We’ve probably all seen the trailers for The Force Awakens. If not here it is…
One of the things I notice about this is it looks real. This might be that CGI has improved significantly since Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith but I suspect practical effects have also been used a lot more.
I’m a big fan of practical effects. Firstly its better of the actors. If an actor is standing in front of nothing it is difficult to know how to react. The battle on Mustafar, for instance, is so overblown. The amount of hours needed, to get the CGI right, is ridiculous. The fight between Westley and Inigo, in The Princess Bride, is far better. Obviously the emotions involved are entirely different but we don’t need so many special effects. If you have good actors you only need a room.
Yes I have very high hopes for The Force Awakens. I think it will be excellent. Although if it’s worse than the prequels that would be an amazing achievement.
CGI has its place of course but it shouldn’t be used all the time. It reminds me of Willow’s addiction to magic in Buffy the Vampire slayer. She gets to the point of not even considering other options. And sometimes that’s how directors seem to use CGI.
Another casualty of CGI is my imagination. When reading a science fiction, or fantasy book, it can be hard to imagine the fantastic things described. Instead of seeing a real alien interacting with the characters I see a scene that doesn’t quite work and a slightly blobby creature.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone needs no introduction. So it’s not going to get one. There are however a few odd things about it that I wanted to discuss here.
Here are seven things about Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
Why Seven?
Seven is a good number. It’s the only number that is also the name of a Star Trek character. Well there was One – but you wouldn’t come to a page titled one thing would you?
One
Harry has no muggle friends
Rowling states that because Dudley hates Harry, and has a group of bully friends, no one else at the school is prepared to be friends with him.
This to me seems unbelievable. How could a group of bullies be so pervasive at a school and it not be noticed? Wouldn’t the Dursley’s be receiving letters every other week? I’m not sure that Vernon or Petunia would care that Dudley was a bully but they might care that he was caught!
I’m bothered by Harry having no friends because I was bullied at school. It was never as bad as someone pinning my arms behind my back but I was quite miserable. I still had friends and was able to mostly enjoy school. Of course for Harry we’re talking about Primary School. My memories of primary school are a little vague but the high school bulling I still remember.
For American readers high school is quite different in the UK. It starts at age 12 and runs till 18.
I suppose there mightn’t have been room to introduce another character – but having a muggle touchstone for Harry might have been an interesting device rather than only having the Dursley’s.
Two
The Dursley’s are a little too cartoony
The Dursley’s are essentially abusive. They treat Harry very badly and I don’t recall any reason given why they didn’t put him up for adoption. I suppose there is the possibility that they feel some warped sense of duty even though they hate Harry’s parents. This, and some of the other points on this list, are included in this Cinema Sins Video.
Three
Hogwarts is a death trap
Okay maybe that’s a little overstated but it does seem like a dangerous place. The students are told not to go to certain parts of the school but the staircases move, at random apparently, meaning that they can accidentally find themselves in the wrong place. And that’s not even mentioning the other dangers that show themselves as the series progresses.
The comment <no witch or wizard bad not Slytherin> doesn’t bother me so much. Its like the statement ‘All thumbs are fingers but not all fingers are thumbs.’ However there also seems to be the assumption that being in Slytherin makes you a bad person.
In fact Slytherin is in general ostracised. This is shown predominantly in the film when all the other houses celebrate when Slytherin looses the house cup.
Although I partly understand this. I’m from Wales and a lot of Welsh people will tell you that they support two sports teams: Wales and whoever is playing England.
It would’ve been nice to have seen evidence of ‘good’ Slytherin students. Maybe a friend for the trio to show how those qualities could be used for good.
Five
Hogwarts has a class system
I’m not sure there is much to add other than what is in this SuperCarlinBrothers video. In primary school we had houses but they were done alphabetically. The main reason for them was for sports days and eisteddfods – basically it was an easy way of dividing the pupils up for teams.
As said in the video in Hogwarts it is problematic because the children are effectively instructed not to mix with people who are different.
