Oren: There’s just a lot of really neat things going on with Murderbot.Ĭhris: One that I commonly reference on the blog, because she’s a great example, is Seven of Nine from Voyager (Star Trek: Voyager). But also really cares about protecting humans.
I don’t want any of your real-life bullshit.Ĭhris: Can we have the sanitized version of humans please? Wes: Well, I like how Murderbot is obsessed with human serials, but really doesn’t care that much for humans, right? It’s like, I just want your fictional serialized drama.
#BUFFY CHARACTER SHEET TV#
Hence, the Murderbot who loves binge watching TV shows. Of course, Murderbot is a construct who loves binge watching TV shows, but it’s, like, a security construct that was designed to murder things. ‘Cuz Murderbot’s a novel character, and if you’ve seen it before, then it’s less novel.Ĭhris: Yeah. I’ve never mentioned Murderbot before on this show. Oren: Well, as I’m sure no listener of this podcast could guess I would say–Ĭhris: Oh, who could see that one coming? To give people an idea of what this actually looks like, instead of just saying, oh, this character is unique and different, okay… Which characters are particularly unique and different, and that has aided their likability, for instance.
That’s when you get your very serious protagonist paired with a complete clown of a side character who constantly shatters the mood, because that just doesn’t fit with the story you’re trying to tell here.Ĭhris: I thought it might be worth starting by just going over examples of characters that are particularly novel. If you’re searching for novelty and you aren’t careful, you can end up with a bunch of stuff that just doesn’t fit together because it was new and shiny until you grabbed it without thinking. It’s usually the fact that they’re overpowered. It’s not necessarily the novelty that’s hurting them. Unfortunately, they are often obnoxious for other reasons. That is one of the things about candied characters, is they tend to be more special, different than other characters. When a writer really loves a character, one thing they do is make them more novel. Oren: No one will ever suspect the sloth.Ĭhris: One thing to consider is that we’ve talked about candy characters before. Just make your cute animal the puppeteer that’s scheming and doing everything in the story. Right? No one will suspect that.Ĭhris: Yeah. And then you’ll have a very novel character, because no one will suspect the superpowered sloth that can save the day, the whole time. And then also make this character super powerful. Second, make them love to play hilarious pranks on the protagonist, just constantly make the protagonist look silly and like they don’t know what they’re doing. So obviously, what you should do is: First, make them an animal. It’s not that you can’t still make them novel, but a lot of the most novel characters really have a character concept that highlights novelty and makes them different to start with. But it does tend to be tough to implement, especially if you already have the basics of your character planned out. We’ve talked about novelty a lot in terms of characters, because it’s one of the three traits that makes characters likable on a really broad basis, as opposed to making them likable for a specific niche audience. Unfortunately, the adjective of “novelty” is “novel”. So, we’re actually gonna be talking about novel characters, not characters in a novel.
#BUFFY CHARACTER SHEET MOVIE#
Oren: You thought the MCU was like a hegemonic juggernaut taking over the movie industry, but no, we critiqued it, so it’s drowning now.Ĭhris: Okay. My favorite thing about this particular part of it is the assumption that all of these really famous storytellers and big budget stories are all drowning because we (laughs) personally push them under the water. I think we can keep pulling quotes from that thing as long as we’ve got a new quote to say.Ĭhris: Yeah.
Oren: God, how long can we reference that review before it stops being novel?Ĭhris: I don’t know. For instance, on this podcast, our novel trait is that we like to learn to swim by watching people drown, according to a very poetic review on Apple Podcasts. I’m Chris, and with me is…Ĭhris: As we’ve said before, novelty is an important way of engaging audiences. You’re listening to the Mythcreants podcast, with your hosts: Oren Ashkenazi, Wes Matlock, and Chris Winkle.Ĭhris: You’re listening to the Mythcreants podcast. Generously transcribed by Space Pineapple.
0 kommentar(er)
