Logical leaps
Filed under Writing Journal on September 15, 2004
Tagged: Firefly, Maiden of Pain
I watched the last DVD of Firefly this past Sunday night. The final episode was about a bouty hunter that came after River. Both my father and I noted some improbable events in the early part of the story. Dad made the comment that sometimes incongruities have to be overlooked for the sake of the plot.
This is not something I do in my writing. It’s something I can’t do. There have been places in Maiden where I struggled because I had to have that logical explanation for why this or that was happening. I would sit there until I came up with the answer. I don’t understand why this is acceptable practice in Hollywood. If it had been me, I would have come up with a way to avoid the leaps in logic.
When I said as much to my father, he was kind enough to point out that I wasn’t the one getting paid the big bucks to write TV scripts.
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