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And then I woke up and swore
Feb. 10th, 2012 02:36 pmToday I dreamed I was watching Doctor Who on Channel 4, a spin off version. It had 'Earth' in the title and was three words and very shiny. ( Read more... )
And then the episode ended, after an hour and a quarter including advertising, and I was at once really annoyed, because it was just disjointed introductions of stories that hadn't even met each other yet and really sort of rubbish as a stand alone story, and really asquee, because think of all the possibilities. Alternate universe on the TV! Playing with possibilities the way tie ins and audios sometimes have, only with a big cast and a budget and all the toys! Deliberately poking the parent show because it's on another channel, but original flavour Doctor Who would still be going strong over there! Total game changer of a TV show, and only the start of the series!
... and then I woke up and said something very rude the second I realised I was awake.
With all the ideas written out it doesn't seem like a spectacularly good story, just a scatter of interesting seeds in rather a mess, but I've been turning over in my mind the idea of a whole alternate universe on TV. Not one meant to make the parent show look good or one that goes back in the box at the end of the episode or one that breaks all the toys, but one that just re-rolls the entire setup and sees how it plays through.
I think that would be kind of awesome, because it's all the best favourite toys only new and different.
But... everyone that thinks they're all the best favourite toys thinks that on the basis of the way they are already. So you'd not bring that audience with you, they'd sulk and stay with their flavour. And everyone who already doesn't like those toys will think they taste too much of the old show anyway, so you wouldn't win them. And then you end up with a tiny sliver of people like me who love it but want to change it.
So commercially the AU on TV is unlikely to be a great concept.
Sad.
( Read more... )
So if I put all the different things I like into a single story idea, those who live in the intersection of that venn diagram will think it is the single most bestest thing in the whole history of creation... but the rather larger sets that make up all the different sections will be fed up I got chocolate in their peas, sort of thing.
Which is a problem for several of my story ideas.
But also potentially where the really creative stuff happens, where the paradigms meet and tensions get resolved.
And then the episode ended, after an hour and a quarter including advertising, and I was at once really annoyed, because it was just disjointed introductions of stories that hadn't even met each other yet and really sort of rubbish as a stand alone story, and really asquee, because think of all the possibilities. Alternate universe on the TV! Playing with possibilities the way tie ins and audios sometimes have, only with a big cast and a budget and all the toys! Deliberately poking the parent show because it's on another channel, but original flavour Doctor Who would still be going strong over there! Total game changer of a TV show, and only the start of the series!
... and then I woke up and said something very rude the second I realised I was awake.
With all the ideas written out it doesn't seem like a spectacularly good story, just a scatter of interesting seeds in rather a mess, but I've been turning over in my mind the idea of a whole alternate universe on TV. Not one meant to make the parent show look good or one that goes back in the box at the end of the episode or one that breaks all the toys, but one that just re-rolls the entire setup and sees how it plays through.
I think that would be kind of awesome, because it's all the best favourite toys only new and different.
But... everyone that thinks they're all the best favourite toys thinks that on the basis of the way they are already. So you'd not bring that audience with you, they'd sulk and stay with their flavour. And everyone who already doesn't like those toys will think they taste too much of the old show anyway, so you wouldn't win them. And then you end up with a tiny sliver of people like me who love it but want to change it.
So commercially the AU on TV is unlikely to be a great concept.
Sad.
( Read more... )
So if I put all the different things I like into a single story idea, those who live in the intersection of that venn diagram will think it is the single most bestest thing in the whole history of creation... but the rather larger sets that make up all the different sections will be fed up I got chocolate in their peas, sort of thing.
Which is a problem for several of my story ideas.
But also potentially where the really creative stuff happens, where the paradigms meet and tensions get resolved.