Six
Technology vs. Magic
Magic in Harry Potter can do many wonderful things. Apparently pens and paper are not one of them. There is a reason why we no longer use quills and ink. This is seen (Can you say seen for a book?) throughout where, if not using magic, the technology that is used is very old fashioned.
Discovering the identity of Nicolas Flamel is an important plot point. I couldn’t help thinking how easy it would have been in our world. Just Google it.
Of course the book is set before Google existed. (How did we cope?) Nevertheless given what magic can do I’m a bit surprised there isn’t a magical equivalent of a computer.
Seven
Keeping magic a secret
J.K Rowling has said that were a muggle to stumble on to Hogwarts they would see an abandoned castle. That’s fine but what do the muggle families tell the authorities.
Hermione’s parents are muggles. Before she got her letter she surely would have been set to go to a normal high school. When she was shown to be a witch that changed. What did her parents say to the school? What did Hermione tell her friends?
Hermione’s parents seem to know about magic. There must be many other muggles who do too. It would have been interesting to see more of how the secret is maintained when many must know about it.
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Some people think that a critique like this means hatred. Well I don’t hate the Harry Potter series. I think they are very enjoyable and well written and I am going to read the rest of the series over the next few months. Critiquing is something that I, and I’m sure many others, find enjoyable. Its interesting to notice the outright goofs and speculate on the unanswered questions.
I was nine when the first Harry Potter book was released. Although I didn’t become aware of them till later.
It was quite special when awaiting the release of the next book. I particularly remember the release of The Order of the Phenox. Children today will be able to read them all back to back. And some how, doing it that way, makes it feel as though… well… as though the magic is gone.
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As a Trekkie I’m of course indebted to Gene Roddenberry for creating the universe of Star Trek. However my favorite Star Trek series is Deep Space Nine and it contains many elements that Roddenberry would have hated.
The Star Trek universe is supposed to be ideal. Humans are supposed to be perfect. He saw a world without hatred, racism and war. That’s a fantastic vision of the future but it may not be terribly realistic – and creating a story without conflict is difficult bordering on impossible.
Racism was present in TOS. Most notably in Balance of Terror. How this episode came to be written is something of a mystery to me. In this episode the Enterprise becomes the first ship to get a visual of the Romulans. They find out they look like the Vulcans and Lt. Sties starts to think that Mr. Spock is a spy.
‘Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There’s no room for it on the bridge.’ Captain Kirk.
I realise its odd to praise an episode for bigotry but let me explain. I firmly hope that we can one day come to a ‘perfect’ future. We may well be able to do away with war and famine in the years to come. We all know that there is enough food to feed everyone. Also, and I know its hard to believe, we are in the most peaceful period in history.
However the instinct that lead to prejudice won’t magically evaporate. I’m not an anthropologist but it seems fairly clear that for a lot of history anyone not like you was a threat. Britain has been invaded many times not to mention the countries we’ve invaded. You only need to look on Wikipedia at the pages for various countries to see how many of them have had to gain, through conflict or diplomacy, their independence. Thus even if we have a ‘perfect’ world those instincts would remain – and would show themselves in extreme situations.
The thing about Star Trek is that only humans seem to have achieved this perfection. Its great to have such principals but if others in the galaxy are ruthless you might need to be too. The Klingons in TOS were written as an evil empire that killed civilians. It was perhaps for that reason that Section 31 was created.
Section 31 was introduced in Deep Space Nine but retconned to have been their from the beginning of the Federation. This doesn’t really present a continuity error as they are a secret organisation. They are the self appointed guardians of the federation. They are prepared to do whatever it takes to protect Federation principles. Sloan, one of their agents, describes it to Doctor Bashir.
Roddenberry would have hated the idea of Section 31, especially after you know what, and I’m not defending that. However its hard to imagine the Federation without some form of covert group. The questionable history of the CIA is well known but spying can also be of use.
In Roddenbury’s mind humans will always do the right thing. This however presents a problem. The no-win scenario. The Kobayashi Maru. What do you do when faced only with bad and worse choices. Neither action or inaction is acceptable.
