Jay Blanc @jayblanc@awoo.space

Ontologically speaking, Smurfs may well be groups of blue men, but they are not the same thing as Blue Men Groups.

Do you ever think that if 'My Mother the Car' had been first broadcast after the Internet was a thing, there's be Carsonas and Carthromorph conventions?

I just want to know how sad lizard was recruited into the MI6 Sniper training program.

It makes me sad that more people have not seen At Home With Amy Sedaris.

Ordering a vegan-chikin-sandwich because I might not be able to do much to make the world better today, but at least I can spite Piers Morgan.

Can I coin the phrase 'Broducers' for the Privileged White Males who somehow get a successful Franchise property, and are then allowed drive it into the ground because they think they have more writing ability than they do. #StarWars #GameofThrones #Sherlock

@ghost_bird

I was a professional actor. That's not our job, unless you just want improv sketches. Keeping a character in our heads is *hard*, and not sustainable. It's the writers job to provide us with the material to base our characterisation on, and the directors job to give us guidance and *direction* on how to shape that characterisation.

@ghost_bird

I do not think Characer Bibles produce homogeneity, as they just write down the core personality of a character. Nor are they immutable, character development over a series leads to addition to their entries in the character bible.

The reason any series needs them, is that sometimes writers/directors get obsessed with working in "twist surprises" into things to make their part of the series an 'event'. This is fine, so long as it actually fits in with the series. It fails flat when it does not, and is outright bad when it's done for the sole purposes of pulling the rug out from under the existing continuity of the series. (See for example "We had to use this out-of-character twist because some people had worked out how Game of Thrones would end.")

I think at some point we need to talk about how the idea that a stand-alone feature-presentation of +90 minutes being the "premier form for visual media" has stunted visual story telling. "Feature Length Movies" are not the be-all and end all of film, let alone visual media.

And how this idea when combined with rigid "auteur theory" prescription of the "Directors Vision" being the only thing that matters, has led Hollywood into a blind alley of repeating the same mistakes over and over in an attempt to turn what should be Serials into Set Pieces.

As an example, imagine for a moment, if instead of being sliced between different Directors with radically different ideas of how it should go, a recent Space Wizard series of movies had been developed as a coherent series. With a character bible, and a forward planned outline.

(Or for that matter, the original trilogy of Space Wizard movies. And no, no one who's a writer really buys that it was conceived as a trilogy, when the middle and last movie have such wildly different characterisation and intents. Sound similar?)

Re: Stars War. I would be happy if they did no more movies, and just TV shows from now on. Because there's a script editor for TV shows.

@spottyfox "Star Wars Rebels" is good, "Star Wars Resistance" is not.

I don't know why, but the notification tab always shows I have 15 new notifications, no matter how many there actually are.

@porsupah @LilFluff@tootplanet.space Alas, all I know about the RWA is from the outside looking at what's happening now.

@LilFluff@tootplanet.space Yes, it is, from back in the LJ days.

Would I be wrong in assuming a cadre of the people who were desperately trying to keep SF&F publishing in the 1950s, decamped to go help drag Romance publishing back to the 1950s?

As they say, catch your eggcorns before they hitch.

Just finished the final episode of Mr.Robot. If you didn't watch Mr.Robot, I certainly recommend it as binge worthy with the benefit of knowing it is not a mystery box show, and they really did have a complete story arc to tell from the start, and a satisfying ending.

After some investigation, I have determined that the new Microsoft Console's name is in roman numerals, and meant to be pronounced TenboTen SeventyOneSeventy Ten.

Imagine what might have happened if the movie producers had gotten confused, and we'd gotten a Horny CGI version of Les Misérables.