Re: No LOST 3/27?
- From: WQ <wq@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:53:57 -0700 (PDT)
On Mar 31, 3:18 pm, khalle...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 31, 9:39 am, WQ <w...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 31, 11:23 am, khalle...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 28, 7:12 am, WQ <w...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 27, 1:19 pm, khalle...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 26, 5:04 pm,WQ<w...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 26, 6:58 pm, cloud dreamer <S...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
WQwrote:
cloud dreamer wrote:
~consul wrote:
Anyone know why, or is it just that they ran out after the writers strike?
Yup. Returns next month.
--- April 24th to be exact. Isn't anybody fed up with this show's
idiotic air dates and the show as a whole by now?
Not in the least. It's brilliant.
For those that want to see that...
--- A soap cannot be brilliant, regardless of who wants to watch it or
how many.
A soap CAN be brilliant, as anyone who has ever watched any soap
scripted by Claire Labine can tell you. *Brilliant* writer - wish she
wrote novels.
Since you apparently have never watched a soap, I don't see how your
opinion can matter.
--- Labine may be brilliant within the context of the soap world, but
soaps by their very longwinded nature don't deliver brilliant
storytelling. Brilliant storytelling is one that is concise and makes
a thoughtful point, not bloated and endlessly mind-numbing.
Do I *need* to point out how many logical fallacies are contained in
this one paragraph, or should I just leave it as an excercise for the
reader?
--- Yes, you need to point it out. Put it out there. Let's hear what
your defence is. Because otherwise, you just posed a meaningless
statement in the form of a rhetorical question.- Hide quoted text -
All right, since you insist.
--- Labine may be brilliant within the context of the soap world, but
soaps by their very longwinded nature don't deliver brilliant
storytelling.
A generalization with no supporting evidence. You would need to prove
that there has never been a brilliant long-form story. And yet, so
many examples come to mind. 'The Illiad'. 'The Oddysey'. Or for
more modern readers, 'The Lord of the Rings.'
--- I'm not talking about long-form, I'm talking about soap, which
goes beyond long-form and into ad infinitum form. The difference
between those 3 examples and Lost is that the books were written
independent of any audience following, but since an audience follows
Lost, the show has to be continually written until the audience gets
fed up with it or the writers exhaust themselves into an insane
asylum. Therein lies the difference.
Brilliant storytelling is one that is concise and makes
a thoughtful point, not bloated and endlessly mind-numbing.
A non sequitur, a false definition and an opinion stated as fact all
in one sentence.
--- Pretty impressive, huh?
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