Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Yesway Jose" data-source="post: 5632664" data-attributes="member: 6679265">Not the analogy I would use <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The analogy I would use is why, in Transformers, did they bring the All-Spark into the middle of a populated city and the climactic battle endangers the lives of its citizens and causes billions of dollars in damage to infrastructure. The &quot;real&quot; reason they brought the All-Spark into the city is because the writers wanted an explosive-y battle in the middle of a city (=non-Actor stance use of a metagame narrative control) and they couldn't think of a better plot device. The Author/Director then retroactively motivates the characters to follow the plot. However, in Actor stance, the decision to bring the All Spark to Mission City was utterly reckless and ridiculous, and probably indefensible.&nbsp;When I spell that out, many people may say &quot;Who cares?&quot; but it doesn't change the fact that many people thought all 3 Transformers movies were a bit dumb.&nbsp;I think the HP Lovecraft analogy is wrong, because it's about the character reacting to something completely extraneous.&nbsp;But if you say &quot;I don't have an 'official' reason for why my character did that and that's because I've decided that there are strange shadowy thing darting thru his mind....&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yesway Jose, post: 5632664, member: 6679265"] Not the analogy I would use :) The analogy I would use is why, in Transformers, did they bring the All-Spark into the middle of a populated city and the climactic battle endangers the lives of its citizens and causes billions of dollars in damage to infrastructure. The "real" reason they brought the All-Spark into the city is because the writers wanted an explosive-y battle in the middle of a city (=non-Actor stance use of a metagame narrative control) and they couldn't think of a better plot device. The Author/Director then retroactively motivates the characters to follow the plot. However, in Actor stance, the decision to bring the All Spark to Mission City was utterly reckless and ridiculous, and probably indefensible. When I spell that out, many people may say "Who cares?" but it doesn't change the fact that many people thought all 3 Transformers movies were a bit dumb. I think the HP Lovecraft analogy is wrong, because it's about the character reacting to something completely extraneous. But if you say "I don't have an 'official' reason for why my character did that and that's because I've decided that there are strange shadowy thing darting thru his mind...." [/QUOTE]

Verification