turq, about formulaic series, I'm old enough to have seen several in the crime team genre: Blue Moon, Remington Steele come to mind. What I enjoy is seeing how the formula itself has evolved. It's as if with each new artist or group of artists, the formula itself gets transformed in some essential way. Subsequent series must at least meet the new level or get axed. Just my opinion but I like it!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > Ok, turq, here's a question for you: what goes to battle > with ego? There is rarely a *need* for "battle" if there are no egos involved. > Being? Truth? Love? I don't think so. Other egos? Hmmm... > I'd guess yes. But that's just my opinion. > > Once again I don't understand why you get so het up > about people having and sharing opinions. It's what we > all do. Especially after we've survived our midlife crisis! I have no issue at all with people having opinions. It's when they try to present them as something *other than* opinion -- as "truth," or worse, as some kind of cosmic "Truth" -- that I cry bullshit. > I think most people share opinions for the purpose of > benefiting others. And *that* is ego. Believing that your opinion is so cool or so "right" or so "Truth-y" that sharing it will "benefit" others. > If they're misguided in that, well, there's obviously a > learning curve involved. And maybe wanting to benefit > others is the last stronghold of the ego. Hmmm... Certainly believing that their opinion has the *ability* to "benefit" others is one of the last strongholds of ego. > And really, if you added up all your writing online, I > bet you'd get close to 500 pages (-: But -- unlike some here -- I neither expect people to read what I post, or throw hissy-fits when others don't. Some here actually throw tantrums when people don't *respond* to what they've written. :-) > About character development, I'm making my way > through the 5 previous seasons of Castle and it's so > gratifying to watch the unfolding of all the different > characters. But of course especially Castle and Beckett > as they realize their love for each other more and more. It's a completely formulaic series, but its strength is in the actors, and the way they "fill out" the characters as written. Nathan is a tour de force in this regard, no matter what he's in, but Stana Katic is pretty good at being interesting, too.