In that case we have to make the best of the bad choices. Most of us won’t ever have to face that situation. In Star Trek though we’re talking about Starfleet personal its part of the job. This brings me to ‘In The Pale Moonlight‘.
“I was going to bring the Romulans into the war.” – Sisko.
In this episode Sisko faces that choice. In his mind he either brings the Romulans into the Dominion war or the Federation is defeated. That defeat would lead to millions, maybe billions dead. In one episode we see Weyoun casually mention irradiating Earth’s population. Sisko didn’t hear that but its safe to assume he knew what the Dominion would do if they won. Sisko tries to bring the Romulans into the war legitimately but when that fails he is prepared to use any means necessary.
I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all… I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing – a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. – Sisko
In the Pale Moonlight is my favorite episode of Ds9 and maybe all of Star Trek. It is extremely well executed but of course Roddenberry would have hated it.
Here’s the thing. I don’t know what Roddenberry saw when he first thought about Star Trek. Lets say it was the perfect society. The crew of the 1701 represent all of Earth. They show us that we can all work together and that things will be better tomorrow than they are today. How much did he see other than that? He wouldn’t have bothered to invent all the nuanced details. He wouldn’t have known about Section 31 because no-one did at the time of TOS. Roddenberry saw the perfect future but perhaps that was just the outside. The side that the Federation shows. At the end of the day although these humans are ‘perfect’ they still carry weapons wherever they go, they have a ship that can render a planet uninhabitable, and every week a crewman is killed by an unforgiving galaxy.
I realise I’m describing this as if Roddenberry had a vision. As if he saw the universe and wrote it all down. It is like that sometimes with creating fiction. You don’t see everything though. The Federation may be largely the ideal place to live but every society is going to have its less savory aspects. I believe that Roddenberry saw the dream society but didn’t think to look behind the curtain. We can strive to be good but there are times when its not possible. Captain Kirk doesn’t believe in the no-win scenario but they do exist.
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Last time I talked about what my characters know. I think this idea goes beyond this though into the very fabric of the universe they’ve created.
J.K. Rowling has said that she regrets pairing Ron with Hermione. She says that Hermione and Harry should’ve ended up together. I actually think she’s wrong about that. Allow me to explain.
In my mind Harry and Hermione would never have worked. I’m reminded of a line from Babylon 5.
‘You see, in a relationship, you gotta take turns being in charge but we both wanted to be in charge all the time. We had arguments that could peel paint off the wall.’ Captain Lochley – Babylon 5
To me this would be the result of Harry and Hermione together. They both have very strong personalities and would probably end up butting heads a lot.
To me Ron and Hermione are a much better fit. Hermione and Ron are quite different but they have complimentary personalities. I believe what one lacks the other has and so the relationship would actually work well. J.K Rowling has said that Ron and Hermione would require marriage counseling. Maybe that’s true but that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t still get married. Just because its a work of fiction doesn’t mean they all live happily ever after. I’m also not saying Ron is a pushover. In closing I’m also going to float an idea that will annoy everyone. Maybe neither Harry nor Ron is the best person for Hermione.
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Next time Gene Roddenberry: Section 31 and the Perfect Human.
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Chandler: My diary! My diary, that’s brilliant. I should have told her it was my diary. She never would have made
me read her my diary.
Monica: You know, that’s true. You’d be a great person to have around the day after an emergency.
[Friends: The One with the List]
We’ve all had a moment like this. I previously posted about a Chandler Bing moment. It can be annoying when after something has happened we suddenly think of what we could have said. Its not always something important sometimes its just a quip.
I really admire people who are able to do this. Some people have a mind so quick and can always think of the right thing to say. Paul Merton is very good at this.
Alexander Armstrong: What would happen if we decided to shut down all the UK’s power stations tomorrow?
I do have my moments where a silly thing occurs to me. The other day I made a play on words between two meanings of beef; the food and as in having a problem with someone.
This is all small stuff but what if quick thinking could save your life?
