“I can see how annoying that looks. I can see how maddening it must be, for some people. Especially if you’re imposing really classical script structures and templates on that episode, even unconsciously. I must look like a vandal, a kid or an amateur… The simple fact is, all those things were planned. All of them were my choice. They’re not lazy, clumsy or desperate. They’re chosen. I can see more traditional ways of telling those stories, but I’m not interested. I think the stuff that you gain from writing in this way – the shock, the whirlwind, the freedom, the exhilaration – is worth the world. I’ve got this sort of tumbling, freewheeling style that somersaults along, with everything happening now - not later, not before, but now, now, now. I’ve made a Doctor Who that exists in the present tense. It’s happening now, right in front of your eyes! If you don’t like it, if you don’t join in with it then… blimey, these episodes must be nonsensical. But those classical structures can be seen in Primeval, in Demons, in Merlin, in all of them – and yet we stand with millions more viewers. And I think that’s partly why.”
Wow, what a bunch of pretentious BS. "Who needs plotting, structure, or foreshadowing? I'm telling a story, man!"
The creator of Heroes has expressed much the same attitude, which explains why it plummeted straight into suckitude after the first season.
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Date: 2010-02-01 07:55 pm (UTC)Wow, what a bunch of pretentious BS. "Who needs plotting, structure, or foreshadowing? I'm telling a story, man!"
The creator of Heroes has expressed much the same attitude, which explains why it plummeted straight into suckitude after the first season.