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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0765
« on: June 01, 2009, 02:46:48 PM »
The great thing about the "throwaways" (though VW et al probably liked those bits especially as we do) is that they expand the world and story out beyond the claustrophobic confines of these limited 22-minute episodes. In a way they do what people are doing when they put up a huge mirror on the wall in some bar or restaurant or even an apartment. They're creating the illusion of there being twice the space that there really is.
It may seem silly to do that in an apartment because it's not real, but in fiction it's all unreal, so that extra space is just as 'real' and good and valuable as the space you started with. You're squeezing every bit of story that you can out of what you're writing, by getting the viewer to help.
How dare new people come along and try to ditch the previous worldbuilding on a show and start over.... however they may use words such as "reimagining" for it, I think part of it is that the new people in charge can't be bothered to learn the show's history, and buy in to the popular idea that only "geeks" care about that. By the way, the same attitude gets in the way of kids learning in school. god forbid they be accused of being geeks....!
It may seem silly to do that in an apartment because it's not real, but in fiction it's all unreal, so that extra space is just as 'real' and good and valuable as the space you started with. You're squeezing every bit of story that you can out of what you're writing, by getting the viewer to help.
How dare new people come along and try to ditch the previous worldbuilding on a show and start over.... however they may use words such as "reimagining" for it, I think part of it is that the new people in charge can't be bothered to learn the show's history, and buy in to the popular idea that only "geeks" care about that. By the way, the same attitude gets in the way of kids learning in school. god forbid they be accused of being geeks....!