mcdolemite@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ian McDowell) wrote in
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> Nope. Those may be artistic defects, but they aren't sins motivated
> by the desire to grind out stories to make more money.
>
> I'd be interested in seeing how many other writers here share your
> feeling that one should never contradict the established parameters of
> one's characters, at least in an ongoing series. As one myself, I've
> never felt that kind of consistency was a sacred cow. There are a lot
> of things about my two novels that, were I writing them now, I'd do
> differently, and I'm sure that, if anyone were insane enough to give
> me a TV series, I would not let what I felt about my characters in
> 2004 put too many constraints on what I decided to do with them in
> 2007. Whatever my other sins, I don't think this makes me a hack.
>
Reversals are among my favorite literary devices and I love to see
characters suddenly switch out of character, so long as it's done well. I
didn't find the Jenny Callender thing particularly awkward, although I
don't think they set up the Willow is gay thing very well in advance. And
people need to remember, this is only a television show, and lots of
television shows have dramatic and sometimes inconsistent reversals. The
telepath in Babylon 5 revealed to be an artificially imprinted
personality,
for example.
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