You nailed it: replacing ideas with 'cool explosions'. That's the essence of the Young Male bias in most media- ideas are boring, so let's have a fight, or a car chase, or a battle, or a sex scene because they're more interesting.
Odd... to me, all explosions, fights, battles, etc. look alike to me, and scream that the writer9s) have either run out of ideas or have been assimilated by the Pop Culture Borg Collective and must mooch for that Almighty Currency.
Feh. I prefer ideas. I like the 'what if?' aspect of SF, and one of the things I love about the SF channel is their 'what if' logo.
Tolkein was a writer of his time, elaborate, but also rather tediously plodding and very enmeshed in details. While his loving descriptions of the Hobbits homes are interesting, (and I'd love to live in such a house), my 'are we there yet? where's the story?' mental naggers start kicking in at around the 30th page of detailed waffle about second breakfasts and such. He needed a good editor.
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Date: 2005-10-02 09:07 am (UTC)Odd... to me, all explosions, fights, battles, etc. look alike to me, and scream that the writer9s) have either run out of ideas or have been assimilated by the Pop Culture Borg Collective and must mooch for that Almighty Currency.
Feh. I prefer ideas. I like the 'what if?' aspect of SF, and one of the things I love about the SF channel is their 'what if' logo.
Tolkein was a writer of his time, elaborate, but also rather tediously plodding and very enmeshed in details. While his loving descriptions of the Hobbits homes are interesting, (and I'd love to live in such a house), my 'are we there yet? where's the story?' mental naggers start kicking in at around the 30th page of detailed waffle about second breakfasts and such. He needed a good editor.