On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Mark Hancock <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm yet to watch the new Sherlock. I've been 'kind of' off-grid(ish) for a > few days. > No problem: I've been the exact opposite madly crafting "Wish4[0]"... I'm not sure that I'm going to be as enamoured of the new one as I was the > previous episodes. But we'll see. Sometimes I'm just happy there's an > alternative to X Factor and the like (more of which below). > Sure, understandable. > > One thing I'm trying to explore more in my own [creative/fiction] writing > this year is the idea of jeopardy for characters. What are they risking, > what is at stake for them within the given options. And more importantly > how do those decisions drive them on to either succeed or fail (with > elegance). > ...you had me at "with elegance". Looking forward to immersing myself in whatever you create! > I think that Breaking Bad did this very well, for those that watched it. > Jeopardy has to mount and be layered, if you're going to create a narrative > arc across a whole series or two. Jeopardy can be anything from falling in > love to... deciding to fight the Daleks (Oh to fall in love with a Dalek!) > Now now, be careful what you wish 4...;) > > I recall an interview with Russell T Davies where he said that even X > Factor and the like, had great narrative arcs and the directors/producers > fully understood how to create that gripping drama in each fractal of each > episode. This started with each performance, covered the whole episode and > then of course built across the whole series. There are good guys and bad > guys. Heroes we love and heroes we hate. I always regard these shows with > respect since seeing that interview. There's a lot to be learnt from them > (I hope this doesn't come across as ironic, I really mean it). > Fair enough. Personally I can't stomach reality teev in most forms, but understand what you mean here. > > To me, this is one of the things that differentiates the two showrunners > from each other. I'm not sure Moffat really believes that bad guys are all > that bad (I bet he's mates with Simon Cowell (I knew i'd get ironic > eventually)). And he probably believes that everyone should be a winner in > the end. > I'm not sure just how he conceptualises the Good---Evil Spectrum, or even if he see these ideas in a spectrum format at all... > Not that I've been thinking about all this or anything.... > ;) [Timey-Wimey] Chunks, Mez -- | facebook.com/MezBreezeDesign <http://www.facebook.com/MezBreezeDesign> | twitter.com/MezBreezeDesign | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mez_Breeze
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