Two geeky links
May. 21st, 2010 07:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrThe Lost World, about tv writers in denial about writing sf. I don't know that I agree with all of it, but I did like:
(Of course the reverse is also true)
tommy westphall's mind A chart showing how 282 different tv shows, from Cheers to Battlestar Galactica, are all in the same universe (and that universe is just a dream in some guy's head)
Treat the SF in your show as a character. If the SF travels in time, then you have to close all the time loops and make a stab at having it be important to the overall narrative. If the SF makes people immortal, you have to give us the how and why and more importantly how it affects them. Just like if a person in your story got pregnant, she would eventually have to have the baby or people would be upset and confused. Do the characters get closure? Then the SF gets closure. You don't just get to drop things like they're hot because they're the SF parts so you think they don't matter.
(Of course the reverse is also true)
tommy westphall's mind A chart showing how 282 different tv shows, from Cheers to Battlestar Galactica, are all in the same universe (and that universe is just a dream in some guy's head)