There was a real situation like this a little while back. A woman called 911 and pretended to order pizza. She couldn’t speak directly and could only answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’ The dispatcher cottoned on to the problem and was able to send help.
This happens a lot in fiction. This tends to be a bit spoilery so I’ll give my own example.
A Detective Constable is being held hostage when his phone rings. The hostage taker is about to destroy the phone but our hero is clever. He says that his colleagues know where he is. So if he’s not able to answer the phone they’ll know he’s in trouble and send help. So the hostage taker lets him answer the phone.
All posts are better with pictures. Maybe this is where our unfortunate hero is held captive.
With a gun to his head he can’t call for help directly so he has to send a message. Maybe it’s his wife and he can call her ‘Samantha’ when she always goes by ‘Sam.’ Maybe it’s his Inspector and he can make an oblique reference to another hostage case. Maybe its his daughter and he can say ‘Don’t worry I didn’t for get about your netball class on Saturday.’ – when he daughter has never played netball in her life.
This Detective Constable thinks quickly and saves himself. However if I was writing that scene it might go through several permutations. I might realise that he does call his wife ‘Samantha’ on occasion so it wouldn’t raise a red flag; The Inspector might not get the subtly; And his daughter might just think her dad is doing his usual thing and not paying attention – she has a dance class on Saturday.
Sometimes a character’s wit and quick thinking has taken the author a long time. They might even have written themselves into a corner. When in the mind of their character they may have got them killed the first few times.
My characters are cleaver than me beyond this though. They know more than me too. I will only invent the world as I need it for the story. A character of mine, in a science fiction, might know all the Director Generals of the UN in the 23rd century.
This post is the product of a conversation I had with a friend they other day. I didn’t say anything bad but their were things I wished I’d said. Now though the things I wish I’d said seem a little OTT. So maybe what I actually said was better than what I wish I’d said.
So I’ll be happy to have characters who can; rally the troops, make the Picard-esk speech, say their version of ‘It is a far better thing I do now than I have ever done*’; quip with the best of them; have useful bits of knowledge; and know how to tell the beautiful woman that she is all kinds of wonderful.
This has been a bit of a ramble. I think I’m trying to say two distinct things. That there are things I wish I’d said in given situations – things that were only thoughts. Also there are things that I wish had occurred. At least I can know that characters I write can be that great. They can always know the right thing to say. They can always keep calm in a crises. They can comfort their friends. They can be the people we wish we could be. They can look each other in the eyes and speak with great eloquence and say the important things.**
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I’ve recently started watching Castle. I’d heard of it a while back but never got round to watching it till now. So I’ve been racing through the episodes. Partly because its rather good but also because Amazon might remove it from Prime at any moment.
I was interested in the show because of Nathan Fillion. I like him as an actor and it’s good to see him in something else. In this he plays the eponymous character and stars alongside Stana Katic and its the chemistry between these two that really makes the series work and really that’s to be expected.
With any show of this ilk you know what you’re getting. The bad guy is always going to be caught by the end of the episode. What keeps people coming back is the intricacy of the plots and the characters.
One criticism I feel I must make is the background to Detective Beckett. Spoilers. Five… Four… Three… Two… One….
Beckett joined the NYPD because of the death of her mother. I tried to find the name of this trope but failed. I only succeeded in finding spoilers. So I’m not going to continue looking. In any event this is a fairly common device used as character back story and/or motivation. Not specifically a parent but a bad thing that happened in the past.
All these characters, and no doubt ones in other series, have this darkness. My googling says that there are over a million police officers in the US – do they all have tragedy in their pasts?
This backstory doesn’t detract from the series but I wish writers would come up with something new now and again.
One thing that really makes the series work is Castle himself. He is a fairly well rounded character. He has two ex-wives, as we might expect, but also has a teenage daughter, Alexis, and he is the responsible parent. In many ways Alexis is more mature than he is. The dynamic between them is wonderful. Fillion slips effortlessly between his bantering and flirty personality to being the responsible parent. The interactions between Castle and Alexis are wonderful and a nice departure from the usual cliches we might associate with a divorced father.
