{"id":15716,"date":"2007-02-12T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2007\/02\/12\/plot-stalling\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:46","slug":"plot-stalling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2007\/02\/12\/plot-stalling\/","title":{"rendered":"Plot-stalling"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’ve been bingeing on Internet TV in my spare time. The latest indulgence has been Heroes<\/i>, a superheroey drama-thing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I’m mostly really enjoying it. One thing that’s starting to get under my skin with television shows with an objective — you know, not the “genie back in the bottle” sitcom plots, but the programs with a long story arc — is the sheer amount of stalling.<\/i> It’s like there’s a two-hour movie in there that’s been cereal-fillered out to a full season. (I’ve never even tried Lost <\/i>because I’ve heard too much about the creators making it up as they go along, which requires constantly redefining things and playing tricks on what’s been established.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I guess that’s why I’m drawn to writing novels — single, stand-alone novels — and not television writing. God forbid I should ever write something then have to bring the characters back onstage for an encore. I’m laughing as I write this, sitting on my bed, thinking about bringing back Fix and Julie, Hugh and Simon, or Stefan. I’d love to see them again, I really would. But it wouldn’t be right.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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So I’ve been bingeing on Internet TV in my spare time. The latest indulgence has been Heroes, a superheroey drama-thing. I’m mostly really enjoying it. One thing that’s starting to get under my skin with television shows with an objective — you know, not the “genie back in the bottle” sitcom plots, but the programs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}