Hmmmmrrr...
Jun. 10th, 2004 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sailorhathorOriginal Writers of Parts 1-3 of 5ive Days to Midnight: We're tired. Here, Writer of Lame Twists, you finish the mini-series.
Writer of Lame Twists: Okay!
Laurel: X_x
It was so GOOD up until then! But they just HAD to go for the big, unexpected twist. BLAAAAAAH. HEY! Just because a twist is unexpected doesn't make it GOOD. The whole thing with the cop turning evil was just LAME LAME LAME. Come on people, you could have come up with something better than that. I didn't like that twist. The rest, though, was all good. Oh Lame Twist, why did you have to mar a perfectly good mini-series?! I spit upon you, ptooie!
Angus was WORKIN' IT. "I'm EVIL!" XD I thought he did the Evil Laugh a little too often in a couple scenes, but overall, I loved how he played the character. I enjoyed the contrast between how sweetly he spoke to Jesse and then he'd turn on Angela/Claudia screaming at her. You (and the characters) had no idea how he'd be next. And I also liked the scene where he stuck the gun in his mouth, teasing Angela with it. He was so bad and loving it. :D
I also really liked the fact that Jesse was the one who sent the briefcase back to her father. So does that mean there's an adult Jesse in an alternate future who grew up with no father? Must be! She wouldn't have any access to the files and newspaper articles if he didn't really die in some alternate universe. So is her life now "fixed" in that alternate universe also, with her live father? Or did she just fix things for her alternate self? Time travel and alternate universes can be so complicated.
And what happened with the brother-in-law, uhhhh... oh I can't remember his name. He just runs in, tries to shoot Carl, and leaves? Did he get the briefcase and make his millions? Maybe that's how the material was meant to be discovered in the first place. Maybe it's not "theft" of the idea after all; maybe it was meant to be a circle of cause and effect. Maybe they left it open for a SEQUEL. Wouldn't be surprised.
And is it ever possible to give someone prophetic advance knowledge of a tragedy without that knowledge having a profound effect on the outcome? Like, the fact that J.T. knew he was going to die and how had a huge effect on the events, to the point that things couldn't have happened that way without the case having arrived. Every time I've seen a story like this, the advance knowledge always affects events to the point that the events couldn't have happened that way without the knowledge. Such as, no one would have gone to the strip club, where J.T. was supposed to die, if the file hadn't told them that was where they needed to go. I understand that plot twist, but it's a little too convenient for the writer, you know? It has made me want to write a story where someone gets this knowledge and the knowledge has no effect on the outcome, in that things would happen the way they said in the prophecy even if the knowledge had never been given. Does that make any sense? It's like a challenge that I've made to myself. I don't currently have any ideas for this, but it's a goal for sometime in the future.
It's challenging because I've gotten into this conversation before, and there's always the Carl-like person who says that no, it's impossible, that such advance knowledge would inevitably and inescapeably affect the outcome to the point that events could not happen without the knowledge, that it's all a circle that never ends. I want to prove this wrong (literature-wise) by writing a believable story on the subject. Someday. I mean, I'm not talking about the fact that a person who knows they are going to die will take steps not to die; of course that's true. Why couldn't the writer work it out that J.T. would be in the strip club anyway because of a reason that has nothing to do with the file telling Roy that's where he should go; why does the info in the file have to affect events to that point? It just doesn't represent much of a writing challenge, IMO.
However, I think I did figure out why the one stripper was dressed like a deer. The strip club was called Buck Naked. Buck! Ha, she's a buck! O_o Still a bizarre costume for a stripper. I know furry fans exist, but how many of them really go to strip clubs looking for a chick dressed as a deer?
Writer of Lame Twists: Okay!
Laurel: X_x
It was so GOOD up until then! But they just HAD to go for the big, unexpected twist. BLAAAAAAH. HEY! Just because a twist is unexpected doesn't make it GOOD. The whole thing with the cop turning evil was just LAME LAME LAME. Come on people, you could have come up with something better than that. I didn't like that twist. The rest, though, was all good. Oh Lame Twist, why did you have to mar a perfectly good mini-series?! I spit upon you, ptooie!
Angus was WORKIN' IT. "I'm EVIL!" XD I thought he did the Evil Laugh a little too often in a couple scenes, but overall, I loved how he played the character. I enjoyed the contrast between how sweetly he spoke to Jesse and then he'd turn on Angela/Claudia screaming at her. You (and the characters) had no idea how he'd be next. And I also liked the scene where he stuck the gun in his mouth, teasing Angela with it. He was so bad and loving it. :D
I also really liked the fact that Jesse was the one who sent the briefcase back to her father. So does that mean there's an adult Jesse in an alternate future who grew up with no father? Must be! She wouldn't have any access to the files and newspaper articles if he didn't really die in some alternate universe. So is her life now "fixed" in that alternate universe also, with her live father? Or did she just fix things for her alternate self? Time travel and alternate universes can be so complicated.
And what happened with the brother-in-law, uhhhh... oh I can't remember his name. He just runs in, tries to shoot Carl, and leaves? Did he get the briefcase and make his millions? Maybe that's how the material was meant to be discovered in the first place. Maybe it's not "theft" of the idea after all; maybe it was meant to be a circle of cause and effect. Maybe they left it open for a SEQUEL. Wouldn't be surprised.
And is it ever possible to give someone prophetic advance knowledge of a tragedy without that knowledge having a profound effect on the outcome? Like, the fact that J.T. knew he was going to die and how had a huge effect on the events, to the point that things couldn't have happened that way without the case having arrived. Every time I've seen a story like this, the advance knowledge always affects events to the point that the events couldn't have happened that way without the knowledge. Such as, no one would have gone to the strip club, where J.T. was supposed to die, if the file hadn't told them that was where they needed to go. I understand that plot twist, but it's a little too convenient for the writer, you know? It has made me want to write a story where someone gets this knowledge and the knowledge has no effect on the outcome, in that things would happen the way they said in the prophecy even if the knowledge had never been given. Does that make any sense? It's like a challenge that I've made to myself. I don't currently have any ideas for this, but it's a goal for sometime in the future.
It's challenging because I've gotten into this conversation before, and there's always the Carl-like person who says that no, it's impossible, that such advance knowledge would inevitably and inescapeably affect the outcome to the point that events could not happen without the knowledge, that it's all a circle that never ends. I want to prove this wrong (literature-wise) by writing a believable story on the subject. Someday. I mean, I'm not talking about the fact that a person who knows they are going to die will take steps not to die; of course that's true. Why couldn't the writer work it out that J.T. would be in the strip club anyway because of a reason that has nothing to do with the file telling Roy that's where he should go; why does the info in the file have to affect events to that point? It just doesn't represent much of a writing challenge, IMO.
However, I think I did figure out why the one stripper was dressed like a deer. The strip club was called Buck Naked. Buck! Ha, she's a buck! O_o Still a bizarre costume for a stripper. I know furry fans exist, but how many of them really go to strip clubs looking for a chick dressed as a deer?
