Don't Get Hero Much Around Here Any More ...

I have been fairly lost in the Henry Adams's 9 volume history of the four administrations of Jefferson and Madison, trying to cobble out a publishable article from the long last section of The American Slave Coast: How Enslaved Wombs Produced the American South, and another project that initially got me excited, which was perhaps an opportunity to write for the screen ... but no.  It's just too much again of this constant in movies and television now of all nekkid nekkid nekkid women all the time, all women are prostitutes if they're not witches into the bargain, and rape rape rape, humiliate humiliate humiliate if not downright torture torture torture.  As if no woman ever lives anywhere who ISN"T a whore and raped raped raped and even murdered. Or else just a pathetic victim who is raped and tortured and killed.

So few who write for the screen understand what makes a story or a character.  They evidently think now it's naked women and oceans oceans oceans of blood spilled in the most violent and brutal and graphic and prolonged action possible.

This is -- weird, when there are some excellent examples out there as to how its done, particularly the Simon-Burns-Overmeyer ouvre, starting with Homicide (though I don't think Overmeyer was connected with Homicide).  What this means is that the showrunners etc. must really know their locale, its history, it's citizens from the bottom up, the inside out.  Or else you have to be like Buffy's Joss Whedon, who built the Buffyverse from bottom up too -- not history, of course, but an imaginary world, that he understood deeply (he's never done it to that perfection since either, or even close!).

Everyone wants an arc series that lasts at least 5 seasons, but woo, is that hard to pull off, demanding as it does a whole suite of very special skill sets, of which very few people possess all of them. But starting with an actual story in your pilot really helps ....


Something else: Since blogger-google has chosen to no longer recognize IE, and the EviLe google coerced a download of its Chrome to access this plac I'm thinking of scrubbing Fox Home and moving to Word Press or some other host.  I still have my LJ and DW blogs though they too have their problems.

We had a lovely time at Easter.  Now back to the grind.