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lauraredcloud at 03:59pm on 17/11/2008
lauraredcloud at 03:59pm on 17/11/2008I have made a discovery about myself which elucidates why I like certain forms of arts and entertainment and not others. Apparently I am 100% interested in characters and relationships and not interested in anything else, including, but not limited to:
ideas
milieu
events
truth
form, shape, line, color, symmetry, balance
gameplay
originality
quality
This explains why I don't like the news, in general, which focuses on events, but I do like This American Life which focuses on people; why in art class, when I have to come up with something abstract, I have to trick myself into it by assigning emotions, motives, and personalities to things like little squares and circles; why I know Lord Peter Wimsey dialogue by heart but am continually surprised by the solutions to the mysteries; why I can tell you the names and numbers of episodes of Stargate Atlantis in which John Sheppard appeared to experience an emotion but not any of the rules of the technology/universe or any of the events that happened.
The only thing it doesn't explain why I like The Twilight Zone, which is the quintessential idea-based show. Perhaps it's the continuity and development of the Rod Serling character.
ideas
milieu
events
truth
form, shape, line, color, symmetry, balance
gameplay
originality
quality
This explains why I don't like the news, in general, which focuses on events, but I do like This American Life which focuses on people; why in art class, when I have to come up with something abstract, I have to trick myself into it by assigning emotions, motives, and personalities to things like little squares and circles; why I know Lord Peter Wimsey dialogue by heart but am continually surprised by the solutions to the mysteries; why I can tell you the names and numbers of episodes of Stargate Atlantis in which John Sheppard appeared to experience an emotion but not any of the rules of the technology/universe or any of the events that happened.
The only thing it doesn't explain why I like The Twilight Zone, which is the quintessential idea-based show. Perhaps it's the continuity and development of the Rod Serling character.
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