On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:16 PM, M-D November <[email protected]> wrote:
> Let's not forget that this is a CARTOON. Reset is always an option. I > mean, how many times have Parker & Stone killed Kenny over the years? > I'll try to avoid spoilering here, but I was thinking of something this morning. In any cartoon universe, the creators get to build whatever rules they'd like regarding the space they developed. But the rules have to remain the rules for the show to effectively function. An example: within the Simpsons universe, as long as you didn't see it, they can do whatever they want (Das Bus's ending comes to mind when the voice over simply announced that they had been rescued by Moe.) If they decide that, for whatever reason, a rule needs to be broken, then the creators need to come up with a really good reason why this rule isn't the case, or else you kinda blow the "agreement". To use your second example, yes: Kenny was killed, but the rules were that Kenny always came back, and thus that was fine. Frequently characters in that show experience what the cause of death was in this case, only they don't die. To suddenly decide that *this* time the outcome was different in my mind doesn't justify it. That, in my mind, is what makes this so damn irritating. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
