Babble on POVs

[donutsweeper]

Just a question, and I'm not sure of the correct terminology here, but when reading (or writing), do you prefer a tight 3rd person POV  (where all events are seen and interpreted through one character's eyes) or switching between people's 3rd person POV with obvious page breaks or markers to show the new POV?

For example- my entire Charming the Pants off the Pashahads SGA/Jack crossover is told from Sheppard's POV, there is no scene where we see what Jack thinks about falling into the Pegasus Galaxy.  At points there are Sheppard's interpretation of Jack's actions (he notices a hedged answer, an avoided question, but doesn't know why Jack  answered that way).  If it had been written with switching POV's there could be the scene from Shep's perspective, noticing what he notices and wondering about it, followed by the same scene retold from Jack's, where he explained the reasons for saying what he did.  There also could have been scenes left out from the story the way I told it- I never did explain how Jack managed to get his hands on the Pashahads (because Sheppard wasn't there and wouldn't know).

I've been noticing more and more of the latter showing up in stories lately.  Presuming this babble actually makes sense to anyone, do you notice the difference between those types of POV styles and do you like one more than the other?

Comments

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I wish he'd cut his hair. I just have trouble with guys with long hair like that

[chatona.livejournal.com]

I'll admit that I liked him much better with short hair, too (see icon!), but. I still love the guy, I can't help it. 's his voice, I think.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

yes, he used to have shorter hair. What is the icon from?

I love the way Eliot is with his gun skills on Leverage. Identifying the different gun shots with a shrug, like anyone should be able to

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Angel. I never watched it, but I love the way he looks there. well, and I've seen clips. And I ship Angel/Lindsey (Lindsey being Christian Kane's character, naturally). He plays an evil lawyer who's having trouble staying evil. Hmmmm.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I saw him in some of Angel- I only really watched 5th season (because James Martsers- Spike- was on then) but Chris Kane was quite the interesting character!

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I just watched the third Leverage episode and and and THEY PLAYED A SONG BY CHRIS KANE AT THE END! *faints* When he was snogging his girl, that is.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh really? I didn't pay that much attention to the music. That's so neat!

[chatona.livejournal.com]

I love it when they use his music in shows that he's in. It makes me insanely happy. ... Probably because his voice... erm. Yes.

It's this song:


... Ignore the bad quality.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

he has a nice voice! He's done a record or two, hasn't he? I remember reading something about it on the spn comm because Jensen sang backup on a song or something

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's done... two records, I think, and a third is about to come out. Or something like that, anyhow. I love his music.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

What I've heard of them are good. Which is nice, it's always awkward when a star you like has a taste in music you hate

[chatona.livejournal.com]

I never thought I'd like country music, but Chris' mix of country/rock/soul (his words, not mine) in combination with his voice....

Okay, it might just be his voice.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

it's not *real* country, or what I'd think of as country anyway.. a touch of soul or blues or something but then again I'm not all that knowledgeable about country music.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

I am very bad at labelling music, so I wouldn't know.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

me too. It's a skill i just don't have

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Yeah, same here.

Aaaaaaaand now off to watch episode four :D

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

enjoy!

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am! :D

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I really like D.B. Sweeny, the guy who played Nate's old friend

[chatona.livejournal.com]

But who's the guy playing the bad one? I know him from somewhere....

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

don't know, he really did look familiar though

[chatona.livejournal.com]

He played Ted in Queer as Folk. I looked him up.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh, never seen it.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

I've watched a couple episodes. But that's definitely where I knew him from.