Posts to come

[donutsweeper]

I really want to use my LJ more this year, but knowing I always fail at New Year's Resolutions, instead I'm just going to make a list of posts will hopefully make and hopefully do so soonish:

1) a 2013 ficlist post.
1a) Check and fix all my ficlists in my sidebar. I doubt anyone ever looks at them, but for completion sake, I want them correct.
1b) Post My Yuletide stories to appropriate comms, when there is one.

2) Episode review posts. Hopefully one for the winter half-season break wrap up and then one every week or every other week afterwards.

3) A post on the 15 minute rule and why so many canons can't seem to follow it.

4) A post about why tptb need to learn how to pace and quit with the false tension in storytelling, aka "you can't blow up the earth, that's where I keep all my stuff!"

5) Maybe also a post on how important first impressions are in characterization possibly tied to character arcs and SWJs but probably not.

6) Genealogy! I knew there was one I was forgetting.

I'll add more as I think of them and cross them off as I complete them.

Comments

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

what's the fifteen-minute rule? also, yes! for #4. to quote buffy: "it's the end of the world!" "again?"

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

The 15 minute rule is the idea that a movie has the first 15 minutes to create the world it's going to be set in and anything presented during that period has to be accepted. So, if the pilot of a tv show or first few chapters of a book say the world has vampires and they work in X way then as viewers we can't complain about the vampires and how they work, but then if the vampires work in Y way instead or a magic macguffin appears they've broken their own 15 minute rule.

Does that make sense?

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

so basically it sets up the world and the continuity in the first fifteen minutes, right? and viewers can throw things at the tv if the ptb change the rules without prior notice. i imagine it happens to long-running tv shows after a while, especially if they have increasingly complicated mytharcs.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. And yeah, sometimes the over all length and complication of the show winds up acting against them, but more often it's their own arrogance and inability to stick to their own rules.