Fiona wrote:
but I feel a bit lost on the last statement. AFAIK, Lauren was never intended to become a regular-- do you mean she was brought in to let the viewers think that she was going to join the crew?
Or
because the episode needed some blonde content :)?
The latter I fear. Now I think about it, it's perhaps interesting the number of season 3 episodes that have blondish female one-off characters... (And don't forget that Soolin later appeared with little apparent purpose other than to soup up the gun-toting blonde index -- her character hardly develops very much for episode after episode, probably till 'Warlord'.)
But the fact that he was writing to a formula doesn't necessarily make the episode bad, or non-complex.
Hence my comment worst (best?). (And speaking as a hack-writer myself, it certainly isn't all bad, or all non-complex.)
Yes-- though I think Rescue's brilliant too, myself (saw it over
Christmas,
fantastic). I haven't seen City in about a year, though, so I can't
comment.
I love nearly all the CB episodes (and all the RH episodes, for that matter) -- but leafing through the programme list, I wouldn't have called those two particularly complex or political.
But at least three of his [[Nation's]] stories do seem to provide material to talk about, and maybe the same can be said of at least some of the others too...
But 3/19 plus a bit (Nation) < 7/9 (Boucher). I think.
Tavia
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Fiona wrote:
but I feel a bit lost on the last statement. AFAIK, Lauren was never intended to become a regular-- do you mean she
was
brought in to let the viewers think that she was going to join the crew?
Or
because the episode needed some blonde content :)?
The latter I fear. Now I think about it, it's perhaps interesting the number of season 3 episodes that have blondish female one-off
characters...
Started thinking about this and decided to pull a Neil and work out the stats. So, the blonde/brunette ratio (not counting regulars or mutoids) for the whole series is:
Series Blondes:Brunettes 1 3:4 2 3:8 3 8:3 4 3:3
So yes, you're right about there being more blondes in S3... although the sudden spike in brunettes in S2 is less easy to explain (redheads are, grouse grouse, a negligible presence). All of them *are* there for plot reasons, though, as well as hair colour (if they were compensating solely for lack of blondeness, then they'd've worked out some way of shoehorning a blonde into Ultraworld, Volcano and DotG... and in any case the appearance of the actress is probably more the responsibility of the casting department than the writer.)
(And don't forget that Soolin later appeared with little apparent purpose other than to soup up the gun-toting blonde index
Well, to provide a hasty last-minute replacement for Cally as well....
-- her character hardly
develops very much for episode after episode, probably till 'Warlord'.)
Be fair-- she has some lovely lines in Headhunter :). And remember, too, the early episodes were written for Cally, and once you've excised the Auron sayings and references to telepathy, there's not much left for her to say.
Yes-- though I think Rescue's brilliant too, myself (saw it over
Christmas,
fantastic). I haven't seen City in about a year, though, so I can't
comment.
I love nearly all the CB episodes (and all the RH episodes, for that matter) -- but leafing through the programme list, I wouldn't have called those two particularly complex or political.
Hmmm.... City is about an invading force that rounds up the indigenous people of a planet, puts them in stockades and holds their leaders hostage in an attempt to find what the invaders think is a treasure but which is a spiritual place for the locals... Rescue, the Oscar Wilde allusions aside, is about a man who cynically uses his fellow human beings in an amoral attempt to prolong his own life, and sets a trap to catch others to use in the same way... yeah, I think those might be considered political...
But at least three of his [[Nation's]] stories do seem to provide material to talk about, and maybe the same can be said of at least some
of
the others too...
But 3/19 plus a bit (Nation) < 7/9 (Boucher). I think.
We've only looked at three Nations thus far. I think we might have some surprises coming...
Fiona
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