Shows like this are like popcorn. Little in the way of nutritional value but you won’t be able to watch just one.
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The radio series is a joy to listen to. It has excellent acting and is, in my view, the best version of this series. It made great use of the possibilities of radio. At one point the music is building and we are lead to believe that it is just background music until Arther says “Did you know this robot can hum like Pink Floyd.”
Susan Sheridan has been in other things of course but this is where I know her from. The radio series was first broadcast when my dad was young. He recoded on a cassette tape. Later he introduced them to me and I bought them on these new-fanged CDs. I’m sure I will listen to them again someday soon and maybe one day I can introduce them to the next generation.
Last week I talked about my rather obsessive need to know everything in my science fiction writing. Oddly I don’t seem to have the same compulsion when it comes to writing fantasy. I think that this is because fantasy is more obviously not our world. Science fiction, only in some instances it’s true, is seen as a possible extension of now. Babylon 5 makes mention of the two world wars, Abraham Lincoln, the cold war, Tennyson, and other persons and events. It could be our future. Star Trek is almost the same except we didn’t have sleeper ships in the 1990s.
I’ve been interested in telling stories for as long as I can remember. Somewhere I have a story written in crayon from when I was five. I believe I’ve wanted to write, or just tell stories, for as long as I’ve been aware of language.
I remember telling, possibly annoying, dad a story while climbing Cadair Idris. I would’ve been quite young. It was a story about the founder of an alien religion. Her name was Qwan and she spent a retreat in a cave on a mountain. Dad said afterwards that he let me continue as it meant I didn’t notice the progress I was making.
Writing is a compulsion. If it was cocaine or alcohol I might have a problem. Many of the actual minutes of writing can be quite a struggle. The translation of a beautiful scene in my head to the page is not always an easy one. As evidenced by the amount of times I’ve restarted my novel.
I have an MA in Scriptwriting and this has made me rather critical. When watching a TV show, film, or reading a book. I start to think of how I might have approached a story differently. The advantage of first person over third person, whether a chronological structure is best or if a non linear approach would give more possibilities. The films of the Hunger Games are interesting on this point. The books are first person but the films, deciding not to have a narrator, are able to show the story from more perspectives.
I fear that writing has made me somewhat arrogant. I sometimes look at what has been done and feel I could have done that better. This perhaps is perfectly normal. They say that art is never finished only abandoned and perhaps every piece of film and TV has that one scene, or line, which the author wishes they could rewrite.
The foundations laid by works like: Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and any other can be taken in knew and exciting directions. I’m not talking about fan fiction or writing stories in those universes but about the sparks that they can engender. Star Trek or Star Wars cannot take ownership of space for a story telling frontier but they can inspire new stories.
Sometimes I’ll watch a film and think I know where the story is going. When it veers off in another direction and that is wonderful as I can write the story that that film sparked. In this way I write because ideas arise in my mind from everything I see. Ideas for silly stories, ideas for serious stories, ideas that would take a lot or work, and ideas that might never work.
I said in a previous post that making the ideas stop is the problem not coming up with them. I write because I have to write. My mind gets over loaded with ideas. I have characters in my head and I want to tell their story: Michael Wisdom, Stephanie McKnight, Virgil Noxon, Stacy Tanner, Tina Hilton – those are some of my characters that I hope will be know to the world one day.
Writing is always there in the back of my mind. Sometimes I’ll spend hours staring at a computer and get no where. Then a walk to the shops, a trip to the gym, or just doing the washing up and the problem unclogs itself and I can finally figure out the problem.
I’ve yet to experience that wonderful moment of my characters speaking to me. It sounds so magical that, when the foundations are laid, the story practically writes itself. I have had the wired magic of a character telling me about themselves.
Sometimes a character’s full background is irrelevant. You can tell the story of the brilliant Doctor/Detective/Wizard or whatever it might be without delving into his or her background. It’s nice to know these things though. Once you start thinking about these things the ideas flow to you.
