Evan #77: you made me snarf my iced tea. Bravo!
Ron's post rather misses the point that this is a story. That whole nonsense about "narrative tyranny" is just that: nonsense. Comparing it to real life is a tired cliché at this point, and one I've succumbed to in the past, but the fact of the matter is, this isn't real life, this is, in fact, a story. By definition, stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Chase copped out on that last part.
I'm amused by the fact that (according to a secondhand source) the author of the novelization of the film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer was forced to go to 20th Century Fox's offices in L.A. to work because they wouldn't let the script out of the studio lot. Apparently they were worried about spoilers getting out on the 'net -- never mind that this movie is an adaptation of a comic book that was published in 1966......
Sumana #42: Oh geez, call me "Keith." And thanks!
And it took me a while to realize that, while posting on my LiveJournal, I should use cut-tags for spoilers, as I was annoying some of my readers. I have no problem with spoilers, generally, and I forget that others do, in part because of the extreme examples I mentioned.
Anyhow, I put my own thoughts about the finale on my LJ.
Nope, never heard of it, and I've been 'net enabled since the early 1990s when I was on GEnie, back when monitors were monochrome, 9600 baud was impossibly fast, and we walked uphill in the snow backwards both ways.
Never assume everybody knows everything. *grin*
Wow -- spoilerphobia has gotten to the point where you have to find some ridiculous javascript in order to participate in a discussion. Charming. Until this post, I'd never heard of ROT13, and I still don't know, after reading as much of this thread as I could, how to make it apply to my browser.
I'll pass. My desire to cater to the needs of spoilerphobes took a hit when people started bitching at me for "spoiling" the endings to Titanic and Apollo 13, and died the final death when I got yelled at for saying someone was guest-starring in an upcoming episode. I'm sorry, but that's not "spoiling" anything, and the mania for spoiler avoidance has gotten to the point of absurdity. With occasional exceptions like The Crying Game, knowing plot details doesn't "spoil" anything, since the execution of the plot matters the most.
Coming late to the discussion, having seen my name taken in vain.
I think I'd rather dive naked into a vat filled with live squid than get into this discussion all over again, as my original LiveJournal entry started a shitstorm of epic proportions that mostly resulted in several hours of my life that I'll be begging for on my deathbed.
I will say two things:
1) Everything Doctor Science says in post #9 about the Star Trek line is, bluntly, wrong. It might've been true when he worked with John Ordover, but John hasn't been with Pocket for four years now, and he wasn't the only game in town then.
2) Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy don't own Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel. Neither entity has any legal claim on the property whatsoever. They are both owned by the 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, and anything that claims to be a legal disclaimer that names those two and does not name Fox is full of shit. If you're gonna do it, do it right.
Teresa, this is a magnificent piece and does a much more effective and funnier job of saying what I've been telling new writers for years. I intend (assuming you have no objection) to making this required reading for the workshop I'm teaching with Dean Wesley Smith in August.
I always make an effort to make my rejection letters as nice as possible, even the form rejections I had to do for IMAGININGS (where I basically said, "Yeah, this is a form letter, sorry about that"), because I know how painful it can be. On the other hand, I also had to reject friends, and I did it unhesitatingly because I proceed on the assumption that I'm dealing with professionals. If they wish to prove me wrong in their response to my rejection, that's their problem, not mine....
---KRAD
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