Matrix characters
Feb. 3rd, 2012 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethHad an idea how to keep number of actors down using theatre tricks, plus simplify character creation. In the Matrix there's no reason anyone should wear a stable avatar. So they can look like whoever. So it's time for fun with doubling. TV actors don't usually play two different people but is simples. They can be the monster or faerie versions of themselves. And then it's easy making the people up, because you start with a main character and make their mirror universe people. And then it's all part of not really knowing what goes on in the Matrix, if you ever interact with other people, or if it's all just playing games in your own head. There's a lot of monsters plugged in to it, but you never know if you're meeting one or just some kind of game function. And there's no rules. That's the magic world, anything can happen.
Actually having said TV doesn't do it, I think it's only the TV that's trying to be realist that doesn't (or that I've missed because of not watching much of it), because F&SF does it all the time. Mirror universe and robot doubles and replicators and clones and transporter accidents and holodeck games. All kinds of everything. Farscape had a lot of fun with it, putting people in other makeup and stuff.
So is plenty worky idea, gives everyone plenty to do, cuts down on hiring, makes the stories center on psychological stuff for the main cast, whoever that is. Thirteen main cast seems unlikely. I was thinking of the six from Earth as main and the six from Otherworld as mostly wearing cloaks and masks and not doing much when the plot isn't about them this week. Still, stuff to do by turns.
And then if someone's Matrix versions are more interesting to play with than their meatspace versions there's story in that too.
But the monsters in the basement don't look much human at all, so if they're going to play in human face they'll do it for a reason. Messing with the original owner's head is pretty good reason.
Actually having said TV doesn't do it, I think it's only the TV that's trying to be realist that doesn't (or that I've missed because of not watching much of it), because F&SF does it all the time. Mirror universe and robot doubles and replicators and clones and transporter accidents and holodeck games. All kinds of everything. Farscape had a lot of fun with it, putting people in other makeup and stuff.
So is plenty worky idea, gives everyone plenty to do, cuts down on hiring, makes the stories center on psychological stuff for the main cast, whoever that is. Thirteen main cast seems unlikely. I was thinking of the six from Earth as main and the six from Otherworld as mostly wearing cloaks and masks and not doing much when the plot isn't about them this week. Still, stuff to do by turns.
And then if someone's Matrix versions are more interesting to play with than their meatspace versions there's story in that too.
But the monsters in the basement don't look much human at all, so if they're going to play in human face they'll do it for a reason. Messing with the original owner's head is pretty good reason.