The Quips Stop Here
I love Joss Whedon’s writing. It’s why I wrote “Firefly: Old Wounds” the first audio drama fan-fiction in the ‘Verse. But, Whenesque writing has really hurt modern shows and seems especially to infect a lot of audio drama.Quippy dialogue can be painful when it doesn’t fit the character. When it works best is when it’s limited not to events as …
Polarising Your Cast
What does it mean to polarise (polarize) your characters? I first heard this term in The Story Toolkit Podcast episode #31 where they demonstrate excellent polarisation from Out of Gas one of the best teleplays from the amazing dead-before-its-time series Firefly. Good writing polarises the cast allowing each character to react differently to a story event. Let’s consider the iconic characters of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy …
Gilded Gate
It was 2008 and I was just finishing watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer under request of my girlfriend. I had grown to love Joss Whedon from his aborted Firefly series and had appreciated his script doctoring in a number of other works. But Buffy frustrated me. It was his first smash breakout success and still it stymied me. I didn’t …