the wire
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the key to a great television show (The Wire, Sopranos, Mad Men): People generally like to make classifications of other people. This is especially true in television. We can classify someone as "good" or "bad" and they typically won't fail us in our assignments. Now, you take someone morally ambiguous - say Tony Soprano or Don Draper - who you can empathize with at times, laugh with at times and even CHEER for at times, but throw a few wrenches in their behavior. By doing this - making them the BAD GUY sometimes - it disrupts your classification of them. In doing this - you want to watch more of their character development to see "what else theyre going to do"... You could take the same formula and apply it to a bad relationship - TONS of people stay in those because they exciting and the good is always GREAT when it does happen...
Just my observation...- kinda like folks in, like, real life yeah?kelpie
- (ie, I agree with you, but aren't you just describing a realistic level of human ambiguity that makes for decent drama?kelpie
- indeed - but think about theatre, television, movies - most of them have pretty well-defined charactersidentity
- I feel like we def. agree/talking about the same thing - but its just a trend Ive seen in television in the last decade.identity
- check out any description of a protagnist from a film noir movie -> you'll see this isn't a new formulalukus_W