What was that one show set in Maine, I think it was a doctor who talked to her dead mother a lot? I think that really started it.
Was it Providence? I thought maybe that was the one--I never watched it but that sounds familiar. (I probably always assumed it was in Rhode Island too!)
This is why I love Milagro, late of The X-Files, so very, very much. The writer expects his characters to do all the work, to essentially make his life worth living. He doesn't expect them to bite back.
Heh--I came so close to mentioning that episode because it made me think of it too--specifically the idea of Jack typing. I remember at the time it aired having a discussion on atxfa where I'd read something in Jung about certain repetitive acts being like masturbation and like starting a fire...things babies do, for instance, like tapping their cheek or something. The typing is sort of like that, like rubbing two sticks together to make a fire. But then the fire burns out and the characters disappear if you don't keep it going.
I'm the same way with characters--well, really isn't that one of the worst charges that can be brought against a writer is just making the characters do what they want? With Mary Sues often the Mary Sue is "real" in terms of doing what she wants to do (since the author sees her clearly) but other characters turn into cardboard as they react around her.
Sister M, Sister M, fandom is the hotel. *runs and hides!*
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Was it Providence? I thought maybe that was the one--I never watched it but that sounds familiar. (I probably always assumed it was in Rhode Island too!)
This is why I love Milagro, late of The X-Files, so very, very much. The writer expects his characters to do all the work, to essentially make his life worth living. He doesn't expect them to bite back.
Heh--I came so close to mentioning that episode because it made me think of it too--specifically the idea of Jack typing. I remember at the time it aired having a discussion on atxfa where I'd read something in Jung about certain repetitive acts being like masturbation and like starting a fire...things babies do, for instance, like tapping their cheek or something. The typing is sort of like that, like rubbing two sticks together to make a fire. But then the fire burns out and the characters disappear if you don't keep it going.
I'm the same way with characters--well, really isn't that one of the worst charges that can be brought against a writer is just making the characters do what they want? With Mary Sues often the Mary Sue is "real" in terms of doing what she wants to do (since the author sees her clearly) but other characters turn into cardboard as they react around her.
Sister M, Sister M, fandom is the hotel. *runs and hides!*
Ahhhhhh!!!