, so technically not John Connor.
I'd say it's a toss-up. I see it as more of a Detective Clarkin in Annabelle/Wolves at the Door or Father Parez in Annabelle/The Curse of La Llorona (TCoLL is technically not an instalment of The Conjuring even though it's canon), rather than the T-1000 in Wayne's World or Last Action Hero.
Schrödinger's canon.
Also, nothing in that scene tells us he's playing the same character except maybe the credits and even if he was, then Terminator is a time travel franchise where there's a ridiculous amount of offshoot realities. In other words, Wayne's World doesn't have to be part of any Terminator timeline in order for that to be the T-1000. That was also Robby Koch in the picture, so technically not John Connor.
I'd say it's a toss-up. I see it as more of a Detective Clarkin in Annabelle/Wolves at the Door or Father Parez in Annabelle/The Curse of La Llorona (TCoLL is technically not an instalment of The Conjuring even though it's canon), rather than the T-1000 in Wayne's World or Last Action Hero.
Schrödinger's canon.
See Zach And Miri I understand given Smith also directed it (Isn't Justin Long playing the same character in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot too?). I just personally dont'see the Scream universe as a part of the View Askew universe simply because characters make a small insignificant cameo done for a gag. I think it simply came down to both being Miramax properties with Craven giving them a cameo in Scream 3 and them returning the favor by giving him a cameo in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.Wayne's World exists in a universe where there's apparently self-mending jeans and dinosaurs, as seen in the second film. It's just a comedy where random stupid stuff happens, while Scream is a fairly serious film series throwing aside the meta humour. The View Askew series is actually interesting because they're mostly comedies set in a realistic world, although it can get very silly and meta in some stories such as Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Kevin Smith actually endorsed Zack and Miri and True North as canon too, and they're not part of the View Askewniverse series.
Also, nothing in that scene tells us he's playing the same character except maybe the credits and even if he was, then Terminator is a time travel franchise where there's a ridiculous amount of offshoot realities. In other words, Wayne's World doesn't have to be part of any Terminator timeline in order for that to be the T-1000. That was also Robby Koch in the picture, so technically not John Connor.
I'd say it's a toss-up. I see it as more of a Detective Clarkin in Annabelle/Wolves at the Door or Father Parez in Annabelle/The Curse of La Llorona (TCoLL is technically not an instalment of The Conjuring even though it's canon), rather than the T-1000 in Wayne's World or Last Action Hero.
Schrödinger's canon.
I just don't think they put any thought into it being a confirmation or ramifications of it saying they're the same universe. The characters of Jay and Silent Bob can exist in the Scream universe, without it meaning it's a shared universe with the View Askew films.
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Where would Drawing Flies be placed if you were to put it in this timeline? Me and a buddy are about to do a watchthrough and decided to throw that movie in the mix as well
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Probably before Scream.
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Dead by Daylight's Ghostface lore references "The Miner" as an in-universe killer. If we take that as a reference to My Bloody Valentine, that has/is getting a crossover with Silent Night, Deadly Night. You can essentially add those as part of the View Anskew canon, depending on how much you include and consider personally canon.