You see your character as a child and you imagine what their life was like. Then, out of the emptiness, ideas pop into your mind like a firework. I had this experience with my character Virgil Noxon. I knew he was black and the first officer of the Sovereignty, the starship in my story, but that was about it. I needed to know more.
So I started to write a scene of him visiting his father. The idea came to mind that they had a very formal relationship. They had a good relationship but I could more easily imagine them shaking hands rather than hugging.
And the strange thing? His farther was white. So this gave a new direction for the character. He was adopted and had two younger siblings: Morgana and Wyatt. Incidentally he was named Virgil after Virgil Earp. Wyatt was a natural choice for his brother and Morgana came from Morgan Earp – his father just wanted to change it a little as he’d had a daughter instead of a son. The names just seemed to fit.
With Stacy Tanner, one of my novel’s central characters, I knew she was an only child from the get-go and I can’t say why. Michael Wisdom is a middle child, Stephanie McKnight, has one older brother, Tina Hilton has a younger sister and her mother was a teenager when Tina was born.
I don’t know where some of these ideas came from. The random nature of ideas arising in the mind is probably the primary reason I write. Whether my stories are any good is another question entirely but I know I can’t stop myself. Writing is a compulsion you become like a God to your characters and get into the wired situation of thinking about who you have to kill to get to the next plot point. Writing is my addiction there’s nothing else to say.
This post was written in response to a prompt from Chuck Wendig at terribleminds.com
If there’s one thing that all Star Trek series have in common its the invulnerable crew member. Whether it was Spock, Data, Odo, the Doctor, Seven, or Phlox there was always a character that was unaffected by the threat of the week.
This was used most in TOS and TNG. Given all the times that Spock or Data saved the ship it’s a wonder any other starship survives. As Riker once said “Fate: Protects fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise.” Contagion – TNG
For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to write stories. I don’t remember ever wanting to write Star Trek per se but I did want to write stories in my own universe.
I wanted a mixed crew, humans and aliens, and had four basic races. Two of them were, essentially, human with funny foreheads, that could have been achieved with tattoos; then there was one with a spherical head, and another with four arms. I was thinking in very narrow terms. Star Trek aliens are, for the most part, humanoid. While this may be scientifically implausible it is a necessity for a television show. Leaving aside the fact that CGI wasn’t even a thing in the 1960s it is still much easier for actors to act against a real person than a tennis ball on a stick that will become a creature. CGI vs actor in prosthetic is a discussion for another time – for now I just want to go in a slightly different direction.
So I had my crew and amongst the senior staff all but one of those races were represented. I however wanted to consider the whole crew. In TOS Spock is the only Vulcan. Why? Why are there no Tellarites or Andorains on Enterprise? So I had lots of aliens, or non-humans if that’s more PC, aboard.
This presented a bit of a problem. I needed to know who they were.
There was a joke, I think it was on The Generation Game, where a contestant was quizzed on Star Trek. He was asked how many crew the Enterprise had, the D by the way, and he said 1,014, he was then asked to name them and was promptly gunged when he couldn’t.
This was where it all started for me.
Not the gunge thing the naming thing.
I wanted to be able to name all the crew of my ship. Originally it was called Capable but I renamed it Sovereignty – on the grounds that Capable is a bit wishy washy. The idea was that when I’d got the story I could look at my spreadsheet and know the names, ranks, and positions of all crew. Therefore when the Amadors were the invulnerable ones I’d know how many there were aboard and what they did.
I’m aware that this is a rather ridiculous level of information to want but there you have it. It turned out to be, and still is, a major headache though – which I’ll discuss next week.
Incidentally a friend at work was doing some spreadsheet work a while back. She was having a bit of difficulty and I tried to help. She asked how I knew about spreadsheets. I didn’t tell her that I’d wasted/used hours trying to work out the forenames, surnames, gender, rank, position, and nationality of the crew of a star ship. I think I just mumbled a vague statement about having used them.
She already knows me to be odd so that fact could only make it worse.
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