Ya' know what bothers me, A LOT, about a lot of these new shows on tv. The never ending boinking scenes. Thankfully, I stream, so I can fast forward through them, but one has to ask, is this the best the screenwriters could do? Did they run out of ideas? Just gratuitous? I suspect it's just gratuitous, but dang, so much of it.
Almost as much as I don't like weak character development scenes that waste screen time.
I once read an article about story telling where it showed that while writers like Joseph Conrad would over indulge
in telling you a person is a jerk - Hemingway would SHOW it by actions in a single sentence.
TV writing ought to be that way - don't talk to me about characters - SHOW me characters.
Another is common on cops shows and other dramas - it's the final few minutes where everyone is silent, they
play music in the background while people react to the scene. LOTS of shows do this. The CSI shows used to do
this a lot - show the bad guy getting arrested while they played some song over it. No dialogue.
I don't like overlong denouement. As Joe Bob Briggs used to say on MonsterVision - "Monster dead - movie over".
I guess like you, I'm overexposed to titillation scenes that I just want to skip it unless there's some nugget
of vital story telling there.
I've watched a few more. It IS getting a little more interesting, but oddly enough, I *LOVED* "The Last Kingdom" much more,
and it is based on actual history.
And I don't know what to say about "Lost". I did love it - until towards the end, when it seemed, dammit, just end already.
But I do think "Lost" did an outstanding job of creating uniquely distinct characters. One of the things that often bothers
me about shows where everyone is 20-30 and perfect - is they all look the same. When I see any of those actors in something else,
I think, oh, it's Hurley, from Lost. I've seen far too many other actors and realize - geez - they were in a half dozen shows I've
watched - how come I don't recognize them?
