Comments on: The Difference http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/07/16/the-difference/ Some of Chris's musings Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:34:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Christopher White http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/07/16/the-difference/#comment-222 Christopher White Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:41:21 +0000 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/07/16/the-difference/#comment-222 And I lost a closing bracket. ) And I lost a closing bracket.

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]]> By: Matt http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/07/16/the-difference/#comment-220 Matt Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:09:38 +0000 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/07/16/the-difference/#comment-220 I don't know. I lost my face for a while there. Sorry. I don’t know. I lost my face for a while there. Sorry.

]]> By: Christopher White http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/07/16/the-difference/#comment-216 Christopher White Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:04:02 +0000 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/07/16/the-difference/#comment-216 Ah, but then you don't get the evolution according to what [the writers think] the audience want. Anyway, the Hitchikers sequels are all pretty ace. (Or do things work different in print. And why didn't you comment on this sooner? Ah, but then you don’t get the evolution according to what [the writers think] the audience want.

Anyway, the Hitchikers sequels are all pretty ace. (Or do things work different in print.

And why didn’t you comment on this sooner?

]]> By: Matt http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/07/16/the-difference/#comment-215 Matt Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:40:17 +0000 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/07/16/the-difference/#comment-215 I had to endure a moment or nine of Friends last night, and thought of this post. I can't help but wonder if I'd sooner just have ONE series and leave it at that - tightened and tightened and polished to perfection; a flawless, self-contained text that doesn't scream for second-series funding; scripts written to deadlines and not for fun. Or perhaps even a series that becomes so popular that you're coerced into writing more by Fox and then canned when you lose viewing figures. Look at the new Dr. Who - it really isn't so spectacularly written, buoyed mostly by its heritage. If they released that now as a new idea it'd be shot down as Babylon-5-bad sci-fi and wouldn't have had anything like the coverage. If you're constantly told to watch something you usually end up succumbing - and if you don't, someone else will talk to you about it anyway. It's a law that the more you do of something the worse it gets. Well with some things, anyway. Other things are consistently brilliant. Like pooing. I had to endure a moment or nine of Friends last night, and thought of this post.

I can’t help but wonder if I’d sooner just have ONE series and leave it at that - tightened and tightened and polished to perfection; a flawless, self-contained text that doesn’t scream for second-series funding; scripts written to deadlines and not for fun. Or perhaps even a series that becomes so popular that you’re coerced into writing more by Fox and then canned when you lose viewing figures.

Look at the new Dr. Who - it really isn’t so spectacularly written, buoyed mostly by its heritage. If they released that now as a new idea it’d be shot down as Babylon-5-bad sci-fi and wouldn’t have had anything like the coverage. If you’re constantly told to watch something you usually end up succumbing - and if you don’t, someone else will talk to you about it anyway.

It’s a law that the more you do of something the worse it gets. Well with some things, anyway. Other things are consistently brilliant. Like pooing.

]]> By: Sam http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/07/16/the-difference/#comment-213 Sam Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:20:54 +0000 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/07/16/the-difference/#comment-213 "Maybe it’s just an inevitable consequence of running for longer." Think you've just answered your own question there “Maybe it’s just an inevitable consequence of running for longer.”

Think you’ve just answered your own question there

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