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I woke up this morning from a confused dream about visiting ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
heresluck and understood something about my fiction block and its relationship to the serial narratives currently en vogue in the medium of television.
I'm going to use Buffy as my type example; I don't think it's uniquely or especially awful in this regard (The X-Files became infinitely worse in its later seasons), but it happens to be the easiest demonstration piece to show what I mean because of the way I watched it.
ObDisclaimer: This is 100% personal and subjective and about a problem that I've been wrestling with for years. I'm not saying that anyone should feel about Buffy the way I do, nor am I saying that everyone should think about narrative the way I do, or that I am somehow more enlightened or superior or something because I think about narrative this way. In fact, I'd love to be able to turn this thing off.
In other words, what follows is descriptive of my situation and is not meant to apply to anyone else.
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heresluck and understood something about my fiction block and its relationship to the serial narratives currently en vogue in the medium of television.I'm going to use Buffy as my type example; I don't think it's uniquely or especially awful in this regard (The X-Files became infinitely worse in its later seasons), but it happens to be the easiest demonstration piece to show what I mean because of the way I watched it.
ObDisclaimer: This is 100% personal and subjective and about a problem that I've been wrestling with for years. I'm not saying that anyone should feel about Buffy the way I do, nor am I saying that everyone should think about narrative the way I do, or that I am somehow more enlightened or superior or something because I think about narrative this way. In fact, I'd love to be able to turn this thing off.
In other words, what follows is descriptive of my situation and is not meant to apply to anyone else.
( click to read more )
