You know, I wonder whether the discussions about good and bad source texts (i.e., why so much Sentinel and comparatively little WW given the number of viewers) might be connected to your closed/openness.
I've been reading a lot of stuff on narrative complexity in TV series and just watched the first season of the wire, and it was very much one story...beautifully and annoyingly so.
And I think you're really right in how *that* level of closedness, that level of singlemindedness is something we often cherish in terms of "quality" but which we really can't use as fanfic canon all that easily...
...also, totally OT, but I translated one of your short pieces into German this morning as an experiment. It sucked in translation (mine at least), but it made me very much appreciate your word choice and pacing and scarcity of words with wealth of meaning!
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Date: 7/18/07 10:20 pm (UTC)I've been reading a lot of stuff on narrative complexity in TV series and just watched the first season of the wire, and it was very much one story...beautifully and annoyingly so.
And I think you're really right in how *that* level of closedness, that level of singlemindedness is something we often cherish in terms of "quality" but which we really can't use as fanfic canon all that easily...
...also, totally OT, but I translated one of your short pieces into German this morning as an experiment. It sucked in translation (mine at least), but it made me very much appreciate your word choice and pacing and scarcity of words with wealth of meaning!