Lightspeed university tumblr8/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Leave themselves open to this vulnerability, there is seemingly no way to protectĬrumbling of verisimilitude never manifests. The moments that shunt audiences out of the experience of watching a filmĪre both fickle and, of course subjective and, since no storyteller sets out to That point involving a man who can talk to fish or a Prime Minister courting a Moments of what feel like implausibility, despite the entire picture up to Modern audiences will complain when a film hits The fine line between this dramatic “Get out of Jail Free”Ĭard and writing resolutions that thrill and inspire audiences has ensnared Would often allow direct solutions to whatever dramatic tangle the charactersįound themselves in. That would lower actors playing the Gods into the theatre and such divine interventions In Ancient Greece, there would be a literal contraption Meaning “God from the Machine”, it refers to whenĪ story takes a contrived turn. Itself has a fundamental ring of truth to it, has plagued storytellers forĬenturies and the term “Deus Ex Machina”, dating from Aeschylus, has come to beĪssociated with this issue in the modern cinematic age. Magical balance, of spinning a yarn but never yielding the sense that the tale Mechanics of an author making a story fit can be readily sniffed out. Often a film may cause a snort if it takes a dramatic step too far, or when the Suspension of our disbelief is only a part of this, and Prove to be too fantastic, too far removed from what we can connect with, then These tales bring with them an inherent problem: should the piece Has been the stories of the most dramatic shifts in people’s lives that we long Monsters were told around a flickering campfire to our modern multiplexes, it If a tale is worth the telling, then should it notįrom our very origins, where stories of gods and The main problem for the current makers is that they don’t seem able to top what came before without merely repeating it but, if they ever figure out how to do that, I’ll be there.įor Slumdog Millionaire, Jaws, Angels & Demons, Contact and Signs. I’ll see out this season of Discovery, I’ll keep with Picard in its final 2 seasons (where just spending time with the characters is thrill enough) and I’ll buy into the mischievous genius of Lower Decks forever but no more. Star Trek was always my thing, though, and it is surprisingly hard to let that go. I need to stop hoping that it’ll change into what I want it to be rather than make peace with what it is and let it go off and be that thing for those who need it. Discovery wants to be the story and that’s ok, but it’s not for me. I’m left, however, with a show whose fundamental philosophy I simply do not hold with: narratively it keeps meandering and redefining itself but loses its focus on telling a story. Such issues have never been a concern or problem for me in my life but are for many, so I have no problem with Trek becoming a fulcrum for those who never had a place to go: after all that’s what TNG & DS9 were for me in the 90s. I try to prepare my children and my students for a complex, often unyielding and always changing world and the firm belief that no beliefs can be firm is something I find problematic.ĭiscovery is a show that, at its core, has embraced this idea of everything being up for grabs and many of its cast & crew have had to struggle through problems I can’t even imagine, and much has been written regarding the sexuality, gender &/or sex of those who write, produce and perform on the show. I find this philosophy naive, as it implies that events in a person’s life are always, ultimately, controllable which I hold to be an alarming falsehood. ![]() There seems to be a growing philosophical core which proposes that everyone must be allowed to be who they wish to be. ![]()
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