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Wasn't that also the writing process behind Lost? "You'll never guess what's really going on!" "Are they in purgatory?" " Uhhh.... No. No, totally not. "
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The problem is the need to be the smartest person in the universe and seething, frothing contempt for the audience that the creative process requires engaging
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The problem is the need to be the smartest person in the universe and seething, frothing contempt for the audience that the creative process requires engaging But if they don't have a mystery box to keep people engaged, however will they keep the audience tuning in for every episode to find out what's inside? They might actually have to use other things like plot and character development!
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Aug 11, 2020 10:56
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 The "back to school" ad campaign of a Spanish department store. 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:But if they don't have a mystery box to keep people engaged, however will they keep the audience tuning in for every episode to find out what's inside? They might actually have to use other things like plot and character development!
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Elfface posted:Wasn't that also the writing process behind Lost? Rolling with that gave us Life on Mars, so joke's on them.
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Mauser posted:Did she actually name the African school Uagadou? Does that mean it's in Burkina Faso and they teach all their classes in French? Or maybe one of the hundreds of languages in West Africa? You're thinking of Uagadougou, Uagadou was was a kingdom based out what would become Ghana that ruled over most of western Africa. It got kind of mythologized by a British writer turning it into a kinf of African Camelot.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:You're thinking of Uagadougou, Uagadou was was a kingdom based out what would become Ghana that ruled over most of western Africa. It got kind of mythologized by a British writer turning it into a kinf of African Camelot. well given that she just named the japanese one magic place and ran it through google translate I think any artistry at all should be appreciated by the very talented billionaire terf
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Aug 11, 2020 13:27
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I enjoy movies more if I can read the full Wikipedia plot summary first
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Aug 11, 2020 13:37
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I do hear GRRM has among other issues tried so hard to subvert expectations that he's written himself into a corner because he has no idea what to do next and probably can't remember half the plot points by now i don't think it's the case with GRRM, rather i think he just ended up losing control of his own narrative as he indulgently tried to expand the trilogy into a larger epic narrative due to hot sales, then introduced too many characters and plot lines such that the whole story is an unfixable clusterfuck
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Aug 11, 2020 13:45
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Megillah Gorilla posted:So tired of people trying to do this. "Oh no, the infinite monkeys on Reddit guessed the big gimmick, better throw everything into the trash and push out some random garbage." It's especially stupid because we already have a literary tool specifically for dealing with this: the red herring. If your audience has a pretty good guess about what the big upcoming twist that you've been building towards is, then just throw in some misinformation to throw them off. Have them suddenly start going "wait, poo poo, this changes everything" and making new theories. Then by the time you get to the big twist they're thrown off twice over and you don't have to compromise the cool plot you wanted to do. It's incredible that so many writers are more interested in antagonizing their readers than having the confidence to stick to a good narrative they already made
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Aug 11, 2020 13:47
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I can't stop giggling irl This might be avatar potential
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Aug 11, 2020 13:55
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I can't stop giggling irl HAP
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Aug 11, 2020 13:56
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I think this illustrates the teacher's PoV quite nicely. "Lets open up schools until everyone has the 'rona, doesn't matter that we successfully taught entire semester online and there still is no medicine or vaccination against it. Besides it mostly kills and cripples the older people, like teachers so gently caress them".
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Aug 11, 2020 14:03
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I don't know why a song of ice and fire has to be so complicated. Just start writing the final war between the bad guys and the good guys That's what lord of the rings did. Just do that
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Aug 11, 2020 14:06
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Chard posted:in awe of this thick frog's horny energy
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Aug 11, 2020 14:11
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A Feast for Crows and especially A Dance with Dragons really just got to be too much story and locations and characters and it all becomes hazy and when there’s a decade between books most people are gonna forget lots of the little character stuff and just remember the big parts so what should be telling or an important bit of characterization isn’t because who is gonna reread a 800 page book again? Although his last book about the history of Westeros which did nothing to advance the GoT plot was pretty good and the fact he spent time writing it instead of actually finishing the series is funny
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Aug 11, 2020 14:14
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I think he needs to one up everyone's expectations and write a truly crazy twist into it, bigger than Rhaegar + Lyanna, which everyone already knows about (and the show coopted). And my guess is he can't find a way to untangle the huge weave he's created. I have to be honest, I bought the first edition of ADWD, was very excited to read it, and found it utterly boring. Just a ton of boring stuff happening to boring characters I don't care about. Nothing like the first ones.
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Aug 11, 2020 14:24
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GRRM is in his early 70s and morbidly obese. Don't get too attached to the idea that he's going to finish the series.
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It'll be fun to see what Sanderson can do with it once GRRM dies
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ultrafilter posted:GRRM is in his early 70s and morbidly obese. Don't get too attached to the idea that he's going to finish the series. Also i think he has explicitly said there will absilutely not be a Robert Jordan->Brandon Sanderson style handoff when he dies.
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Us Gamers, Huh!
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The twist is that the monsters was us all along
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Aug 11, 2020 15:02
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The last books should just be an extremely faithful novelization of the TV series.
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Johnny Aztec posted:I will, to my dying breath, defend Howard the Duck. It's surprising that the most problematic part of Howard the Duck ended up being Jeffery Jones.
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Aug 11, 2020 15:13
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Moon Slayer posted:The last books should just be an extremely faithful novelization of the TV series. I would read the trash novel version of GoT. Some of my favorite reads as a kid were poo poo like this: 
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I can't stop giggling irl Come eat flies, m’lord
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LifeSunDeath posted:I would read the trash novel version of GoT. Some of my favorite reads as a kid were poo poo like this: Oh man, that brings back memories. I think that author had some hosed up sexual kinks in that series.
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Johnny Aztec posted:I will, to my dying breath, defend Howard the Duck. Howard the Duck brought us HELLCOW so he's cool.  Never seen the movie though.
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Aug 11, 2020 16:17
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Howard and Lea Thompson gently caress.
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Kit Walker posted:It's especially stupid because we already have a literary tool specifically for dealing with this: the red herring. If your audience has a pretty good guess about what the big upcoming twist that you've been building towards is, then just throw in some misinformation to throw them off. Have them suddenly start going "wait, poo poo, this changes everything" and making new theories. Then by the time you get to the big twist they're thrown off twice over and you don't have to compromise the cool plot you wanted to do. It's incredible that so many writers are more interested in antagonizing their readers than having the confidence to stick to a good narrative they already made Peak Agents of SHIELD was great at throwing head-fakes and managed to keep it up for an entire season at one point.
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dialhforhero posted:Howard and Lea Thompson gently caress.  I think I blocked out the sexy parts of this movie...like wtf. Also oddly, her husband IRL is named Howard. wtf.
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LifeSunDeath posted:
What bugs me about the cinematic Howard the Duck is his little human eyes. He somehow manages to look like Harlan Ellison. Seriously, try and unsee it.
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LifeSunDeath posted:
This movie had a topless duck scene. I'm not joking  duck boobs
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I'm disappointed that they didn't keep that design for the MCU. It was the very first feature-length marvel movie, and it was made by the star wars man! Show some loving respect
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RandomFerret posted:I'm disappointed that they didn't keep that design for the MCU. It was the very first feature-length marvel movie The hell it was.  
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