Dana Shilling wrote:
Betty said:
The scripts, after all, aren't written for generic, faceless ideological mouthpieces, they're written for specific, established characters
Except that apparently this one WAS written for Blake; Travis' scripts were written for Stephen Greif and in many cases delivered by Brian Croucher; and Animals was supposed to be about Cally's backstory, not Dayna's.
Well, yes. But IMO, this one was very well adapted for Avon (presumably by Chris Boucher?), and "Animals" didn't work in large part precisely *because* it didn't fit with Dayna in Cally's role (sorry, Una!). And the mismatch between Grief's portrayal and Croucher's portrayal of the same character is why I strongly prefer the original Travis (sorry, Penny!). In other words, when the characters' individual personalities *aren't* taken into account in the writing of a script, the result is usually a bad script.
I'm still mulling over Neil's responses to this post of mine, btw. I must say, Neil's worldview appears to be quite alien to mine, and thus, while interesting, rather difficult to respond to. I think the main source of the difference in viewpoint, actually, may be that I don't regard "ideology" as representing anything *real*. Ideology just consists of ideas in people's heads. And those ideas can be very powerful, true, but they spring from people, not the other way around. But, like I said, I'm still mulling...