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Current Talk '03 II / Re:FAVE Magazine
« on: November 28, 2003, 08:58:46 PM »The problem I have with the movie hods is character development, there isn't any. It's a problem that the writers of the movie probably faced when writing it. It would have been a daunting task of putting the complexities of these characters from the show into a 2 hour movie.
Well, granted there was nowhere near the level of character development that the luxury of soap plotting allowed, but the script does actually contain several scenes or snippets of scenes that would have helped to flesh out the characters (not to mention simply explain their relationships to each other). But the sad fact is that DC not only chose not to include them in the final edit of the film - many of them weren't even shot!
Another thing is that DC loved the '60s Hammer vampire films, and he'd pretty much decided to pattern hoDS after them. I love the huge level of blood and gore (not to mention raw sexuality) of the Hammer films too - but they're about as much removed from the world of DS as the Annette Funicello/Frankie Avalon beach movies were! (And the really sad thing is that those beach movies probably contain MORE character development than hoDS does! )
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To a lesser degree, as I stated in an earlier post, the writers of the new series (if it gets off the ground) will also have a difficult time with character development because the show will unfold weekly instead of daily.
Fans can say what they will about it, but I honestly think the '91 series did pretty well when it came to character development. Certainly they packed in about as much as the dizzying pacing of network nighttime TV seems to allow for these days...